ACRE (Academic and Creative Research) residents are community members who come to live at Braziers as lodgers, usually on a short-term basis (from one month to one year), and contribute to the community through a wide range of research and creative projects.
We invite applications from artists and researchers who are interested in living at Braziers and wish to spend time developing or expanding their enquiries within the context of Braziers’ community life and land. The resident community, together with the wider Braziers network (including the management committee, membership, volunteers, and visitors), provides a built-in peer network and enthusiastic audience for the development and presentation of new ideas and work.
Braziers Park School was founded as a living laboratory for the exploration of relationships – both interpersonal and ecological. Many researchers who come to Braziers are interested in learning from community life, often through participant observation, and in exploring how it might offer alternatives to more familiar ways of living. However, ACRE also invites researchers to consider how they might create and understand knowledge through an integrative lens, responding to the unique opportunities and challenges of Braziers Park as a living community.
Topics explored so far include post-consumerism, inter-community collaboration, sharing, and change within intentional communities.
ACRE residents’ activities may include research update sessions offering peer support; workshops and talks as part of our wider community weekends; special topic sessions that report on projects or develop shared themes of interest; as well events such as the UK Communities Conference.
Why become an ACRE lodger?
– Experience communal living
– Explore the resonance of your ideas within a community context
– Access our library, gardens, woodlands, performance spaces, and wider estate
– Contribute to the development of Braziers’ education programme while developing your own projects
– Gain informal and peer support from a network of academics, independent researchers, and thinkers
– Immerse yourself in a space for imagination and exploration
– Join a network of people who care for Braziers Park and help ensure its continued development
We are currently reviewing and compiling material from past ACRE residents, and this section will be updated soon to include examples of their projects and contributions.
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For related questions, please email Sarah Wood at sarahwood777@googlemail.com or admin@braziers.org.uk.
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