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Communicating sustainability to children: an exploratory study on sharing sustainability through fashion retail third places
Get PDFThis paper investigates the potential of retail third places to educate children about sustainability and explores how these spaces can enhance sustainability awareness and positively influence children’s attitudes.
Research was undertaken through secondary sources and a qualitative research design using focus groups. Thematic coding analysis was conducted.
Children aged 10 to 16 demonstrate a strong awareness of sustainability and express positive attitudes and intentions toward it. However, these intentions rarely translate into sustainable behaviours. While participants showed limited understanding of third places, they responded positively to the concept of educational third places. This paper proposes a theoretical model: Children’s Sustainability Awareness Stages Enhanced by Educational Third Places.
This project addresses gaps in the literature on young consumers’ attitudes and intentions toward fashion sustainability and third places. It offers preliminary empirical insights into the ideal forms, functions, and features of third places that childrens’ wear retailers can implement to promote sustainability education within their retail environments
Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment and alternative futures
No full text5 day Exhibition of work in progress from the Prisoners of Love research project, including 1 day of panels, live events and workhops. Hosted within the Vestibule project.
Louisa Minkin, Lennon Mhishi, Esi Eshun, Joseph Ijoyemi, Dawn Liburd, Grace Nwankwo, Rabiya Nagi, Rihanata Bigey, Charles Nyiha.
Intro - Louisa Minkin
Esi Eshun - My Quest for Quiet
Charles Nyiha - Invocation [sound piece 15 mins]
Connecting UK museum collection items with home and diasporic communities through virtual visits and art practices.
A conversation about Prisoners of Love, Concepts Have Teeth and Mootookakio'ssin research projects, with work and thoughts from students who have been part of the projects. Art practices embedded in a web of relations between de/colonial histories, technologies and digital media
(De)constructing Machines as Critical Technical Practice
Get PDFThis paper discusses the role of technology under the framework of Critical Technical Practice specifically in the form of constructing artefacts and deconstructing tools in order to produce what Philip Agre would describe as ‘reflexive work of critique’ (Agre, 1997:155). By presenting the activities and methods used in the teaching and shaping of undergraduate courses, this paper aims to show how technical objects, such as data, datasets, application programming interfaces and machine learning models, can be considered as discursive subjects, demonstrating pedagogical understanding across fields. The courses operate in the humanities tradition and take critical technical practice as a didactic approach, insofar as software and data are understood and manipulated on an instrumental level, while encouraging critical engagement and embodied reflection that bridge the technical and social/cultural domains. Within this pedagogical approach, critical is not only understood as a paradigm of rationality or quantitative, data-driven argumentation, but as adopting a critical position – that is, to research and reflect on the social structures and cultural phenomena entangled with digital objects, bodies, tools, methods and software production. By embracing work-in-progress and reflexive exploration, we aim to extend the notion of critical technical practice by unfolding how (de)constructing machines can be achieved beyond thinking of technology as neutral instrumentalisation. The challenge is how to find a balance, not only as researchers but as educators, unfolding aspects of both formality and functionality as well as questioning and understanding technology at a discursive and critical level. We argue that learning technical practice in an educational setting is not an end, but rather a means to question existing technological structures and create further changes in socio-technical systems
What are we going to do about the rich? Anti-elitism, neo-liberal common sense and the politics of taxation
Get PDFThis chapter considers the political implications of the new visibility of tax-avoiding elites, and the extent to which this visibility creates opportunities to challenge neoliberal ideas about taxation.
