Connecting through culture 2014–15 A look back

Welcome to this review of 2014–15, which highlights some of the ways in which, during the last year, arts and culture have supported King’s College London in its ambitions to deliver world-class education, an exceptional student experience and research that drives innovation, creates impact and engages beyond the university’s walls.

Over the last three years, the university and skills. Over recent years, King’s ‘My experience at King’s would has developed symbiotic partnerships has supported the development of be far different, and probably far with artists and cultural organisations specialist teams at the interface between less enjoyable, without the cultural that enhance the King’s experience the university and the cultural sector. engagement I’ve been lucky enough to for academics and students while Much – although certainly not all – of have. It’s added richness to my studies adding value across the cultural sector. the achievement in the pages that follow by providing context and dimension From uniquely tailored teaching, owes a great deal to the hard work and to the books and articles and widening training and internship programmes, dedication of those teams and their my horizons beyond the lecture hall. to collaborative research projects and directors: Katherine Bond (Cultural The cultural events and institutions enquiries, to exhibitions and public Institute), Alison Duthie (Exhibitions I’ve engaged with have surprised me, events, arts and culture are helping to and Public Programming) and Daniel confused me, excited me and ignited generate new approaches, new insights Glaser (Science Gallery London). my curiosity – prompting me to ask my and new connections – across and In partnership with colleagues across own questions and formulate my own beyond the university. King’s and the sector, they form a ideas about my studies and the world These partnerships are not restricted network that connects King’s to the around me. It’s been an invaluable to one area or discipline: cultural communities around it, increasing the addition to my time at King’s, and collaborations are developing in all porosity of the university so that new I can’t overstate the importance of our Faculties and, across our five ideas can freely flow, both in and out. cultural engagement in translating campuses, there are spaces where arts In January 2015, I had the pleasure and transcending academic studies.’ and culture offer new ways to engage, of talking about some of this work Emma Lawrence from the Anatomy Museum to the in Davos, sharing with participants 3rd year English with Film BA extraordinary Gordon Museum of at the World Economic Forum the Pathology. The Inigo Rooms, on the growing body of evidence we are My grateful thanks to those Strand Campus, host a year-round collating about the impact of arts and organisations whose support has programme of activity connecting culture on societies – and on issues of enabled this work during the year, the public with academic research social consequence – across the globe. including Arts Council England, through artistic collaboration and we Here at King’s, we are seeing at first Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, look forward to the opening of Science hand evidence of the impact of arts Foundation for Future London, Gallery London, on the Guy’s Campus, and culture on a concern that is closer Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, Legacy in 2017. This innovative new facility – to home and foremost in our minds: Trust UK, Musicians’ Union, Shard where science and art will collide – will offering all our students an outstanding Funding Ltd and Wellcome Trust; engage 15–25 year olds in cutting edge experience, harnessing the talent to the many partners who have research, bringing together researchers, within and around King’s to ensure our co-invested resources in shared students, local communities and artists graduates achieve their full potential endeavours; and to the many colleagues to stimulate new approaches and equipping them as best we can for across King’s and the cultural sector to contemporary challenges. a rich and fulfilling life beyond their whose enthusiastic engagement has Brokering and enabling these university years. made possible the achievements partnerships requires particular focus In the words of one of those students: outlined in the pages that follow.

Deborah Bull Assistant Principal (Culture & Engagement)

Maggi Hambling, Mother, bronze primed and hand coloured. Exhibited in the Inigo Rooms as part of the War Requiem & Aftermath exhibition at King’s. Photographer: Jana Chiellino Connecting through culture 2014–15 3 LEFT TO RIGHT: Katherine Bond, generating innovation and impact are demonstrating the value of this Director, Cultural Institute, Rob and to developing staff and students ecosystem. They highlight the Greig, Director, Parliamentary alike as the change-makers, creators potential for arts and culture to provoke Digital Service and Heather Walker, Deputy Chief Executive, and problem-solvers that the world new thinking and inspire new ideas in Supporting the Roundhouse, with King’s requires. Culture and cultural more unlikely fields: in Informatics, students at an event partnerships have an important role to in Dentistry and in War Studies, to play in achieving this strategic vision: name just a few. And for our students, they bring new insights to the global cultural engagement adds depth and the university’s questions with which our academics richness to their studies, helping them and students are grappling and inspire to locate their learning in a world the creativity that helps not only to beyond the classroom, inspiring find answers but also to communicate them to question and challenge and, them in novel ways. Indeed, research ultimately, to achieve their full and strategic ambitions at Michigan State University has unique potential. found that ‘arts and crafts experiences Across all of these collaborations, are significantly correlated with the university’s strategic framework producing patentable inventions and for culture ensures that partnerships founding new companies’; and lifelong with the cultural sector operate to the participation in the arts ‘yields the most highest of standards, are in support of significant impacts for innovators and the university’s overall goals and add entrepreneurs’. [Arts and crafts: Critical value to the institution as a whole. to economic innovation, LaMore, R. et Recognising that innovation occurs al., Economic Development Quarterly, at the interface between disciplines, 27 (3): 221-229 (2013)] King’s academics across the university’s The report of the Warwick range of disciplines are collaborating Commission on the Future of Cultural with practitioners beyond academia, Value captured the interrelationship increasing the porosity of the university. of the arts and society by using a To facilitate and encourage these metaphor from the natural sciences: sometimes unusual and imaginative meetings of minds, the university is developing a number of ‘third spaces’, a term used to describe neutral territory Culture and creativity exist in a distinct ‘where creatives and academics meet’ ecosystem. They feed and depend on by Dr Roberta Comunian and Dr each other. The points of connection Abigail Gilmore in their 2015 report between the Cultural and Creative Beyond the Creative Campus. The Industries are where the potential concept of the third space has been for greatest value creation resides – identified as vital for driving innovation culturally, socially and economically. both in universities and in the creative Enriching Britain: culture, creativity and industries. These third spaces are not growth, Warwick Commission on the Future of just physical: King’s has also developed Cultural Value (University of Warwick: 2015), p.9 specialist interface teams, working at the junctions between academia, the Our partnerships with the cultural cultural sector and the broader public: sector put King’s well ahead in an area brokering partnerships that provoke that is now understood to be of ever- new approaches to research and increasing importance economically. education, engage a wider public and The cultural and creative industries ensure that King’s research has impact represent 5% of the UK economy – beyond its walls. the nation’s fastest growing industry, This review describes some of the The university’s strategic connections with arts and Since 2011, there has been a step major feature of London, culture is a according to the Warwick Commission university’s cultural programmes and change in the university’s engagement distinctive characteristic of the King’s report – with the latest James Bond activities between 1 August 2014 and culture go back a long way – to the first decisions in with arts and culture and a growing experience. Our partnerships with the film alone expected to generate £7.3bn 31 July 2015, many (but not all) of the late 1980s to teach collaboratively with RADA – awareness of the potential for a cultural sector allow us to give students for the UK. With its acknowledged which are brokered or facilitated by synergistic relationship between King’s opportunities that open their minds in strengths in the arts, social sciences those teams. Given the wide range of and student opportunities have always been at the and culture to add value to students ways that will stay with them for life. and digital humanities, King’s has activity, across all Faculties, this report heart of our partnerships with cultural organisations. and academics across all disciplines. King’s is one of the world’s leading much to offer the cultural and creative cannot hope to be a complete picture of The student experience at King’s is universities – ranked 19th in the 2015 sector – and much to gain from culture at King’s across the year, but it shaped by the way the university is QS World University Rankings, 27th stronger and deeper partnerships. does signal a new era for the university, able to draw London into its activities, in the THE list – with a commitment Over the last few years, partnerships an era in which arts and culture take its education and its research: as a to sustaining its reputation for across all of King’s eight Faculties their place in King’s own ecosystem.

4 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 5 Students at King’s are deriving immediate benefits from the university’s partnerships with the cultural sector: original learning opportunities through collaborative degree Enhancing the programmes and internships; transferable employment skills; an understanding of the value of life-long learning through engagement with public events; networking opportunities not only with sector-leaders in London but also beyond to the wider student experience world of the cultural industries; and a creative approach to problem solving. The examples below highlight some of these opportunities.

