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Thinking beyond circles: Developing collaborative, cross disciplinary design education for circularity
Get PDFThis presentation discusses a case study of a material-lifecycle design project developed between educators, textile researchers and industry. Designed as a one-week sprint, the cross-disciplinary project invited graphic design students to visualise a product lifecycle for a circular textile industry client, considering the new knowledge that visual communication methods, more traditionally taught in graphic design programmes, bring to these challenges.
Literature discussing practice-based design research recognises the growing demand for design specific research approaches. It also recognises the need for ‘a new kind of designer’ with an ‘expanded capacity to undertake research.’ (Vaughan 2017:1-2). This project explores how cross-disciplinary teaching and learning collaborations contribute to these goals by integrating live research projects with the curriculum through processes of knowledge exchange.
Methods employed in the project were grounded in literature from the field of practice-based iconic research (Renner, 2017); a research practice based on image-making as a means of producing knowledge about visual communication (Schubach, 2017).
The online project design is presented, demonstrating how the brief and activities were structured for students, and framed by relevant literature. The visual prototypes created by students are discussed in relation to the literature and feedback from the students, client and researchers; demonstrating the benefits of the approach for both the students and the researchers
We argue that teaching and learning practices have the potential to play a key role in connecting research and innovation to environmental and social practice. Findings point in the direction of a shared language for discussing the intersections of knowledge exchange, research and teaching within Higher education with reference to existing examples but also to support the development of future models
Experiences of self-gifting luxury fashion during the COVID-19 pandemic: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
No full textSounding Chinese: Tracing the Voice of Early 20th Century to Present day Transnational Chinese
Get PDFAccent, that is differences heard in pronunciations, specifically the speech sound that identifies Chineseness is the departure point for this research into the construction of the identity of transnational Chinese. This question also frames pronounce, Meddling English, Oh Canada! and the six volumes of a project The Phrase Book of Migrant Sounds. The genesis of The Phrase Books of Migrant Sounds lies in phrase books written in the late-19th and early-20th centuries for migrants to North America. Of great interest is not only the fact that English phrases were translated into languages spoken in the southern parts of China (for example Toisanese and Cantonese) but that English words and phrases were transcribed using their corresponding pronunciations. These phrase books helped them articulate words of a language they had not heard before, the unfamiliar sounds made familiar, the alien brought closer to home.
The research employs knowledge from an array of disciplines—cultural studies, sociolinguistics and anthropology to name a few—as well as archived sound recordings of late-19th century and contemporary transnational Chinese to map a sound history of transnational Chinese. It considers the experiences of those who call multiple places ‘home’ to challenge the singularity of transnational Chinese identity and to suggest that, rather than being monolithic, transnational Chinese identity is pluricentric and multiphonic. The thesis affords a link between one’s sense of identities, however changing though they are, with political, cultural and social experiences.
My practice-based research Sounding Chinese: Tracing the Voice of Early 20th to 21st Century Transnational Chinese looks at how transnationals—those who call more than one place home and who modify the way they speak accordingly— conceptualize themselves
In Search of Tito's Punks
Get PDFBarry Phillips – In Search of Tito's Punks
Global Punk book series, published by Intellect Books, Bristol and The University of Chicago Press, in conjunction with the Punk Scholars Network, May 2023. ISBN 978-1-78938-731-5
Designed by Russ Bestle
Life's A Gamble: Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories
Get PDFPauline Murray – Life's A Gamble: Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories
Design and Art Direction of autobiography by Pauline Murray, published by Omnibus Press, September 2023. ISBN 978-1-9158-4106-3
Designed by Russ Bestle
Schrödinger's Cat Goes Online: Exploring the Paradoxes of Psychotherapy in the Digital Age
Get PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic forced therapists to embrace online sessions, creating a sudden shift in the therapeutic environment. However, the integration of technology into therapy was already underway, prompting the need to explore how the online environment impacts clients and the therapeutic process. This article asks what online therapy can teach about therapy. It highlights the author's experience with online therapy and the unsettling incident that occurred during a session. The article reflects on the philosophical and psychological implications of technology and online communication, suggesting that the glitches and breakdowns in online communication may reveal underlying states of the psyche. Drawing upon Heidegger's philosophy of technology and Whitehead’s process philosophy, it argues that our environment and technologies shape our consciousness and subjectivity, and that both the therapist and the client are partly a product of the media in the digital age. The article also references Freud's theory on the psychopathology of everyday life to suggest that unintentional glitches in online communication may be manifestations of unconscious thoughts and impulses.
Overall, the article raises some questions about the use of technology in therapy and the implications for understanding the human psyche. It highlights the need to approach online therapy with caution and awareness of the potential limitations and disturbances that may arise
The Expressive Unit of Constructionism: Kenneth Martin at Whittington Hospital
Get PDFIn 1953, an exhibition of Kenneth Martin’s abstract mobiles was staged in a children’s hospital ward in North London. Having languished in the footnotes of the history of British constructionism, the exhibition is read in this article as a significant demonstration of the determination of artists connected with the movement to find a place and function for discrete and modestly sized artwork within post-war social space. A range of evidence is gathered towards piecing together a sense of the exhibition and realising its significance. Photographs made by Nigel Henderson and held in the Tate archive are among the material traces considered. His images are shown to articulate particular modes of spectatorship activated by the exhibition, and to locate the exhibition within post-war discourses of children and childhood. In addition, Kenneth Martin’s own writing is drawn upon towards establishing a sense of the constructionist artwork as being something that protects a form of autonomy while being open to an immediate environment and the social forces at play in that environment. This article proposes a new way of understanding British constructionism within an expanded field of post-war British art
We are but Shadows: Stories of Immigration in London's East End
Get PDFCatalogue essay produced for Lucy Orta's exhibition 'Traces: Stories of Migration'at Bow Arts Trust, June 1 - August 27, 2023.
The essay explores histories of migration in the East End of London, and uses auto-ethnography to discuss the mutable identity of the immigrant
A Systemic Material Innovation Study of the Current State and Future Possibilities for Circular Polyester
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the current state and future potential of the most prevalent synthetic fibre, polyester, as a circular textile. The aim is to reveal areas for intervention in the current system that might lead the transition to circular polyester in the future. A qualitative Systemic Material Innovation (SMI) study was undertaken to reveal barriers and opportunities to achieving circular polyester from a holistic perspective. Interviews were conducted with 20 industry experts, including co-designing NOW and FUTURE eco-system maps for circular polyester, and a roadmap for transition.
Analysis and synthesis of the data revealed that ‘design for reuse and recycling’ is seen as central to realising circular polyester, in particular replacing elastane and ‘fleece’. Inaction by brands, the lack of granular post-use data, appropriate collection practices, and the low-cost of conventional polyester were also highlighted as barriers. Improved understanding of the life cycle impacts and actions amongst all stakeholders was seen as a key opportunity that might be leveraged through dialogue with other stakeholders. Six actions for industry and research are recommended. Data visualisation is used to translate the findings and operationalise the findings for a broad range of stakeholders in the polyester eco-system
Intermedial Voices: Intersections in Feminist Sound and Moving Image
Get PDFThis book chapter explores the intermedial dynamics of feminist music and artists’ moving image in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. Through discussion of the Feminist Improvising Group and the use of their music in Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen’s AMY! (1980), the chapter focuses on sound and the use of voice. It examines how intersecting artistic practices have complex intermedial dynamics, a situation which is, at once, enhanced by feminist reexamination of mediums and history. It observes how the sounded and recorded voice enables us to reenter narratives in/of feminist creativity, forging new connections between the past and the present