Guildhall De-Centre
for Socially Engaged Practice & Research
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About
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."
bell hooks
About
Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research builds on the work of Guildhall School’s former Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts and other past initiatives that have explored socially engaged, equitable, sustainable and transdisciplinary practices across the School and beyond.
About
Guildhall De-Centre focuses on the support structures, networks and collaborations that form the basis of socially engaged practices by developing a community of researchers, practitioners, producers, teachers and administrators at Guildhall School.
The De-Centre fosters a range of activities including research (see ‘Lines of enquiry’), internal operations, curriculum development, and public exchanges to investigate, chronicle, and integrate decentralized, socially conscious, equitable, sustainable, and interdisciplinary practices throughout the School. Our goal is to champion these practices within the conservatoire and further afield, enhancing interaction, exchange, and recognition of socially engaged endeavours.
The De-Centre operates under the stewardship of Guildhall School staff members who convene monthly to deliberate and make decisions collaboratively. The steering group has been instrumental in guiding and nurturing the growth of the De-Centre. Current members include:
Lines of enquiry
'Lines of enquiries' are the current and emerging practice and research projects in the School that connect to the De-Centre's aims and ambitions around socially engaged work and infrastructure.
The following is a list of current key contributors and their lines of enquiry, clustered around three intersecting areas: Micro, Meso, and Macro.
Lines of enquiries
Enquiries that are focused on specific projects, methods and interactions.
- Detta Danford and Tash Zielazinski: Music Motherhood and Me
- Leslie Deere: The Embodied Instrument: Immersive Experience for Creative Expression and Restorative Practice
- Kate Jones: “How intense is this silence?” Is Music Therapy a potential game-changer for children and young people experiencing Selective Mutism?
- Emily Peasgood: EverSong: a lifespan in song
- Sigrún Sævarsdóttir-Griffiths: MetamorPhonics and Building Bridges Through Collaboration
Enquiries that explore the past, present and future roles and responsibilities of socially engaged conservatories.
- Beatrice Baumgartner-Cohen: The Secret Lives of Meeting Room 1
- Sean Gregory: The Creative and Social Imperative of a Conservatoire: collaborative endeavours and reciprocal learning at Guildhall School, 1980-2030
- Sophie Hope and Jo Gibson: Echoes and the unsaid: Listening into past experiments in social practice at Guildhall School of Music & Drama
- Gilly Roche: Re-imagining The Cross School Project
- Jonathan Vaughan: Artistic Citizenship and Performance Excellence in Music Conservatoires
Enquires that ask broader theoretical and structural questions about the issues and implications of de-centring, socially engaged practices.
- TJ Bacon: Queer Acts of Hope
- Jane Booth: Digging Deep with Leaders On and Off Stage: Myth-Busting Leadership in the Arts
- Nell Catchpole: Environmental Justice. Is environmental sound art activist (enough)?
- Jo Chard: Sharing power: Collective Organising in Cultural Organisations
- Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh: How do you tune into collaboration?
Get involved
How do i get involved
- Sign up to our mailing list
- Come along to our public exchanges
- Get in touch if you have any questions, complaints, ideas: decentre@gsmd.ac.uk
- Visit the intranet to access resources and further information.
- Are you doing a socially engaged project through research, teaching, practice? If so, fill in a line of enquiry form or get in touch via decentre@gsmd.ac.uk
- Meet us at the mobile common room 12-1pm during the last Thursday of every month.
- Join us for our termly practical strategy workshops to feed into school strategy development and implementation.
- Visit the intranet to access resources and further information.
- Find out about related courses and modules you can take.
- Meet us at the mobile common room 12-1pm during the last Thursday of every month.
- Join us for our termly practical strategy workshops to feed into school strategy development and implementation.
- Get in touch with us, connect up via decentre@gsmd.ac.uk
- Come along to our public exchange events.
- Access our website for more info, tools and publications.
