CULTURE A year in review 2016-17 CONTENTS

Foreword 1 King’s Cultural Experience Award 2 An alternative lens on research through art 3 The Art of Soft Power 4 Six years of King’s Cultural Challenge 5 Clinical Humanities for Dental Undergraduates 6 Animating the Brain 7 King’s Artists 8 Creative Health: The Arts for Health & Wellbeing 9 King’s Arts & Humanities Festival 10 A creative approach to sustainable challenges 11 King’s hosts first national Museum-School Forum 12 Leading Culture in the 21st Century 13 Towards Cultural Democracy 14 Resilience Challenge 15 Connected Venues 16 King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowships 18 Science Gallery – Blood: Life Uncut 19 Improving Places 20 Connected Culture | Soundscapes 21 MRI Space Shuttle 22 Art, Law & Culture 23 Pictorial Art in Sierra Leone 24 Inside Opera 25 The Creative Role of Research 26 Arts in Mind 27 The Re-assure Project 28 King’s Circle of Cultural Fellows 29 The year in numbers 30 FOREWORD

In 2017, King’s launched the Vision that will steer the university towards its 200th anniversary. In a time of rapid change, it sets out how King’s will continue to focus on exceptional education and research while playing an increasingly proactive role in an interconnected, complex world. Vision 2029 outlines our commitment to educate students as rounded, critical thinkers with the character and wisdom to make a difference and to using our interdisciplinary research strengths to develop insights and solutions to global challenges – making the world a better place. In all of this, King’s partnerships across arts and culture play a distinctive role.

Projects like King’s Cultural Challenge (page It’s now over five years since I arrived at 5) offer students new ways of thinking and King’s to provide leadership for its original an opportunity to test learning beyond the and imaginative approach to culture and classroom. The Cultural Experience Award cultural partnerships. In 2018 we’ll embark (page 2) opens up new networks and helps on our next five-year journey, launching students – especially those from around our new Science Gallery London and our the country and abroad – make the most plans to extend and embed King’s cultural of London’s cultural offer. Initiatives like collaborations locally, nationally and King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowships internationally. (page 18) build skills and confidence, We’ll be building on a vast ecology of enhancing graduate employability. partners and around 17,000 staff, students The benefits of King’s partnerships and alumni who engage with arts and are in no way restricted to education. culture through research, education, King’s Artists (page 8) enables sustained co-curricular activities, volunteering – relationships between creative practitioners and simply for fun. This extensive cultural and researchers – each, in their own community – across and beyond King’s way, seeking to answer questions and – supports us in our commitment to go explore ideas. Future Dust (page 11) beyond what is expected or required of a and – A Sebald Variation world-class university. These pages provide (page 3) demonstrate how artists inspire no more than a snapshot: to find out more, academics to approach research questions follow @CulturalKings or visit kcl.ac.uk/culture from alternative perspectives and to share None of this would be possible without findings in imaginative ways. The Creative our partners, students, staff, alumni, Role of Research (page 26) highlights how, funders and networks, as well as the in turn, academic research informs and dedicated Culture teams, who support develops artistic practice. and enable this broad and diverse cultural The interface between arts, health community at King’s. Their passion, and wellbeing has been a rich seam for inspiration and hard work underpins the collaboration over the last year. King’s development and realisation of many of played a central role in the All-Party the projects in the stories that follow. Parliamentary Group’s Inquiry and its To them all, my grateful thanks and I look influential Creative Health report (page 9). forward to another inspiring year ahead. Alongside this, initiatives like Clinical Humanities for Dental Undergraduates (page 6) test arts-based approaches to the training of medical practitioners while projects such as the MRI Space Shuttle (page 22) use the creativity of artists to Deborah Bull address healthcare challenges. King’s College London

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | FOREWORD 1 KING’S CULTURAL EXPERIENCE AWARD Students explore London’s unrivalled cultural offering while enhancing their learning and employability

KING’S CULTURAL EXPERIENCE AWARD as walks and guided tours, giving King’s King’s Cultural offers creative learning alongside students unique perspectives on London’s Experience Award students’ traditional studies, providing cultural landmarks and events. In 2017 was a great experience. an unrivalled opportunity to explore the students visited the Southbank Centre Many people think richness and diversity of cultural London where they developed ideas for a modern- university is too in a fun, sociable and supported way. day Festival of Britain. They also met with South London Gallery’s learning team academic. The Award before going on a walking tour of cultural helped us to apply Students do not need to be experts in arts Peckham. As part of the award students what we learned and culture to take part – they must simply are introduced to analytical techniques inside the classroom come armed with a sense of curiosity and such as critical reviews, photographic to real life. an inquisitive outlook. essays, participant observation, thumbnail 2017 prize winner The Award is one of seven King’s sketching and free writing to enable them Rocio Abarzua Experience Awards, which allow students to capture and examine their experiences. Cultural & Creative to enhance their learning and employability Industries MA student by broadening their university experience. KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS They recognise the activities students are involved in alongside their formal studies, South London Gallery | Southbank Centre such as volunteering, paid employment or additional learning. King’s Cultural Experience Award asks students to capture and share their cultural experiences in London, question why culture matters to them and explore what they want from cultural experiences and arts organisations both now and in the future. King’s Experience Awards combine experiential learning with supported reflection and study. The Cultural Experience Award programme includes ideas labs and creative workshops, as well

2 KING’S CULTURAL EXPERIENCE AWARD | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 AN ALTERNATIVE LENS ON RESEARCH THROUGH ART Creative collaborations and exhibitions explore the questions raised by King’s research

King’s connects new audiences with and the Centre for Modern Literature and Having studied the academic research through the lens Culture. The exhibition took viewers from period before, it was of arts and culture. the ruins of 1945 to the present day, with fascinating to see it photographs by Anselm Kiefer depicting expressed artistically. aircraft constructed from Cologne It lent a greater depth Collaborations between King’s academics, cathedral’s roof and eye-witness drawings artists and cultural organisations interrogate by Wilhelm Rudolph of the smouldering of emotion to my the university’s research through a ruins of Dresden. The human experience understanding of the programme of public events. A series of was captured again through Dear Diary, impact of this time. exhibitions in 2017 brought students, curated by King’s Centre for Life-Writing Visitor to academics and local communities into the Research and the Department of English. Melancholia – Inigo Rooms, East Wing – Dear Diary traced the history of diaries, A Sebald Variation part of the university’s Cultural Quarter from pre-modern almanacs to the latest – and debated the questions raised by trend of lifelogging, and considered King’s research. digital forms as descendants of traditional Traces of War saw King’s Department diaries rather than their destroyers. One of War Studies work with three artists visitor said it had changed her own – Jananne Al-Ani, Baptist Coelho and writing approach to ‘a bigger reflection on Shaun Gladwell – with direct experience contemporary issues rather than the day- of conflict and war. It reimagined war by to-day’. locating it in spaces where it would be least expected, questioning the relationship KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS between global conflict and the everyday. King’s Arts and Conflict Hub worked with Traces of War Vivienne Jabri Department of Candoco to present a dance performance War Studies & Cécile Bourne-Farrell curator and advisor | Dear Diary Professor Clare against the backdrop of the exhibition Brant Department of English & Dr Polly featuring King’s students, local school North Director of The Great Diary Project children and war veterans. | Melancholia – A Sebald Variation Dr Lara War was interrogated further during Feigel Department of English & John-Paul Melancholia – A Sebald Variation, Stonnard curator and writer conceived by the Department of English

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | AN ALTERNATIVE LENS ON RESEARCH THROUGH ART 3 THE ART OF SOFT POWER Despite the many claims made for its efficacy, soft power has remained largely outside the critical gaze of academic analysis UN PHOTO/JEAN-MARC FERRE UN PHOTO/JEAN-MARC

