Atelier: Creative Arts and the Social Sciences Network

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The Atelier Network brings together researchers, practitioners, teachers and learners in Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) at the University of Edinburgh. In doing so, it also brings members closer to external partners, including museums, galleries and collectives across the city.

Atelier’s primary objectives are:

• To coordinate teaching and research in the arts and social science subject areas within ECA, SPS and other Schools;
• To create a stronger sense of collective identity in order to drive forward interdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching;
• To strengthen relationships with practitioners and other institutions to further enhance the impact of members' research.

Atelier is also the editorial home of the Taylor and Francis Journal, Visual Culture in Britain.

The Network has hosted an Edinburgh Film Seminar: Roundtable on Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema and the Mastery of the Invisible, with panellists Jonny Murray, David Sorfa and Richard Baxstrom. It officially launched on 27th November 2015 on a collaborative project exploring human body donation for artistic research and practice.

As part of the Edinburgh Art Festival 2016, Atelier and partner organisation, Rhubaba, presented an in-conversation event within the exhibition Still life with flying objects. In this event, scholars speculated on how focusing on material culture can help illuminate how objects shape various social, cultural and natural worlds and vice versa.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL