Building as a Verb Not a Noun — Covid as Intrapraneur? by Steve Dearden

Steve Dearden, Writer, Facilitator and Founder and Director of ‘The Writing Squad‘, reflects on how Covid is or isn’t impacting on how cultural insititutions and museums think about the buildings they inhabit. He asks what prioritising ‘building’ as a verb, as doing, rather than as the thing, made of bricks and mortar, where they do…

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Nabeelah Hafeez – Exchanging Ideas in the USA

Next up in our series of interviews, Lynn Wray talks with Nabeelah Hafeez (Project Manager of the Bradford Stories Festival, at the National Literacy Trust and Bradford-based artist and poet) about her personal experience of, and professional reflections on, visiting Chicago and Washington DC back in pre-Covid times. In November a group of us connected…

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Julia Ankenbrand – Exchanging Ideas in the USA

Next up in our series of interviews reflecting on our personal experiences of Chicago and Washington DC, our own researcher and co-facilitator, Julia Ankenbrand, talks resonance, race, rhetoric and relectivity. In November a group of us connected to the Bradford’s National Museum Project went to Chicago with the aim of exploring the cutting-edge participatory, co-creative…

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Guenievre Jacobucci – Exchanging Ideas in the USA

Next in our series of interviews about our research trip to Chicago and Washington DC, Guenievre Jacobucci (Volunteer Coordinator, National Science and Media Museum) reflects on how the ideas around activism, social justice and racial politics she encountered related to her practice as a volunteer coordinator in a national museum and challenged her thinking. In…

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Bradford’s Hidden Histories: Communities organising against racism – By Aamir Darr

The shocking recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has thrown the spotlight yet again on the simmering racial fractures within American society. Derrick Johnson, the 19th President of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) succinctly summarised this week in The Guardian  : “In America, Black deaths are not a flaw in…

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Sarah Ledjmi – Exchanging Ideas in the USA

Next in our series of interviews, Sarah Ledjmi (Associate Curator of Sound and Vision, National Science and Media Museum) reflects on how the broadening and deepening of her understanding of racial politics during our recent research trip to Chicago and Washington DC has impacted on her personally and professionally. In November a group of us connected…

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Helen Graham – Exchanging Ideas in the USA

Next in our series of interviews about the Bradford’s National Museum Project’s research trip to Chicago and Washington DC is, our very own, Helen Graham. Helen co-organised the research trip, working with Elory Rozner (Uncommon Classrooms) to facilitate the Community Co-creation Workshop in Chicago and collaborating with the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access…

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