Undergraduate research fellowships

The university’s undergraduate research • Nadeem Alom, 3rd year BA fellowships initiative offers students Mathematics: worked on the the chance to enhance their studies by results of a longitudinal tracker of Working on a research project with real working with staff on current research. the UK public’s attitudes towards expectations was something I had not Supporting the university’s ambitions cultural activities as part of major experienced before and it really brought to enhance the undergraduate student sporting events and sponsorship me out of my comfort zone. I learnt about experience, offering students a taste of the arts. my strengths and weaknesses and most of life as a researcher and a foundation • Astrid Hampe, 3rd year BA History: importantly which aspects I needed to in basic research skills that will give carried out an in-depth survey improve the most. them an advantage as they consider the of the ways in which the main Nadeem Alom, 2015 undergraduate next stage of a career in research. Four parties’ manifestos for the 2015 research fellow students worked with staff within the general election dealt with arts Culture directorate: and culture. • Undine Markus, 2nd year BA Film • Anisha Gupta, 2nd year BA Studies: worked on audience data Dentistry: explored the scope of As this project focuses on collaborating collected from the Inigo Rooms over dental and oral research, teaching via relationship and network-building, it its first three years, to examine the and activity across Guy’s Hospital, provides an excellent opportunity for me role and profile of audiences, identify to inform Science Gallery London’s to develop skills for use in my academic, gaps in the demographic and revisit planned programming season on the professional and personal life. the evaluation processes being used. subject of teeth. Anisha Gupta, 2015 undergraduate research fellow

MA in Arts & Cultural Management Student-led societies King’s launched its MA in Arts & challenges, that are part of everyday Cultural Management in September working life in leading organisations. 2014. The home department for the King’s College London Student programme is Culture, Media & Union (KCLSU) has over 260 Creative Industries, in the Faculty of societies and activity groups, Arts & Humanities, and the Cultural It has been a fascinating experience to ranging from Running-a- Institute team works in partnership with engage with the spectrum of cultural Mock – a comedy group that the department to facilitate one of the organisations we encountered during connects students with London’s core modules, Cultural Management: the module, with subjects ranging from improvisational performance the Experience. This module takes the theatre production to museum curation. community – to KCL Radio, where learning process into the homes of The discussions that were facilitated students can gain experience in eight of London’s most prestigious and have helped me to think proactively about presenting, broadcast journalism innovative cultural organisations, with the way changes in society are affecting and production. Many of the leading industry practitioners sharing the ways in which arts and culture are groups provide cultural and with students the real-life experience evolving. Having had the chance to discuss creative opportunities that are of leadership and management. The openly and inquisitively the practical unique to King’s and that capitalise module exemplifies the mixture of challenges faced by arts professionals, on the university’s central London academic expertise and industry know- I feel much more prepared to enter the location. KCLSU provides how that is enabled by the Cultural field. Many thanks to all the team who financial and logistical support to Institute’s brokerage, and which lends put the course together! It was a great help activities run smoothly, but a distinctive character to the student centrepiece to the year. students at King’s manage the King’s students at the Cultural Hackathon 2015. experience. It gives students first-hand Rebekah Ellerby, MA Arts & Cultural daily running of the activities. Photographer: David Tett evidence of the successes, and the Management student

6 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 7 The Medical Humanities modules and world cinema on illness and Medical Humanities at include: healthcare the Faculty of Life • Medicine & Art: Representing • Arts in Healthcare: Performing the body – Combining scientific and medicine – Developing professional Sciences & Medicine artistic understanding of the body skills for medical practice • Madness & Literature: Mad, bad Each module is taught at the The human mind and body have been and dangerous to know? – Exploring Faculty of Life Sciences & represented in art since classical times madness and melancholy in classic Medicine through a series of and they remain a subject of fascination and modern literary texts lectures from academics and guest today. From Leonardo da Vinci to • Literature & Medicine: The literary artists. Modules also include gallery Lucien Freud, artists have combined doctor – Reading the doctor patient visits to Wellcome Collection, Tate artistic methods and scientific encounter in literary texts Modern, the V&A and the National knowledge to document an evolving • Medicine & Film: Framing doctors Gallery, as well as practical sessions observation of the human condition. and illness – Analysis of classic with life drawing models.

London arts & humanities partnership (LAHP)

The LAHP is funded by the Arts organised the 2015 summer programme Routledge, the National Theatre & Humanities Research Council – research and the arts in partnership. and Lambeth Palace Library, in (AHRC) as a doctoral training centre This brought together 80 doctoral a series of behind-the-scenes talks, across King’s, UCL, the School of students from across the arts and workshops, dialogues, ideas labs Advanced Studies and Queen Mary humanities disciplines with speakers and tours. The programme not only University of London. The Cultural and facilitators from a range of our provided resources for the students’ Institute team, as the university’s cultural partners, including the V&A, own research but also enhanced broker of research and education Tate, the National Gallery, literary their practical skills as arts and collaborations with the cultural sector, agents AM Heath, the British Library, humanities researchers.

The study of arts and culture is embedded in many programmes across King’s. Some postgraduate King’s Cultural Challenge 2015: how can cultural organisations inspire, engage and change the world Culture & Care in nursing examples are shown here... over the coming decade? and midwifery education The annual Cultural Challenge invites students to propose MA Early Modern Literature MA Theatre & Performance Studies a response to key sector challenges, competing to win A growing body of scientific evidence demonstrates that in collaboration with internships at cultural partners a paid internship with one of the UK’s leading cultural arts and culture programmes play a central role in preparing the British Library organisations: Southbank Centre, the Royal Opera healthcare professionals for the challenges that will face House, the Roundhouse and the V&A. Recognising the them throughout their working lives. Unique to the MA Christianity & the Arts importance to students of developing presentational skills, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery at in collaboration with the a cash prize of £400 is also offered for the best pitch. In King’s, Culture and care is a programme of activities that MA 18th Century Studies National Gallery this third year of operation, a record 200 students entered places creativity at the heart of the educational experience, in collaboration with MA Shakespeare Studies the first stage of competition, of whom 68 went through releasing talent and energy while enabling staff and students the British Museum in collaboration with to the second stage and 12 finalists pitched to directors to explore their practice from a cultural perspective. Shakespeare’s Globe from the partner organisations. All student nurses at King’s complete the Culture and MA module Making the care programme in their first year providing an opportunity Middle Ages seminars MA Cultural & Creative to engage with the arts and humanities in order to offer taught on location at Industries internship a different and often richer perspective on their work. the British Museum with Tate Modern The Cultural Challenge was the perfect platform for me to MA Education in Arts Second year students have the option to select the Nursing & Cultural Settings test my cultural and creative capacities and present them & the Arts module. Developed in collaboration with in collaboration with to London’s cultural leaders. The pitching experience gave a number of arts organisations in London, the module MA Arts & Cultural Management the Southbank Centre me great confidence, and winning an internship at Southbank explores the history and philosophy of nursing through its taught in eight different leading Centre has opened up amazing opportunities. representation in literature, art, dance, poetry and music. In cultural organisations Marie Ortinau, Cultural Challenge winner 2014 their final year, all student midwives take the new module Arts & Humanities in Midwifery Practice, which uses the creative and performing arts as a method for reflection on ABOVE: Winners and cultural partners in the 2015 Cultural Challenge. and abstraction from their experiential learning in practice. Photographer: David Tett

8 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 9 CultureCase.org

The arts help people form Music diverse lessons enhance IQ while friendship groups drama increases social skills Case Youth theatre provides People who frequently attend a space for young people to gain skills they need to cultural succeed events tend to live longer

In the maze of academic research, arts organisations want to find Share the research... their way to high quality robust evidence quickly, reliably and without duplication. Culture Case makes connecting the paths so much easier. Samuel West, Actor, Director and Chair of the National Campaign for the Arts Delivering Culture to the cultural sector and provides the UK but also in the United States. In the maze of academic research, digests of peer-reviewed research on The network of Knowledge arts organisations want to find their the arts and cultural sector sourced Exchange Associates participate in way to high quality, robust evidence from across the globe. So far, more the development of CultureCase by impact quickly, reliably and without duplication. than 125 items of research have been authoring research summaries for the CultureCase makes connecting the path made available, free of charge. The site. Each year, a training programme so much easier. research has been used for a variety of supports the Associates in acquiring the Samuel West, actor, director and Chair purposes: to support evidence-based skills required for this task: identifying of the National Campaign for the Arts decision making, to help in compiling and translating key findings for lay funding proposals, to improve audiences, developing language that King’s has recognised that the creation of porous third spaces may not always be CultureCase.org celebrated its first organisations’ marketing activities and is jargon-free yet retains fidelity to the anniversary during 2014–15. A unique to evaluate work. From the feedback, original research, and writing in a style business-as-usual for academics. Bringing the cultural sector and academics together resource developed and managed by we know that CultureCase.org has had that is concise, clear and compelling for can take specialised skills, particularly in brokering partnerships; it needs people who King’s, the website speaks directly impact not only in arts organisations in a non-research audience. understand both sides of the equation and are respected by all parties. King’s has invested in this skill-set over a number of years and is well placed to facilitate dialogue Step by step: arts policy and young people 1944-2014 between the university and practitioners. The university’s programme of Cultural using Arts Council archives, a and giving them space to discuss their Enquiries provides the cultural sector currently under-utilised resource. own perception of what happened, with access to academic expertise and The project included a Witness produces a record that will have Get creative: an integrated research project a neutral space in which the sector Seminar, a research technique different features and emphases than can come together to address shared developed by any official documentation. Adam King’s is working with the BBC and Britain. Led by Dr Nick Wilson, Dr of the Get Creative campaign and scope questions and common concerns. the Institute of Boulton, Political Editor of Sky What Next? on a year-long project Anna Bull and Dr Jonathan Gross in the possibilities and potential benefits of Enquiries make their findings publicly Contemporary News and a Fellow of King’s, linked to the Get Creative campaign the Department of Culture, Media & developing a crowd-sourced, open access available, supporting development of British History chaired the Seminar; the four that aims to investigate the following Creative Industries, the Get Creative data and intelligence framework for arts the cultural sector and encouraging at King’s to other panel members had all been questions: research project will evaluate the efficacy and cultural activity across the UK. further debate. gather evidence working on young people’s arts • What is the relationship between Step by step was the final report of on the recent policy development in the late everyday creativity and arts and a Cultural Enquiry investigating the past. Bringing 1970s and the 1980s. The report culture? efforts of various governments since together a small was authored by Dr James Doeser • What would it mean for there to be The research team is evaluating the BBC’s Get Creative campaign and undertaking a 1944 to provide access to the arts group of people (Research Associate, Culture, more cultural and creative practice wider sociological study of the conditions that motivate, enable and constrain ‘everyday for young people and assessing their who were King’s College London and editor in the UK? creativity’. Through this research we are collaborating not only with the BBC but with effectiveness, in order to suggest involved in of CultureCase) and was launched Partners in the project include 64 a wide range of arts and cultural organisations in a multi-dimensional partnership lessons for the future. The findings a particular in January 2015 at the Speaker’s Million Artists, Culture24, Get Creative brokered by the Cultural Institute. Through this research project, King’s will help arts were informed by in-depth research event or policy, House in the House of Commons. Family Arts Festival, Fun Palaces, and cultural organisations better recognise and facilitate the full range of cultural and Voluntary Arts and many arts, cultural creative practices that do – and could – take place every day across the UK. LEFT: Harriet Harman MP and Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp, Chief Executive, The Place at the launch ABOVE: Arts Council England archive material. and voluntary organisations across Dr Anna Bull, Get Creative Researcher, Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries of Step by step: arts policy and young people 1944–2014. Photographer credit: David Tett Photographer: Tessa Hallmann

