Three and half planets; the number of planets required if everyone consumed the same level of resources as the city of Brighton & Hove. The city council and its partners have committed to making Brighton & Hove a one planet super city. It is a trailblazing initiative. A One Planet Super City is only achievable with a coherent intergration of systems where the aims and objectives of raising propserity and social well being is balanced with management of the environment and economic growth. All overseen by a governance and engagement system that facilities collaboration and co-production for the goal of a one planet city.

"""Creative Ageing"" is a strategic partnership project about developing innovative strategies through cultural education to reach senior citizens who have difficulties to find access to and participate in social and cultural life due to low skills, health or financial reasons, and to engage them in non-formal, participative and inclusive projects of cultural education. The project will run from September 2019 to November 2021 and involves the cultural departments of 6 city administrations from 5 different European countries: Munich (DE) as applicant and coordinator, Leeuwarden (NL), Ostend (BE), Brighton & Hove (UK), Gothenburg (SE) and Berlin (DE) as partners.Life expectancy is increasing and while many senior citizens enjoy their life after work, there is also a growing number of elderly people who are at risk of social exclusion. Increase in old-age poverty, less mobility due to age-related disabilities, life in isolation and no link to today’s digital world make those senior citizens more vulnerable and prevent them from access to social and cultural participation. This trend widens the disparities in society. “Creative Ageing” wants to respond to this societal challenge with the help of cultural education. While the positive impact of cultural education in the work with young people has been established, this knowledge needs now to be transferred to the target group of disadvantaged senior citizens. Participative cultural projects are to engage senior citizens actively and self-determined so that they become motivated to develop key competences such as relearning how to connect to other people. Cultural education includes lifelong-learning processes and can help to maintain and increase social networks, reduce loneliness and delay the onset of cognitive and health disorders.The partners want to learn from each other by sharing and reviewing good practices in their cities to develop new strategies on how to create sustainable structures and settings in European cities, which will allow for high-quality, customized offers to disadvantaged senior citizens and for overcoming the multiple access barriers. New practical ideas are to be brought back from the partners and be incorporated into the local strategies of how to reach the target group more effectively, how to work more inclusively with elderly people and how to involve them in social life. The project is meant to provide extra impetus and as a catalyst to push forward a new way of working in each city.To do that the partners will set up a cross-sectoral project team with staff from the municipal departments of culture, education, social services and health, but also from the local networks of cultural practitioners, NGOs, initiatives and carers – an innovative approach. Out of this community, 4 to 5 participants per partner (28 in total) will be selected to attend the 5 transnational meetings where the exchange and peer learning will take place. Each partner will organise and host one meeting with a focus on their expertise. These meetings after the kick-off will consist of on-site visits, presentations, discussions and evaluation. A survey among European cities will run in parallel and provide further insights. The final meeting will end in a public symposium in Munich and the results will presented in a best practice document. The participants will ensure that the gained knowledge is brought back to their cities and the local professional community is involved. In parallel, each partner will conduct local project activities. The project teams play a major role, as they will not only provide thematic input, but also influence the design of local strategies and inspire the local networks to develop participative cultural educational projects targeting senior citizens at risk of social exclusion.The project activities will result in a collection of good practices and their transferability to other European cities. The collaboration between the municipal levels and the local stakeholders will ensure that solutions are provided on a strategic (necessary funding and structure) and an operational level (customized participative projects). Cultural education will be increasingly recognized as a facilitator for social inclusion, also for target groups other than young people. All partners together will disseminate the project results and the collaboration with the network Eurocities with 152 major cities from around Europe will see to a wide coverage. Regarding the target group of senior citizens, the result of the project will be a visible increase in tailor-made cultural offers.In the long run, the partners remain connected via Eurocities where all partners are members. It will provide the platform to continue exchanging ideas on creative ageing and on developing joint projects. At local level, “Creative Ageing” will flow into the partners’ cultural educational projects for senior citizens, in particular those who are at risk of social exclusion."

