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The fundamentals of typography
No full text'The Fundamentals of Typography' introduces the fundamental principles of typographic theory and practice. It covers a wide range of subjects, including the history of typography, typographic detailing and the use of creative typography across a wide range of media. Packed with clear explanations, expanded illustrations and historical and contemporary examples from leading practitioners around the world, this is a one-step guide to using type effectively and creatively
Embroidering and the body under threat: suffragette embroidered cloths worked in Holloway Prison, 1911-1912
Get PDFBetween 1911 and 1912 hundreds of suffragettes were incarcerated in Holloway Prison for participating in the window breaking campaign. Denied political status, some suffragettes used the hunger strike as a political tool and were forcibly fed. Whilst in prison some of the women hand-embroidered small, intimately scaled cloths.
This research asks why, in cramped, isolated and physically threatening circumstances did the women choose to embroider through cloth?
By approaching the artefacts as material objects and through a material practice, a new epistemic space is examined, where a more textured understanding of the experiences of suffragettes under threat and a reconfiguration of what it means to embroider can ensue. By focusing on the practice of embroidering as the basis for the study and grounded in the ontology of ‘New Materialism’, this research positions the significance of the matter of the body, thread and cloth and the material process of embroidering, in the representation and making of knowledge.
The research contends that embroidering is an embodied practice, which articulates the thinking-feeling body beyond and in excess of symbolic language and visual imagery. Underpinned with the psychoanalytical writings of Didier Anzieu and Nicola Diamond, cloth is asserted as a projected ‘cloth-skin-body’ where the embroidering thread can negotiate the formation and repair of the self and engender thinking.
In addition, the study probes how the tactile and material act of embroidering by suffragettes was a subversive, dangerous and micro, proto-political practice.
The research has been carried out through the creation of a body of hand-embroidered textiles for exhibition and through archival and theoretical investigation. The submission takes the form of a public exhibition of the textiles and a written thesis that also includes a full visual record of the textile works
Chep Lap Kok (Hong Kong Airport) 21.00 01.12.20
No full textThe short video Chek Lap Kok (Hong Kong Airport) 21.00 01.12.19, documents a walk to Hong Kong Airport from the Expo centre on the airport island, by means of slow travel, under makeshift conditions, and without carbon expenditure. It’s a harbinger of lean and informal travel arrangements which may be a feature of time to come. The film is a brief exploration of the materialities and grounded infrastructures of aviation at a moment of pandemic-led change
Chek Lap Kok (Hong Kong Airport) 21.00 01.12.19
No full textThe ‘Spatial Cinema’ is a filmmaking practice that researches articulations of spatial narrative in cinema.[1] Developed over the last decade, this practice has migrated to a practice-as-research paradigm, exploring the intersections between the spatial thought of Henri Lefebvre – the social construction of space – and the possibilities offered by cinema for the articulation of spatial relationships (Lefebvre 1991). The ‘spatial’ is framed as a social and material resource rather than a landscape or an aesthetic treatment of space. As a resource, space is contested and a subject of social conflict (Deutsche 1996). This spatial antagonism has become an issue in novel conditions in 2020; this is fertile ground exploration in the moving image. A spatial emphasis does not displace the temporality so important to moving image – time is a fundamental property in the animation of space and cityscapes in film (Bruno 2007). The conjunction of moving image and spatial theory is distinctive in a spatial cinema practice
Fast Forward: changing attitudes and experiences for women in photography (Impact)
Get PDFFast Forward progresses the work of women as photographers, addressing the global underrepresentation and disadvantage of women in this field. Impact is in three areas:
Changes in the policies and practices of museums, galleries, collections and festivals, including Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, LagosPhoto and the Hyman Collection. The latter has introduced a gender-equal collecting policy as a direct result of Fast Forward. Beneficiaries are the institutions, their audiences and the artists they represent.
Changes in the representation of women photographers in photographic media. Fast Forward has led or contributed to ‘women-only’ special issues of five photo-industry periodicals, rebalancing the gendered bias of such media and benefitting its audiences and the artists represented.
Changes in the support opportunities available to women photographers. The project has provided networking and mentoring, benefitting established and aspiring women photographers. New organisations, the Old Girls’ Club (UK) and Feminist Photography Network (Canada), have been established in direct emulation of Fast Forwar
Repair Cafés: Implementing Circular Economy Innovation (Impact)
No full textThe impacts created by Professor Martin Charter and The Centre for Sustainable Design® (CfSD) are in the area of Circular Economy social and business innovation. Impacts are led by new approaches to understanding and developing Repair Cafés:
Farnham Repair Café was set up as a community initiative and ‘living laboratory’ to enable repair at a local level and to develop understanding of the global Repair Café movement’s activities and its participants’ motives. New knowledge amplifies the Repair Café movement’s efficacy as an agent for change.