THE ART OF SOFT POWER examines why art is deployed by diplomatic missions Both as someone who the effectiveness and impact of arts alongside the formal business of the once worked to the UN and culture in cultural diplomacy, as United Nations. Office in Geneva, when observed at the United Nations office The report identifies the need to I was involved in post- in Geneva. distinguish between soft power (‘standing conflict reconstruction, out’) and cultural diplomacy (‘reaching out’): the first associated with power, and as a member of the Art and culture can change the way leadership, identity and the national recent Select Committee people think, feel and behave. When set in interest, while the second is focused on on soft power in this the context of international relations, they forging relationships, building trust and House, I recognise many are part of what is referred to by diplomats deepening mutual understanding. The of the findings. as cultural diplomacy. report was launched at events in Geneva, Lord Ramsbotham The Art of Soft Power is the report of London and Vilnius and has been shared House of Lords King’s most recent Cultural Enquiry, widely among the diplomatic staff and exploring how art and culture are used Secretariat at the United Nations, Geneva. by diplomats to influence the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of others. It is the KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS culmination of two years of research at the United Nations Office at Geneva Dr Melissa Nisbett Department of Culture, (UNOG) by Dr Melissa Nisbett, Senior Media & Creative Industries and Dr James Doeser Research Associate | Francesco Lecturer in the Department of Culture, Pisano Director of the United Nations Media & Creative Industries, and Dr James Library at Geneva, and the Secretariat at Doeser, a Research Associate for Culture. the United Nations Library at Geneva | Many claims have been made about the More than 30 United Nations diplomats power of art and culture to advance soft contributed to the report through power agendas, but academic research on interviews and discussions the subject is limited. This project sought to understand the mechanisms at play in international relations, using UNOG as a case study. The researchers conducted 20 in-depth interviews to explore how and

4 THE ART OF SOFT POWER | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 SIX YEARS OF KING’S CULTURAL CHALLENGE Connecting students with some of London’s most innovative cultural organisations to start a student-led conversation about the future of arts and culture

Now in its sixth year, KING’S CULTURAL six years have generated imaginative There’s a real joy CHALLENGE invites students to debate ideas and the 2017 event raised the bar and practical and develop ideas for how arts and with students invited to take part in a satisfaction in seeing culture can make a positive difference cultural hackathon before 10 exceptional your project working to the world. finalists were selected. Medical student and impacting a Mandeep Singh triumphed with Cultural Adventurers, an initiative rewarding community that you Each year King’s sets a new Challenge: in individuals who take cultural risks with can only get through 2017, students were asked to suggest ways discounted tickets to mystery events. Other contact with in which arts and culture can drive change winners were Josephine Pachta-Reyhofen organisations of this in a divisive social and political climate. for Sign Stages Festival, celebrating work stature and reputation. Since 2013, King’s Cultural Challenge with and by deaf performers, Sam Davies Mandeep Singh has connected students from each of the for Synthate, Subha Robert William for Winner of King’s university’s faculties with directors from BAME Youth Immersion Scheme and Ally Cultural Challenge 2017 some of the UK’s most innovative and Faughnan who won the best pitch prize for Internships at Roundhouse prestigious cultural organisations. Through PARTYforPOLITICS. & Breathe Arts Health a series of themed events and workshops, Research students develop their professional skills KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS and start a student-led conversation about the future of arts and culture. Students Shân Maclennan & Ruth Hardie Southbank | pitch their ideas to their peers and directors Centre Julian Ball, Peter Quinn & Jane Beese Roundhouse | Joe McFadden & Ellen West from partner organisations including Royal Royal Opera House | Daisy Fancourt & Opera House, Southbank Centre, Breathe Hannah Dye Breathe Arts Health Research | Arts Health Research, the V&A and the Duncan Gough V&A | Rob Greig King’s Roundhouse, with the winners securing Cultural Challenge host paid internships. King’s students bring a distinctive perspective, new energy and their collective and individual brain power to some of the cultural sector’s key challenges and opportunities. The past

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | SIX YEARS OF KING’S CULTURAL CHALLENGE 5 CLINICAL HUMANITIES FOR DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES Dental students reflect on person-centred care and improve their critical thinking abilities by considering clinical practice through a socio- cultural lens

King’s DENTAL INSTITUTE is pioneering arts and humanities as part of dentistry The academic interdisciplinary curriculum innovations before, but now I want to integrate this as disciplines of the arts that aim to enhance the learning part of my learning experience.’ and humanities promote experience and build students’ confidence The Clinical Humanities programme has the contesting of ideas, in caring for patients. expanded across King’s and further afield. teach critical analysis King’s medical students are undertaking a clinical humanities project during their and foster creativity. A pilot six-week extra-curricular second year GP placements and Harvard Clinical Humanities programme, Clinical Humanities for Dental University is an early adopter. All first- is a first within Undergraduates, drew upon the university’s year dental students at King’s now attend dental schools and the cultural connections across London. sessions at the Old Operating Theatre developing model is now Through the lens of the Humanities the Museum entitled Caring for Patients, extending across health programme aimed to help third-year Dentistry in our Context. The programme faculties at King’s and students become more aware of the supports service learning opportunities, to Harvard University. ambiguities of clinical practice and improve with King’s dental students working in local their observation, decision-making and communities with East London Textile Dr Flora Smyth Zahra communication skills. Arts to improve gum health among adults Senior clinical teacher at The Clinical Humanities for Dental with learning disabilities. Students will also King’s Dental Institute and Undergraduates pilot took place after shadow Pulse Arts musicians in a new pilot programme academic lead students’ clinics. Students visited the exploring clinical communication skills. Courtauld to hone their observation skills, explored ambiguity through film KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS and ceramics and were given a historical perspective of the patient-clinician Dr Flora Smyth Zahra King’s Dental relationship at the Old Operating Theatre Institute| Professor Roger Kneebone Imperial College London | Prue Cooper The Art Museum on St Thomas Street. Further Workers’ Guild | Old Operating Theatre sessions included working with actors Museum | Courtauld Institute | East London to improve non-verbal communication Textile Arts | Pulse Arts | Wellcome Collection | skills and with a screenwriter to consider Drew Caiden | Sheridan Humphreys | Tamsin complex decision making. One student van Essen | Ross Lindgren | Natasha Davis commented, ‘I had never thought of using

6 CLINICAL HUMANITIES FOR DENTAL UNDERGRADUATES | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 ANIMATING THE BRAIN King’s neuroscientists go behind the scenes to investigate the inner workings of our minds INESS RYCHLIK

ANIMATING THE BRAIN was the culmination neuroscience to life on stage, the We learnt a huge of a research and development project performance gave young audiences the amount about how that saw King’s neuroscientists Dr chance to engage with science through art scientists and Matthew Grubb and Dr Laura Andreae and was followed by a Q&A during which science are viewed, join together with actors, puppeteers the scientists took to the stage to answer while also having and creative directors during the Polka the children’s questions. The project Theatre’s Brain Waves Festival. continued with a two-week residency in the opportunity to the Koala Ward (the children’s neurological interact with people ward) at Great Ormond Street with a genuine and The world of neuroscience was brought where the team met with clinicians, intelligent fascination to life for audiences young and old as patients and their families. about the way the scientists used theatrical performance to brain works. learn more about how our brains work. KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS The production explored the parallels Dr Matthew Grubb between the brain investigation methods Dr Matthew Grubb & Dr Laura Andreae & Dr Laura Andreae | Centre for Developmental employed by scientists and the approaches Centre for Developmental Neurobiology Polka Theatre | Sue Buckmaster Director of Neurobiology puppeteers use to manipulate both a Theatre Rites puppet and the spectator’s imagination. The aim was to create the illusion of a living brain within a puppet and inspire audiences to debate and interrogate the inner workings of our minds. The work-in-progress performance saw the much-loved Pinocchio transformed into a futuristic puppet named LabBoy, with a sci-fi design. Audiences watched as the characters set out to develop a brain from scratch, witnessing the inevitable impact as the group received an unexpected and top-secret package from the Department of Artificial Body Constructs. Bringing DAVID MONTEITH-HODGE/PHOTOGRAPHISE DAVID