In the first part I review neoliberal ideas about taxation that have become sedimented in common sense over the last four decades. I go on to identify some of the key frames through which ‘the rich’ have been discursively constructed in the crisis years of the 2010s. In the third part, I discuss how the characterisation of elites as tax avoiders has been exploited by political parties on the left, who have sought to use tax issues to enable ‘the people’ to recognise that neoliberal economic policies privilege ‘elites’ and are designed to serve their interests. In the last part of the chapter, I evaluate the new visibility of elites as tax avoiders and their activation as adversaries in left politics, and consider the opportunities that the political salience of tax avoidance in the 2010s presents to left political actors. I argue that while the construction of elites as tax avoiders has helped to foreground the ways in which neoliberal capitalism is designed to favour the economic interests of the few, it has not supported the consolidation of diverse grievances against the current economic system into a general political demand. The chapter contributes to our understanding of the ‘performative dimension’ (Laclau, 2007, p.14) of ideas about taxation in contemporary political debate and popular culture
Le Salon du Gout Français, 1921-1923
Get PDFAn opening article in the book accompanying an exhibition, Les Couleurs de la Mode, at the Palais Galliera, Paris, that outlines the history of the Salon, its importance in redefining the history of early twentieth century Paris fashion and its use as a tool of soft colonial power by the French government
'Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice' at Koffler Centre for the Arts, Toronto.
Get PDFSIREN was a exhibition by the Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist nichola feldman-kiss, which I was invited to contribute to by screening my film 'Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice' (made originally for a solo exhibition at the Sir John Soane's Museum London).
The overall exhibition and events were curated by Karen Alexander on concepts of diaspora, migration and displacement, the paradox of national boundaries and borders within an ecology of elemental flows.
Alexander intended that in presenting Dear Friend... alongside eldman-kiss's work SIREN, ideas of on grief, keening, the relationship of the moving image to experimental approaches to sound and voice, especially female experiences of keening and song would become visceral and could be reflected upon.
Dear Friend was presented twice by Alexander for a public event, along with a public discussion with Canadian cultural historian and curator Dr. Michael J. Prokopow responding to the work in March 2023 at the Koffler Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada.
See also https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/20317
Inclusive Design Framework: Exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Designers’ Career Lifecycle
Get PDFAchieving equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the workplace and its reflection in the work we do throughout the design profession requires addressing challenges at every career stage. To support this effort, we are developing an Inclusive Design Framework based on real experiences of product (physical and digital), and service designers in the UK.
Grounded in qualitative interviews and co-design workshops conducted in 2022-2023, our research engaged over 30 designers across career levels, industries, backgrounds and demographics. By capturing their diverse narratives, we mapped the designer career lifecycle from education to various stages of employment. At each transition, we explored how EDI issues intersect and impact experiences.
This document represents an initial step toward the final framework - a journey map synthesizing the career stages and EDI challenges faced by designers. It outlines key milestones, barriers and strategies to foster inclusion through education, recruitment, career growth and workplace culture change
A phenomenological ecology of personalisation as a dimension of intimacy in the public interior
Get PDFThis paper brings together phenomenology and ecology to present perceptual and interrelational epistemological paradigms in the study of the mechanisms through which personalisation can contribute to visitors’ ability to develop positive and even deeply felt emotional connections with the environment of the public interior. This conception of environmental experience is referred to as intimacy, presented here as the emotional dimension of personalisation. It is explored through the study of environmental conditions in the public interior to correlate individual and collective experiences. Thus, whilst upholding the phenomenological foundation of perception, bringing body, mind and world together through embodied experiences, this paper also advocates an ecological perspective to account for the interrelational character of lived experiences
Kerala International Festival of Theatre Schools (IFTS) 2023
Get PDFIn Feburary 2023 I was invited to deliver a paper and workshop on critical pedagogy in India at the School of Drama and Fine Arts, University of Calicut, Kerala for the inaugural International Festival of Theatre Schools (IFTS) in February 2023. The festival was a collaboration between the host school and the International Theatre Festival of Kerala (ITFOK) under the curational theme ‘Humanity Must Unite’. The paper was on ‘Theatre Pedagogy Today’ around non-hietactal pedagogies and I delivered a pedagogy workshop on Headphone Theatre exploring how visual and aural research could be developed through a technological frame, arguing towards a non-hierarchical approach to making a sound work that centering on listening and constructing sonic environments. This article is a report from my experience for the Theatre and Performance Design Journal, London: Routledge. 2023 as part of the dissemination and impact of this work