10 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 11 Driving Joy of influence – September and October 2014 Award winners in 2015 This series of ‘in conversation’ events discussed how he had been Compassion for Voices at King’s brought together five of influenced by Nabokov, with Dr Charles Heriot-Maitland, the country’s best known journalists novelist and essayist Adam Institute of Psychiatry, with celebrated novelists or editors Thirwell. Psychology & Neuroscience to talk about how their favourite • Paul Mason, Economics Editor, Animator, Kate Anderson innovation fictional work has influenced them. Channel 4 News, spoke to Man The events challenged the Booker-winning novelist Anne Hidden Toil at the V&A traditional format of literary Enright about Pynchon’s chaotic conversations, using reflections modern masterpiece, Gravity’s Dr Bronwen Everill and Dr Lucy on fiction to offer insights into Rainbow. Delap, Department of History how journalism works as a creative • Gaby Wood, Head of Books at V&A art form. the Daily Telegraph, talked about • Andrew Marr, one of the country’s Italo Calvino’s The Castle of Crossed Innovation Workshops best-known political interviewers, Destinies with novelist and writer for TV executives revealed his love of Tolstoy’s Jonathan Coe. Michal Ben-David, historical masterpiece, War • Well-known commentator India Department of Culture, and Peace, in conversation with Knight discussed Nancy Mitford’s Media & Creative Industries London Review of Books editor The Pursuit of Love with novelist Norwegian Broadcasting Mary-Kay Wilmers. and Creative Writing Fellow at Corporation (NRK) and Keshet • Rock journalist Paul Morley King’s, Andrew O’Hagan.

Journey of Jeans Collaborative innovation scheme for early career researchers Dr Andrew Brooks, Department of Geography Journey of jeans London College of Fashion and project stand – Generating innovation is a core partner, in supporting the academic showing infographic activity for any research-intensive output from the project and in Here Today, Here Tomorrow representing the university, and King’s is no exception. exploring the potential to disseminate lifecycle of a pair of This initiative actively supports the research through a novel medium. high-street jeans Learning the Music Business innovation among young researchers, In this way, culture is supporting the Toby Bennett, Department providing up to 15 projects with £1,000 university in the development of the of Music of funding each, together with the next generation of innovators. UK Music support and mentoring necessary to develop collaborations with a cultural Embedded in each of the university’s Faculties is The Associates ensure that King’s or technology sector partner. A further Random Walks a Knowledge Exchange Associate – an early career research adds value and has impact prize of £500 is awarded to the best Producing the animation Voicing the Barbara Bravi, Aleksandra across arts and culture, and develop completed project. The scheme is Silence was an inspiring experience for Aloric, Silvia Bartolucci and researcher who might be a lecturer or a doctoral interactions with the cultural sector designed with three objectives in mind: me. The product of the collaboration was Sari Nusier, Faculty of Natural that enhance the academic and student • fostering collaboration between early an animated video that put my research candidate. These Associates, together with the & Mathematical Sciences experience at King’s. A key role of the career researchers (PhD students or into the maternity care experiences Design Science and NETADIS interface team in the Cultural Institute, form a network Knowledge Exchange Associates is the staff who obtained their doctorate of women who were sexually abused delivery of a programme specifically no more than five years ago) and in childhood into a tangible format – a that aims to drive innovation across the university. designed for early career researchers. partners in the cultural sector and short, powerful film that uses the words Translation Plays technology industries; of one of the participants of my study. Sophie Stevens, Department • engaging new audiences with research It has been very well received both by of Spanish, Portuguese & Latin areas, through novel forms of artistic the professionals and the survivors who American Studies taking place across the Departments Almost 4,000 people came and academic collaboration; and have seen it. To date it has been seen Arcola Theatre The annual Arts & and Research Centres that make up the to King’s for Underground, the • using innovative ways, such as by midwifery and medical students as Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s. 2014 Festival. The ten-day social media and other platforms, well as midwives, nurses and social care Humanities Festival Voicing the Silence The Festival is a celebration of the programme of talks, workshops, of documenting the collaboration practitioners. I was also invited on to BBC Dr Elsa Montgomery, Florence at King’s Faculty’s achievements and provides an exhibitions and performances of process as a part of the project’s Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour programme to Nightingale Faculty of Nursing opportunity for collaboration between immersive theatre, music, poetry implementation. discuss my research and the animation & Midwifery Each academic year begins with the departments, across the university and and comedy took in everything Key features of this scheme are won the Florence Nightingale Nursing & Video production company, JMotion Arts & Humanities Festival: an annual with external partners. It provides a from the ruins of Roman London simplicity of application – a 300-word Midwifery Faculty’s Research-led teaching event developed and delivered by the showcase of academic excellence with to the history and culture of project summary is all that is required– innovation award earlier this year. Arts & Humanities Research Institute an emphasis on practical applications underground sheltering during and the assistance that the Cultural Dr Elsa Montgomery, Head of Department that celebrates and disseminates work and public engagement. the second world war. Institute provides: in helping award- of Midwifery, Florence Nightingale Faculty holders to identify and work with a of Nursing & Midwifery

12 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 13 Your Jewish Museum

Your Jewish Museum is a series of three Engaging with exhibitions at the Jewish Museum London, in collaboration with the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at King’s, which itself offers an MA in Jewish Studies and has a long standing relationship with London’s London beyond Jewish community. Led by Dr Aaron & Rosen, the first and second exhibitions, Love and Journeys, have run during 2014–15; the final exhibition,Sacrifice , ran in the autumn of 2015. The items for display have been crowd-sourced through an open invitation to members of the community to submit items for loan: these have included an Imam’s first prayer mat and Qur’an for Journeys and part of the original fire pole from the first firehouse in Cambridge forSacrifice . This innovative model of community-led curation can be applied to other small museums, particularly those linked to a specific community.

Your Jewish Museum is a brilliant example This series of crowd-sourced exhibitions of academic research and imagination allowed people of all ages, backgrounds driving innovation in the cultural sector. The and faiths to lend us their objects and to programme of exhibitions has challenged tell us their stories. What emerged was traditional approaches to curation and funny, moving and very accessible. An has put the community at the heart of the ordinary object suddenly has meaning, museum. The unqualified success of Dr a small thing displayed lets us glimpse into Aaron Rosen’s approach – 28,000 visitors a life. We’re thrilled with the outcome of to the exhibitions to date and counting these exhibitions and hope to work with – suggests that this model is likely to be the Cultural Institute at King’s College adopted by not only the Jewish Museum London again in the future. Somerset House and the London London, but other galleries and museums Abigail Morris, Director, Jewish Museum skyline. Photographer: Alfredo Falvo in the future. London Katherine Bond, Director, Cultural Institute

With its broad range of disciplines, King’s connects to the King’s College London sits in the very NHS and the pharmaceutical industries and to the world of the theatre, music, dance and the visual arts; to Lambeth Magna Carta and the rule of law at the Dickson Poon School of Law centre of London, at the crossroads Palace and to Tech City; and to many, many other sites. It of the north-south and east-west is well-placed, in all senses, to take advantage of London as In association with the Magna Carta movements and the context of Magna a global city and to make connections across the UK and to 800th Anniversary Commemoration Carta itself. highways and halfway between the the world beyond. Its aim is not only to look outwards to Committee, The Dickson Poon Six banners, hung across three Palace of Westminster and the City. London – by actively seeking collaborations and connections School of Law delivered a floors of Somerset House East Wing, – but also to bring London into King’s, by ensuring that commemorative exhibition about depicted the various ways in which Most of the capital’s major transport both students and staff derive the maximum benefit from Magna Carta, one of the most Magna Carta laid the foundation for routes pass its doorways. the university’s unparalleled location. But King’s also looks celebrated documents in history. modern law and society. beyond London – indeed, it has a campus at the Joint Magna Carta and the Rule of Law In association with this project, Services & Command Staff College in Berkshire – and the marked the 800th anniversary the School also hosted the Library cultural collaborations showcased below show interaction of the document and drew on of Congress and American Bar with a community in London, with the cultural sector across connected themes such as the Association travelling exhibit – the UK, with an artist whose practice lies beyond Europe Suffragette and Civil Rights Magna Carta: An Enduring Legacy. and with the international cultural community.