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | ANIMATING THE BRAIN 7 KING’S ARTISTS Enhancing research, learning and artistic practice through new and distinctive collaborations between artists and researchers REBECCA LYNCH REBECCA

King’s has a long history of hosting, Faculties were invited to bid to host an The collaboration and working with, artists across all artist over the course of a year, allowing with Professor Asherson its faculties and its wide range of time for deep and productive relationships is informing my work research interests. to develop. Dr Kai Syng Tan is a King’s and thinking in a Artist in the Department of Social, Genetic way that would not & Developmental , working These embedded relationships provide with Professor Philip Asherson to explore have happened if I opportunities for artists to develop their mind-wandering, and the boundaries had stayed within my practice through the stimulation and between ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ own sector and not challenge of the academic environment behaviour. Across other faculties, Teresa ‘strayed’ into academia. while offering valuable learning models Albor is a King’s Artist in the Department I am constantly for staff and students and new ways for of Addictions, with Brooke Roberts-Islam, being challenged and academics to approach research. Moin Roberts-Islam, Nassia Inglessis stimulated in new ways. These relationships include Paddy and Rebecca Lynch working within the Hartley’s 14-year involvement with King’s Department of Informatics and Gen Doy Dr Kai Syng Tan Dental Institute and his close collaboration in the Department of Classics. King’s Artist, with Dr Ian Thompson in the Department Department of Social, Genetic & Developmental of Tissue Engineering & Biophotonics. KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS Their first collaboration, Bioglass Psychiatry Implants and Face Corsets, examined Gen Doy (artist) & Professor Michael Trapp cultural attitudes to beauty and led to the Department of Classics | Dr Kai Syng Tan (artist) & Professor Philip Asherson development of new techniques to produce Department of Social, Genetic & patient-specific implants for the repair of Developmental Psychiatry | Teresa Albor bone injury and defects in the face. The (artist) & Dr Sally Marlow Department of project received Wellcome Trust’s People Addictions | Nassia Inglessis (artist) & Dr Award and was a landmark in science and Richard Overill Department of Informatics | art collaborations. It clearly demonstrates Brooke Roberts-Islam, Moin Roberts-Islam the direct clinical-patient benefit of (artists) & Dr Matthew Howard Department of Informatics | Rebecca Lynch (artist) & Dr working across disciplinary divides. Elizabeth Sklar Department of Informatics In 2017, building on this history, the university launched King’s Artists.

8 KING’S ARTISTS | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 CREATIVE HEALTH THE ARTS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING King’s is the research partner for a major All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Inquiry into arts, health and wellbeing DAVID SHRIGLEY DAVID

King’s research report CREATIVE HEALTH: bringing together existing research and This report is helping THE ARTS FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING was conducting round tables and discussions to actively influence launched at the House of Commons and with service users, health and social care attitudes and decisions presents three key findings. professionals, artists and arts organisations. in NHS Lothian and The most comprehensive overview of has done a great deal to the field to date, it also features expert raise the profile of the First, it underlines that involvement in arts- comment from academics, policy makers based activities can help keep us well, aid and parliamentarians. The report outlines Arts Therapies team. recovery and support longer lives that are 10 recommendations to improve policy Kate Pestell better lived. Secondly, it shows that the and practice, including the establishment Head of Arts Therapies, arts can respond to major challenges facing of a national strategic centre for arts, health NHS Lothian health and social care such as ageing, and wellbeing and the introduction of a loneliness and mental health. Finally, cross-governmental strategy to support the it emphasises that investment in arts delivery of health and wellbeing through interventions can help reduce costs across the arts. health services and social care. Engagement with the arts can have KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS a remarkable impact on an individual’s health and wellbeing. The APPG Inquiry The APPG Inquiry report is the result of set out to find comprehensive evidence and a multi-partner collaboration between the arts, policy, research and health sectors – best practice examples that demonstrate including the APPG, King’s College London, this in action. The report uses case studies Guy’s & St Thomas’ Charity, National Alliance to underline the effect of arts engagement for Arts Health & Wellbeing, Royal Society for on health and wellbeing, with examples Public Health & Arts Council England – funded including The Alchemy Project, which used by Wellcome Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation dance as a form of early intervention in and Arts & Humanities Research Council psychosis. Participants reported that they felt happier and more confident as a result. Creative Health, researched and drafted by Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, presents the findings of two years of work,

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | CREATIVE HEALTH 9 KING’S ARTS & HUMANITIES FESTIVAL WORLD | SERVICE In the year that King’s launched Vision 2029, the annual Arts & Humanities Festival underlined the university’s commitment to serving the needs and aspirations of society

KING’S ARTS & HUMANITIES FESTIVAL failure to address urgent issues. The varied King’s mission has connects researchers and students programme of talks, debates, exhibitions, always been to serve with Londoners, alumni, King’s cultural music, theatre and film included BABEL society. The World | partners and local businesses, NEWS, an audio-visual artwork featuring Service festival showcasing the university’s research a public sound-and-vision-scape and articulates the value of and the ways in which it impacts on MAPS – Theatre of the World, a dance piece our everyday lives. contemplating the evolving nature of the the Arts & Humanities, world map. considering international perspectives and showing The 2017 festival explored the theme KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS how the university’s of World | Service, underlining the research impacts on university’s commitment to serve society, The Arts & Humanities Festival is our lives. both as individuals and together, as the organised by the Arts & Humanities Research Institute community of King’s. Professor Max Saunders Academic Director The festival was inspired by King’s of King’s Arts & acquisition of London’s iconic Humanities Festival and the rich history of the BBC World Service, which made its home there for more than 70 years. It considered the broadcaster’s significant contribution to the reporting of global issues and questioned the meaning of the words ‘world’ and ‘service’ when they sit side by side. Underlining King’s commitment to local and global communities, the festival asked what we can do – as a university, as a city and as a society – to address some of the world’s most pressing issues. King’s Arts & Humanities Festival 2017 tackled important global questions, such as freedom of expression and political leaders’

10 KING’S ARTS & HUMANITIES FESTIVAL | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 A CREATIVE APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE CHALLENGES Raising awareness of sustainability and environmental challenges through research-informed arts projects MATTHEW JOSEPH MATTHEW

