Phone : UK 0207 193 0595
Skype: graemeharper
email: graeme@graemeharper.com
email: chair@creativeuniversities.com
Well, I convinced him to give me a bit more space over here. Otherwise, he'd take it all up talking about universities and quoting John Henry Newman. "There is nothing more noble than the creation of a university . .." Blah Blah Blah. I don't know, maybe he's onto something! Maybe you should decide for yourself: creativeuniversities.com
Forthcoming, shortly:
Medical Habitats and New Knowledge, an exploration of the nature of creative knowledge that can be employed in the design of medical space and healthcare habitats. This book results from a year long exploration of medical design and healthcare architecture, including work on imaginative knowledge in medical science and practical work on social enterprise in medical care (CIP, 2012)
Creative Research Methods, a discussion of creative research methods, with contributors from the USA, UK, Australia and South Africa - an edited collection with Jeri Kroll (Palgrave, 2011)
Medicine, a creative exploration of the nature of medicine (Parlor, 2011)
Inside Creative Writing. A collection of interviews with some of the world's most exciting contemporary writers (2011).
Quasimodo's Breakfast: Creative Practice Research. A comprehensive case-study of practice-led research. (CSP, 2011)
Out Recently:
Camera Phone, Brooke's newest novel. Maybe there's a phone involved, maybe a volcano, maybe some folk lost in a beachside city! Alternatively, who knows?! Order
On Creative Writing. What is Creative Writing? What do we mean by the term? What does it involve? And how does Creative Writing deal with the World and with ourselves. Order
Cinema and Landscape, with Jonathan Rayner; sixteen international film experts explore the relationship between film and landscape. This book - which is in the final stages of pre-production - includes work by; Tom Gunning, Susan Hayward, Marvin D'Lugo, Sue Harper, Martin McLoone, Wimal Dissanyake, Bob Britton, Kate Taylor, Emma Widdis, Tina Kennedy et al, Paul Spicer, Brad Prager, Martin Mhando, Jonathan Rayner and Graeme Harper, among others. With a foreword by David Desser. Order .
Currently:
Graeme's working further on some critical analysis of practice and theory, investigations of the human impact of new mobile and experience (or "synaptic") technologies; on the impact of design and architecture in medical spaces; and exploring changes of cultural perspective brought about by the communication revolution. He's investigating what he calls "creative knowledge" in human interaction and habitat formation. Brooke's chasing the completion of a new novel about medical science, and a collection of short stories set in America, Australasia and Europe.
Work can also be found in:
The Creative Industries Journal
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing