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John Moores Painting Prize 2023
No full textThe First Painting in History To Be Recognised By a Public Museum as Painted By a Working-Class Single Mother Artist exhibited in John Moores Painting Prize 2023 (group exhibition)
10xTYPES Vol 2
No full textTypeface archive book featuring ten typefaces design by Tim Hutchinson. Each typeface is displayed as a full specimen throughout the book plus some experimental & live application of selected typefaces at the end f the publication
Fit But You Know It: Practice-Research Project: Sensory workshopping methods to decolonise fashion fitting
Get PDFThe standardisation and simplification of fit is critical to fashion's ability to sell, ship and scale products globally. Enlightenment values of universalism underpinning global trade also see to the erasure of our (designers and wearer’s) tacit understanding of how to fit fabric to our own bodies.
Industrially-produced clothing has fit ‘built-in’ using pattern-cutting techniques of darts and seam shaping. By contrast, pre-industrial or contemporary examples of non-western garment archetypes, such as the West African wrapper dress, the Southeast Asian Longi, rely on fitting techniques deployed by wearers’ hands when wrapping, knotting, or rolling.
Art schools and universities are ideal settings to challenge deeply embedded industrial-colonial practices and shift epistemic power relations. This project aims to reconfigure understandings of fit that contribute to academic discourse on social change in fashion education and practice, and encourage pluriversal and collaborative design approaches by future fashion practitioners
Testing the social motivation theory of autism: the role of co‐occurring anxiety
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The Social Motivation Theory proposes that social reward processing differences underlie autism. However, low social motivation has also been linked to higher anxiety. Given the co-occurrence between autism and anxiety, it is possible that anxiety drives the association between social motivation and autistic characteristics. This study tests the mechanisms underlying the association between social motivation and autistic traits.
Methods
Participants were 165 adolescents (71 male), aged 10–16 years, from the Mapping profiles of cognition, motivation and attention in childhood (C-MAPS) study, enriched for autistic traits (70 participants with an autism diagnosis, 37 male). Participants completed a battery of online experimental tasks, including a Choose-a-Movie social motivation task and social cognition measures (theory of mind; emotion recognition), alongside parent-reported child anxiety and autistic traits.
Results
Higher social motivation was significantly associated with lower autistic traits (β = −.26, p < .001). Controlling for social cognition did not change the association between social motivation and autistic traits. Controlling for anxiety did significantly reduce the strength of the association (unstandardized coefficient change: p = .003), although social motivation remained associated with autistic traits (β = −.16, p = .004). Post hoc analyses demonstrated differential sex-effects: The association between social motivation and autistic traits was significant only in the females (β = −.38, p < .001), as was the attenuation by anxiety (unstandardized coefficient change: p < .001).
Conclusions
The association between social motivation and autistic traits could be partially attributed to co-occurring anxiety. Sex-specific effects found in females may be due to environmental factors such as increased social demands in adolescent female relationships. Results are consistent with self-report by autistic individuals who do not identify as having reduced social motivation
Excellence in Diversity
No full textTalk delivered on invitation for TIGA Best Practice in Games Education Conference 2023
Global Games
Get PDFThe 2023 London Design Biennale’s theme was “The Global Game: Remapping Collaborations.” Aric Chen, chief curator and artistic director of Het Nieuwe Instituut, explained such a loaded title with Buckminster Fuller’s World Game, and the question whether national pavilions are still relevant today. With over 40 national participants there was enough food for thought
Understanding fraudulent returns and mitigation strategies in multichannel retailing
Get PDFThe growth of online retailing has exceeded expectations over the last few years. This has resulted in high product return rates, which retailers are struggling with due to complex and costly returns processing, logistics, and financial implications. Additionally, online returns come with increased opportunities for returns fraud. During the pandemic, new types of returns fraud have emerged and returns fraud rates have increased across all channels. Based on a series of semi-structured interviews with retailers and retail experts, we investigate factors that enable fraudulent returns from consumers' and retailers’ perspectives and outline strategies for retailers to combat product returns fraud in a multichannel environment, leading to a framework for retail fraud. We contribute critical insights to research and practices on understanding and addressing a growing problem that has economic, social and environmental implications.
•We explore various types of product returns fraud in a multichannel retail environment and categorise them.
•We indicate how common they are, whether they have recently emerged or changed, and in which channels they occur.
•We indicate which retailer related factors enable fraudulent returns and what interventions can reduce fraudulent returns.
•We present a framework for product returns fraud in a multichannel environment.
•The framework includes drivers of product returns related to retailers, customers, products, and external factors
TYPE/LAB 22—23 (Form & Space | Molecular Type)
No full textEditorial design & art direction for the 2022—23 Type/Lab series of workshops authored & run by Cooper + Hutchinson Research
The Death of Clinton McCurbin
No full text'The Death of Clinton McCurbin' is a 2022 painting by Kimathi Donkor which was first exhibited in 2023 at the Sharjah Museum of Art for the 15th Sharjah Biennial, 'Thinking Historically in the Present'.
The work's title is a reference to Clinton Ludlow McCurbin, a 24-year old British man of Jamaican heritage who died during his arrest by Wolverhampton police in 1987 on suspicion of a petty retail offence. Although Home Office and family pathologists testified that the immediate cause of death was 'asphyxia as a result of compression of the neck' (1990, EWCA Civ J0312-8), the 1988 inquest ruling was 'misadventure' (ibid)
A Technician is....
No full textAn apron where 62 students from the Performance program, Knit and Fashion wrote what a technician was to them. Object made and embroidered by Verity Cleary