Stirring up new ideas: thinking with Suminagashi

The film shares images and sound from a Suminigashi workshop run by artist Sarah Amatt for a group of students from North Bristol Post-16 Centre (Cotham). The workshop was funded by the Research Training Support Grant from SWDTP in a space gifted by Bristol+Bath Creative R+D in Bristol’s Watershed. The workshop forms part of a transdisciplinary, participatory and experimental research project that explores mapping as a tool in the practice of everyday creative thinking among 17-year-old learners called Stirring up new ideas. Stirring up new ideas is led by Harriet Hand, an ESRC-funded postgraduate researcher in the School of Education at the University of Bristol. The research project included a residency in a space generously donated by Bristol+Bath Creative R+D in Bristol’s Watershed. Students and visitors to the space engaged with mapping experiments over six weeks during March and April 2022.