CCFT core reseachers - is a group of artists, architects, designers and cultural theorists from England, Scotland, Norway and Cyprus whose practices, individually (and collectively), seek to consider the role of artistic research in shaping the legacies of place within the contemporary social landscape. Through the lens of each other’s research and evolving relationships, a collective work platform has emerged through trust and dialogue. The core researchers approach focuses on practice-based research methods including; painting, drawing, photography, video, sound, sculpture, text performances, publication, events/exhibition, on site installations, design communication, social design, architecture, interventions and spatial practices that are engaged in constructing and questioning narratives of place making, place meaning and belonging. 

Research is constituted through the methodology of travelling colloquia carried out in specific cases for study. These cases for study are constructed as interwoven, overlapping and interrelated meetings, investigations and dissemination points.
As we move towards the first quarter of the third millennium, the impermanent and shifting influence of globalisation, economic division, migratory encounters, social media, historic narrative and tourism is having a major impact in our understanding of the making, belonging and occupying of place. It is widely documented that these conditions are contributing to a growing sense of displacement and alienation in what constitutes as place making, occupying, and belonging. CCFT is asking how interdisciplinary artistic research practices contribute and share new critical understandings to aid this evolving understanding of place making, belonging and occupying? 

The research will examine this through the expanded concept of “the atlas” as dissemination strategy - ATLAS – the order of memory - a form of mnemonic iteration – physical and virtual.Through this CCFT seeks to critically reflect upon and acknowledge the implications of participating in and engaging with the dialectic relevance of how the case studies are implicit to understanding the dynamics of our wider shared cultural and political knowledge of place making, occupying, and belonging enacting itself today.  

Susan Brind

     Glasgow School of Art, Scotland


 

Yiorgos Hadjichristou

     University of Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus



Jim Harold

     Glasgow School of Art, Scotland



Duncan Higgins

     Nottingham Trent University, UK, and

     University of Bergen, Norway


 

Linda Lien 

    Independent designer



Andy Lock

     Fellow University of Bergen, Norway



Shauna McMullan

     Glasgow School of Art, Scotland



Johan Sandborg

     University of Bergen, Norway



Ana Souto

     Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Perhaps the world resists becoming reduced to mere resource because it is a figure of the always problematic, always potent tie between meaning and bodies.(Donna Haraway.)

The Atlas - CCFT events

Publication 2020

Fluid Territories 

Events: