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Beyond sight and sound - what UK creatives need next (opens the original)
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We built an open-access Hub for designing multisensory experiences beyond sight and sound, took it on a UK tour to 124 UK creatives, and came back with a funding call. Most creative media still arrives through a screen and a speaker. Human experience does not. For two years the CoSTAR Inclusive User Futures team, Prof. Polly Dalton, Dr. Hazel Dixon, Dr. Rosella Galindo Esparza, Dr. Maruša Levstek and Dr Andy Woods, have been asking what happens when creative work engages touch, smell, movement,
The Future of Grassroots Live Music (opens the original)
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A new CoSTAR National Lab report, The Future of Grassroots Live Music launched last month. Why does it matter now?Because it meets a policy moment that has been years in the making. In July 2026 the Government published ‘Turn it up: Our plan for music’, which places innovation funding among its priorities and points direct
66 Voices, 4 Pilots, 1 Question - can technology innovation support grassroots venues? (opens the original)
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A year ago CoSTAR National Lab launched an R&D competition, asking the question, in an era when live performance is being disrupted by large budget productions like Abba Voyage and cutting-edge venues like The Sphere, can emerging technology do meaningful work at the foundational and most important level of UK live music, grass roots venues?That competition was informed by research and interviews with 66 key figures from across the UK’s live music ecosystem. Our panel spanned independent artists
When the Concert of the Future Meets the Privacy Problem of the Present (opens the original)
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What might the future of live performance look like in an AI enabled creative economy and how might artists, audiences, venue owners and operators work together to create a more equitable value chain based around access to new and emerging technologies?This was the research question that CoSTAR National Lab asked in 2025 and which led to the development and award of our P3R project from AHRC’s <a href="https://
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