Research project
Emergent Objects
- Start date: June 2007
- End date: December 2007
- Funder: Arts and Humanities Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Primary investigator: Emeritus Professor of Performance & Culture Mick Wallis
- Co-investigators: Professor Christopher Baugh, Professor David Hogg, Joslin McKinney, Dr Sita Popat, Alice Bayliss, Scott Palmer
- External co-investigators: Alec Robertson, Dr Sophia Lycouris, Tracy Cordingley, Dr Philip Breedon, Jamie Billing, Dr Jennifer G. Sheridan, Derek Hales
Partners and collaborators
Shadow Robot Company Ltd
Description
Emergent Objects was a portfolio project, which adopted an interdisciplinary standpoint to promote new ways of thinking about design and designing from a performance perspective. Cross-sector and interdisciplinary, it involved artists, designers, choreographers, performance academics, computer specialists and roboticists from the academy and the professional sphere.