The Arbor programme has been created to foster an interdisciplinary approach to creative research, and to create a physical and intellectual space for the development of meaningful artistic and academic collaborations.
Artists, researchers and teams from our partners at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UK Dementia Research Institute and UCLH National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery are paired together to spark new and interesting collaborations.
During the programme, they form a working relationship in which they share information and research; gain an insight into each other’s worlds and collaborate to co-create a piece of work which explores a topic of mutual interest and the artist’s practice. The final manifestation could be anything – from something that is displayed at one of the programme’s spaces – at Grays Inn Road or Queen Square, to a temporary work, performance work, digital, sound, text or a physical event.
Arbor is part of UCL’s Trellis programme which creates opportunities for collaboration between artists, researchers and communities, pioneered on our new UCL East campus.
Read about the projects below
Arbor 2025-6
Dream Under Microscope
Shelley Hastings, Georgia Akbar & Annarita Scardamaglia
From Home: Experiences with Dystonia in Domestic Spaces
Zoe Wu, Isobel Platt
2023-4
I Hear You: A Soundscape of the Unheard World of Parkinson’s
Alison Carlier & Dr Jennifer Foley
Ebb & Flow
Lucy Steggals, Dr Tatiana Alvarez Giovannucci & Maria del Mar Estarellas Garcia
Everything is Connected
The 2023-4 Arbor project were on display in Everything is Connected: celebrating ground-breaking neurological research and innovative collaborations between artists, researchers and communities.
