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The Journal of sustainable product design
No full textThe Journal of sustainable product design is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal that focuses on the theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions of sustainable and eco-product and service design and development. The journal is published four times each year and is supported by an international Editorial Board. The editors welcome contributions that are based on solid research, as well as ‘blue sky’ and ‘out of the box’ thinking. The journal provides a forum for leading-edge thought and new ideas
Manufactory and The Altogether
Full text linkThis multi-layered project investigates notions of art, work and struggle. It was made in collaboration with factory workers who are not normally engaged with artistic practice. The 1834 factory is one of the UK's oldest industrial environments; it recently closed, making the workforce redundant.
The exhibition comprises three photographic series, and a vinyl record. The Altogether focuses on the manual workers themselves. The series takes its name from a little-known trade union: in considering how to portray the workers, I found inspiration in the iconography and theatricality of union banners, and appropriated many of the stances they portray. Manufactory Part I investigates the overlooked industrial space, where a collision between nature, toil and the manufacturing process has occurred, resulting in a metamorphosis that has created a geographical micro-environment. Manufactory Part II (aka Made in England) developed from Part 1, as during my explorations I started to unearth old manual tools, which become symbols of a 'lost work force'. These 'finds' were then photographed floating on a bed of black industrial oil.
Days at the Factories and CuS04 Shuffle are reverse sides of a vinyl record, and were produced using audio recordings from the same factory. My aim was to subvert the ambient sound from the factory floor and turn it into something more musical. Days... includes the men in the factory reciting a verse I wrote, which references various agitprop writings, and literature by George Dodd, a 19th-century chronicler of industrialism. CuSO4... appropriates the atomic element diagram for copper as the basis for a musical score. Exhibition audiences are invited to play the records (emphasizing ideas of collaboration and performance) on vintage record players – using a technology essentially unchanged since its inception.
The work was originally funded by the Arts Council UK, and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, and has toured globally
CV for Lesley Adams
Full text linkLesley Adams is Course Leader for Animation, School of Film & Moving Image, College Farnham, Farnham.
The CV provides information on the career, qualifications and research outputs of Lesley Adams.
The second url provides a link to an interview where Lesley Adams discusses the animation curriculum at UCA Farnham
UKOER Architecture Session Plans and Resources around cultural context and discourse in architecture
No full textA series of resources constituting a 9-week programme of study on the concepts of Cultural Context and Discourse in Architecture
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