14 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 15 Cultural Enquiry: The art of partnering Tracking public attitudes and behaviours King’s annual tracker survey* is run by Neilsen This Enquiry – a collaboration between King’s programme of Cultural Enquiries is invaluable to us. The Enquiries occupy a new and has sought the views of 6,000 UK adults King’s and the BBC – was directed space, connecting evidence and academic analysis with the needs of the sector to relating to culture and major events so far. The January 2015 findings showed that: by Jane Ellison, Head of Creative produce robust yet practical tools that are helping us to evaluate our working practices Partnerships at the BBC. At a time when and further explore ways to work even more effectively and productively with our partnership has become prevalent across cultural partners whilst supporting our ambitions to enable people around the globe the cultural sector as a way of working, to engage with and enjoy the best of British arts and culture. it explored the role partnership plays Des Violaris, Director, UK Arts & Culture, BP in enabling publicly funded cultural institutions to enhance the quality, diversity and reach of their work across the UK. The research for this Enquiry The charting of partnership working in the UK is at the beginning of a process was gathered from questionnaires often predicated by other pressures, usually financial. There are, however, fruitful 54 / distributed to organisations across all arrangements across the cultural sector which give great benefit to the development believe that major sporting events four countries of the UK, by in-depth of arts and the potential dividends of further cultural engagement. This work 73% of people think that UK towns and cities should continue are enhanced when culture interviews and through roundtable in collaboration itself with a number of different organisations across the country to bid to stage major sporting and cultural events is included in the programme discussions held in Brighton, Derby and is the beginning of research which provides an evidence base for what we already Newcastle. Working in this way avoided know but often find it difficult to prove in terms of value and wealth generation – two any London-based bias and ensured that aspects of the arts that are always quoted as being difficult to demonstrate – in this the views were heard of those working context wealth and value are not just linked to the monetary, but cultural value and in arts and cultural organisations of all cultural health as well. sizes and in as wide a variety of locations Professor Chris White, Head of the School of Art and Design and Assistant Dean for the Faculty 89% of respondents expressed some as possible. of Arts, Design & Technology, University of Derby interest in the arts – higher than those 89% who expressed an interest in sport (83%) 52% 83% The art of major events think more money should be spent on the arts locally In January, King’s held a one-day some of the key themes discussed on the Following on from this conference, * Tracking study administered online by Neilsen in two waves (June and October 2014) conference, The art of major events, day. King’s also used the opportunity Deborah Bull was invited to give the building on an earlier 2013 study. Sample criteria were nationally representative UK adults aged 16+ with a sample size of just over 2,000 per wave. organised in partnership with the to release the latest results of its annual keynote address at the Japan Association British Council and Deloitte, which tracker survey into public attitudes to for Cultural Economics annual connected three Olympic and arts and culture. conference in Tokyo in July 2015. Paralympic host cities – London, Rio and Tokyo – with senior and influential figures across culture, sport, academia (Re)creating Culture, Autopoiesis and government. The conference built on the recommendations of (Re)creating Culture, a project led by Dr institutions, proposing innovative ways Festival 2014 and showcased a selection the report of King’s first Cultural Btihaj Ajana from the Department of for dealing with challenges relating to of multimedia artwork received from Enquiry, which explored how the Culture, Media & Creative Industries, contemporary curatorial practices and members of the UAE public. The aim of expertise developed in planning looked at the dynamics of museum audience engagement. the exhibition was to provide a window London’s Cultural Olympiad might be and cultural developments in the Gulf, The project included the development into the personal and communal aspects harnessed and made widely available. with a particular focus on the case of of a digital public art website, of the region as experienced by its own Speakers included Dame Tessa Jowell the United Arab Emirates. Based on Autopoiesis (autopoiesis.io) which aimed residents and visitors. MP; Martin Green, CEO, Hull 2017 a series of discussions with various to test how different people from the and Head of Ceremonies, London UK and UAE institutions including UAE society think and feel about life and 2012; Jenny Sealey, Artistic Director, Tate, Sharjah Art Foundation, Art culture in the UAE. If they were given London 2012 Paralympic Games Dubai, Sharjah Museums Department the chance to curate these themselves This project was a new opportunity for me Opening Ceremony; Mario Andrada, and various art galleries, the project based on their experiences, narratives to meet and know more about the people Director of Communications, Rio 2016; sought to explore the shifting role of and memories, what would the picture around me, and I was happy that some of Sumihiko Kobayashi, Senior Director curators in a transnational context as look like? How different would it be these people opened up to me, and shared of Communications and Engagement, well as issues surrounding audience from an officially curated version? This parts of their life with me. I would have Tokyo 2020. To coincide with the engagement, inclusion and cross- material was intended to be a symbolic never expected that people living so close conference, King’s published three case cultural encounters in the field of representation and manifestation of to where I live would have similar thoughts studies (from Hull UK City of Culture, cultural production and mediation. The how people from different backgrounds and feelings, and so this project was Dame Tessa Jowell speaking at Glasgow Commonwealth Games key objectives of the project revolved relate to and experience life in the definitely an eye opener on what is going The Art of Major Events conference, Cultural Programme and the London held by King’s as part of the Cultural around understanding the cultural UAE. A public exhibition arising out on around me. 2012 Cultural Olympiad) highlighting Enquiry into major events and culture. landscape of the Gulf region, building of this project, Autopoiesis 2.0, took Istabraq Emad Al Naiar – Artist participant connections with UAE cultural place as part of the Arts & Humanities in (Re)creating Culture.

16 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 17 Out of Chaos War Requiem & Aftermath

Ben Uri Collection Rabbi and Rabbitzin , 1914 Image: Mark Gertler This exhibition in the Inigo Rooms was from across King’s, whose work in facial Exploring a century of émigré history in London through the hidden treasures of the Ben Uri Collection a survey of the recent work of British reconstruction and post-traumatic Connecting King’s artist Maggi Hambling, encompassing stress disorder had resonance in the painting, sculpture, installation and artist’s work. These collaborations film. The exhibition was based onWar formed the basis for a series of talks, Requiem, first shown at the Aldeburgh debates and events and drew in students Festival in June 2013. For the King’s and staff from across the university, with the wider public exhibition, Hambling created War including 150 mental health nursing Requiem 2, in which portraits of students and many staff from across the anonymous war victims and pictures Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. of blitzed battlefields emerge from Hambling’s typically turbulent and Culture helps to raise the profile of King’s College London among communities in dense paintwork. An extract from Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem played I would like to thank you for organising the policy, government, the media, opinion formers and, of course, the broader public. Ben Uri: 100 Years in London 02 July – 18 December 2015 alongside. Other works on display dated event yesterday evening at Guy’s Hospital. Inigo Rooms Somerset House East Wing from the early 1980s and reflected the My son was diagnosed with cancer of Culture and cultural collaborations allow King’s to connect with the communities King’s College London WC2R 2LS www.benuri.org | #BenUri100 themes of war, death, remembrance the palate three years ago in Germany. around it in a more sustained way, not only to showcase the university’s research and loss in Hambling’s practice. You are Everything happened very quickly and it the Sea, a canvas from 2012 from the is nice to finally understand everything. but also to involve different publics in dialogue with research – helping to ensure Out of Chaos promotional posters. © Ben Uri collection. Wall of Water series, demonstrated the It is also reassuring to find out that other that research is relevant to society. artist’s close connection to the sea and people care as much about my son’s Also in the Inigo Rooms, King’s the Suffolk coast and brought to mind quality of life as I do. College London has been hosting Out the words she carved into her memorial A visitor to Reconstructing Identity – a talk of Chaos, an exhibition of works from on the shore at Aldeburgh to Benjamin exploring the extraordinary life-changing Staging Transitions the Ben Uri Collection of emigré art Britten: ‘I hear those voices that will not work delivered by specialists working in the in London. The exhibition ran until be drowned’. King’s, with its world- field of facial reconstruction surgery Staging Transitions was a collaboration sense of this crucial phase of their lives? about their hopes and fears or December 2015. Showcasing as it famous Department of War Studies, its between Dr Maria Vaccarella of the Building upon previous research on experiences of transition into the adult does the work of those who have been major medical faculties and its expertise Medical Humanities group in the the use of theatre to improve the world. This action research created a immigrants in London, and coinciding in psychiatry, was a particularly Department of English and Face democratic participation of LDD people unconventional, innovative platform with the public debate on Europe’s resonant setting for this show, which I really enjoyed the way [Hambling] tried Front Inclusive Theatre. It sought to in society, the project responded to the to test current strategies for transition refugee crisis, the decision to host had its own examination of injury, to engage you in an overall sensory apply academic research to answer concerns within education and adult implementation, which are intended this exhibition has demonstrated the war, creation and annihilation. The experience with sound, light, music, three questions: services around transition planning and to feed into policy making. It also valuable role that the university exhibition concluded with Aftermath, a and feeling. • What are the challenges faced by implementation for young people. With fostered an innovative, inclusive form can play in providing a new series of bronze sculptures created A visitor to the War Requiem & Aftermath young people with learning difficulties the constant involvement of young LDD of collaboration between researchers at site for discussion of with the Inigo Rooms in mind, which exhibition and disabilities (LDD) when they people and their parents/carers, a new King’s and the wider community, and contemporary issues. began as found pieces of dead wood and leave school? multi-accessible play was written and will further advance the development became strange, unworldly creatures, The exhibition ran for 12 weeks, • What are the hopes and fears performed. The play was based on both and application of applied medical alternately animal and human. between 4 March and 31 May 2015, associated with their transition academic literature and interviews with humanities– a relatively new discipline, While producing the exhibition, and attracted over 8,000 visitors. into adulthood? parents, guardians, carers, teachers which King’s has been at the forefront Hambling worked with 14 academics • Can inclusive theatre help them make and young LDD people themselves of developing.

