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No full textTypeface design & engineering – functional typographic software Open Type format. The typeface has clean, sharp type forms in four weights, bold, medium, regular & light – inspired by classic extended 20th century sans serif type from central Europe, with a twist of utilitarian functionality
Carmengloria Morales: An Abstraction of Withdrawal
No full textThis chapter focuses on the Chilean painter Carmengloria Morales (b.1942) and the importance of the debates she encountered in Rome in the 1960s on the subsequent development of her career. Morales is the only woman associated with Italian Analytical Painting movement of the mid 1970s, as well as an inaugural participant in the New York Radical Painting group of the 1980s. In the winter of 1969 in her studio in via Montoro in Rome, she developed her first Dittico (or diptych). These remarkable paintings reposition abstract painting as a conceptual and material practice. In doing so she abandoned her previous bright, colourful and relational formalist paintings, and started to develop a more extreme, reduced, and radical understanding of abstraction. The development of the Ditticos is intrinsically linked to the experience that Morales encountered in Rome, and her perception of the status and politics associated with abstract painting at the time. I suggest that these experiences were shaped through her joint friendships with the American artist Maricia Hafif (1929-2018) and the Sicilian painter Carla Accardi (1924-2014). Through a close reading of specific works, I demonstrate how these three pioneering artists shared vocabularies and ideas, even after Morales and Hafif had left Rome, and how aspects of Hafif’s own subsequent development, and her desire to “begin again” mirrors that of Morales
Pivotal Interiors: Intricacy Not Size
Full text linkWhile interior design as a taught subject may focus on details at a small scale – like materials, the human body, and the way light beams pass through a window and across a space, Cridge and Ungerer argue that interiors as a discipline need not, and should not, be limited to certain scales or small projects. Instead, its insights into, and attention to, the immediate tactile and individual spatial experience can be applied to large spaces as much as on the inside/outside threshold. Using the ‘hinge’ as a metaphorical and physical device, the authors discuss five examples by OMA, Steven Holl and Vito Acconci, Gary Chang, Michael Hansmeyer, and in the work of Zaha Hadid – the famous woman architect who originally had trained as an interior designer – to show that interior design is not about the size of projects but about their intricacy.
Presentation of chapter co-authored by Sophie Ungerer and Nerma Cridge as part of book launch with editor Carola Ebert, followed by discussion on interior theory
Cultural Heritage and the Creative Industries in the Making of the Current UK-India Research Landscape: From Development to Equitable Partnerships
No full textReport of the AHRC India fellowshi
Neurodiversity Meet-Up @ CHI: Building a Neuro-Affirming Community in HCI
No full textThis Meet-Up aims to support the neurodiverse communities at CHI and broaden our examination of our practices, with the goal of fostering neuro-affirming environments both within and outside academia.
Following our Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting at CHI last year, we aim to further establish a sense of community, continuity, and tradition at CHI and continue these discussions in the long term. We build on our existing resources and community from this SIG and seek to continue extending it in future years, welcoming participants of any neurotype to join us in this endeavour. We focus on shared strategies, creating infrastructure, and providing access to information through documentation. We will discuss how different actors at micro(individual), meso(community), and macro(structural) levels can help distribute access labour through a World Café-style discussion, followed by a document of resources for the community to access
Organising Principles of Experience
No full textAn experimental short film in which I collaborate with an AI model, tuned to the writings and sensibilities of Maya Deren, to imagine new films. The project explores memory, possession, and the digital afterlife, questioning what remains when the past becomes data and how an artist might lay claim to her absent idol. This work investigates the potential of generative AI as a collaborator in the creative process of screendanc
The Circularity Radar: A Framework for the Circular Economy in Retailing and Manufacturing
Full text linkIn the traditional linear economy, materials and goods are extracted, consumed, and discarded, without significant attention to the wide range of negative environmental and social externalities that this unsustainable production and consumption model creates.
Evaluating the expected environmental impact of more sustainable business practices becomes challenging without effective ways to measure the adoption and evolution of Circular Business Models (CBMs) in the economy.
This report, based on research undertaken by a team led by Professor Regina Frei from the University of Surrey, examines how Circular business models (CBMs) can provide a means to tackle the environmental problem of product returns within the clothing manufacturing and retail sector.
It proposes a tool, the Circularity Radar, for retailers and manufacturers to conduct a self-assessment of their CBM’s by exploring and assessing their transition to more sustainable and circular business models identifying opportunities for increasing their sustainability
Programmatic brand identity and the institutionalisation of design labour
Full text linkI visited the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, Espoo (Finland), to present a guest lecture about my research into the development of corporate design.
In the lecture I discussed the driving concerns behind my research, the chosen research methods as well as showcasing my research findings.
After the lecture I held tutorials with PhD students in the school of Design
