This network will take the relatively new field of live coding research to its next development stage and strengthen the UK's position as one of the leading countries in this field. It will bring together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to explore how live coding can enrich technological engagement in wider culture. Live coding is a new approach to creative expression using computers. In live coding, the innards of software are exposed and rewired through live, direct, and exploratory use of custom made programming languages. Practitioners perform on stage by writing code that generates the audiovisual work; it is a form of real-time notating or scoring music, visuals, dance or robotics. The screen is projected, enabling the audience to follow the development of the code. Since the computer interprets the code live, every edit to the code is immediately reflected in the musical or visual end result. Live coding has a strong pedagogical and performance element, and has proven to be applicable right across the arts, research, and industry. Interest in live coding is growing across science, technology and engineering: the digital arts are uniquely placed in the field of technological innovation, as they place the human experience of programming at the core of technological interaction. Live coding is a field where technological development is arts-led, and where computer languages are seen as rich environments for creative expression. This trans-disciplinary network will bring key researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines together with the aim of enabling dialogue and research collaboration across academy and industry. The network will serve as a hub for activities in research, development, and education; activities will take place internationally, and be strongly centred within the UK research landscape. Although the network is UK based, it includes leading international researchers in the field, and it will foster for strong international outreach and industry connections, that will support and maintain the UKs leading role as the centre of live coding research and practice. The network will explore themes of live coding in the arts, computing in education, and cultural engagement. This will be investigated through three workshops, one international conference, and diverse publications. Wider cultural impact will be achieved through industry events, musical performances, media engagement, online fora, software releases, and public workshops. The network will disseminate its research to other researchers and the general public through a strong, open access web-presence. The past ten years have seen many exciting developments in live coding, which has matured into an established approach in the digital arts, visible across published literature (including a forthcoming Computer Music Journal special issue), academic conferences, digital arts festivals, and in national and international media. Working with the fundamental premise that everybody can program computers, provided that the goals are interesting and the right tools are available, live coding is uniquely placed to bridge relationships across the educational, academic and industry sectors, and contribute to the recent emphasis on programming in the national curriculum.

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Specialisation in literature and cultural studies is often accompanied by the loss of vital connections. The separation between Anglophone and Francophone literatures, and between classical and contemporary literary and cultural studies are examples of how connections can be lost. ‘Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture’ presents the particular space of this sea as an area of study, thereby providing a platform where scholars with different specialisations can meet. The Intensive Study Programme (ISP) is highly innovative in studying not only how literature and other art forms are produced in the Mediterranean, but also how the Mediterranean has been represented and “produced” by other “North European” cultures, historically and more recently. The ISP takes account of very recent literature and films that feature current forms of migration as well as developments on the Southern Mediterranean shores (the so-called “Arab spring” and the recent waves of migration ), and their representation. The two week ISP features lectures given by specialists in the field and these are followed by all the students. While attending all the lectures and their discussion, the specialist workshops, organised in two series co-ordinated by the academic advisers to the project, allow students to choose between the two different workshop series, so that students can achieve more focused specialisation on particular areas of the curriculum. Seminar A concentrates on classical representations of the Mediterranean while Seminar B has a more contemporary focus. The students all attend a number of joint seminars (A+B) that allow them to share learning and research. Students from Malta, Goldsmiths, Nova Gorica, Minho, Cagliari, Florence and Carthage will benefit from the large pool of experts lecturing in the Intensive Study Programme. Students will achieve knowledge of a range of texts and films representing aspects of the Mediterranean, they will learn to identify literature and cultures from different periods and different areas, as well as influences between texts. Students will study how different works construct Mediterranean culture, history or geography, how cultural encounters, clashes or exchanges are represented in various texts, and how these, in turn, impact on their national literatures.The syllabus of ‘Mediterranean Imaginaries: Literature, Arts, Culture’ enables students who are at a distance from the Mediterranean sea to study literature and culture from this region. The topic will draw scholars and students working in comparative, Anglophone and Francophone literary studies as well as others from disciplines such as history , cultural studies, film studies, visual arts, and philosophy, thus presenting a strong multidisciplinary approach. Through the ISP, important cross-cultural perspectives and opinions will be shared amongst participants and students. This would not be possible if the module was run separately at the 7 universities. The follow-up events - the post-graduate conferences organized by the UOM's Department of English - at the end of the ISP in 2017 and 2018 give opportunities to all the students to present their collaborative work to a wider audience. As these conferences will also include literature culture related to the Mediterranean, the students extend their knowledge of these subjects even further. The follow-up events in London in June 2017 and 2018 again call for collaborative work from all the students. The work will be presented by 4 of the Maltese students and by the 6 Goldsmiths students who have attended the ISP at the conference of the London Intercollegiate Network for Comparative Studies or of the Goldsmiths Literature Seminar. As the Maltese students do not benefit from mobility for the ISP, it is appropriate that they should have the opportunity to go to London to work in a different academic environment.The Strategic Partnership as a whole widens the horizons of the students and academics taking part and makes them more aware of the wealth of knowledge on Mediterranean affairs harboured in 6 European and 1 North African university. This will enhance the international competitiveness of the participating universities. Students will also become more conscious of the practical ways in which literature can influence society, for example, by addressing issues related to migration, racism and xenophobia in the Mediterranean and beyond, thus enhancing their value as European citizens, and increasing their employability. Number of participants per year requiring funding For Intensive Study Programme Goldsmiths College : 4 academics, 6 students each year Florence: 1 academic, 3 students each year Cagliari: 1 academic, 3 students each year Minho: 1 academic, 3 students each year Nova Gorica: 1 academic, 3 students each year For Blended Mobility Malta 1 academic 4 students each year

