people
Jonathan Mosley RWA
is a conceptual artist/architect and Associate Professor of Architecture and Experimental Practice at University of the West of England leading design research. He is co-founder of international research initiative Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability and contributes to Document and Location and ARENA European architectural research network. Jonathan specializes in the interface between architecture, art and psycho-social studies, examining cultures of occupation and psychology of architectural space. His collaborative studio Warren and Mosley with artist Sophie Warren develops research-based events, publications, exhibitions and installations that create new thinking around entanglement, spatial negotiation, participation and play between human and non-human entities. They have been commissioned by museums, galleries and research organisations internationally. The practice has won awards from Institut Francais (artist laureates), Arts Council, British Council, Rootstein Hopkins Foundation and Arts and Humanities Research Council, and been discussed within numerous books, journals and events including the New European Bauhaus and Korean Pavilion of the Venice Biennial.
Sophie Warren RWA
is a Lisbon/London-based conceptual artist with a practice that intersects with performance, architecture, writing and trans-disciplinarity. She collaborates with Jonathan Mosley under the name Warren and Mosley making installations, choreographic objects, still and moving images, publications, narratives and events, often involving the viewer as participant, player or witness. International commissions include: ‘Days of Action’ event series for Tate Modern; ‘A Nodding Acquaintance’ for The Edge, University of Bath; Institute Français artist laureates for residency at the French Communist Party Headquarters, Paris; event and exhibition series ‘Rogue Game’ (with Can Altay) at Firstsite, Colchester, Spike Island, Bristol, Casco, Utrecht, Showroom, London; event series ‘Utopian talk-show line-up’ at SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Moderna Museet, Malmo, Eastside Projects, Birmingham. Her work has been widely reviewed and forms the content of book ‘Beyond Utopia’ Berlin: Errant Bodies Press with essays by Elizabeth Price, Maria Fusco, Robin Wilson, Jane Rendell, Lee Stickells, Marie-Anne McQuay and Paul O’Neill.
Dr. Lita Crociani-Windland
is senior lecturer in Sociology and leader of Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England. She is executive committee and founding member of the Association for Psychosocial Studies, British Psychoanalytic Council scholar, Faculty member of NIODA (National Institute for Organisational Dynamics Australia) and Centre for Social Dreaming director. She recently stepped back from co-chairing the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society having been in post and directed its annual conference at Rutgers University NJ since 2016. She is Associate editor, peer reviewer for several applied psychosocial journals, and national/international funders. Her research interests concern affective dynamics in the light of psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, Group Relations tradition and experiential learning. She has been active in the development and deployment of psychosocial methodologies (chapters in Vol 1&2 Researching Beneath the Surface) and is very experienced in psychosocial visual methods such as Visual Matrix (Manley and Roy, 2017) and Social Dreaming (Lawrence, 1998; Manley, 2018).
Nigel Williams UKCP
is a Visiting Fellow at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol and UKCP registered Psychotherapist and Supervisor. Nigel has been a psychodynamic practitioner and trainer for thirty years, a psychology lecturer for twenty and has been active in the forming and supporting of charitable counselling clinics in local communities in SW England. He is involved in organisational consultation in the NHS and charitable sector. He is a Board Member of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. His current research activities are in Psychosocial Research Methods, Social Memory and the Generations and in the Psychology of Buildings. His most recent publications are: Williams, N (2021) ‘Mapping Social Memory a Psychotherapeutic Psychosocial Approach’ Palgrave Macmillan Studies in the Psychosocial series; Williams, N. (2023) ‘A multigenerational self and a multigenerational society’ Chapter 8:in Bristow, J. and Kingstone, H. (Eds.) ‘Studying Generations Multi-disciplinary Perspectives’ Bristol: Policy Press.
Vaishnavi Ulhas Gondane
is a researcher and project coordinator specialising in architectural history, heritage, and decolonial studies. She holds a Master of Arts in Architectural History from University College London (UCL) and a Bachelor in Architecture from Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture. With experience at UCL, the University of the West of England, and Studio Sakha, she has managed research grants, curated exhibitions, and facilitated heritage initiatives. Her expertise includes research administration, community engagement, and event coordination. Passionate about Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), she integrates these principles into projects. Her research explores decolonial techniques in postcolonial contexts, particularly urban heritage. Vaishnavi bridges academic research with public engagement, advocating for inclusive, critical approaches to heritage and history.
collaborators
Diogo Soares Martins
is a Brazilian director, screenwriter, and editor based in Lisbon. He holds a degree in Cinema from the Federal University of São Carlos and a master's in Dramaturgy and Filmmaking from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He is the co-founder of the production company Estrangeira Filmes in Brazil and the Coletivo Sintrópica in Portugal, where he also teaches courses and workshops. He has directed around 150 documentary and commercial productions for Agência Ideal H+K Strategies and Samambaia Filmes and more recently with Bagabaga Studios. He specialises in documentary and filmic story-telling, collaborating with Warren and Mosley on the Deputised Objects and Psychostructures films. His first fiction feature film, Através/Through (2015), a Brazil-Cuba co-production, was screened at numerous international festivals and had a substantial theatrical release. He is currently working on his second fiction feature film, A Língua de Pedro, a Brazil-Portugal-France co-production.
Partners and Funders
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