Results

The results of PAL Labs are both practical and transformational. In the short and medium term, PAL Labs generate strategies, prototypes and solutions. Longer term, PAL Lab participants talk about the lasting effect of their Lab experiences on the way they work. Not least among the results are the new and fruitful collaborations between people who would otherwise not have met.

“My project was at a very early stage and I didn’t know how it would move on but I found in this environment it flourished. By the time I’d left I felt like I had very clear idea of what its emotional core was, who the central characters were, written the first act and had a plan to write the rest of it… for me this is what PAL had been all about.”
Andrea Arnold, Oscar-winning screenwriter

“This process generated enough ideas, concepts and paradigms to keep us going for another couple of years.”
Cris Edgell, Project Director, Nuffield Curriculum Centre

“What it mainly did was to accelerate thinking that would otherwise have taken months or years, and built a community of interest and expertise to inspire and refer to.”
Greg Hilty, on Texterritory Lab for the artist Sheron Wray

“This was the most significant professional experience of my life. I feel very fortunate to have been given the opportunity to work with such inspirational people in such a stimulating place. I want to do it again.”
Marc Buckley, teacher