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Made You Look: Moments of encounter with [ambient] advertising in everyday places
Get PDFThis project explores how people encounter ambient advertising as they go about their daily lives. These disruptive, entangled, and contextually-rich media communications are a playful invitation to engage.
They make us look,
pause for a moment in the flow of our lives
and make something from the encounter.
It is the relational nature of ambient advertising, always in the milieu, always tied to context, that sparked my question - how and in what ways do participants encounter, and give attention to, ambient advertising in everyday places? The research is informed by multiple voices, the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Sara Ahmed and Kristadel McGregor, describing how we inhabit the world. It traces ideas of time through Yi-Fu Tuan, Kitaro Nishida, and Henry Bergson. It explores the construction of ambient advertising through Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It touches the world through the action research of Jean McNiff and sensory ethnomethods of Sarah Pink, the participant encounters recorded on lapel cameras, through photo-voice and micro-interviews. In turn these methods provide ‘intimate histories’ of not only encounters with ambient advertising but with ‘how we live with a variety of media’ (Morley, 2006). The research design allows a place for subjectivity, reflectivity and reflexivity through reflexive thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2022) and practice based thinkering through desktop film (Kiss, 2021), using creative methods to get closer to a creative encounter
Grasp
No full textPresented in Motile Attachments, a solo exhibition at Pracownia Portretu. The exhibition is organized around a wooden structure that is ten linear meters and a series of works that integrate handwoven ratchet straps to fasten, tether, hoist, or cinch together found and made objects into sculptural assemblies. The textile elements might be viewed as accessories, yet they are essential to holding the sculptures together. The exhibition addresses how textiles carry the histories of knowledge circulating through the labour and time that accumulates in and around our varied bodies, through carrier-objects, and in embodied social activities like labour, language, and movement. In what sense do such transmitted forms accessorise our bodies—and when do our bodies become accessories to processes of circulation? Motile Attachments extends new sculptural logics of gathering and moving—metaphorically, historically, and materially. Together the works propose possible approaches to the social accessory as relational form. It moves
Remake
No full textPresented in Motile Attachments, a solo exhibition at Pracownia Portretu. The exhibition is organized around a wooden structure that is ten linear meters and a series of works that integrate handwoven ratchet straps to fasten, tether, hoist, or cinch together found and made objects into sculptural assemblies. The textile elements might be viewed as accessories, yet they are essential to holding the sculptures together. The exhibition addresses how textiles carry the histories of knowledge circulating through the labour and time that accumulates in and around our varied bodies, through carrier-objects, and in embodied social activities like labour, language, and movement. In what sense do such transmitted forms accessorise our bodies—and when do our bodies become accessories to processes of circulation? Motile Attachments extends new sculptural logics of gathering and moving—metaphorically, historically, and materially. Together the works propose possible approaches to the social accessory as relational form. It moves
Toddlers Viewing Fantastical Cartoons: Evidence of an Immediate Reduction in Endogenous Control Without an Increase in Stimulus-Driven Exogenous Control
Get PDFEmpirical studies have shown immediate detrimental effects of TV viewing on children's executive functions (EFs). Existing theories of TV viewing have proposed that such depletion could occur due to fantastical cartoons triggering an attention bias towards salient features of the stimuli (e.g., stimulus‐driven exogenous attention). However, a co‐occurrence of salient visual features known to drive attention exogenously in fantastical cartoons means it is unclear which aspect of the content is problematic. In the present study, we matched clips on visual saliency to isolate and test the short‐term impact of fantastical content. Specifically, we tested (1) performance on an inhibitory control (IC) task (a gaze‐contingent anti‐saccade task) as a measure of EF depletion, whilst 36 toddlers (18 months) viewed cartoons with and without fantastical events (7‐min viewing duration), and (2) whether differences in IC are associated with increased stimulus‐driven exogenous attention. Results confirmed an immediate detrimental effect of fantastical cartoons on toddlers’ endogenous control (indexed by anti‐saccade behaviours), with toddlers less able to inhibit looks to a distractor to make anticipatory looks to a target. However, fixation durations (FDs) during cartoon viewing and speed of orienting to a distractor on the anti‐saccade task did not differ between the two viewing conditions, suggesting no effects on exogenously driven attention. These results point to a detrimental impact of fantastical cartoons on endogenous control mechanisms, which may have arisen from cognitive processing difficulties