ART/ DATA/ HEALTH creates an innovative and interdisciplinary process that offers disadvantaged groups and the public new tools, at the intersections of data science with art practice, to approach two key issues in healthy aging and prevention: digital skills and health literacy. There are three main reasons for bringing cultural participation and digital inclusion together for health and wellbeing: First, there is strong evidence showing that participation in the creative arts can help promote well-being and health in communities, and can be particularly beneficial for disadvantaged groups (in terms of age, disability, income and unemployment). As technologies change, there are new questions that art and humanities research can help us address in relation to health and wellbeing. Arts-based inquiry that involves health data analysis can be an innovative intervention for public health projects. Second, critical health literacy is considered key to empowerment, as it not only improves people's capacity to use health information, but also helps them gain greater control over life events. But as health promotion and communication moves to a digitised era, health literacy today includes the capacity to efficiently use digital health technologies and being able to critically analyse information presented online. In Britain, 12.6 million people lack digital skills and they are most likely to suffer from poor health, while in most cases they also belong in disadvantaged social groups. Third, today scientific data and statistics of all sorts are being used in infographics, data journalism, design and art in order to create meaning from the deluge of big data. Data is considered the material of our times. Data-based art can help raise awareness about the ethical, social and cultural issues of personalised medicine, but is however still missing from public health, community-based initiatives. This Rutherford/Inter-disciplinary Interface Innovation Fellowship uses health data as the source of experiential stories and as the source material for creative expression. In a series of exploratory workshops, a community of artists, academics and members of disadvantaged population will use a combination of creative media, storytelling and data analytics to explore evidence around health in their local communities. They will co-produce creative work that takes various forms (such as 3D-printed data sculptures, sound art and data murals around the city), which is inspired by both anonymised personal and statistical health data. The project will contribute to the development of new theorisation and practice in the emerging field of data studies, creative arts and health in three ways: - It seeks to explore the new opportunities that are offered in data analysis and visualisation for developing participatory communication strategies for health and wellbeing in the era of big data and personalised digital health. Through innovative artwork that translates obscure statistical data into actionable health information, it will provide a unique new experience for audiences. - Secondly, it aims to examine how art and creativity can enable health literacy and digital skills amongst socioeconomically disadvantaged population to reduce health inequalities. Based on the premise that people's encounters with personal data help self-discovery, sense-making and storytelling, the project will contribute to a new approach to understanding healthy ageing, which involves digital and cultural participation. - Finally, it intends to assess how a participatory arts/data interface can benefit public health and how the combination of digital inclusion and cultural participation can help people stay healthy, active and productive as they age. By drawing on lessons from art for health initiatives, it will provide knowledge on improving public health communication strategies and on designing engaging art interventions in the care sector.

This project will focus on electrically-assisted bicycles - also known as pedelecs and e-bikes - that have a small electric motor powered by a rechargeable battery to help propel machine and rider. The amount of assistance reduces with increasing speed and cuts out altogether once the rider reaches 25kmph, or if pedalling ceases. The aim of this project is to understand how people engage with (smart) e-cycling and the issues for policy, design/product development and research that could lead to a higher uptake of e-bikes in the UK, and thereby potentially reduce carbon emissions. The project is positioned at the intersection of more traditional cycling research, mobile media studies and user-centred design, and aims to understand electric cycling as a unique mode of transport, with distinctive potential and challenges in the UK context. In the UK, research on e-bikes is in its early stages, with pilots in this area currently commencing at a small number of locations, highlighting the timeliness of this research. In line with increased market shares of electric bikes in some European countries (e.g. Germany, Netherlands and Austria) and Asia, there have also been a small number of relevant international research projects, which can inform our approach to the UK context. The project will involve a fleet of about 35 'data e-bikes', with 6 of these additionally kitted out as 'smart e-bikes'. Mobile technology such as a GPS/GPRS tracking units will be attached to the bikes in order to monitor their use. The 'smart e-bikes' will be further augmented with video cameras, mobile phones and other sensors to collect more qualitative and ethnographic data. These bikes will be distributed to trial participants through communities in Brighton, in partnership with Brighton and Hove Council. During the trial, we aim to work with 2 workplaces (focusing on the issues faced by commuters) and 4 community groups (focussing on issues relating to the aging population). Our methodology will bring together traditional transport monitoring (e.g. surveys and focus groups), qualitative and ethnographic methods from media studies (such as interviews and participant observation) and design methods (such as user-centred and inclusive design). We conceptualise e-bikes as a mode of transport in their own right: as different to cycling, scooters, electric cars - yet with insights from research in all these areas. This research project will engage with the challenging context of embodied mobility, where the participant's interaction with the e-bike and the urban context has to be integrated with mobile media in safe and productive ways. There will also be insights from understanding the fleet of e-bikes as an Internet of Things - and the possibilities emerging from linking mobile technologies with a mode of transport. It will also be useful to directly develop recommendations on a range of issues (ergonomics, safety, cycle storage, on-road facilities, theft prevention, employer policies, networking) whilst working with a manufacturer, a local authority and several employers who may be interested in implementing any conclusions. The research is of importance because of its potential to contribute to meeting carbon reduction and public health objectives; it offers the chance to explore the game-changing potential of an innovative transport option; and because it brings together conventional monitoring and new ways of exploring travel behaviour.