Keele Management School News
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Two of the key events in the CASIC calendar in recent
months have been the community food festival in June
and the international CASIC launch in October.
The ‘Local Food, Local Plates, Local People’ food festival
brought CASIC’s knowledge to benefit the community
close to home at Keele. Focussing on providing
emergency food for local people in crisis, a number of
community groups who work in this area took part in the
event including urban gardening project, Status Grow,
community bakery Bread in Common, Yoggi Delicatessen
and New Vic Borderlines, an award-winning initiative
which uses theatre in social contexts and is a founding
partner of CASIC.
CASIC‘s international launch at Keele Hall celebrated the
ground-breaking work undertaken by the group so far,
with a number of high-profile speakers including AHRC
Associate Director Gary Grubb, who shared his vision of
CASIC’s future prospects for creative, cross-disciplinary
and community co-produced research.
Dr Lai Yong Tan, Director of Outreach and Community
Engagement at the College of Alice & Peter Tan (CAPT),
NUS, shared his experience of community engagement
in the Yunnan Province where he has spent 15 years
training and educating community doctors in very remote
villages. Dr Aki Koponen, Director of the Finnish Centre
for Collaborative Research at the University of Turku,
spoke about the significance of the relationship between
his centre and CASIC.
Participants also had the opportunity to experience
the CASIC exhibition held in the Chancellor’s Building
and curated by Kerry Jones, Keele’s Arts Officer. The
exhibition, entitled ‘Look and look again’ comprised
installations, film, music and photographs that celebrate
the creativity and ground-breaking nature of the
knowledge co-produced in collaborative research by
CASIC academics and community partners.
Images show the local community
enjoying Local Food, Local Plates,
Local People at Middleport Pottery.