PARCS Grows Everybody is an intergenerational oral history project celebrating the history and legacy of the Portsmouth Abuse and Rape Crisis Service from 1981-2021. We are delighted to present this exhibition sharing explorations from the project in Aspex Gallery’s Learning Space.The resulting oral...
He came to see that reading was a kind of continuous unfolding within his own body of a story invented by himself— Matthew GoulishThe title of my PhD project is ‘Relational practices and the Tavistock Institute Archive: embodiment and social engagement’. It is a collaborative doctorate with the Cent...
Presentation by Bill Cooke and Anindita Banerjee: Lancaster University Management School.This talk took place in November 2012 as part of the TIHR’s ‘Food for Thought’ lunchtime series. The research interest of the talk also sits in relation to the Institute’s developing Archive project as both Cook...
This talk took place within Sentient Excavations, our first exhibition of artworks on show in our offices, taking its title from Juliet Scott’s ongoing artistic residency and work with our archive.The works in the exhibition comprise a series of drawings and prints based upon object relations cards ...
Niamh Bailey Student in Fine Art: Sculpture at University of the Arts LondonTo a student whose work is deeply rooted in ideas surrounding categorisation and dissociation, the archived files of a continuously self-aware organisation proved an engaging read. The following text is an amalgamation of p...
Facilitated by Richard Allen and Dr Sadie KingNotes from the first of four Social Dreaming Matrices to be held at the Wellcome Library this November where dreams, archive and the wider social context meet together to make sense of the world around us.The dreams were hard to come by in this matrix of...
Exciting events coming up in the Wellcome Library Reading Room NHS at 70 and TIHR! Bringing together our ongoing archive work, the success of the arts interventions, exhibitions and performances at TIHR’s 70th-anniversary festival and this year’s 70thanniversary celebrations of the NHS we are excite...
With a week to go to the opening day of Reimagining Human Relations in our Time, there is still time to curate your own festival programme and below we offer final highlights from across the different venues.Don’t forget ‘In the Shadows and Light of the Archive’ our symposium centrepiece of the fest...
TIHR’s Coreene Archer and Rita Keegan of the Women Artist’s Slide Library discuss the relevance, value and unexpected similarities between two very different archives.“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiralling chains...
A participatory immersive performance bringing to life Tavistock researchers and the people they worked with in communities, organisations and societies across a 70 year body of work. This artistic response will step off the pages of the archive and into the Swiss Church, where the people, their rel...
A participatory immersive performance bringing to life Tavistock researchers and the people they worked with in communities, organisations and societies across a 70 year body of work. This artistic response steps off the pages of the archive and into the Swiss Church, where the people, their relatio...
First in a series highlighting festival contributions.In this first in a series highlighting festival contributions the Festival Director selects workshops and events from across the different themes and explorations of the four-day programme starting with the symposium that will be at the heart of ...
We are delighted to launch the website for ‘Reimagining Human Relations in Our Time’, a festival celebrating 70 years of the Tavistock Institute taking place in October 2017.At the heart of the festival is the Institute’s archive which over the last two years has been intricately and delicately cata...
We are delighted to launch the website for ‘Reimagining Human Relations in Our Time’, a festival celebrating 70 years of the Tavistock Institute.At the heart of the festival is the Institute’s archive which over the last two years has been intricately and delicately catalogued at Wellcome Library. T...
Post by Kerstin JungePapers relating to the Tavistock Institute’s work in the cotton mills have now been catalogued as part of the Tavistock Institute Archive Project and are available for research at Wellcome Library. The archive covers the experimental reorganisation of weaving in both Indian and ...
Why were psychological tests used in WWII for selecting war officers? How does going through the testing process make you feel?Using materials uncovered in the Tavistock Institute archive, join us for a series of events to recreate war period psychology recruitment methods.Test your mettle through a...
Tuesday 14th June, 9.15-10.30Facilitation and write-up: Juliet Scott, Mannie SherThis is the write up of the first social dreaming matrix in the series set in the context of cataloguing the Tavistock Institute’s archive and what is happening in the world today. Albeit not open to the public, the pur...
Since starting this project in October 2015, I’ve been thinking about my role as archivist for the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR). I’ve been considering what it means to open up a previously inaccessible archive collection, and the dynamics of bringing the collection out of the storag...
A journey into archiving the historical contemporary.Madeleine Marshall and Athanasia Mavroudi recently joined the Tavistock Institute for a number of weeks to work on a specific task for the Archive Project. In this article they reflect on the learning and insights gained during the experience.Made...
Curating a socio cultural and historical record of the Tavistock Institute’s contribution to social change.This short film illustrates the enthusiasm we are encountering from the academic and business management community and also our own excitement in response to our plan to make the Tavistock Inst...