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Robots in Japan
No full textDr. Vali Lalioti Presented the research done in Tokyo around robotics.
The Creative Robotics Symposium is the CCI’s flagship one-day event to unveil the research into this fascinating area
Lifecycle Design: A method for supporting design decision-making with LCA knowledge in an interdisciplinary research project
Get PDFThis paper presents interim progress of the HEREWEAR project in developing a method for designing out impacts as part of a collaborative and ongoing process between design researchers, commercial designers and environmental scientists. The aim is to support optimal and iterative decision making concerning materials and processes, acknowledging their high levels of uncertainty in relation to design choices. This work explores bridging the methodological gaps between environmental science
and product development in brands through design research interventions
To troll or not to troll: Young adults’ anti-social behaviour on social media
Get PDFBackground
Online anti-social behaviour is on the rise, reducing the perceived benefits of social media in society and causing a number of negative outcomes. This research focuses on the factors associated with young adults being perpetrators of anti-social behaviour when using social media.
Method
Based on an online survey of university students in Canada (n = 359), we used PLS-SEM to create a model and test the associations between four factors (online disinhibition, motivations for cyber-aggression, self-esteem, and empathy) and the likelihood of being a perpetrator of online anti-social behaviour.
Results
The model shows positive associations between two appetitive motives for cyber-aggression (namely recreation and reward) and being a perpetrator. This finding indicates that young adults engage in online anti-social behaviour for fun and social approval. The model also shows a negative association between cognitive empathy and being a perpetrator, which indicates that perpetrators may be engaging in online anti-social behaviour because they do not understand how their targets feel
Why aren't we talking about the Beano?
Get PDFThe Beano is the world's longest running weekly comic and a central part of British culture, yet it is almost never discussed in British Comics Studies journals or conferences. This paper will use an analysis of journals and past conferences to show how little research and discussion there has been about one of Britain's best-loved comics, especially in comparison to other, supposedly adult, texts. It will examine some of the possible reasons why this might be, including the history of Comics Studies as a field and its ongoing quest for academic respectability. It will also discuss why The Beano - and other ignored childrens' series like The Dandy, Buster, Whizzer and Chips and many more - matters, and what we lose as a field by focusing our energies on so-called "Posh Comics" instead
Towards a Reflection in Creative Experience Questionnaire
Get PDFReflection is underexplored in Creativity Support Tool (CST) research, partly due to its ambiguous nature. We suggest that researchers could benefit from a measure of a CST’s capacity to support reflection. To this end, we detail the first stages of development of the Reflection in Creative Experience Questionnaire (RiCE) – a lightweight questionnaire for differentiating between creative user experiences which exhibit more or less moments of reflection. We develop RiCE through i) an expert review of questionnaire items (n=10) and ii) an exploratory factor analysis (n=300) of the reviewed items. We also present a user study testing RiCE (n=58) across two time points (one week apart) with novel interfaces designed for creative writing and music making. Although we do not confirm validity, we identify four factors for RiCE which we suggest are interpretable in a conceptually meaningful way. Our formative studies contribute towards supporting future explorations on reflection with CSTs
Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest
Get PDFAlexandra Chiriac’s book, Performing Modernism: A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest, offers a wealth of insights into the emergence and evolution of Romanian modernism through the contribution and role of Jewish artists and theater designers. The book is seen as a welcome addition to the scholarship on Romania’s interwar avant-garde, as highlighted in Irina Livezeanu’s preface, but also makes a valuable contribution toward a more all-encompassing understanding of modernism and avant-garde. Through Chiriac’s focus on less well-known figures and also, and perhaps more importantly, her emphasis on design and performance we are offered a different story.
The book’s introduction tackles issues around the subject of Romanian and Jewish avant-garde. Chiriac notes that she has purposely avoided the category of “Romanian avant-garde” to steer away from canonical understandings of the avant-garde. Instead, through her focus on the fluctuating and contested notion of “Jewish” identity the reader can follow the trajectories of several Jewish designers. These examples include Andrei Vespremie and Max Herman Maxy, both based in Bucharest, whose work defies categorization “be it national, disciplinary, or otherwise” (p. 19). The use of an altered lens has allowed a detailed inspection of different types of cultural production, specifically in the fields of design and performance, further disrupting the more traditional understandings of avant-garde artistic practices. This shift in focus is one of the book’s strengths and makes a welcome contribution to the scholarship that acknowledges the fluid boundaries of modernism rather than approaching it through strategies of exclusion
Methodologies for the Creolization of Fashion Studies
Get PDFSince its inception fashion studies has occupied niche fields of enquiry that have focussed largely on Eurocentric paradigms of discussion around the engagement with fashion objects and the development and display of status and identity. Pockets of enquiry have focussed on areas outside of the Eurocentric western cannon but largely remain apart from what is considered established fashion studies. With this in mind it is clear that the structures and parameters of what can be determined as legitimate fashion study are based firmly within the considerations of Eurocentric epistemologies. This then shapes all other studies of clothing and determines whether they are allowed a place within the exclusive world of fashion studies.