King’s is raising awareness of the Professor Frank Kelly, Director of King’s I wanted to create a scale and impact of global environmental Environmental Research Group, and the plastic footprint for challenges by connecting its world- university’s Lung Biology Group. The London’s river, the leading research with artists and docu-theatre performance combined a Thames. As well as cultural partners. topical exploration of the capital’s air exposing pollution, quality with a folk history of London fog to examine the consequences of air pollution I am interested in Future Dust brought together King’s on our health and question what we might the way nature ages students, academics from King’s do about it. and reshapes mass- Departments of Geography, Chemistry King’s Environmental Research Group produced objects. and Informatics, King’s Artist Maria Arceo also presented Space to Breathe, a weekend Maria Arceo and campaigning charity Thames21. of installations, performances, talks and King’s Artist The project exposed the tide of plastic workshops that raised awareness of the litter running off London’s streets into impact of air pollution on the environment the River Thames, culminating in a in which we live. King’s academics thought-provoking installation supported redesigned the city, demonstrating that it by academic talks and a student-led can be a Utopian space, and discussed the pop-up lab during Totally Thames 2017. ambitious plans being implemented across Emeritus Professor Tony Allan from the globe to alleviate the sources King’s Department of Geography also and negative effects of air pollution. joined artists, environmental activists and food entrepreneurs at the Eden Project’s KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS inaugural Festival of Hope to discuss his revolutionary concept ‘virtual water’ – Maria Arceo King’s Artist | Thames21 | a way to measure the water required in Totally Thames Festival | Festival of Hope & the Eden Project | Camden People’s Theatre | food production. Wesley Goatley | Cape Farewell | Hammerhead King’s expertise in air quality science VR & Shrinking Space | David Farnham | Emily and research was brought to life through Godden & Audit Chaos | Chih Chiu | Caroline a series of arts and cultural activities in Wright Solar Sound System 2017. Fog Everywhere was a collaboration between Camden People’s Theatre,

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | A CREATIVE APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE CHALLENGES 11 KING’S HOSTS FIRST NATIONAL MUSEUM-SCHOOL FORUM Professionals from the UK’s education and cultural sectors gathered at King’s to develop extended school residencies in local museums, galleries and cultural venues

More than 150 museum and gallery value to their organisations in a variety of It was inspiring to learning and education staff, UK school unexpected ways. engage others in the teachers and education specialists As part of the forum, participants joined potential benefits of came to King’s for the first national a series of discussion groups to consider museums and schools MUSEUM-SCHOOL FORUM. the practical steps their organisations could working more closely take to develop extended school residencies in their local museums and cultural together. Building on the university’s highly venues. They were asked to ‘think big’ Russell Dwyer successful My Primary School is at and map out the feasibility of permanently Headteacher of the Museum programme, delegates co-locating a school within a museum St Thomas Community joined academics and staff for a day of in the future. The themes of the Forum Primary School, talks, workshops and panel sessions. sparked interest online with the discussion Swansea They discussed the potential benefits receiving recognition from international to museums, pupils, families and the arts organisations including the National education system of basing school classes Endowment for the Arts and the American in local museums, galleries and cultural Alliance of Museums, and the Forum’s venues for extended residencies. hashtag #SchoolsinMuseums trending A series of panel discussions, facilitated on Twitter. by Dr Heather King and Dr Jennifer DeWitt from King’s School of Education, KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS Communication & Society and Kate Measures of Heritage Insider Ltd, invited Dr Heather King & Dr Jennifer DeWitt the pilot museum-school partnerships to School of Education, Communication & Society | Wendy James Garbers & James discuss the impact of their collaboration Architects | Kate Measures Heritage Insider on their education practices. The museum Ltd | School partnerships – Kensington educators spoke candidly about their Children’s Centre & Tate | St Thomas initial trepidation at hosting groups of Community Primary School & the National primary school children for extended Waterfront Museum Swansea | Hadrian residencies. Their reflections on the Primary School & Arbeia Roman Fort & experience underlined that full-time formal Museum South Shields learning within a cultural space added great

12 KING’S HOSTS FIRST NATIONAL MUSEUM-SCHOOL FORUM | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 LEADING CULTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY King’s academics and respected industry professionals from across London’s cultural sector come together to create an intensive and immersive learning experience for senior international arts and cultural leaders

LEADING CULTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY The inaugural programme was led by The course was is a new executive education programme Hilary Carty, a member of King’s Circle of the highlight of 2017 for senior leaders working in the cultural Cultural Fellows (and recently appointed for me and I’ve sector both in the UK and around as Director of the Clore Leadership continued to refer the world. Programme) and Katherine Bond, Director to the conversations of the Cultural Institute at King’s, with academic support provided by Professor and ideas as a source The programme builds on King’s academic Alison Wolf (Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of guidance and strengths in leadership and the university’s of Public Sector Management at King’s). inspiration. strong relationships with cultural sector It featured keynote lectures from sector Sarah Neal partners. It invites participants to think experts, live case studies at leading cultural Executive Producer afresh about global concepts of art, culture venues and peer-to-peer learning. Cultural & Co-CEO, Malthouse and identity in an ever-changing and leaders from as far afield as New Zealand, Theatre, Australia increasingly connected world. It has been China, Germany and South Africa took officially launched by King’s Business part, benefitting from both the formal School following a successful inaugural programme and the experience, knowledge programme in 2017, with a second course and networks of their peers on the course. running in April 2019. King’s created Leading Culture in the KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS 21st Century specifically for cultural sector leaders working in diverse international Hilary Carty Cultural Fellow at King’s | locations. It provides stimulation, Professor Alison Wolf Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, provocation and access to the leadership King’s Business School | Michael Day expertise of a range of London’s world- outgoing CEO, Historic Royal Palaces class cultural institutions. Through immersive learning experiences, the course provides a unique opportunity for cultural leaders to think afresh and to challenge and be challenged on issues of leadership, resilience, creative risk and business innovation.

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | LEADING CULTURE IN THE 21st CENTURY 13 TOWARDS CULTURAL DEMOCRACY King’s fourth Cultural Enquiry explores the value and impact of ‘everyday creativity’ across the UK

The report of King’s fourth Cultural Towards Cultural Democracy explores this We are suggesting a Enquiry, TOWARDS CULTURAL DEMOCRACY: ‘everyday creativity’ and argues that the radical re-focusing PROMOTING CULTURAL CAPABILITIES FOR more people are enabled to create culture on cultural EVERYONE, shines a spotlight on ‘everyday on their own terms, the greater the impact opportunity in the creativity’ – the cultural activity taking for everyone, supporting lifelong learning UK and offering a place in public areas, community centres and wellbeing from the grassroots up. and civic and private spaces across Towards Cultural Democracy calls for new approach to the UK that is often overlooked in policy a more effective approach to supporting cultural policy that discussions. cultural opportunity for all and a radical empowers people in re-focusing of UK cultural policy and its their cultural creativity. aims, moving beyond the current focus Dr Nick Wilson Authored by Dr Nick Wilson, Dr Jonathan on access, outreach and participation Reader in Creativity, Gross and Dr Anna Bull (Department of towards ‘cultural capability’: the freedom Arts & Cultural Culture, Media & Creative Industries), to co-create culture and to make individual Management and the report documents how individuals and choices about one’s cultural life. principal author communities, from every demographic and area, are empowered to lead cultural KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS lives. It explores how the creative industries could rethink their business models to Dr Nick Wilson, Dr Jonathan Gross & Dr Anna develop partnerships with the millions Bull Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries | Jonty Claupole BBC | of people actively involved in ‘everyday’ Alistair Spalding Sadler’s Wells | Robin cultural activities, benefitting individuals at Simpson Voluntary Arts. The report is a local level and drawing in new audiences based on a research collaboration with the to creative organisations. BBC Get Creative campaign, which brought The fact that only a small proportion of together 64 Million Artists, Arts Council UK citizens make regular use of publicly England, the Arts Council of Wales, BBC, Crafts funded culture has long been recognised. Council, Family Arts Campaign, Fun Palaces, Voluntary Arts, What Next?, Creative People Alongside this, there is growing awareness and Places & Creative Scotland of the extraordinary diversity of the creative activities taking place in local communities on an ‘everyday’ basis.

