UniverCityCulture
This pilot project aims to make research from the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures that is about Manchester’s culture and heritage, more visible to students, staff, and visitors.
Using free online mapping tools like Google Maps and Foursquare, we are placing research that is about the city back into the city.
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City as Soundscape Cultural Assets Hall of Fame History of Technology, Science and Medicine
Industrial Manchester Performative City Roman Manchester
We’re filming academics and researchers from each category to try and put more of a human face to the research. To date we have videos from:
John Pickstone talking about the History of Medicine in Manchester
Joanna Pawlik from the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies
We also have the materials that UniverCityCulture researcher Julian Hartley used for his poster session at the Culture Effects conference, archived here
We produced an alternative campus tour for new students. The map can be found here
If you use Foursquare you can follow us for tips and links about culture and heritage all over Manchester.
Follow us for links to research on cultural and heritage sites. Tweet us suggestions for research areas that we haven’t covered.
Watch some academics and researchers from the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures explain their work in just a few minutes.
Like us for updates on what’s happening with the project, links to research, videos, info. You can also suggest interesting areas of research.
You can contact us at UniverCityCulture@gmail.com or @UniCityCulture