• Inigo Rooms, Somerset House Campus Cultural spaces East Wing, Strand Campus • Florence Nightingale Museum, in and around King’s • College Chapel, King’s Building, St Thomas’ Hospital Strand Campus • Old Operating Theatre Museum Spread over five campuses, the • Anatomy Museum, King’s Building, and Herb Garret, university offers, and is connected to, Strand Campus St Thomas’ Street a wide variety of cultural spaces. Some • Gordon Museum of Pathology, • Social, Genetic & Developmental are permanent museums with a long and Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus Psychiatry Centre, within the prestigious history, while others provide • Museum of Life Sciences, Hodgkin King’s Institute of Psychiatry, flexible exhibition and performance Building, Guy’s Campus Psychology & Neuroscience, spaces for the university’s staff and • Greenwood Theatre, Weston Street, Denmark Hill Campus students and for cultural partners and Guy’s Campus • Science Gallery London, coming collaborators. These spaces include: • Guy’s Chapel, Boland House, Guy’s to Guy’s Campus in 2017 War Requiem and Aftermath – Maggi Hambling Photographer credit: Photographer: Jana Chiellino

18 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 19 De/coding the Apocalypse

This exhibition was a collaboration between an innovative digital artist and a Professor of Christianity & the Arts, together with the contemporary art centre MOSTYN. King’s College London pioneered the introduction of the study of digital humanities, while Theology was one of the university’s first disciplines, taught since 1831. De/coding the Apocalypse was therefore the epitome of the university’s approach to education over more than 180 years. The project originated in a year-long Leverhulme artist residency, held by Michael Takeo Magruder, during which he worked alongside Professor Ben Quash in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies. Michael was interested in making representations of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation and examining western culture’s continuing fascination with it, but he wanted his art to be Creating informed by academic rigour. The project was supported by Leverhulme as practice-based research, for which the exhibition in the Inigo Rooms, curated by Alfredo Cramerotti of collaborative MOSTYN, was the research output. The exhibition consisted of five De/coding the digital media installations, using Apocalypse – Michael Takeo a range of digital technologies Magruder. (such as computers, mobile devices, collisions Photographer: code systems, live data and user Jana Chiellino interactivity) and physical materials associated with traditional installation, painting, print and sculpture. It blended the new and the old and delivered an updated and expanded As Imran Khan, Chief Executive of focus on 15 to 25 year-olds. Part of Science Gallery London is scheduled view of the concepts and contexts the British Science Association (BSA), the Global Science Gallery Network, to open in autumn 2017 and in the that have surrounded the Book of where arts, science, has remarked, Science Gallery London will aim lead up period the gallery is producing Revelation throughout its history. to create unique collisions: it will experimental pre-opening seasons in have no permanent collection but unique, pop-up locations around Guy’s creativity and research a changing programme of content Campus and across London Bridge. Science is too important, valuable and focussed on four annual themes, each In 2015, Science Gallery London’s Through building on Michael Takeo fascinating to be left to professional one of global concern. season was on the future of food (see Magruder’s residency with academics in come together scientists alone. For the good of society, Through an open call process, overleaf, FED UP), and in 2014 it the Department of Theology & Religious the public, and scientific progress itself, Science Gallery London will curate and ran FREQUENCIES: Tune into life, Studies, and our close collaboration with science needs a broader community. host exhibitions, events, performances, which brought together musicians, Professor Ben Quash, this interactive Every act of research is an act of creativity. There 22 October 2015, press conference at the BSA online activities, debates and festivals artists, young people, and King’s exhibition and events programme really illuminating these themes. It will bring students to create unique sound pieces captured King’s ambition to reveal and can be arguments about the ratio of inspiration to Science Gallery London exemplifies science, technology and health into and performances that explored the extend research and new thinking to the perspiration, but no one will seriously deny the need the King’s approach to creating this dialogue with the arts and design in biological rhythms in their lives. public in an innovative way. We were broader community. The gallery is an unprecedented way, inspiring new But the art/science interface is not thrilled that the artist went on to win the for a spark of creativity in order to produce results. being developed on the Guy’s Campus thinking in researchers, academics, restricted to Science Gallery: it is Lumen Immersive Environments Award For King’s, the arts and the sciences do not exist in at London Bridge as a space where art young people and local communities happening across King’s. We conclude 2015 for one of the works, A New Jerusalem. and science collide. It will be free for and provoking new approaches to with a look at just some of the year’s Alison Duthie, Director, Exhibitions and separate silos but interact with and feed off each other. all to visit, but it will have a particular contemporary challenges. collaborative collisions. Public Programming

20 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 21 RIGHT: FED UP: The future of food. Image by Cog Design for Science Leverhulme artist Gallery London. in residence in BELOW: The house of ferment installation – the Department part of FED UP: The future of Food. Photographer: of War Studies Richard Eaton Going south, by the artist Lola Frost, was the concluding exhibition to a year-long Leverhulme artist in residency in the Department of War Studies at King’s. Installed in Somerset House East Wing, Lola’s exhibition referenced landscapes from New FED UP Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina and Chile and FED UP – The future of food installation at Borough Market in Guthrie’s house: heavy slate shelves, consisted of a set of paintings that investigates the science and the art collaboration with Karen Guthrie and jars and crocks and stones aged with speak to a radiant and subversive behind modern mass production of Grizedale Arts, along with a series of lichen offered a unique environment nether and inner world. food and looks to the near future to exploratory events and demonstrations for maturing and storing fermented and Throughout the residency Lola consider how the next generation will that uncovered the mysteries and preserved foods. Fermented products Frost engaged with students and tackle the challenges and opportunities debunked the myths surrounding in various stages of the process were scholars in the Department of of nutrition and diet. The first event, fermented foods. The installation’s included in The house of ferment. War Studies on the productive The house of ferment, was a week-long design was inspired by the larder of possibilities of aesthetic risk, as a riposte to the ubiquity of risk management values in modernity. ABOVE: Collaborators from Science Gallery London’s FREQUENCIES season at Borough Market. Photographer: Mike Massaro At Science Gallery London we are passionate about bringing the work of artists and scientists to life in an engaging Parallel Practices and interactive way. FED UP: The future of food consisted of a series of bold Parallel Practices, developed in scientists and craft makers. The Dr Matthew Howard (Department exhibitions and talks that provided a partnership with the Crafts Council, project stimulated shared learning of Informatics), Dr Thrishantha starting point for discussions on how we saw the first artists in residence in and innovation through a focus on the Nanayakkara (Department of consume food and our relationship with the university’s dissecting room, body, materials and processes that Informatics), Celia Pym (textile it. By handing control of the message of bringing together makers and inform clinical outcomes and artistic maker), Tamsin van Essen (ceramicist), the season to younger people and allowing medical professionals to explore and practice. Initial participants included Karina Thompson (textile artist), them to frame the debate, through demonstrate the mutual benefits of Dr Richard Wingate (Department Les Bicknell (book artist) and Naomi events and also through social media, we collaboration between biomedical of Developmental Neurobiology), Mcintosh (jeweller). uncovered a range of interesting opinions and approaches towards food and food consumption – one of the key challenges of our time. The year in numbers: Dr Daniel Glaser, Director, Science Gallery London 293 432 171 CLASH Fellowships opportunities cultural sector professionals academics and PhD for student engaged with events and students worked with In 2014/15, in collaboration with their individual areas of research performance of choreography and employment projects on 543 occasions cultural organisations University College London, three to work in new ways within the improvisation exercises in the King’s early career researchers were appointed cultural sector. College Chapel on the Strand Campus. as Fellows in Collaborative Learning in Funded by an AHRC Collaborative Occupied minds draws on CLASH the Arts, Society and the Humanities Skills Development grant, this inter- Fellow Pennie Quinton’s research into (CLASH). Collaborating with cultural university collaboration saw the the impact of ‘belligerent occupation’ partners such as dance company production of new and innovative on the health perceptions of women students took 207 15,585 100% Joli-Vyann, Southbank Centre, the arts programming that was rooted in living in east Jerusalem and areas of the part in the King’s organisations attendances at exhibitions of Faculties engaged V&A, the National Trust and the primary research. CLASH Fellows West Bank and examines the effects of Cultural Challenge worked with King’s and workshops in King’s with culture Share Academy, the Fellows developed have produced a wide range of local housing policy upon the domestic 200 and delivered unique projects that put outputs, including a newly developed population’s wellbeing.

