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Impact of film festivals in contemporary climate of cultural production a discussion with British Short Film Festival director Philip Ilson
No full textThis was a Q+A which I facilitated with British Short Film Festival Director Philip Ilson. I began with a discussion about my 1st short film THE DRIVE and how in 1995 there was a sense that a short film was the way to finance a more ambitious short, or a low budget feature film. But things have changed dramatically since 1995. Themes which we were interested in exploring with Philip included: Tell us about your journey , into films and film festivals? What is the importance of festivals in the life of a cultural product? What is the position of the short film in the age dominated by advertising and social media? How has streaming affected our viewing patterns, in particular attending and valuing cinema going and film festivals? What are your thoughts on the opportunities and audiences for more Artist Film and Video projects – whether gallery-based work or more experimental cinema work
Society driven design: CoCreating brighter futures
No full textJudah Armani explains the role of design in community development and the designer's role in social change. Based on Armani's decades-long experience in social innovation, the book offers a framework for cultivating the conditions for social change. He believes that everyone has the potential to make better choices, and he sees the design process as a powerful tool for empowerment
Reimagining homes: How regenerative retrofitting can foster sustainability, ecological citizenship, and resilient communities
Get PDFRetrofitting residential houses is still an underutilised option for addressing the climate crisis and meeting the growing demand for more sustainable housing. While energy efficiency is a significant focus of many retrofit efforts, popular techniques often overlook the broader ecological and social dimensions of sustainability, such as the reduction of embodied carbon and the enhancement of connections between people and the environment. Concurrently, fostering Ecological Citizenship, where individuals actively engage in environmental stewardship and contribute to community resilience, is critical in addressing systemic challenges like biodiversity loss, social inequality, and climate adaptation. This article investigates how regenerative retrofitting, an emerging approach to retrofit design, can bridge this gap by transforming homes into active agents of ecological renewal. By incorporating nature-based solutions, circular material strategies, and participatory design practices, regenerative retrofitting not only mitigates carbon emissions but also nurtures a deeper sense of environmental responsibility among residents. Through a case study of the Wildhouse project in Brighton, this work explores how one initiative integrates retrofit practices with the principles of Ecological Citizenship and sustainable living. By examining the project’s design, its mechanisms to facilitate human (as) nature connections, and its mission to define more tangible links between the homes of people and other forms of nature the research demonstrates how regenerative retrofits can reframe housing as a locus for ecological restoration and as a route to tackle some societal issues. In doing so, it highlights the potential for scaling such interventions to create more resilient, nature-integrated urban environments that contribute positively to environmental sustainability, social equity, and long-term climate resilience. Furthermore, the research emphasises how regenerative retrofitting can influence housing policy, urban planning, and broader systemic change, offering a holistic approach to sustainability that addresses both the physical and social fabric of cities. Through its exploration of the intersection between retrofit design, ecological engagement, and community empowerment, this work contributes valuable insights into how residential retrofitting can play a pivotal role in advancing both ecological and social sustainability in urban settings. The future research directions informed by Wildhouse offer space for further exploration of the long-term, wide-ranging impacts of regenerative retrofitting in social housing. By addressing questions about the agency of domestic objects, spaces and interactions as route to ecological citizenship, economic viability, institutional barriers, community engagement, health outcomes, and climate adaptation, future work can deepen our understanding of how regenerative design can be implemented on a large scale, ensuring that it contributes to both ecological restoration and social well-being for generations to come
Beyond hierarchy: Articulating collaboration
No full textAs artists’ and curators’ practices are always heavily networked and collaborative—often with other kinds of practitioners—why do descriptions of collaboration, group, or collective work still acknowledge, and by extension attribute (greater) value to only a few individualized positions? Given the shared questions around how collaboration is discussed, it is worth considering what the ramifications are of the continued use of a limited set of individualized labels, especially when their connotations no longer match how so many practices operate. Rather than listing everyone in every constellation and expanding on the range of individual and positions involved, might finding different ways of describing collaboration be a more productive way of moving beyond this conundrum? This essay explores how we might be able to go beyond hierarchies through the lens of Isabelle Stengers’s notion of “ecology of practices.