14 TOWARDS CULTURAL DEMOCRACY | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 RESILIENCE CHALLENGE Raising awareness of the pressures of frontline healthcare environments through an interactive video game

RESILIENCE CHALLENGE is an interactive a choice about patient care. As players Resilience Challenge video game that aims to raise awareness move through the scenarios, decisions takes very technical, of safety and the many pressures that must be made in increasingly pressurised complex theory and impact on the lives of people working on environments. Throughout the game, turns it into something the frontline in healthcare environments. players are encouraged to reflect on how fun and engaging. they support safe healthcare delivery in their own medical practice. Jennifer Jackson King’s Centre for Applied Resilience in PhD student at King’s Healthcare (CARe) collaborated with KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS & project leader Karmen Interactive Ltd to create the online game, Resilience Challenge, which takes Jennifer Jackson PhD student, Department | players through various scenarios that of Adult Nursing Dr Janet Anderson Reader in Healthcare Improvement, require difficult decision-making. King’s Centre for Applied Resilience in In June 2017 the game was awarded Healthcare | Professor Jill Maben OBE now the Second Resilient Health Care Net Professor of Nursing, University of Surrey International Prize, the leading award in | Karman Interactive Ltd healthcare resilience engineering. The global competition awards projects that translate innovative safety ideas into clinical practice. Competition entries are judged according to their feasibility and ability to strengthen resilience in healthcare systems. Resilient Health Care Net judges awarded the game first prize for its unique contribution to promoting patient safety. Resilience Challenge invites players to assume the role of a clinician in a simulated healthcare environment. Participants take patients on a journey through the hospital safely as they are presented with a series of short scenarios that ask them to make

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | RESILIENCE CHALLENGE 15 CONNECTED VENUES

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE MUSEUM King’s exists in the heart of BETHLEM GALLERY London, one of the cultural capitals of the world. Spread over five campuses, the university is connected to a wide variety of cultural spaces. Some are permanent museums with a long and prestigious history, 1 while others provide flexible 6 exhibition and performance The Florence Nightingale Museum spaces for the university’s staff Bethlem Gallery is situated in the (St Thomas’ Hospital) is a public and students, cultural partners grounds of Bethlem Royal Hospital museum on King’s St Thomas’ and collaborators and local in , London, and is Campus celebrating the life and work community groups. housed in a building shared with the of Florence Nightingale. Bethlem Museum of the Mind. It was established in 1997 to support and ANATOMY MUSEUM exhibit artists who are current or GUY’S CHAPEL former patients of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

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4 2 The Anatomy Museum (King’s Building, Guy’s Chapel (Boland House, Guy’s ) is a flexible, creative Campus) is the historic Guy’s Hospital space often used in conjunction with Chapel, and houses the tomb of the adjoining Anatomy Theatre. 7 Thomas Guy. Greenwood Theatre (Weston Street, BETHLEM MUSEUM OF THE MIND Guy’s Campus), a 450-seat theatre, OLD OPERATING THEATRE MUSEUM & is the university’s main venue for HERB GARRET theatrical performances.

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3 Bethlem Museum of the Mind cares for the historic archives and The Old Operating Theatre Museum collections of Bethlem Royal Hospital 8 & Herb Garret runs programmes (the original Bedlam), the Maudsley of weekly public lectures and Hospital and Warlingham Park demonstrations, as well as Hospital. The museum is housed in The Museum of Life Sciences special talks. a building shared with the Bethlem (Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus) Gallery on the grounds of Bethlem hosts Open House days inviting Royal Hospital in Beckenham, visitors to explore its collections. London. It also holds public lectures.

16 CONNECTED VENUES | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 SPACES FOR CONNECTING, ENGAGING & CREATING

COLLEGE CHAPEL WESTON ROOM, SCIENCE GALLERY LONDON

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The College Chapel (King’s Building, The Weston Room, Maughan Library Science Gallery London, opening in Strand Campus) is in daily use as a (Strand Campus), hosts exhibitions 2018 on Guy’s Campus, connects place of religious worship, but the of historic Library and Archives art, science and health to drive nave is also used for lectures, talks material throughout the year. It also innovation in the heart of the and performances of music and incorporates many features from city. It brings together scientific drama, making it a vibrant space the former Chapel of the Masters researchers, students, artists and at the heart of the Strand Campus of the Rolls, including three 16th- and local communities and draws on the communities. 17th-century funeral monuments. university’s connections with King’s Health Partners and Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust. Free to enter, the GORDON MUSEUM OF PATHOLOGY, INIGO ROOMS, gallery features changing seasons HODGKIN BUILDING SOMERSET HOUSE EAST WING of exhibitions, performance and events and provides a platform for live research and experimentation through public engagement.

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The Gordon Museum of Pathology The Inigo Rooms within the Cultural (Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus) is Quarter at King’s are an elegant the largest medical museum in the series of spaces which host a wide UK and contains some rare and range of cultural activities, created unique artefacts. It also hosts events through cultural partnerships and 15 and exhibitions. collaborations. The Arcade at Bush House is part 1. Florence Nightingale Museum of the Cultural Quarter at King’s THE EXCHANGE, BUSH HOUSE 2. Guy’s Chapel and is home to a welcoming café 3. Old Operating Museum & Herb Garrett as well as the KCLSU Shop. Building 4. Anatomy Museum on King's partnerships with artists 5. Bethlem Museum of the Mind and cultural organisations across 6. Bethlem Gallery London, the UK and internationally, 7. Greenwood Theatre the Arcade supports creative 8. Museum of Life Sciences learning opportunities for students, 9. College Chapel showcases imaginative research 10. Gordon Museum of Pathology 13 collaborations and invites local 11. Weston Room, Maughan Library and wider communities to connect 12. Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing The Exchange is a flexible event and with King’s through a varied 13. The Exchange at Bush House cultural space in Bush House North- programme of events, exhibitions 14. Science Gallery London East Wing. and activities. 15. The Arcade at Bush House

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | CONNECTED VENUES 17 KING’S UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Undergraduate students develop valuable research skills and extend their learning beyond the classroom through research fellowships

A King’s education is based on research- cultural sector in UNESCO’s ‘Learning The King’s enhanced learning, with academics Cities’, and Kia Khalili Pir, a student in the Undergraduate bringing their knowledge into the Department of Classics who worked on an Research Fellowship curriculum and students enriching annotated bibliography of research topics gave me the unique their learning though research projects found on CultureCase.org, the university’s opportunity to apply embedded within study. ‘one stop shop’ for accessible summaries of research relevant to the cultural sector. the skills learnt in my Joseph Pearce, a student in the Department Mathematics degree King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowships of Mathematics, analysed data from the in the context of the offer students the opportunity to apply for university’s annual tracking survey of arts world. The highly competitive, paid research projects public attitudes to culture and produced transferable skills that support them in developing valuable research briefings for high-profile culture I developed during research skills and offer direct experience sector publications. the programme are of delivering academic research. invaluable. Students work with an academic or KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS culture sector professional on a defined Joseph Pearce research project over a four- to eight-week King’s Undergraduate Research 3rd year Mathematics period during the summer break. This has Fellowships are made possible thanks to student at King’s the generosity of alumni and friends of resulted in King’s students appearing as King’s College London named authors on publications, attending overseas conferences and curating exhibition programmes. All of this extends learning beyond the classroom, helps develop new networks and enhances employability. Over 150 Fellowships were awarded in 2017 across all King’s faculties and departments. Students working with cultural themes included Aadam Qadeer, a student in the Department of Liberal Arts whose research examined the role of the

18 KING’S UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 SCIENCE GALLERY LONDON BLOOD: LIFE UNCUT Exploring the scientific and symbolic nature of blood at King’s Science Gallery London RICHARD EATON/LTS ARCHITECTS RICHARD EATON/LTS