22 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 23 The year ahead

2016 will be another year of new opportunities for the university, as we move into the Strand Campus’s newest wing: Bush House on the Aldwych. Built originally as a commercial exchange to rival the Royal Exchange, Bush House quickly became synonymous with the exchange of ideas and cultures as the home of the BBC World Service. King’s’ acquisition means that the long tradition of Bush House as a global exchange of knowledge and ideas will continue into and beyond the next generation.

2016 also marks two significant architecture, theatre and beyond to health and social care services in anniversaries: the quatercentenary that will celebrate and explore the promoting good health and wellbeing. of the death of William Shakespeare idea of Utopia and represent the most A Circle of Cultural Fellows – a new and the 500th anniversary of the extensive celebration of this radical network for King’s – is now in place publication of Thomas More’s Utopia. work anywhere in the world. and includes an exceptional group One hundred years ago, King’s was The university’s plans for Science of individuals, many of whom have at the centre of the tercentenary Gallery London continue to progress: contributed to the university’s cultural celebrations, through the work subject to planning, building will start strategy over the last three years. of Professor Sir Israel Gollancz. in Spring 2016, with the opening Our Fellows each bring first-hand Move forward a century and King’s date set for Autumn 2017. Lead-up and invaluable experience of arts, has assembled a consortium of 24 programming continues this year with culture or cultural policy, with the cultural, creative and educational FED UP, followed by MOUTHY, in potential to enhance the King’s organisations, under the academic collaboration with the Dental Institute. experience across all our Faculties leadership of Professor Gordon The Global Science Gallery Network and student body. McMullan, director of the London continues to grow, with the University With so much cultural activity Shakespeare Centre at King’s College of Melbourne recently joining Dublin, going on across the university, it seems London. Together, consortium members Bengalaru and London: the fourth in appropriate to test the hypothesis that will present a connected series of a network which, by 2020, will include creativity and creative potential can be activities throughout 2016 that celebrate eight Science Galleries worldwide, recognised, integrated and embedded Shakespeare and highlight his enduring each one developed in partnership with into every area of life at King’s in a influence on arts and culture, not only in a leading university in an urban centre. systematic and sustainable way. And so English-speaking countries, but across A growing and widespread interest over the first half of 2016, the national the globe. In the Inigo Rooms, King’s in the connections between art, campaign group 64 Million Artists will collaborate with The National health and wellbeing is inspiring will work with Dr Nick Wilson and Archives to present an exhibition of new collaborations focussed on the Dr Laura Speers of the Department of remarkable and rarely seen documents, university’s Health Faculties. King’s Culture, Media & Creative Industries including Shakespeare’s will. is collaborating with the All Party on an experiment in building an To mark the More anniversary, Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health everyday culture of creativity – King’s is working closely with its and Wellbeing on a two year-long unlocking the potential of staff, neighbours, Somerset House and the Inquiry that will build on the work of students and faculty to create 33,000 Courtauld Gallery, on Utopia 2016: the Group to date and develop policy everyday artists, across King’s. a year-long programme spanning art, recommendations towards establishing I hope that this review has inspired LEFT TO RIGHT: literature, society, fashion, design, the arts as a mainstream contributor you to join in. Tony Hall, Director General, BBC, Deborah Bull, Assistant Principal (Culture Deborah Bull & Engagement), Assistant Principal Professor Edward (Culture & Engagement) Byrne, President & Principal, King’s College London.

24 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 25 Geography King’s Health Partners University of Surrey Rebecca Heald Dr Andrew Brooks Leo Creffield, Guy’s & Professor Mark Cropley Tim Henbrey Dr Nicholas de Genova St Thomas’ NHS Anila Ladwa People partners Professor David Green Foundation Trust University of Sussex Pigalle Tavakkoli & Dr Naho Mirumachi Gaya Devadason, King’s Professor Tim Jordan Jen Wong Dr Jonathan Reades College Hospital Professor Nicholas Till Dr Bruno Turnheim Megan Duffy, King’s Students Our staff & networks College Hospital University of Westminster Global Institutes Professor Paul Gringras, Dr Nancy Stevenson This year we engaged with None of these achievements in 2014-5 would have been possible without the hard work and dedication of colleagues across Brazil Institute Evelina Children’s Hospital more than 500 students King’s, the specialist teams working at the interface between the university and the cultural sector, and the support and Dr Vinicius de Carvalho Paran Govender, King’s across a range of activities engagement of our partners. Professor Anthony Pereira College Hospital Culture directorate including MA Arts & Cultural Dr Majid Kazmi, Guy’s Management, London Arts India Institute & St Thomas’ NHS Specialist teams & Humanities Partnership Dr Kriti Kapila Foundation Trust Central office Summer School, Knowledge Within King’s… Professor Andrew O’Hagan Dental Institute Ian Noonan Dr Jahnavi Phalkey Ruth Hogarth, Director Exchange Associates network, Dr Pat Palmer Dr Andreas Artopoulos Professor Anne-Marie Rafferty Queen Mary University James Crawford King’s Cultural Challenge, Archives Professor Alan Read Dr Trevor Coward Dr Emma Rowland International Development of London Maria Ryan Early Careers Researchers Dr Geoff Browell Dr David Russell Professor Lucy Di-Silvio Professor Jackie Sturt Institute Professor Iain Hutchison Dr Rachel Scott scheme, and as student event Kate O’Brien Professor Max Saunders Professor Michael Fenlon Dr Lisa Kingstone Oliver Stannard staff for exhibitions and live Dr Theron Schmidt Professor Moya Smith Sheffield Hallam University cinema. The following Professor Mark Turner Institute of Psychiatry, Institute of North Professor David Cotterell Cultural Enquiry students undertook research Gordon Museum of Pathology Professor Patrick Wright Psychology & Neuroscience American Studies Dr Susie Christensen or work placements: William Edwards Faculty of Life Sciences Clinical Psychology Professor Celeste-Marie University College London Dr James Doeser European & International & Medicine Dr Claire Doyle Bernier (Visiting Professor) William Bondin Jane Ellison CLASH Fellows Studies Anatomy Professor Elizabeth Kuipers Ruairi Glynn Fran Hegyi Sheridan Humphrey, Faculty of Arts & Humanities Professor Alex Callinicos Mr Donald Sammut Management Dr Chris Leung Ulrika Högberg PhD student, English Classics James Wood (PhD student) Developmental Neurobiology Professor David Guest Chryssa Varna Athina Lazaridou, Professor Michael Trapp Human Genetics Dr Ian Thompson Dr Dirk von Lehn Cultural Institute PhD student, Built French Professor Ellen Solomon Dr Richard Wingate University of the Arts London Katherine Bond, Director Environment (UCL) Comparative Literature Dr Anna Magdalena Elsner Middle Eastern Studies Professor Anne Bamford Sophie Branscombe Penelope Quinton, Professor Javed Majeed Professor Patrick ffrench Medical Education Psychology Professor Michael Kerr Professor Paul Goodwin Amy Brown PhD student, Middle Dr Maria Vaccarella Dr Sanja Perovic Tiffany Wade Dr Charlie Heriot-Maitland Dr Craig Larkin Katelyn Toth-Fejel Yvonne Castle Eastern Studies Dr Solzick Solman Dr Jennifer Lau Dr Kate Dunton Culture, Media & Creative Primary Care & Public Health Policy Institute University of Brighton Stella Toonen Cultural Challenge winners Industries German Services Psychological Medicine Dr Jon Davis Donna Close William Warrener Emma Lawrence, Dr Btihaj Ajana Dr Katrin Schreiter Dr Uy Hoang Professor Edgar Jones Professor Jonathan Grant Dr Frank Gray undergraduate, English Dr Anna Bull Professor Chris McKevitt Dr Anna Kolliakou Stephen Martineau Knowledge Exchange Marie Ortinau, masters, Dr Red Chidgey History Professor Sir Simon Wessely University of Derby Associates Education & Professional Dr Harvey Cohen Dr Lucy Delap Transplantation Immunology Social Science, Health Chas Andrews-Roberts Dr Ruth Craggs Studies Dr Roberta Comunian Professor David Edgerton & Mucosal Biology Psychosis Clinical & Medicine Dr Richard Hodges Nneke Ene, PhD student Kat Pierce, undergraduate, Dr Jonathan Gross Dr Bronwen Everill Dr Claire Sharpe Academic Group Professor Bronwyn Parry Bev Reardon Charlotte Fereday, English Dr Richard Howells Professor Laura Gowing Dr Isabel Valli Professor Chris White PhD student Ottilie Thornhill, Dr Gretchen Larsen Dr Jane Levi War Studies Dr Tanya Graham undergraduate, English Dr Melissa Nisbett Dr Timothy Livsey Dickson Poon School of Law Dr Claudia Aradau University of Edinburgh Dr Anna Kolliakou Professor Anna Reading Professor Penney Lewis Faculty of Social Science Professor Ned Lebow Professor Jolyon Mitchell Dr Victoria MacBean Spectraitors Disloyalty App Dr Christine Scharff Music Professor Michael Singer & Public Policy Dr Milena Michalski Richard Mason, PhD student Lauren Holden, Music Dr Ricarda Vidal Professor Daniel Leech- Institute of Contemporary University of Greenwich Saoirse O’Toole, PhD student graduate, former Cultural Dr Nick Wilson Wilkinson British History Christopher Philpott Paula Serafini, PhD student Challenge winner Dr Frederick Moehn Faculty of Natural & Dr Michael Kandiah … and collaborators Joshua Simpson, Informatics, Mathematical Sciences Digital Humanities Professor Martin Stokes from other universities University of Leicester Sector Associates KCL Tech Society Professor Sheila Anderson Chemistry Defence Studies Dr Christopher Goodey Hilary Carty Dr Drew Baker Philosophy Dr Rivka Isaacson Dr Michael Finch Birkbeck, University of London Dr Gus Casely-Hayford Undergraduate Research Dr Martin Blazeby Stanley Merttens (MA student) Jacqueline Rose University of Liverpool Anthony Lilley Fellows Dr Mark Cote Informatics Education & Professional Dr Beatriz García Jenny Waldman Nadeem Alom, Mathematics Dr Stuart Dunn Spanish, Portuguese & Latin- Dr Matthew Howard Studies Goldsmiths, University Anisha Gupta, Dentistry American Studies Dr Thishantha Nanayekkara Dr Chris Abbott of London University of Nottingham Exhibitions and Public Astrid Hampe, History English Professor Catherine Boyle Dr Helge Würdemann Professor Louise Archer Dipo Agboluaje Professor Pat Thompson Programming Undine Markus, Film Studies Dr Anna Bernard Camila González Ortiz Dr Jen DeWitt Deborah Grayson Alison Duthie, Director Professor Paul Gilroy (PhD student) Physics Dr Simon Gibbons John Johnston University of Oxford Sophie Cornell Duty Managers Dr Kelina Gotman Dr Toby Green Professor Mairi Sakellariadou Dr Heather King Daniel McQuillan Dr Natasha O’Hear Andy Franzkowiak Michel Capaleto, graduate, Professor Brian Hurwitz Professor Ben Rampton Dr Esther Sayers Leanne Hammacott War Studies Professor Ananya Jahanara Theology & Religious Studies Dr Gabriella Rundblad University of Sheffield Kaye Mahoney Alison Hendrick, masters, Kabir Professor Edward Adams Florence Nightingale Faculty Dr Tania de St Croix Imperial College London Dr Maurice Roche Education & Professional Sophie Lally (PhD student) Michelle Fletcher ( of Nursing & Midwifery Dr Anwar Till Anne Barrett, Archivist Science Gallery London Studies Professor Gordon McMullan PhD student) Dr Claire Jones University of Sunderland Dr Daniel Glaser, Director Rukaiyah Qazi, undergraduate, Dr Madison Moore Professor Ben Quash Dr Niall McCrae Mark Adamson Rebecca Ball Theology & Religious Studies Penny Newell (PhD student) Dr Aaron Rosen Dr Elsa Montgomery Kate Anderson