Metadata link - 3D printing bacterial cellulose and polyethylene terephthalate glycol to reinforce textiles for material longevity in textile circularity
Get PDFMetadata link for the paper - 3D Printing Bacterial Cellulose and Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol to Reinforce Textiles for Material Longevity in Textile Circularit
Designing for just and sustainable policies in the space between institutions and experimental government practices
Get PDFThis track explores design’s role in the making of public policy by examining how it bridges the gap between actors within and outside institutions. Papers for this track advance new knowledge on design's contribution and interplay with policymaking processes and practices through methodological diversity and detailed descriptions of different policy contexts. The contributions discuss specific public initiatives, such as the New European Bauhaus, and general approaches to public sector innovation, like public sector innovation labs, thus ranging from highly contextualized to general views. Further, the works presented expand “design for policy” with perspectives emphasizing co-design, public service design, public organizations' knowledge and engagement capacity, and placemaking. In sum, this track investigates design’s peculiarity as an approach for shaping positive change by fostering practices of collaboration, experimentation, and human-centeredness within institutional fringes and interstices
Quaranzines: Notes on the visual mundane
No full textThis paper addresses the call’s theme of ‘visual and material culture of Covid-19’ through an exploration of quarantine fanzines, or ‘quaranzines’, produced in response to the worldwide pandemic (2020-2021). During lockdown, quaranzines became an accessible way for self-documenting and sharing personal journeys, resulting in what Weida has termed ‘artifacts of lived experience’. (Weida 2020:268) The paper will concentrate on their visual and design qualities. Selected case studies are highlighted to show how such zines reveal insights into a producer’s homelife (e.g., their domestic circumstances) and how they deal mentally with the strain of lockdown (e.g., their chosen walks around the neighbourhood, and how they depict these). By examining the zines’ lexical items (e.g., graphical structures, line drawings, photographs) and symbology (e.g., depictions of the Covid virus, social distancing, facemasks) a quaranzine pilot taxonomy is identified. In this way, the paper argues for the contribution of the visual to strategies of resilience, resistance, and hope, but via the lens of ‘mundanity’. For example, one zine features images of discarded pizza boxes on empty streets, while another, details how long it has been since the producer pushed a crosswalk button. The case studies include both digital and print modes of dissemination, and raise issues about different kinds of communication and community-building that transcended geographical boundaries. As a secondary theme, the paper will make comment on how these zines became part of an ‘archival event’, being collected by libraries and other organisations as soon as they were made. The paper draws on previous work by comic studies scholars involved in the Graphic Medicine movement (e.g., Williams 2012), which focuses on the comics and graphic memoirs of those living with issues around health, disability, and mental wellbeing ‘as a unique form of knowledge production’. (La Cour & Poletti 2022: 6-7
Towards embedding inclusive design in financial services innovation: An accelerated knowledge transfer project between the Royal College of Art and Lloyds Banking Group: Report submitted to Innovate UK
No full textStable and homogeneous SPION-infused Photo-Resins for 3D-printing magnetic hydrogels
Get PDF3D printing of magnetic stimuli hydrogels has shown promise in low-resolution extrusion printing but integrating superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION) into water-based photo-resins has posed challenges. Rapid agglomeration and sedimentation of SPION in photo-resins require continuous mixing during printing, leading to uneven nanoparticle (NP) distribution and inconsistent magnetic actuation. Here, we optimise the use of citric acid (CA) and l-sodium ascorbate (LA) as capping agents on the SPION's surface, before trialling them with photo-resins. Ultimately, we present a two-step approach to overcome these limitations, enabling high-resolution SLA-based 3D printing of hydrogels. By employing CA in both SPION and photo-resin preparation, we achieve a highly stable mixture that requires no agitation during printing, resulting in magnetically responsive hydrogels. This methodology can be applied to various photo-resin formulations, ensuring uniform NP distribution and enabling the 3D printing of stimuli-responsive materials for applications in soft robotics, aquatic micro-swimmers, and soft actuators. The breakthrough in stable and homogenous SPION-infused photo-resins has broad implications for tissue engineering, drug delivery, and regenerative medicine, offering novel biocompatible materials with resistance to stress and deformation. This approach can be extended to other NP with poor dispersion in hydrogels, paving the way for advanced functional materials in diverse applications
AI art education - Artificial or intelligent? Transformative pedagogic reflections from three art educators in Singapore
Get PDFWith growing interest in the role and integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI pedagogies in transformative art education this paper voices the pedagogic reflections of three art educators in Singapore who have engaged AI in their art provision. It discusses and exemplifies the advantages (intelligent), like interdisciplinary opportunity, enhanced student engagement and increased connectionism, and limitations (artificial), like ethical and moral dilemmas and positioning, of AI integration in three art education settings showcasing how educators and learners engage. Model of pedagogic reflection is used to reveal how the educators provided transformative learning with AI, whilst showing the influence of personal art interests, technique modelling and professional reflections on teaching and making involving AI. Paper contributions include insights into and examples of AI practices and pedagogies (like AI literacy and prompt engineering), that are and could be used in art education, reflections on their successes and limits and commentary on the position of AI integration in the circular economy of art education. The paper is positioned to mobilize educator and student voice as an influential driver in the transformation of art education given ongoing developments in digital education futures