Institute for Creative Technologies

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The Institute was founded in recognition of the explosion in advanced digital practices in the arts, producing ground-breaking bodies of knowledge in both the arts and sciences, which are shaping cultures globally. The Institute explores how technologies developed by creative practitioners can be applied to solve complex real-world problems.  

The Institute provides artists, scientists, designers, performers, engineers, historians, theoreticians, and wider industry collaborators an environment for advanced exploration, technical expertise and community. It also provides access to this important driver of regional economic opportunity and takes a pivotal role in the national debate on the importance of creative education, Createch, and the benefits of promoting creativity throughout society.  

• Emergent and inclusive technical cultures 
• Nature connection through mobile technologies and immersive visualisation
• Embodiment, mental health, and self-identity in a digital world
• Creative AI, machine intelligence, and human expression 

Producing new knowledge across these interconnected themes enables us to support practice-based technology innovation informed by both human experience and global challenges. 

The Institute is home to the UKRI funded (CResCa world-class lab) facility, the Interactive Visualisation and Simulation Lab (IVSL) based at our Havers Road building. This lab currently supports funded work exploring climate futures, virtual heritage, spatial computing, applied games, leading-edge approaches to virtual production and practice-based technology innovation for cultural organisations  

The Institute builds on NorwichUni’s close Art/Tech/Media relationships and explores how creative technologies connect us to Norwich’s heritage as England’s second city in Medieval times and its unique connection to the natural environment as the only city entirely within a UK National Park.  

• Living in Changing Landscapes: Applying place-based approaches to transform our understanding of climatic, environmental, health, economic, social, and cultural factors affecting coastal communities and seas through immersive experiences created for our World Class Visualisation and Simulation Lab. 
• Ginn-Jinnaye: Exploring perception, and presentation of women’s bodies in Islamic culture; sites of murder and atrocities; Palmyra’s role as meeting place of East and West, and roots of the concept of “genius loci”. 
• ART//TECH//PLAY: Accelerating and expanding the supply chain for Art/Tech works by connecting individuals and organisations in the cultural and creative sectors; unlocking access to resources; and identifying methods to better support touring and dissemination of unconventional outputs. 

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Norwich University of the Arts
Norwich

Partner Infrastructures

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change

The Tyndall Centre is a partnership of universities bringing together researchers from the social and natural sciences and engineering to develop sustainable responses to climate change. It works with… read more about Tyndall Centre for Climate Change

Norwich

Sainsbury Centre

As a higher education gallery, the Sainsbury Centre is committed to supporting the wider research community, providing a dynamic hub for generating, disseminating, sharing and testing research relatin… read more about Sainsbury Centre

Norwich

Partner Universities

Anglia Ruskin University

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

University College London (UCL)

University of Cambridge

University of East Anglia

University of Greenwich

University of the West of England, Bristol

Additional Partnerships

- BFI - ukie -Collusion - Cambridge Junction - Raspberry Pi - Dance East - Norwich Theatre - October (Films/Media) - The Broads Authority - Norfolk Museums - Norfolk Wildlife Trust - N&N Festival - Film and Video Umbrella - NYU