We connect people, ideas, and opportunities, bringing together diverse disciplines to co-create pioneering projects and transformative experiences.
The Bridge
Bringing worlds together
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We connect people, ideas, and opportunities, bringing together diverse disciplines to co-create pioneering projects and transformative experiences.
The Bridge harnesses the transformative power of arts, culture, and creativity to inspire change, reveal new potential within ourselves, and within our place. Guided by our core values of openness, collaboration, and inclusivity, we build meaningful connections, deliver impactful projects, and create a welcoming space for everyone to engage deeply with our University community.
Rupert Lorraine
Director of The Arts Institute
Find out more about the opportunities we're creating, and the impact we make.
Research, Impact & Policy
Impactful, interdisciplinary research to tackle global challenges through placemaking.
Knowledge Exchange, Experiential Education & Skills
Working with business and the community for mutual benefit.
Arts & Cultural Programme
Inspirational cultural experiences that celebrate creativity and have the power to transform lives.
Building on The Green Maker Initiative, a collaboration between MAKE Southwest and the Sustainable Earth Institute’s Low Carbon Devon
A place for conversation amongst performance artists and audiences
Celebrities, makers and academics are among those to submit items for the Green Making | Materials | Objects exhibition
Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger is coming to Plymouth
New concert series and events at the University of Plymouth
University’s Arts Institute launches new season to inspire, challenge and entertain
Heidi Morstang: Field Observations features photographs and films created over the past two decades