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PAL Services
How PAL can help your organisation
Since its first Lab in 1989, PAL has developed an international reputation for fostering the cross-fertilisation of ideas and talent in the media, science and technology, arts and architecture and in education.
PAL's accumulated body of knowledge comes from over 120 residential Labs we have designed and produced to date, with around 3,800 writers, artists, teachers, scientists and investors from the UK and abroad - all talented, practicing professionals.
In addition to developing its own innovative Lab programmes, PAL offers its services, its expertise, skills, international talent pool and methodologies to commercial, academic, private and public sector clients who share our commitment to exploring new work and new ways of working.
BBC: 10-day residential Imagineering Lab on commissioning and interpreting live performance in broadcast media.
Channel Four/Film Four: 5-day residential Lab for screenwriters to explore potential for multi-platform delivery of films in development.
Creative Partnerships: design of non-residential project to explore potential of artists as catalysts for change in fourteen north London schools over six months.
Cultural Enterprise Office, Glasgow: research and design of experimental residential Lab programme for artists and policymakers as cultural entrepreneurs in Scotland over three years.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council: contributing to a residential 4-day 'sandpit' to develop research proposals on Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making for Regulatory and Risk Assessment Purposes.
Film London: design and production of 6-day residential Lab for Writing for Television Drama
Hi8us: Inclusion through Media Partnership design and production of residential Labs over three years to develop strategies with the company and its partners for sustainability beyond the EU EQUAL-funded programme.
Institute for Choreography and Dance, Cork: report on the development of icd and its role in the professional dance community.
The Learning and Skills Council: design and production of residential 2-day seminar to inform LSC's strategies concerning future trends and needs in the creative industries in London.
National Film and Television School: design of MA course in Screenwriting
NESTA FutureLab: design and production of 8-day residential Science Simulation Lab, exploring potential for enabling science education through interactive simulations and immersive spaces.
NESTA FutureLab: design and production of 8-day residential Lab to explore the potential for 3D interactive simulation and immersive spaces to engage children in learning about science, using technologies to be available in five to ten years’ time.
Nuffield Curriculum Centre: design and production of a 5-day
residential Lab for teachers to develop imaginative, new, cross-curricular Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) resources. Brigning together teachers, curriculum developers and artists, the Lab was the first step in a year-long project to produce high quality resources to support and exploit the new KS3 Curriculum.
On the Edge, Grey's School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen: design and production of residential Lab programme over 12 months for traditional and contemporary hand and machine knitters of the Shetland Islands with artists and academics from a range of disciplines. www.ontheedgeresearch.org
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council: design and production of a 5-day residential Lab for teachers and curriculum officials. Using a fast, creative design process to inspire new teaching and learning approaches in the context of Knowsley’s plan to replace its existing secondary schools with seven new Learning Centres by 2010.
Slingshot: design and production of three 5-day residential Labs for microbudget films producer and distributor.
The Wellcome Trust: design and production of residential 5-day Digital Science Lab to develop innovative approaches to learning using digital media and the arts to engage young people in debate around issues in 21st century science.
Texterritory: design and production of 5-day residential research Lab for the artist Sheron Wray.
How PAL is different from other research organisations
- PAL works across all sectors - arts, education, culture, architecture, health and science.
- PAL is cross-disciplinary action research, applying new thinking to project development.
- PAL is independent, flexible and responsive.
- PAL Labs instigate applied research into current and future work practice.
- PAL's methodology is a process of risk-taking, de-stabilisation, challenge and re-invention.
- PAL has a superb UK home base on a 500-acre 'wired farm' in Kent.
- PAL INTERNATIONAL creates programmes requested by local partners in Europe and Africa. Future programmes in Latin America and Asia are being planned in response to initiatives from local partners.
- PAL has a loyal network of unique talent across social, cultural and political boundaries.
Cost effectiveness
PAL offers accelerated development, green-lighting and rapid prototyping for individual projects across industries.
Talent
PAL has an expanding and unique international network of talent, committed to the PAL cross-disciplinary Lab experience, available as nominators, mentors and directors.
Challenge
PAL Labs provide a unique experience for professionals to be renewed and challenged in their continuous development.
Partnership
PAL offers complementary processes for academic research departments, government departments and cultural institutions.
Experience
PAL has expertise, proven over 19 years, in creative development across all fields of artistic and technological development.
How PAL can help your organisation
- Research Services - to work with organisations to define their needs and to design specific new Lab programmes.
- Research Labs - to discover and develop new collaborative practice through trans-disciplinary action research.
- Pilot Labs - single Labs designed to determine the real need for, and potential ways of developing, a new Lab programme.
- Lab Programmes - regular series of Labs, developing new works in a specific field or industry, for example, the long-running Screenwriters Labs.
- Commissioned Labs - in any field, in collaboration with the client.
How is PAL financed?
PAL is funded from private, corporate and public sectors and from income derived from commissioned Labs and consultancy services.
Click here to view a list of PAL funders and supporters.