This poses a challenge which the Costume Institute of the African Diaspora (CIAD) has sought, in some way, to rectify. CIAD has been developed and established to collate research and broaden academic discourse around the development of fashion studies from the perspective of people within the African Diaspora. With that aim in mind, CIAD held its first dress conference on the 4th of May, 2018 in order to bring together researchers in the field with this focus. The conference was entitled Si Wi Yah: Sartorial Representations of the African Diaspora. “Si Wi Yah” a Jamaican patois phrase which translates to “we are here” was a call for the wider fashion studies community to recognise and acknowledge the engagement with the sociology and psychology of dress taking place which doesn’t centre white western hegemonic ideology
Thames Barrier Park Maze
No full text"Water connects us all. Come and explore this sandbag maze designed for Thames Barrier Park. Made from 1040 sandbags, laid end to end to match the length of the Thames Barrier. The artwork invites conversation around environmental urgencies related to river water and defence infrastructure, alongside larger global conversations around water ecologies. Take some time to gently ebb and flow through the maze and find ways to sense the natural environment along the riverside."
Commissioned by the Royal Docks Team, At the Docks’ Summer Commissions are 11 projects by creative organisations, local artists and young people, that respond to the theme of sustainability.
Upon completion, sandbags donated to local garden projects and instructional tags (Take Care: Hear Water, See Water, Feel Water, Smell Water) recycled for 3d printing
Wild World
No full textWild World was a solo exhibition at Peter Zimmermann Gallery, Mannheim, Germany.
Fairnington's new series of paintings, Roots are intensely detailed with an obsessive description of varied surfaces that fills the picture plane, the brushwork generates a restless energy and anxiety; nature in motion, unfixed and ungraspable, at a point of transformation. There is a convergence of nature abandoned, unleashed and nature controlled, the cultivating desires of horticulture, the eccentricities of topiary. But, at the heart of these paintings lies an animation which embodies the transition from one thing to another. Sourced from multiple photographs, collaged to build imagined structures and referencing the histories of landscape and still-life painting they subvert their own realism; demanding to be believed they none the less slowly reveal their fictions.
A self-conscious blending of observation and imagination means that while the landscapes here are visibly English the plants emerging from these growing structures come from many places and sources, from the glasshouses of Kew, 17th c flower paintings and museum collections across the country.
The underworld of nature, the generative power of plants and creatures was first explored in the 17th c. Sottobosco (meaning the undergrowth) paintings of Otto Marseus van Scrieck and Rachel Ruysch. My paintings describe the cycle of life, death and decay, putrefaction and re-birth, the blasted oaks of the past, they also enjoy the voracious fecundity of nature in flux; roots, tendrils, leaves and flowers express a vital energy and grow in defiance of the environment that surrounds them. Belief in spontaneous generation is merged with folklore, an emotional imagining of the landscape rather than a scientific one. The paintings conjure legends of The Green Man, guardian of the forest and the Burryman, both enveloped in foliage and representing regeneration
Biomaterial Workshop
No full textMade in collaboration with Bioengineering students at Imperial College London, led by Dr Naomi Nakayama, and the science team including Ritesh Ghosh, Oliver Hernandez Fernandez, Elif Gediz Kocaoglan, Alice Malivert, Sam Mason, Dhanya Radhakrishnan
In creating work for Beyond Human, we explore transdisciplinary investigations and how we can work with non-humans. The disciplines of science, technology, design and creativity came together through collaborative practice. The collaborations were formed between Bioengineering students from Imperial College London and MA Industrial Design students from Central Saint Martins. Together, they made a series of experiments, growing biomaterials from oat plants and mycelium fungi, grown safely outside of the lab. Their concepts explore how we may work with living materials and non-humans to consider beyond the human world.
Some themes emerging from the collaborations include:
- how might we collaborate with non-humans to create our world together and what relationships will these build?
- can we define wider parameters of success when creating and using living systems and biomaterials?
- how might we harness the properties of organisms such as plants and mycelium to create living materials?
- how might communities of living organisms enhance the properties of what we can make and our relationship with the process