Our Work

ATLA Labs offers an immersive strategy workshop that brings communities and decision-makers together to imagine and prototype better futures. It guides participants to create simulations of futures where their needs are met, and work backwards to understand how this can be achieved. The process helps people see their shared interests, align around practical action, and build the confidence that change is possible.

Pony Power is a Wales-based programme where veterans and Welsh mountain ponies work side-by-side to care for land and community. Rooted in joy and care, we create calm, purposeful days learning to read landscapes, build low-impact firebreaks, and manage bracken while building friendships, skills and pride. Co-designed with homelessness charity Alabare, South Wales Fire & Rescue and land managers, participants help author the playbook for others to use.

On taking the keys to a disused community centre, one of our collaborators, Ellie, found an archive of photographs, videos and ephemera that covered over 70 years of a community in flux. Dance lessons, choir practice, cooking and activism all feature in this stock of never-before-seen items. ALTA is currently researching the links to the existing community with a view to documenting the shift in our understanding of what a supportive community looks like.

Made in Cov was a storytelling project that saw 10 artists and over a hundred participant artists take part in workshops and activities across the north-east of the city. Its purpose was simple: to celebrate Coventry’s creativity, connect people through art and leave a living archive that builds pride in place, culminating in a peoples art festival.

On 27 April 2024 we projected the feature onto the Valle Grande dam to 3,000 people and a national audience setting a world record for the largest projection of a feature film. You can read more about the whole project on the website linked below.

The Research Filmmaker: Using Film in Research, led by Dr Geraldine Brown, is a program developed in collaboration with Professor Gayle Letherby, Associate Lecturer at the School of Society and Culture, University of Plymouth, Dr Emmanuel Johnson from CoventryUniversity, Professor Geraldine Brady from the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham TrentUniversity and Prof Dawn Mannay from Cardiff University.

A suite of interlinked mixed-media films explores the wildlife, communities, history and restoration of the River Sherbourne. The project is establishing an urban living landscape in which people, nature and culture can thrive. The works combine film, music, VR, performance and animation to explore a varied and threatened place.

The Social Impact Toolkit is a structured multi-media repository of useful information, tools, and indicators to help understand social impact and outcomes associated with the work of Community Food Businesses. It can also be considered a framework to assist in understanding how social impact can be achieved and visualise the various pathways that can be followed to both instigate and evidence impact at the community scale.

This MOOC, Care-full Scholarship, explores what care and carefulness mean across different academic fields, from literature and dance to mathematics, and asks how care shapes teaching, research, and scholarly practice. Co-designed with the RECOMS network, the course features diverse contributors reflecting on their experiences of giving and receiving care in academic contexts, and invites learners to consider what carefulscholarship means to them personally. RECOMS, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, brings together researchers, practitioners and organisations across six EU countries to train early-stage scholars in trans-disciplinary approaches that support resilient, community-based environmental practice.

The Film Liberation Project is exactly that, an attempt to liberate filmmaking from this. It is trans-disciplinary, transformational, collaborative and sustainable. Instead of the usual teacher/student dynamic, The Film Liberation Project is hosted by filmmakers who share their experiences, learn and work together with the participants.

Foleshill on Film was an experiential learning programme of story-building and practical filmmaking. 10 participants were recruited to the programme from Feeding Coventry’s Social Supermarket, based in Foleshill Community Centre, Coventry, for a 6 week programme. It focused on collective storytelling and developing ideas, and from there, scripts were used as the basis for collaborative films about the participant's loved experiences

Film for Stakeholders is a clear and concise short film course designed for stakeholders and researchers in projects and communities that addresses the role of education in climate action, decent work and sustainable cities. TESF’s work addresses inequalities relating to poverty, gender and the status of indigenous knowledge, as well as concerns for foregrounding marginalised voices and decolonising research.