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ABOUT US
PLaCE is a creative, practice led, research centre that addresses issues of place, location, context and environment at the intersection of a multiplicity of disciplines and practices. Through its research projects, creative programmes, educational activities and external partnerships, it is committed to investigating, re-imagining, analysing, re-invigorating and intervening in the follow areas of concern: commissioning and curating in and out of place; site-specificity and situated practices; creative intersections with urban and rural geographies; interdisciplinary approaches to renewal and the environment generally; and the intersections of memory, place, and identity - including issues of commemoration and conflict.
Within the University of the West of England PLaCE will pursue this mission in the context of the continual redrawing of boundaries - between art, design and media practices, their theorization, and congruent disciplines and practices. It will recognize the centrality of environmental issues and sustainability to art, media and design education – seen as a vital interface between individuals, society and the world as environment - by working with peers and by feeding research back into the curriculum through interaction with staff and direct contributions to the learning environment.
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