Project team
The project includes academics, a UK-based arts organisation, and an artist.
Prof Erica Baffelli
"I am interested in religion in contemporary Japan, with a focus on groups founded from the 1970s onwards, and I have been conducting fieldwork in Japan for over twenty years.
"My recent research projects focused on religion and media; new and minority religions; religion, gender, and violence; and Buddhism and emotions.
"I am co-editor, with Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen) and Alexander Van Der Haven (University of Bergen) of the open-access publication Religious Minorities Online (De Gruyter).
"You can read more about my research and publications."
Dr Jane Caple
"I am interested in intersections between religion, economy, morality, and emotion in contemporary Tibetan communities.
"I have carried out extended fieldwork in northeast Tibet and have been engaging with the Tibetan community in the UK for over twenty years.
"My recent research projects have focused on wealth and virtue, belonging and emotion, religious giving, and the revival and development of Tibetan monasteries."
"You can read more about my research and publications."
Artist
An artist will join us in Year 2 of the project to work with researchers and community members to create an experimental, process-led, online digital artwork that visualises and explores the intersecting fears that shape experiences of belonging.
Future Everything
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Established in Manchester in 1995, Future Everything is an award-winning innovation lab and cultural organisation that has helped shape the emergence of digital culture in Europe.
Through a curated programme of events, art commissions, critical conversations, collaborative projects, and prototyping, FutureEverything stimulates new ways of thinking and is passionate about bringing people together to discover, share and experience new ideas for the future, creating opportunities to question and reflect on the world around us.
You can read more on the the Future Everything website.