Farnham Repair Café has saved £105,582 for its visitors, diverting 3.8 tonnes of waste from landfill and preventing 35.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions, and it has supported the setting up of new Repair Cafés elsewhere.
The creation of an online Carbon Calculator tool allows Repair Cafés to quantify the CO2 saved by their repairs enabling the Repair Café movement to make the connection between the Circular Economy and mitigation of climate change.
The Repair Café research is situated within broader Circular Economy innovation research by Charter and CfSD which has led or contributed to:
New British and international standards— BS 8001:2017 is the world’s first standard for businesses implementing circular economy principles; ISO14006:2020 incorporates eco-design in environmental management systems for businesses.
Changes in the knowledge base of policy-makers—including those in the European Commission Directorate-General Research and Innovation Department, and the European Commission Joint Research Centre—leading to new consideration of the Circular Economy in the policies that shape business and the economy
The role of Studio Pottery in Developing the Local Economy and Changing Museum Exhibition Practices (Impact)
Get PDFResearch at the Crafts Study Centre has developed impacts relating to knowledge and appreciation of studio pottery, increasing its recognition and stimulating economic and cultural activity. The impacts benefit:
The community local to the Crafts Study Centre in Farnham, Surrey, which has been enriched by the economic benefits of a local network of craft practice and activity in which the Crafts Study Centre plays a key role. In 2020 this activity was calculated to be worth in excess of £50 million per annum to the local economy, and Farnham was recognised with the designation of ‘World Craft City’ by the World Crafts Council.
The institutions hosting exhibitions resulting from collaborative research by the CSC with a global reach. The Yale Center for British Art in the USA and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge have been enabled to enhance their presentation of studio pottery and their interpretation of their own collections, and to share them more effectively with audience
Horrors of the Second World War: Nazi monsters on 21st century screens
No full textThis thesis identifies a previously neglected corpus of horror films, those which feature an explicitly Nazi or Nazi-created monster, and establishes Nazi horror as a prolific and persistent subgenre. In particular, it considers that more examples of the Nazi horror subgenre have been released in the 21st century than ever before, prompting two central research questions: why does the Nazi monster still occupy our screens and why does it continue to horrify us in the 21st century? In order to answer these questions, the thesis develops a psychoanalytic methodology which draws together the uncanny, the abject and trauma theory in order to understand the meaning of these monsters and connect them to their socio-political contexts. Such an approach thus considers whether these films are indeed a product of trauma, and if so whether they relate to historical events, the current political and cultural landscape, or both
Writing in the Body, the Dark Matter of the Genome
Get PDFInterdisciplinary arts research exploring theoretical frameworks that work towards a reconceptualization of the genome and epigenetics to speculate on ecologies of mind, body, the environment and evolution. The study of epigenetics is an emerging field in biosocial and biocultural studies as biologists dismantle foundational human genomic studies in heredity to re-imagine the genome as a dynamic and responsive entity that senses, apprehends and responds to environmental, biological and cultural contexts. Drawing on close family genealogical archives and research into historic institutionalised child care systems, the photo/poetic film, Remembering the Unknown, explores transgenerational epigenetic phenomena associated with the transmission of trauma and PTSD.
This research builds on Roger’s previous research in the fields of consciousness studies and embodiment theories in art and science. Based on the concept that the genome is not the sole agency in inheritance, Roger’s conceptual research and resolution explores the persistence of epigenetic trauma signatures of inherited PTSD across generations of her close family. This research examining the relationship between the imaginary and reality revealed how the reflective process practice-based research might be brought to bear on the science of epigenetics to offer new modes of visual narrative in autoethnography
The empire at home: internal colonies and the end of Britain
No full textModern Britain is forged through the redeployment of structures that facilitated and legitimized slavery, exploitation and extermination. This is the 'empire at home' and it is inseparable from the strategies of neo-colonial extraction and oppression of subjects abroad. Here, James Trafford develops the notion of internal colonies, arguing that methods and structures used in colonial rule are re-deployed internally in contemporary Britain in order to recreate and solidify imperial power relations. Using examples including housing segregation, targeted surveillance and counter-insurgency techniques used in the fight against terrorism, Trafford reveals Britain's internal colonialism to be a reactive mechanism to retain British sovereignty. As politics appears limited by nationalism and protectionism, The Empire at Home issues a powerful challenge to contemporary politics, demanding that Britain as an imperial structure must end
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