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Congratulations to the artists: Laura Copsey, Monika Gravagno, Daisy James, Libby Liburd, Tony Mason, Lottie McCarthy, and researchers: Sara Adhitya, Ava Fatah gen. Schieck, Jos茅 Izcue Gana, Azadeh Shariati, Sarah Yardley.

Trellis, is an annual knowledge exchange programme that brings together artists, UCL researchers and east London communities to co-create work together. In April 2024 11 groups were awarded 拢1,500 to support development of projects that ranged from sensory mapping to rethinking risk in healthcare. From this competitive cohort, five projects have been awarded 拢15,000 to continue their work together, resulting in an exhibition of new commissions at 皇家华人 Marshgate in March 2025.听

Read more about the Trellis programme and view the past commissions on the Trellis website.听

The Trellis 5 commissions have been award to:

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Daisy and Ava are experimenting with the sense of smell, questioning how the nose can be activated as a mechanism for spatial navigation. Throughout Autumn, they will work together and with other locals to situate their shared practice on Brick Lane and the Boundary Estate. Through sensorial investigation, the team intends to develop a rich picture of an area that is undergoing rapid transformation. To explore how communities inhabit and project identity through the sensory scape, Daisy and Ava will invite people to share their insights on how the experience of sound, sight, smell, taste and touch form their understanding of the site.

Artist: & Researcher: Sarah Yardley - Rewilding Healthcare听

Life is dangerous aboard a boat, but good can come from positive risk-taking. The same is true with healthcare, where sometimes what is most important to people, may come with a degree of risk.
Partnering with Cody Dock in Newham, Laura and Sarah will become a metaphorical lifeboat crew, working together with others to rewild healthcare by thinking differently about safety, risk and choices.听
Through a series of creative workshops, they'll layer their experiences and ideas about serious illness using metaphors related to islands, sailing and maritime themes to reimagine healthcare as an open ecosystem.

Artist: & Researcher: Jos茅 Izcue Gana听

Jos茅 and Libby will be exploring the impacts of regeneration and housing insecurity on wellbeing. They will be working with residents in Newham, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets to co-develop an audio drama experience that shares the stories of people who bear the brunt of the ongoing housing crisis in east London.

Image credit: Yasmin Merrin

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Monika, Lottie and Sara seek to challenge the traditional approach to neurodiversity by diagnosing places, not people, shifting the 鈥減roblem鈥� from individuals to their surroundings. They aim to harness the heightened sensory perception of neurodivergent people to better understand the impact of environments on wellbeing. They鈥檒l work with the Tate Institute community to co-create healing environments and develop a participatory performance at PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity-Research-Laboratory) that draws upon its multisensory simulation capabilities to test the impacts of these changes. This work will directly inform the redevelopment of the Tate Institute to make it a safer, more healing and inclusive space for all.

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Puppet Designer Tony Mason and Roboticist Dr Azadeh Shariati will explore the way in which people from different backgrounds meet and greet each other and the boundaries that stop or allow people occupying the same area to connect.
They will collaborate with people who live, work and play in a defined area adjacent to the Olympic Park, to devise a character with a specialized haptic ability as an interface to meet others in the area. The Artwork will be a chronicle of these people and interactions.

Image credit:听K Motaghedolhagh, A Shariati, H Wurdemann, "Mechano-Tactile Haptic Interface in a Myoelectric Prosthetic Hand," Late-Breaking Results, ICRA 2023.听

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