PROFESSOR GRAEME HARPER

Projects

 

Creative Universities. Universities can be wonderful places of invention, ambition, understanding, innovation, creativity and excitement. At Creative Universities we celebrate and support this university ideal, world-wide. Contact chair@creativeuniversities.com

Learning Cities. Exploring the methods of creating truly developmental learning cities throughout the world. Fabulous learning cities mean promoting coooperation, communication and collaboration. The 3Cs! All welcome. Contact: director@learningcities.org.uk

Creative Knowledge and Successful Habitats. A project to determine the extent to which creative knowledge can inform the development of successful, cost-effective human habitats. This project is linked to the Medical Habitats and Creative Knowledge initiative. Contact: director@medicalhabitats.com

Projectorings. Developing medical space with vision and sound - a collaboration considering how imaginative knowledge, applied to medical architecture, can better support human thriving. This project includes several site-specific experiments with video architecture, as well as the use of Vicon Revue technology to investigate spatial change, imaginative awareness, and industrial design. Contact: graeme@projectorings.com

Collaboration Laboratory. See the Collaboration Laboratory for further details of future events and projects, with a range of international partners.

ARTEFACT. This project is investigating the historical artefacts of creative practice; working globally, the project has already investigated those elements of practice that have not widely been discussed, and has outlined the missing elements of research that need to be undertaken. Working with archives/libraries and creative colleagues across the world this project is substantially advanced, and keen for further advancement. Contact director@arte.org.uk

Emeritus.org. The World's scholarly talent. This is project to more effectively harness the talents of those experts retired from formal university life but still actively pursuing their fields of expertise and interest. The project aims to create a world-wide database of such talent and expertise, and to capitalise on the experience and understanding of some of world's greatest sources of knowledge. Contact director@emeritus.org.uk

International Center for Creative Writing Research (ICCWR). An international network of Creative Writing researchers. Creative Writing is a distinct way of investigating and communicating. It involves both creative and critical understanding - understanding that often uniquely combines ideas, actions and outcomes. Contact: chair@iccwr.org

Creative Lab. Cross-disciplinary creative research: the acts/actions, processes and investigations that surround creativity. Contact: director@creativelab.org.uk

Institute for Research Leadership in the Arts and Humanities (IRLAH) Leaders in Arts and Humanities. Age, or status, is no boundary to innovation and excellence. This is an Institute open to all Arts and Humanities scholars who seek, and seek to promote, excellence in research. Contact: director@irlah.org.uk

Great Writing. The UK's international Creative Writing conference. Contact Conference Founder and Director, Professor Graeme Harper: graeme@greatwriting.org.uk

European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF). The international forum for the discussion of the films of Europe. Contact the Forum Directors, Professor Graeme Harper or Dr Owen Evans at directors@ecrf.org.uk

Professors Forum. The title "professor" must mean something. This is a forum for encouraging and supporting leadership in, and by, the world's universities. Contact: chair@professorsforum.co.uk

eliterature. New writing for disk, web and mobile telephony. Contact: director@eliterature.org.uk

Research Innovation. The good undertake, but the best innovate. The Research Innovation group seeks to advance research in all fields represented in academe, with an emphasis on research that advances rather than simply maintains existing knowledge. Contact: director@researchinnovation.co.uk