Book Review: The Disobedience of Design: Gui Bonsiepe
Get PDFReview of the book The Disobedience of Design with essays by designer and educator Gui Bonsiepe and edited by Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design Lara de Souza Penin
GenZ Short-Form Video Strategies for GLAM
Get PDFLondon College of Communication (LCC) students in the final year of their BA (Hons) Media Communications course and creative consultancy Bright White Ltd – A Keywords Studio, teamed up for a second year on a quest to explore how the GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sector can engage Gen Z audiences. This year, Gen Z students drew on their social media experiences to propose short-form video cultural storytelling for the sector
Decolonizing Computer Science: Holograms in Holborn
Get PDFThis paper describes "Holograms in Holborn": a speculative design of an interactive holographic experience to engage people in reflection on decolonization in their everyday life. Specifically, the goal is to produce a speculative design which encourages people to apply foresight in considering colonial biases whilst going about their everyday activity on campus, at the University of the Arts London in High Holborn. The design uses 3D holograms, gesture-controlled maps, voice navigation, and 360-degree movement for immersive learning. It also draws inspiration from depictions of holograms from film. An iterative process was followed balancing the design goals to i) create an engaging experience, ii) encourage foresight in everyday experience and not just one time reflections, and iii) be inclusive in its interaction design. The paper explores possibilities for creating inclusive, community-driven digital experiences that challenge colonial legacies
Exquisite, Imaginary Cure
No full textGroup exhibition held at The Glasgow School of Art, November - December 2025.
Curated by Dr Zoë Mendelson.
Other contributors:
H. Baldwin,
Diogo Gama,
Michelle Hannah,
Elizabeth A Hodson,
Alek Mechlinski,
Catarina Moura,
Abi Palmer,
Margaret Salmon,
John Walter,
GSA Archives & Collection
The (Im)Possibility of Blackness in the Classroom – In Conversation with Karla Cornwall
No full textThe (Im)possibility of Blackness in the Classroom is a multimedia installation by Kevin J. Brazant that marks the curatorial launch of his signature pedagogy, Lounge Akademics™ a platform that archives, amplifies, and disrupts learning from the margins. The work explores Black presence, identity, and resistance as radical acts of cultural authorship. Drawing on his Disrupt the Discourse (DtD) research in co-creation, the installation blends moving visuals, ambient sound, and sonic excerpts to embody “sonic pedagogy.” A live Lounge Akademics™ session with artist Karla Cornwall extends this work as storytelling, archive, and act of radical listening
Compatible blending for circular textiles with next-gen materials
Get PDFEmerging next-gen materials such as recycled, renewable, or regenerative fibres promise lower impacts in resource extraction and transformation processes than their conventional fibre counterparts. These materials can be instrumental in a shift to a more sustainable fashion and textiles industry. A key contribution to this transition relies on reducing impacts and waste through circular design measures such as increasing lifespans and recycling at end of life. However, as these next-gen materials tend to have properties and costs that deviate from optimised industry norms, they are often used in incompatible blends, thus negating their circularity potential. This paper puts forward a framework to understand material flows and lifecycles as a relation between fibre type and recycling route for designers to operate within the principles of circularity. The research results in a guidebook to support designer’s choices of material combinations in line with recycling trajectories, and in a series of samples produced by industry project partners and students demonstrating the application of the framework. The samples use a selection of five example next-gen materials, which are integrated to each practitioners’ applications and aesthetics. The underlying aim of the research is to foster a systemic approach to textile design with an increased understanding of material properties and their relation to current and emerging recycling technologies