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Explore a collection of exhibits, films and performances from Festival of the Mind 2024.

Festival of the Mind 2024

Discover the complexities of judicial sentencing disparities with our innovative, courtroom-themed exhibit and web app.

You Be The Judge

What is frailty, and is it an inevitable part of ageing? Is it all bad, or is there beauty to be found?

Ageing = Frailty?

Call of the Void is a completely original musical arrangement created using data collected from the GOTO observatory

Call of the Void

This collaborative study explored the experience of accessing hospital care with older people with vision impairment from Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind (SRSB).

“Hello… I’m here!” The Experience of Acute Hospital Care for Older People Living with Vision Impairment

Celebrated Sheffield-based artist Jessica Heywood and Sheffield historian Phil Withington have created an installation exploring the botanical dimensions of Europe’s psychoactive revolution.

Holy Herbs and the Psychoactive Revolution

Do fitness trackers and smartwatches change how runners feel and behave?

iRunner: the Effects of Information and Technology on Runners

A creative collaboration between artist Patrick Murphy, writer / broadcaster Ian McMillan, researcher / Sheffield Flourish Associate Shirin Teifouri and University academic Chris Blackmore.

Mind: You're Language

Residue Dolls poses questions about what we can learn from different cultures and practical, engaged models of sustainable consumerism.

Residue Dolls

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Take a trip down memory lane and journey through school meal memories

School Meal Memories

The relationships between insects and plants are mediated through chemistry – invisible communications based on complex, yet delicate signals emitted and detected all around us.

Signals: Moth Messages and Plant Prompts

This project endeavours to synergise human self-expression through drawing with technological innovation to promote mental well-being.

AE: Artificial Emotions - A Robotic Journey into Emotional Intelligence

A multimedia exhibition that showcases ‘CATA’ prints built from images captured and constructed by waste collectors in Brazil.

CATA - Climate Change and Waste Pickers'

Cor_alis _ChoraIis is a choral piece performed by singers from Kantos choir that will use voice to explore trust in the use of Artificial Intelligence in medicine.

Cor_alis_Choralis: Exploring Trust in Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine

‘Invisible threads’ is a powerful play developed by Dr Sarah Hargreaves and Dead Earnest Theatre that tells the stories of families affected by mesothelioma.

Invisible Threads

This exhibit investigates how we shape materials through stretching, tapering, filtering, texturing, and other shared manipulations.

Sculpting Sound

In this piece Eleanor and fellow-performer Alice Connolly take on the 1590s author Thomas Nashe and his angry, misogynistic, xenophobic, ableist and classist persona, Pierce Penniless.

Sold my soul to the devil for this Pie(r)ce of paper

Embark on a journey where art illuminates the possibilities of science, and the TARD-ISH becomes a beacon of hope for a greener, more harmonious future.

TAR-DISH: Transformative Agroecological Retreat Dressed in Sustainable Hues

Britain fought WWII with the support of millions of people from Africa, the Caribbean and India, but the voices of Black women are seldom heard.

The Promise

Unearthing Our Joy is a collaboration uniting academics, artists, and communities to celebrate Black unity and promote mental health and wellbeing through the arts.

Festival of the Mind 2024

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