Project overview
This project will establish practices and strategies for ‘salvage’ in the Arts and Humanities through international and interdisciplinary collaboration, taking advantage of the UK’s status as one of the largest creative industries sectors in the world. Salvage is already a practice across multiple highly lucrative industries, including marine salvage (worth £300 million in 2022) and architectural salvage (£1 billion). The UK’s rapidly-growing creative industries sector is valued at £112 billion—bigger than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive sectors combined.
Many Arts and Humanities researchers and practitioners engage in research about salvage, but the Arts and Humanities currently take a back seat in interdisciplinary discussions about salvage practice. We need to facilitate sustainable interdisciplinary collaborations where the Arts and Humanities can take a leading role. To do this we need to bring together experts in salvage from different regions and disciplines so we can develop a shared understanding of salvage methods and practices.
This project will use practice-based research (including arts practice, community-engaged research, and creative workshops), to bring together experts on salvage from different regions and disciplines so we can develop a shared understanding of salvage methods and practices. Knowledge exchange between myself and other experts in Japan and the UK will facilitate sustainable interdisciplinary collaborations where the Arts and Humanities can take a leading role.
The project will be undertaken at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (part of Japan's National Institutes for the Humanities).
Many Arts and Humanities researchers and practitioners engage in research about salvage, but the Arts and Humanities currently take a back seat in interdisciplinary discussions about salvage practice. We need to facilitate sustainable interdisciplinary collaborations where the Arts and Humanities can take a leading role. To do this we need to bring together experts in salvage from different regions and disciplines so we can develop a shared understanding of salvage methods and practices.
This project will use practice-based research (including arts practice, community-engaged research, and creative workshops), to bring together experts on salvage from different regions and disciplines so we can develop a shared understanding of salvage methods and practices. Knowledge exchange between myself and other experts in Japan and the UK will facilitate sustainable interdisciplinary collaborations where the Arts and Humanities can take a leading role.
The project will be undertaken at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (part of Japan's National Institutes for the Humanities).
Staff
Lead researcher