In 2018, King’s College London will open and informed by conversations with I was surprised to its new SCIENCE GALLERY LONDON at Dr Gerd Wagner, Reader in Medicinal realise how similar – a space where art and Chemistry. Beatrice Haines’ interactive the two fields of art science combine to explore some of the piece Acid Yellow 7 – developed in and science are to each major challenges the world faces today. collaboration with researchers and PhD other and how much students in the King’s Forensic department, A series of experimental seasons leading including Dr Nunzianda Franscione they can influence one up to this opening continued with BLOOD: and James Gooch – used forensic dye to another. I can now Life Uncut, demonstrating the captivating investigate cultural associations of blood envisage being able to power of blood to expose, shock and and taboo. The Body is a Big Place, an explore other similar bring people together. New collaborations immersive installation by Peta Clancy and interdisciplinary between artists and scientists tackled Helen Pynor created in collaboration with initiatives and I typically invisible issues, offering fresh Professor Michael Shattock, Professor believe it makes the perspectives on Ebola, menstruation, of Cellular Cardiology, explores organ work of scientists more sickle cell anaemia, blood donation, transplantation and the ambiguous forensics and blood typing. thresholds between life and death. accessible. Science Gallery London provides Dr Nunzianda Frascione King’s with an interdisciplinary KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS Lecturer in Forensic platform for engagement with local Science, Department of communities through art, live research and Curatorial advisors Dr Linda Barber Analytical, Environmental | experimentation, as well as rich learning Division of Cancer Studies Professor & Forensic Sciences David Rees Consultant in Paediatric opportunities for students. It is part of Haemotology, King’s College Hospital | the Global Science Gallery Network, Professor Michael Shattock School of connecting King’s with galleries at the Cardiovascular & Sciences | University of Melbourne, Ca’ Foscari Sabrina Mahfouz poet, performer, playwright University of Venice, Trinity College and writer Dublin and in Bengalaru. Artworks within BLOOD include Transfusion by Katharine Dowson, interrogating the unique connection between the blood donor and recipient

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | SCIENCE GALLERY LONDON 19 IMPROVING PLACES Improving Places demonstrates how Business Improvement Districts and cultural organisations can work together to help communities thrive CAROLINE TEO CAROLINE

The Mayor of London and Arts Council The report underlines the key ingredients Culture is the golden England commissioned King’s College for successful cultural collaborations with thread woven through London to conduct the research for BIDs and identifies inspirational examples all aspects of urban IMPROVING PLACES, an analysis of how including Lumiere London, the biennial life; it brings us together cultural partnerships with Business event that transforms London into a and creates the places Improvement Districts (BIDs) can dazzling nocturnal art exhibition. A host positively impact the places in which of national and international success we love. When we live, work and play. stories are also highlighted in the report. businesses work with A collaboration between Birmingham’s cultural organisations, Colmore Business District and the Library cities thrive. The report, with research by King’s of Birmingham brought a series of outdoor Justine Simons OBE Jenny Peevers, brings together case photo exhibitions to the city. Norwich, Deputy Mayor, studies from across England and the US the City of Stories, a celebration of 900 Culture & Creative that demonstrate how art contributes years of literary heritage, is also featured Industries to the creation of happy and healthy alongside initiatives in Philadelphia places. It was launched at London’s City and New York in the USA, London’s Hall in front of an audience of cultural Southbank and Liverpool. organisations, local government authorities and BID representatives. KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS Improving Places offers a series of targeted recommendations. For national, Lorraine Cox Senior Policy & Planning city, local government and BIDs, it suggests Officer, Arts Council England | Chenine Bhathena Senior Cultural Strategy Officer, the development of a cultural vision Mayor of London within BID business plans and the offer of affordable space to cultural organisations. Key recommendations for cultural organisations are the building of alliances and connections with their local BIDs, as well as working with them to promote their individual offers to the local community.

20 IMPROVING PLACES | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 CONNECTED CULTURE | SOUNDSCAPES Connecting performance across the globe using cutting-edge technology

CONNECTED CULTURE tested and the senses – starting with sound, then We’re taking the traits SOUNDSCAPES 3D audio technology moving to vision and touch. Workshops and the flexibility of to explore new ways of producing and installations at RADA, Sadler’s Wells digital space and live immersive experiences through and Click (’s national festival digital technologies ‘networked performances’. of art and science) underscored the and superimposing it centrality of immersion as a creative and technological driver. In an engineering on the physical space. By using cutting-edge 5G networking first, art and technology converged as Dr Ali Hossaini technology alongside the 3D audio musicians across the Atlantic worked Artist, philosopher, developed by the Soundscapes together in real time to create a networked writer & Visiting Research project within King’s Centre for performance between Sadler’s Wells in Fellow, Department of Telecommunications Research, musicians, London and Plush Studios in New York. Informatics actors, singers and artists joined together to create performances in physically KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS separate places. The project aims to give people access Dr Ali Hossaini, Professor Zoran Cvetkovic, to live performance no matter where Professor Mischa Dohler Department of Informatics | Dr Enzo De Sena University of they are in the world. By reimagining the Surrey | Jennifer Tan theatre director | Josh confines of physical space and time, King’s McNorton creative producer | with support academics and industry experts explored from Cinema Arts Network, Ericsson, Vodafone, how technology can enable people to enjoy Battersea Arts Centre, Young Vic & RoomOne a live immersive performance with artists who are in geographically separate spaces and places. The 5G networked performance and 3D audio was tested by a 30-strong team of academics, directors, producers and telecommunications experts at a series of workshops. Each workshop isolated a challenge faced when creating a networked performance, with the team first exploring

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | CONNECTED CULTURE | SOUNDSCAPES 21 MRI SPACE SHUTTLE The MRI Space Shuttle addressed the challenges of scanning young people and vulnerable populations, transforming the MRI experience through the creation of an appealing, child-friendly environment JOSE PAYA CANO JOSE PAYA

A team from King’s Institute of experienced in creating transportable stage We hope that Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience sets and engaging with children through transportable, child- challenged themselves to transform the puppetry. Children were prepared for their friendly MRI kits can stark medical environment of the MRI brain scan using a mock MRI tent and be used more widely scanner into a more appealing space: introduced to a set of soft toys called ‘space both in research by dressing it up as a spaceship. friends’ who could join them on their journey as ‘space explorers’. A film played and clinical settings cartoons that explained how the children to reduce anxiety The MRI Space Shuttle creates a friendly should keep still during the ‘mission’ and make the MRI and more productive environment for and gradually introduced them to the experience more undertaking MRI scans of young children distinctive noise of the scanner. Following enjoyable for young and vulnerable populations, including this project, the MRI Space Shuttle team children, as well their individuals with severe autism or secured funds from the Sackler Foundation parents. intellectual disabilities. to create a puppet film, Pip and the Brain Taking an MRI scan of young children Explorers, which explains what happens Dr Eva Loth or vulnerable populations poses serious during brain scans in a way that is Lecturer, challenges. The loud noises and confined accessible and appealing to children. Department of space within the scanner are frightening Forensic & Neurodevelopmental and young children can find it hard KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS to lie still for the duration of the scan. Sciences Conventional methods of dealing with this, Dr Eva Loth Lecturer, Dr Jumana Ahmad & such as sedation, are not always possible Dr Antonia San Jose Caceres Post-Doctoral Researchers, Department of Forensic & or appropriate. By transforming the MRI Neurodevelopmental Sciences | Folded scanner into something both recognisable Feather and friendly, the team aimed to reduce anxiety and create a more enjoyable experience, resulting in better outcomes for both patients and clinicians. King’s researchers first tested the MRI Space Shuttle concept with young children. The team worked with a creative designer

