Cambridge Creative Encounters

An exhibition of discovery and exploration of research through collaborative artistic creations

The creative outputs for 2023 will be exhibited on 14-27 March 2024 from 9am-7pm during the Cambridge Festival, admission free of charge. The exhibition will take place at West Hub, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0US, what3words speech.shared.lots

Join us for a unique exhibition of art and design creations that showcase some of the world’s most burning questions in novel and creative ways. We challenged our researchers to work with creative professionals to rethink the ways they communicate their research, by means of artistic practice, graphic design, illustration, poetry, animation, augmented reality and more.

"[CCE changed] my understanding of how significant and useful public engagement can be in an exercise in clarifying your own thinking and research aims"

(2016/2020, researcher)

ABOUT THE PROJECT

EXPLORE THE PROJECTS

Explore our interactive map to discover the variety of research-based creative works taking place across the University of Cambridge.

Acknowledgements

Our special thanks to the researchers from University of Cambridge, Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts staff and students, the Creative professionals who took part in this project, and the University of Cambridge Public Engagement team. We are deeply grateful to Ed Dimsdale for the curation and their support.

We would also like to acknowledge and thank the contributors of the following:
Cambridge Creative Encounters WORDS Lead
David Cain

Video Documentary
Martin Andersen, Ed Dimsdale

Art Director and Graphic Design
Giulia Buccolini