26 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 27 Science Gallery East London Dance London Urban Arts Academy vInspired Anna Freeman Bentley, artist Anne Odling-Smee, Director, Joining the Dots Hugh Monk, artist manager Naomi Downham, Edcoms Look Left Look Right Visiting Arts Andrew Gwilliams, Design Science Mark Davyd, Music Michael Regan, curator undergraduate, English Elbow Productions Makerversity Voluntary Arts White Cube Rolf Sachs, conceptual artist Venue Trust Jenny Wright, artist Claire Jordan, graduate, Electric Voice Theatre Middle East Eye Wayne McGregor | Hannah Habibi, artist and designer Sean Egan, lawyer Nutrition Embassy of Brazil MOSTYN Random Dance Huda Jawad, Centre for Clare Sams, artist and educator Emily Kerr, Roundhouse Minerva Scientifica Embassy of Japan mu:arts Wellcome Trust Academic Shi’a Studies Dominique Sherwood, Oscar Mackenzie, Livity Herbie Clarke, Electric English Folk Dance & Museum of Homelessness Widgit Sarah Jupe graphic designer Tatenda Musengwa, Voice Theatre Partner Organisations Song Society Museum of London Winter Bear Ltd Peter Kennard, artist Katelyn Toth-Fejel, artist YouthSight Penny Debruslais, singer English National Ballet Museum of London World Cities Cultural Forum Kevin Leahy, British Armour and designer, London College Gavin Sharp, Inner City Music Cheryl Frances-Hoad, 3FF English National Ballet School Archaeology Young Vic Jen Logan, Front Line of Fashion composer 14-18 NOW Ensemble Aventure Musicians’ Union YouthSight Rebecca Manley, actor, writer Joy of Influence Frances Lynch, Electric 2017 Athletics World Erich Pommer Institut Music Venue Trust and director FED UP – House of Ferment Jonathan Coe, novelist Voice Theatre Championships Eventbox The National Archives Jacqueline Nicholls, JW3 Kasia Garapich, Sculptor Anne Enright, novelist Miranda Melville, singer Aarhus 2017 European Event Scotland National Council of Projects, partners Abdul Rehman-Malik, Ramen Girl, Yellow Dog India Knight, Sunday Times Lynne Ploughman, composer Capital of Culture Face Front Inclusive Theatre Voluntary Organisations and participants journalist Restaurant Andrew Marr, BBC David Sheppard, singer Agency for Cultural Affairs, Field Studies Ltd The National Gallery Larissa Sansour, artist Roopa Gulati, Food Writer Paul Mason, Channel 4 Julian Stocker, singer Japan Film London National Theatre 1984 Now Adam Shamash, film director Karen Guthie, Grizedale Arts Paul Morley, music journalist Shirley Thompson, composer Amblr Florence Nightingale Museum National Trust Spiros Andreou, TOR Project Anna Sherbany, artist Darren Ollerton, Octopus Adam Thirwell, novelist Kate Whitley, composer City of Amsterdam Fluxx Nesta Tony Bunyan, editor, Anna Sikorska, Makeversity Alchemy Mary-Kay Wilmers, London Arcola Theatre Foundling Museum NETADIS Statewatch Revd William Taylor, priest, Bronwen Percival, Neal’s Review of Books Our Cultural Commons Artichoke HMP Ford, Sussex Newham Sixth Form College Oliver Cole, TOR Project City of London Councillor Yard Dairy Gaby Wood, Daily Telegraph Paul Bristow, Arts Council Arts Council England Formidable Productions (NewVic) Robert Delamere, Digital Penny Woolcock, writer, Celia Plender, Food Writer England Arts Council Tokyo Forster & Heighes Norwegian Broadcasting Theatre filmmaker Laure Prouvost, Artist King’s Cultural Challenge David Bryan, Xtend Association of British FODIP Corporation Sarah Grochala, Headlong Catherine Yass, artist Adam Sutherland, Rob Greig, Royal Opera House Lee Corner, Voluntary Arts Orchestras Free Word Centre The Old Vic Jeremy Herrin, Headlong Kai-Oi Joyce Yung, artist Grizedale Arts Shân Maclennan, Southbank Sir Stuart Etherington, Austrian Cultural Forum Freshwater Consultancy Olympic Public Authority Robert Icke, co-adaptor Abbas Zahedi, Rumi’s Cave Luiza Trisno, Head Chef Centre National Council of Voluntary London Frontline Brazil and co-director of 1984 Nick Vadasz, Borough Kati Price, V&A Organisations B3 Median Fuel Theatre Penguin Random House Dawn King, Playwright Choreodrome Workshop Market trader Heather Walker, Roundhouse David Hughes, NIACE Brooklyn Academy of Music Garbers & James Architects PEN International Duncan Macmillan, co-adaptor Daniel Cooley, The Place Damiam Wawrzyniak, Chef Ellen West, Royal Opera House Adriana Marques, London Band on the Wall German Historical Institute The Place and co-director of 1984 Christina Elliot, The Place Legacy Development Barbican Centre Glasgow Life Pop Gun Productions Tassos Stevens, Director, Shobana Jeyasingh, Shobana FREQUENCIES London Arts & Humanities Corporation BBC Glyndebourne PRS for Music Coney Jeyasingh Dance Bishi, artist Partnerships Summer School Catherine McGuinness, Benchmark Sport International Graeae Theatre Company The Red Room Simon Vans-Colina, Andrew Consoli, DJ, dance Nick Barratt, The National City of London Corporation Benjamin Franklin House Greater London Authority Rio 2016 TOR Project CLASH Fellowship scheme music producer Archives Kunle Olulode, Voice4Change Ben Uri Gallery The Guardian Roundhouse Holly Cameron Jennings, Shay D, rapper, poet Susan Foister, National Gallery Robin Simpson, Voluntary Arts Bexley Heritage Trust Guildhall School of Music Rambert African Diaspora Artists Turtle Key Arts Peter Gregson, cellist, Sean Gregory, Barbican/ Peter Stark, Voluntary Arts Birmingham Royal Ballet & Drama Rosetta Life Larry Achiampong, artist Georgia Ward, Southbank composer Guildhall Creative Learning Jane Wilson, Arts Bloomsbury Publishing Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity Routledge Barby Asante, artist Centre Matt Jones, Bread Nick Jensen, British Library Development UK Blythe House Hand in Hand for Syria Royal Collection Trust Phoebe Boswell, artist Ahead Bakery Emily Pringle, Tate Bow Arts Head 4 Heights Royal College of Art Kimathi Donkor, artist Criticism Now Nick Jones, composer, Bill Sherman, V&A Parallel Perspectives BP Headlong Royal Opera House Nicola Frimpong, artist Susannah Clapp, Guardian sound artist Evelyn Wilson, Creativeworks Patrice Etienne, actor, writer Brazilian Development Bank Hogarth Shakespeare Royal Shakespeare Company Cedar Lewisohn, artist Mark Lawson, broadcaster Neil Kaczor, composer London and director BREAD art collective Hull 2017 The Royal Society of Literature Hansi Loren Momodu, Morgan Quaintance, Marc Langsman, music British Council Improbable Theatre Company Rumi’s Cave formerly Tate broadcaster producer MA Arts & Cultural Parallel Practices British Library INIVA Sawchestra Trevor Mathison, artist Simon Tait, Arts Industry Jimmy Logic, musician, Management: The Les Bicknell, artist British Museum International Alert Science Museum Harold Offeh, artist composer Experience Module Naomi McIntosh, artist British Paralympic Association Intrasonus UK Shakespeare’s Globe Thomas J Price, artist Early Career Kasia Molga, media artist Louise Blackwell, Fuel Theatre Celia Pym, artist British Solidarity for Syria Invisible Dust Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Morgan Quaintance, artist Researchers Scheme Stewart Pemberton, juggler, Sarah Castle, Museum Tiffany Radmore, Crafts Café Oto The Japan Foundation Siobhan Davies Dance Gary Stewart, artist Kate Anderson, animation tap dancer of London Council Canary Wharf Japan Local Government Somerset House Trust Nicola Thomas, artist director Tim Stevens, The Auditory Rob Greig, Royal Opera House Karina Thompson, artist Centre Henri Pousseur, Centre Somethin’ Else Barbara Walker, artist Jo Banham, Head of Adult Sawchestra Rebecca Lim, V&A Tamsin van Essen, artist Belgium Japan Sports Council Sound and Music Programmes, V&A Robin Scanner, artist Helen Marriage, Artichoke City of London Festival London Office Southbank Centre Belief and Conflict in the UK William Donaldson, actor and composer Kate McGrath, Fuel Theatre Performing Utopia Clear Lines Jewish Museum London Southbank Sinfonia Yasmeen Akhtur, 3FF Edwina Ehrman, Fashion and Paul Wheeler Fresh Supplies Wayne McGregor, Simon Hatab, Opéra de Paris Courtauld Institute of Art J Motion The Space Rashad Alim, ISD Fellow Textiles Curator, V&A Patrick Williams, Soul Food Random Dance Crafts Council Join in Trust Space Studios Barby Asante, artist Cicely Goulder, composer Joanna Norman, V&A Spectraitors Disloyalty App Creative Scotland Keshet Sport and Recreation Alliance Oreet Ashery, artist and producer Get Creative Ellie Sleeman, Roundhouse David Collins, RSC Creativeworks London Royal Borough of Kensington Stratford Rising Naomi Atkinson, artist Richard Keyworth, composer Tony Ageh, BBC Bill Thompson, BBC Lucy Conlan, Southbank Crying Out Loud & Chelsea Syria Peace and Justice Alinah Azadeh, artist and sound designer Jonty Claypole, BBC Finbarr Whooley, Museum Centre The Culture Capital Exchange Lambeth Palace Library Syria Solidarity Movement Ansuman Biswas, artist Eleanor Longden, research Lamia Dabboussy, BBC of London Simon Magill, Royal Opera Dance Umbrella The Legacy List Tate Imam Mamadou Seydou psychologist Hannah Lambert, What Next? Jasmine Wilson, Random House Daredevil Project Legacy Trust UK The Theatres Trust Bocoum, Sharia Council Rufus May, mental health Judith Nichol, BBC Dance Paul O’Sullivan, Southbank Dash Arts LIFT (London International ThisPlace Emily Buchanan, BBC and wellbeing consultant Mary Sackville-West, BBC Centre Deloitte UK Festival of Theatre) Tokyo 2020 correspondent Wendy Barnaby, journalist Robin Simpson, Voluntary Arts Maggi Hambling: War Requiem Ellen West, Royal Opera Department of Culture, Limbik Theatre UK Music Victoria Burgher, artist Ruth Macdougall, Stephen James Yeoman, BBC & Aftermath House Media & Sport London & Partners UK Theatre and curator environmental artist James Cahill, author and critic Design Museum London Philharmonic Un-Convention Josh Cass, Forum for Discussion Alice Nicholas, dramatherapist Maggi Hambling, artist Design Science Orchestra V&A of Israel and Palestine Martin McGrath, designer