22 MRI SPACE SHUTTLE | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 ART, LAW & CULTURE Diverse creative collaborations at The Dickson Poon School of Law CAFE ART CAFE

The Dickson Poon School of Law launched the School has hosted work by Cafe Art Many of these photos its ART, LAW & CULTURE programme to members within Somerset House East show that homeless celebrate the School’s home within Wing. In 2017, King’s students curated people are essentially Somerset House East Wing. an exhibition using images created for excluded from the legal MyLondon, an annual photography system. This really competition designed to aid the personal 2017 saw a series of artistic collaborations rehabilitation of rough sleepers and raise puts our studies into within the School. The exhibition Some awareness of homelessness. Texts written perspective, as well as Colours of the Law was the culmination of by students featured in the exhibition the role we might play a partnership with the School’s Honorary offering interpretations of MyLondon in society. Artist, Professor Werner Gephart. Later in images. These responses raised questions Martin Wagner the year MyLondon: Photography, Law & on property law, public and private space, LLB student at King’s Homelessness in London presented a series and what students of law might gain from and contributor to of photographs taken by rough sleepers in broader engagement with the visual arts. MyLondon London, curated by King’s law students. Throughout his distinguished academic KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS career, Professor Gephart has produced paintings and installations that visualise MyLondon Michael Wong Cafe Art | Some the history of the social sciences and their Colours of the Law Professor Werner Gephart University of Bonn’s Käte Hamburger relationship to underlying legal cultures. Center for Advanced Study in the Some Colours of the Law provides a broad Humanities ‘Law as Culture’ overview of this unique body of work, paying attention to the legal traditions of the United Kingdom, Germany, and France while exploring how they resonate across a globalised world. MyLondon is part of an ongoing partnership between Cafe Art, a social enterprise that uses art as a tool of empowerment for the homeless, and The Dickson Poon School of Law. Since 2016,

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | ART, LAW & CULTURE 23 PICTORIAL ART IN SIERRA LEONE Using art as a communication tool in countries with low levels of literacy

KING’S SIERRA LEONE PARTNERSHIP is and other adults to explain the value of The illustrations’ main working to understand the country’s participating in the survey. The UK team function was to inform dental health needs to better appreciate was accompanied by a Sierra Leonean so we had to think very the challenges health professionals face team who gathered feedback on the carefully about clarity of and the training needs of dental workers. pictorial information sheet using a brief image, text and symbols questionnaire. The team collected data using pictorial consent forms and surveys within the cultural To underpin this work, the King’s project from December 2016 to May 2017. A total background of the team needed to undertake a country-wide of 1,650 individuals were contacted and target audience. These oral health survey. Low levels of literacy, those surveyed said that the use of pictorial discoveries about how combined with limited contact with art helped with their understanding of the to convey ideas have dentistry, proved major stumbling blocks oral health survey. clearly been invaluable. to obtaining informed consent. In response, Clarice Holt the team developed a way of using art – a KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS Project artistic lead universal language – to convey information. & illustrator Sugar consumption is rapidly Professor Jennifer Gallagher Head of increasingly in Sierra Leone and tooth Population & Patient Health, Professor Stephen Challacombe Professor of Oral decay is a growing issue. Dental services Medicine & Swapnil Ghotane doctorate are limited. When they are available, student, King’s Dental Institute | Dr Patric they’re run as private businesses and Don Davis former Principal Dental Surgeon predominantly found in the capital city. at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone | As a result, people seek dental help too Clarice Holt illustrator, graphic facilitator late and extractions are often the only and graphic designer option. Pictorial art in Sierra Leone used art to explain King’s research to adults and 12- to 15-year-olds to secure consent for, and their participation in, the oral health survey. Pictorial art in Sierra Leone trialled an image-led information sheet and consent form for children, their parents

24 PICTORIAL ART IN SIERRA LEONE | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 INSIDE OPERA Inside Opera leads learners through four centuries of opera history to explore its inner-workings with exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the Royal Opera House and the V&A CLIVE BARDA

INSIDE OPERA is the world’s first including composer and King’s Henry Students gain a introductory MOOC (massive open online Purcell Professor of Composition Sir George backstage pass to one course) dedicated to opera, devised by Benjamin, director and member of King’s of the world’s leading King’s Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Circle of Cultural Fellows Katie Mitchell, opera houses, hear from King’s Online, alongside the Royal Opera and Royal Opera House Music Director experts in the field from House, the V&A and FutureLearn. Sir Antonio Pappano. The course debates the ways in which opera has changed with King’s and delve the world around it, questions the impact into the archives of Students hear from King’s academics of new technologies on the audience the V&A, throwing whose expertise spans opera’s 400-year experience and discusses what opera has to their voices into the history and explore the art form through offer in the 21st century. King’s partnership discussion about opera’s the eyes of the musicians and directors with the V&A adds the rich perspective relevance today. who bring it to life on stage. The course of opera’s visual history, drawing on the Dr Flora Willson tackles opera’s sometimes controversial museum’s extensive collections. Department of Music relationship with politics and reflects on at King’s its changing role in culture and society KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS over its four-century history. This free online course gives opera Dr Flora Willson Department of Music | Missy | enthusiasts and newcomers alike Mills & Jillian Baker Royal Opera House Kate Bailey V&A | David Avery FutureLearn unparalleled access to the world of opera and takes a close look at its history and relevance today. New audiences learn the basics of this art form through an innovative web-based platform, while course participants who are already passionate about opera deepen their knowledge in a way that will enrich their experience of future performances. Dr Flora Willson from the Department of Music leads the Inside Opera course, with expert insight from contributors

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | INSIDE OPERA 25 THE CREATIVE ROLE OF RESEARCH Understanding the scale of collaboration between academia and the creative and cultural sector and the impact of these partnerships beyond the university

THE CREATIVE ROLE OF RESEARCH draws on from that database and it illuminates the The roles of research data from the 2014 Research Excellence different types of impact described, the and collaboration are Framework (REF) to interrogate the long- types of partnerships and activities that a rich – and urgent – standing ways in which academics and generated impact and the evidence offered part of the cultural and creative practitioners have collaborated, to support claims that the research had educational landscape borrowed from and influenced one made a difference beyond the university. another. The Arts & Humanities Research in the UK today. The Council has noted the challenge of realising higher education sector ‘fertile connections’ between the UK’s in the UK is a brilliant The report highlights the many ways in world-leading arts and humanities research crucible for forging new which academic research can inform and and creative industries. With its insights ideas and partnerships: develop the practice of artists and creative into the processes by which research affects in dance, music, professionals and, at the same time, inspires and impacts both the cultural and creative literature, visual arts researchers from a wide range of academic sector and the wider world, The Creative and more. disciplines to foster new opportunities for Role of Research suggests how those fertile collaboration beyond the university. connections can be initiated, developed Professor Joanna REF is a national assessment exercise and grown. MacGregor OBE FRAM that measures the quality of research Cultural Fellow at King’s & Head of Piano, undertaken across all UK universities. KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS In 2014, for the first time, this included Royal Academy of Music an enquiry into the impact of academic The authors of the report were Dr Kirstie research beyond Higher Education: Hewlett King’s Researcher | Katherine Bond Director, Cultural Institute at King’s | its reach and significance in affecting, Dr Saba Hinrichs-Krapels Senior Research changing or benefitting the economy, Fellow, King’s Policy Institute society, culture, public policy, health, the environment or quality of life. A total of 6,975 impact case studies were submitted to the REF exercise, most of which are now available in a searchable online database. This report is based on an analysis of 1,582 impact case studies