The Tagore, pedagogy and contemporary visual cultures network aims to bring together a group of leading international academics and visual arts practitioners to discuss and explore the legacy and continuing relevance of Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) for contemporary art practice and visual culture. The group made up of artists, academics (both senior and early career researchers), curators and a political scientist, from Europe and India, have come together because they share an interest in exploring Tagore's legacy and influence from different disciplinary backgrounds, often taking idiosyncratic, unorthodox approaches in order to think outside of the established conventions of Tagore scholarship. This network not only offers new opportunities for cross-disciplinary research, but proposes an original and as yet uncharted approach to Tagore's work and its continuing relevance. We will meet twice in London, once in the Netherlands, and once in Santinikatan, the community school set up by Tagore in India in 1901.

Individual, Group, Institution: Transversality in the SHP Archive: takes up an overlooked resource for the understanding of ethical modes of institutional care in contemporary conditions, and builds on recent renewed interest in the work of Institutional Analysis. The establishment of Institutional Psychotherapy in the wake of the liberation of France and Spanish Civil War saw the radical restructuring of insane asylums in antithesis to conditions witnessed in internment camps, with patients actively contributing to their running. From this, the practice of Institutional Analysis sees the institution, rather than the individual, as playing a primary role in the production of distress, and as such the necessary focus of analysis and change. Drawing from experiences and concepts introduced by key figures such as François Tosquelles (2012), Felix Guattari (2006) and Franz Fanon (2018) and a rare film archive of the practices drawing from them (Barrère, 1977; Laloux, 1961; Pain, 1986; Philibert, 1996) the project provides a paradigm for analysing the everyday practices that produce institutions in the contemporary context, and as such for tracing moments co-production within the SHP Archive project. SHP was established In 1975, when one of SHP's founders Stuart Clark, a homeless man who had slept rough and stayed in most of the London shelters, persuaded a housing association to let him use a short life property in Pimlico to house himself and five other homeless men. Today it is a London-wide charity that serves 7000 people annually in preventing homelessness and helping vulnerable and socially excluded people to transform their lives. It's archive - containing remnants of early housing struggles, mental health support work and creative projects co-produced with users of its housing and mental health services - has not, to date, been researched, catalogued or analysed. The charity has, since its inception, taken on a service user-led ethos and approach to questions of care. SHP's core values are unique in suggesting that client experiences shape the direction and governance of the charity and position the charity as a 'voice for change' at the intersection of issues related to housing, mental health and other forms of social precarity. This research project aims to analyse how SHP's commitment to co-production, client agency and broader social transformation register in the visual culture of care found in the archive and how this visual culture might support a deeper understanding among staff, users and the sector more widely of this important legacy. At a time when service-user led approaches to questions of care, are increasingly called upon to de-centre whiteness and ableist approaches, and critiques of imagery that reproduces 'victim', 'reform' and 'saviour' narratives of care abundant in the sector, the SHP archive offers important insights into the role of user-led approaches in broadening the social imagination of care and the institutions that perform it. This research is urgent insofar as - approaching the charity's 45th anniversary - founding members have yet to share their stories of the charity's origin and development. These oral histories are needed not only because original members are now in their 70's but because the collaborative constitution and history of SHP is often little known even to those living and working within it, making its values vulnerable to the ever-shifting tides of funder led paradigms of care and support. To date there has not been a formal record of the history of charity, and its origins in collective action. Beyond the direct benefits to SHP, the combination of cataloguing, user exploration and oral histories will constitute an invaluable resource in developing new mechanisms for engaging with archives through creative and curatorial methods, engaging both users, housing and mental health professionals and the wider public.