28 Culture, King’s College London Connecting through culture 2014–15 29 Staging Transitions Storyverse Moira Swinbank, vInspired Sarah Archdeacon, Coreli Francesca Beard, writer Marcelo Velloso, Public Caroline Bennett, Transition and performance poet Olympic Authority Information Network Marc Boothe, B3Media Eiji Watanabe, Embassy Paul Bonham, Arts Council of Japan England Syrian Voices Neil Wood, Deloitte Anna Bosworth, independent Nada Ajoub arts practitioner Yomn Alkaisi The Art of Partnering Andrew Bradford, Face Front Shady Alkhayer Jim Beirne, Live Theatre Inclusive Theatre Bronwen Griffiths Leonie Bell, Creative Scotland Joanna Carr, Transition Mario Hamad Paul Bristow, Arts Council Information Network Majid Maghout England Sheryll Catto, Action Space Akzoubi Akzoubi Katie Childs, National Natasha Graham, Face Front Zanoubia Al-Amir Salim Museum Directors’ Council Inclusive Theatre Sana Alawabdh Graham Devlin, Tipping Point Stephen Israel, The Company Abulaziz Almashi Eliza Easton, Creative Performance Ensemble Mohammed Atteq Industries Federation Dr Columba Quigley, British Fatima Hashem Clifford Harkness, National Medical Journal Helmi Helmi Museums of Northern Ireland Karen Rohleder, Transition Earthian Kevin Nigel Hinds, 14-18 NOW Information Network Mohammad Sakhnini Sue Hoyle, Clore Leadership Kimberley Saddler, Dan Viesnik Programme Greenwich Mencap Chris Michaels, British May-Lin Shutler, Transition The Art of Major Events Museum Information Network Ian Adam, BP Paula Murray, Brighton & Annie Smol, Face Front Araf Ahmadali, City Hove City Council Inclusive Theatre of Amsterdam Ros Tennyson, Partnership Amaradeep Sohi Katie Allen, Deloitte Brokers Association Vicki Tweedie, Spare Tyre Mario Andrada, Rio 2016 Dr Emma Wakelin, Royal Tracey Viechweg, Face Front Janet Archer, Creative College of Art Inclusive Theatre Scotland Kate Arthurs, British Council Third Person Perspective Step-by-Step: Arts Policy Alex Balfour, formerly Dr Paul Craddock, Smart Docs and Young People of LOCOG Mandi Peers, Attitude Anne Appelbaum, Arts Conrad Bird, GREAT is Everything Council England campaign Russell Plunkett, ThisPlace Adam Boulton, Sky Carla Camurati, Rio 2016 Sam Cairns, Cultural Neale Coleman, London Trespass Learning Alliance Legacy Development Avatâra Ayuso, AVA Dance Joe Coelho, performance poet Corporation Company and playwright Sandie Dawe, Heritage Paul Collard, Creativity, Lottery Fund Akram Khan Company: Culture & Education Sir Ciarán Devane, Sander Loonen Althea Efunshile, Arts British Council Fabiana Piccioli Council England Andrew Dixon, consultant Paul Glinkowski, Arts Alastair Evans, Creative Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: Council England Scotland Sunbee Han Tony Graham, theatre director Charlotte Fitzgerald, Deloitte Shobana Jeyasingh Joe Hallgarten, Royal Society Martin Green, Hull 2017 Jenny Roberts of Arts Dame Tessa Jowell, Nick Rothwell Darren Henley, Arts Council Labour Peer Eleanor Salter England Hiromi Kawamura, Vicky Ireland, artistic director Tokyo 2020 Irene Macdonald, former Janice Kelly, Creative Scotland Arts Council Education Sumihiko Kobayashi, Liaison Officer Tokyo 2020 David Parker, Creative & Bridget McConnell, Cultural Skills Glasgow Life Paul Reeve, Into Film Jason Millett, Mace Sue Robertson, former Bill Morris, International Arts Council Education Olympics Committee Liaison Officer Greg Nugent, Inc London Paul Roberts, Creativity, Ryo Sasaki, Tokyo 2020 Culture & Education Jenny Sealey, Graeae Theatre Dana Segal, Youth Engagement Mike Sharrock, BP Officer, Roundhouse Justine Simons, Greater Pauline Tambling, Creative London Authority Apocalypse Forever from artist & Cultural Skills David Sproul, Deloitte Michael Takeo Magruder’s exhibition De/coding the Apocalypse in the Inigo Rooms, King’s College London. 30 Culture, King’s College London Photographer: Jana Chiellino Culture Detail of The house of ferment installation at Borough Market by Grizedale Arts and Karen Guthrie. Commissioned by Science Gallery London for the FED UP season in 2015. Photographer: Richard Eaton kcl.ac.uk/culture @CultureatKings Design: RF Design, www.rfportfolio.com Approved by [email protected], December 2015