Project description DEENESFRITPL Novel creative approaches to the underground Scholars have long argued the need for an adequate understanding of the underground (or subterranean), its current use and conservation and its future possibilities. To that end, they have suggested an interdisciplinary approach. Often, however, such an approach focuses on bringing together science and social science. The EU-funded THINK DEEP project aims to expand this approach by combining creative practices (such as visual art or participatory theatre) with arts and humanities theories as the cornerstone of a response to key underground research problems. Its unconventional ambition enables THINK DEEP to deliver a timely and distinctive new contribution to underground scholarship that will transform the field’s future research directions. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective THINK DEEP pioneers a creative practice driven interdisciplinary approach to the underground.It begins from the dual premise that, firstly the underground (or subterranean) is both the site of current environmental concerns (e.g. extraction), and the setting for developing solutions to these concerns. But that secondly, currently we lack approaches that adequately understand the underground, its current use and conservation, and its future possibilities. Underground scholars have long argued that what is needed is an interdisciplinary approach, as yet, however, where interdisciplinarity has been achieved, it has largely brought together science and social science. Unconventionally, THINK DEEP situates creative practices (such as visual art or participatory theatre) together with arts and humanities theories as the cornerstone of an interdisciplinary response to three pressing underground research problems:1. How to sense the underground, an often inaccessible environment? 2. How to contend with varied underground imaginations, which shape underground understanding, use and conservation? 3. How to understand the speculative nature of ‘knowing’ the underground?It will address these problems through global case studies from three fields of underground research: geoscience, underground urban studies, and geoconservation.Its unconventional ambition enables THINK DEEP to deliver a timely and distinctive new contribution to underground scholarship that will transform the field’s future research directions. Furthermore, the project’s pioneering approach will bring about a step-change in relations between creative practices and research more generally. In understanding and evaluating the creative practice and research relations that sit at its heart, THINK DEEP enables ground-breaking understandings of these relations, and of their profound possibilities with respect to a range of research fields, including those which engage pressing environmental issues. Fields of science humanitiesartsvisual artssocial sciencessociologyanthropologyhumanitiesartsperforming artsdramaturgysocial sciencessocial geographyurban studiesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeology Keywords cultural geography underground arts practice-based research geohumanities Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2019-COG - ERC Consolidator Grant Call for proposal ERC-2019-COG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant Host institution ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE Net EU contribution € 1 940 685,00 Address EGHAM HILL UNIVERSITY OF LONDON TW20 0EX Egham United Kingdom See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex West Surrey Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 940 685,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all ROYAL HOLLOWAY AND BEDFORD NEW COLLEGE United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 1 940 685,00 Address EGHAM HILL UNIVERSITY OF LONDON TW20 0EX Egham See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex West Surrey Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 1 940 685,00
