IAS Creative Fellows

Current Creative Fellows

Encounters: Creative Practice as Research Method with Carolin Meyer and Amit Chaudhuri

The Encounters programme aims to unpack creativity and the creative method, and to explore how creative practice operates as a form of knowing, exploring or discovering as well as doing, seeking to recognise the value of creative practice as knowledge creation and knowledge disruption. 

• What is the value of creative practices as forms of knowing, exploring or discovering, and how do these forms relate to more conventional modes of research?
• How might creative or artistic practices be used to transform or amplify more conventional modes of research in the humanities?
• How can academic research learn to speak more clearly to the needs of creative practitioners and to the Creative and Cultural Industries?
• How can creative practice map the future?  How can it help map the future of research both at UCL and more widely?

The programme is broadly focused on the fields of performance, creative writing, visual arts or media. 

Past Creative Fellows

• SAVA Creative Fellows: Benera + Estefán: Their research-driven practice examines hidden patterns in historical, social, and geopolitical narratives through installation, video, and performance. Titled ‘Prospecting S.A.’, their research at the IAS explores the overshadowed Romanian-African joint economic ventures and their legacies.
   
• IAS Creative Fellowships 2019/20: The City Dionysia - Narrating Wasteland in Urban Life with Nicola Baldwin / New Old English - Performance, Poetry, Practice with Rowan Evans and Maisie Newman
   
• IAS Creative Fellowships 2020/21: An Art Practice Predicated on the Unknowable with Mariah Whelan / I am as brown as brown can be with Mataio Austin Dean
   
• IAS Creative Fellowships 2021/22: Encounters: Mapping the Future of Creative Arts & Humanities with Rachel Briscoe, Simon Farid, Tassos Stevens, Debbie Hannan and Rhianna Ilube