26 THE CREATIVE ROLE OF RESEARCH | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 ARTS IN MIND A new way to inspire greater understanding of the mind, the brain and mental health through arts and culture

King’s launched ARTS IN MIND to mark the use of psychedelic music and images as It has been truly the 20th anniversary of the Institute of mood enhancers, Losing One’s Sense of Self, gratifying to see how Psychiatry (now Institute of Psychiatry, which interrogates how frontal lobe brain notions of mental health Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN)) damage affects an individual’s personal and illness have proved joining the university. identity and social interactions, and to be inspirational to Talking Heads, which developed a series of audio monologue artworks examining artists and academics Led by Professor Patrick Leman, Dean of auditory hallucination. from across King’s. Education and Professor Anthony David, Professor Anthony David Vice Dean for the Division of Academic KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS Vice Dean, Division of Psychiatry, the programme provides new Academic Psychiatry ways to enhance understanding of the Dr Melanie Abas Department of Health mind, the brain and mental health through Service & Population Research with Tariro Chaniwa Magitare Trust | Professor Ricardo creative collaboration. Araya Department of Health Service Arts in Mind connected IoPPN & Population Research with Rebecca researchers with artists and arts Hatchett S.I.D.E Projects | Dr Gerald organisations to start new conversations Finnerty Department of Basic & Clinical and drive forward innovative partnerships Neuroscience with Isla Millar & Iris Musel through a series of Open Space events, Limbic Productions | Professor Carmine Ideas Labs and workshops. During Pariante Department of Psychological Medicine with Laura Godfrey-Isaacs | Dr these events participants formed new Colette Hirsch Department of Psychology collaborations and brainstormed creative with Hannah Ringham & Glen Neath | Dr Sally responses to the communication of mental Marlow Department of Addictions with health issues. New partnerships explored Christina McMaster | Professor Sukhwinder how art can inspire greater awareness of the Shergill Department of Psychosis Studies mind and the brain and considered how with Mel Brimfield | Dr Eugenio Abela & Amber new artistic works could lead to greater Collingwood Department of Basic & Clinical Neuroscience with Matthew Maxwell empathy for the disordered brain or mind. Eight proof of concept projects developed from this process. These included Sound Mind, which focuses on

CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 | ARTS IN MIND 27 THE RE-ASSURE PROJECT A short film to encourage women to share their safety concerns during pregnancy and the postnatal period

A creative animation by KING’S to co-create an animation that followed a This is a fantastic IMPROVEMENT SCIENCE and the writer, woman through her pregnancy journey. example of collaboration artist and facilitator Claire Collison The film has had almost one million views across health, arts and is at the heart of a new campaign to online and is being shown in hospital charitable organisations encourage women to share their safety waiting rooms. It seeks to persuade to get the message out to concerns about life-threatening illness pregnant women who are worried about during pregnancy or after giving birth. their health, or their baby’s health, to take women in a rapid way. their concerns seriously and ask for help Professor Jane Sandall CBE by encouraging them to trust themselves Professor of Social Science The campaign, launched by Tommy’s and ‘look out for changes that don’t feel & Women’s Health and charity, King’s and the BabyCentre right’. The project has been cited as project collaborator website, empowers pregnant women good practice by NHS London Clinical to overcome fears about speaking to Networks London Maternal Deaths 2016 professionals about health concerns. It aims review and endorsed by the Royal College to reduce the number of women who suffer of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, the Royal serious pregnancy complications or loss College of Midwives and NHS England. that could have been prevented. Each day in the UK, 10 babies are KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS stillborn and 152 babies are born preterm. A research project led by Professor Jane Professor Jane Sandall Professor of Social Sandall, Department of Midwifery, has Science and Women’s Health & Dr James Harris midwifery clinical academic, shown that women’s knowledge about Department of Midwifery | Dr Nicola their own changing body is invaluable in Mackintosh academic lead for the project contributing to safer pregnancies. The and now Associate Professor in Social challenge for health professionals is that Science Applied to Health, University pregnant and postnatal women often of Leicester | Claire Collison writer, artist, struggle to explain their instincts and voice and facilitator | Patrick Beirne animator, | | | their concerns. designer and director Sand’s Tommy’s BabyCentre The Re-Assure project brought together women who have previously experienced serious complications in pregnancy or birth

28 THE RE-ASSURE PROJECT | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 KING’S CIRCLE OF CULTURAL FELLOWS King’s Cultural Fellows help embed arts and culture into the university experience for academics and students

KING’S CIRCLE OF CULTURAL FELLOWS Industries at King’s. John Holden, an This is a great supports the university in its ambition to expert in cultural diplomacy, chaired a opportunity to both ensure that arts and culture enhance the high-profile seminar at King’s to discuss share my insights into King’s experience for staff and students. The Art of Soft Power, with attendees the Creative Industries from government and leading cultural and engage with the organisations. The Fellows are an important part of the students and academics to help shape the future university’s cultural strategy, aiming to KEY PEOPLE & ORGANISATIONS strengthen King’s connections with cultural of the sector. King’s Circle of Cultural Fellows: and artistic organisations and extend its Ed Vaizey MP Nick Allott OBE | Jim Al-Khalili OBE | Bill Bush reach beyond the university. King’s Cultural Fellow | Hilary Carty | Gus Casely-Hayford | Martin King’s Cultural Fellows include Wayne Green CBE | Rob Greig | Professor John Holden | McGregor CBE, whose Studio Wayne Sue Hoyle OBE | Baroness Tessa Jowell DBE PC McGregor is one of the partners delivering | Anthony Lilley OBE | Joanna MacGregor OBE | the Experience Module of the MA in Wayne McGregor CBE | Sir Jonathan Mills AO Arts & Cultural Management, and Hilary | Katie Mitchell OBE | Lord Puttnam CBE | Carty, Director of the Clore Leadership Justine Simons OBE | Ed Vaizey MP | Jenny Programme. Hilary has led on a range Waldman of King’s projects including the Leading Culture in the 21st Century programme and she is now a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s Business School. King’s announced four new Cultural Fellows during 2017: Nick Allott OBE, Managing Director, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd; Professor John Holden, writer, speaker and cultural commentator; Baroness Tessa Jowell DBE PC; and Rt Hon Ed Vaizey MP. Alongside his role as a King’s Cultural Fellow, Ed is Professor of Practice in the Department of Culture, Media & Creative

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More than 100,000 visitors to over 180 events

Nearly 3,000 students participated in projects & programmes Six exhibitions attracted more than 50,000 people

189 students took part in King’s Cultural Challenge Employment opportunities for 40 students Every faculty engaged with culture

More than 250 King’s academics and staff from around 80 departments worked in partnership with cultural organisations and artists More than 600 cultural sector professionals partnered with King’s

30 THE YEAR IN NUMBERS | CULTURE A YEAR IN REVIEW 2016-17 across king’s, an extensive community of staff, students & alumni work in partnership with artists and cultural organisations in education and research initiatives. This community is supported and enabled by specialist teams that broker and facilitate collaborations as well as producing and delivering specific programmes and projects. These teams are led by Alison Duthie, Katherine Bond, Dr Daniel Glaser and Ruth Hogarth. Networks made up of early career researchers, senior academics and students from across the university embed culture within faculties and in the student experience, while external networks like the Leonardo Group and the Circle of Cultural Fellows extend reach into the sector.

Find contact details for the Culture teams & networks at kcl.ac.uk/culture

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Culture Front and back covers: Images from the ‘World Futures – Change is the only constant value’ kcl.ac.uk/culture exhibition in the Arcade at Bush House @CulturalKings Design: Susen Vural Design, www.susenvural.com Approved by [email protected], March 2018