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Supporting neurodiversity in conceptual design: Lessons learned from companies and classrooms across finland and the UK
Full text linkThis poster presentation explores inclusive practices in conceptual design education through the lens of neurodiversity, drawing on experiences from Finland and the UK. It examines how differing cultural approaches to critique and communication influence learning, and how digital collaboration tools such as MURAL can enhance engagement for students who find face-to-face discussion challenging. By aligning seminar teaching practices with industry norms, where text-based communication and teamwork are increasingly standard, the project highlight show authentic, accessible methods can support neurodiverse learners. Reflections on pedagogy, cross-cultural collaboration, and equity underscore how embedding EDI principles fosters belonging and professional readiness in creative disciplines
Curatorial Play: Widening Access to the Devonshire Collection of Period Costume
No full textThis research explores digital methodologies for the exhibition and preservation of fragile heritage items, specifically focusing on a university-held collection of period costumes. As the designated custodian of these garments, the university faces challenges in balancing public accessibility with the physical preservation of textile artifacts that are sensitive to light and handling. This video records a working proof-of-concept for a digital gallery, developed to showcase the collection's potential for wider digital dissemination. While ongoing research within this project investigates high-fidelity "digital twins" produced through specialized low-light photogrammetry techniques to ensure material safety, this current iteration demonstrates a rapid-prototyping workflow. The featured 3D models were captured using the RealityScan mobile application and integrated into Unreal Engine 5. To provide a high-quality, immersive viewing context, the models are staged within a virtual environment based on an Evermotion gallery asset, allowing for cinematic curation and detailed object-focused exploration. This version of the digital gallery was successfully exhibited at events at Falmouth University and the Hall for Cornwall. The project serves as a foundational step toward a comprehensive digital archive that will eventually encompass the broader collection, providing a scalable model for heritage institutions to increase educational engagement through engagement with real-time 3D technologies
Collaboration and co-creation: exploring the value and impact of digital storytelling
No full textDespite the design and implementation of storytelling in a destination being complex, a case study has been designed and delivered in the Southwest of England to capture and evaluate the role of digital storytelling. The data-driven value exchange has sought to quantify the significance of digital storytelling, and in doing so has delivered an array of profound benefits for partners involved in the collaboration between destination managers, creatives, educational institutions, and software developers. The study is the first of its kind, as it determines the value of storytelling to a tourist destination through the exploration of destination intelligence data. The empirical study was ratified through in-depth interviews and a quantitative user survey and concluded that the conversion rate from sharing stories to individuals visiting a destination, can be established. The significance drawn from this collaborative project, offers a roadmap for other destinations to seek collaboration with unusual partners and continue to create stories of place, to achieve a more sustainable and resilient visitor economy in the future
Why don't more journalists and documentary makers use spatial audio?
No full textThere has certainly been a revival of interest in what is known variously as spatial, immersive or three-dimensional sound in radio and podcasting in recent years. It has been used in news, documentaries, investigative series and audio dramas. But this article turns instead to its relative lack of use. Focusing on factual programmes and based on research with programme-makers from several countries over five years, I analyse the reasons they give for not using spatial sound as often as they want and identify significant underlying cultural patterns that constitute wider cultural problems in the radio and podcast sector. These threaten to undermine the growth and development of narrative audio more generally
The Salvation Engine
Full text linkThe Salvation Engine grapples with the frightful mix of personality
cults, religious populism, liturgical experiment, rave culture,
censorship, puritanical mindlessness, and stupidity within the
organised church, questioning and critiquing its power structures
and beliefs, not to mention a lack of safeguarding and accountability,
which allow and sometimes encourage abuse, manipulation, greed
and desperate beliefs to thrive
Anthology of Rural Life: Redruth Photographs
No full textThe Anthology of Rural Life is a project that provides a comparative visual study of the continuities and differences in patterns of life within contemporary rural areas. These in turn reflect shifting economic, social and cultural forces occurring in diverse European contexts.
In May 2025, an exhibition of the Anthology of Rural Life was held at Auction House Gallery in Cornwall (UK). This will include images made in locations across Europe alongside recent work focusing on Contemporary life in Redruth, a former mining town in Cornwall.
‘Robins and Udy’s project overlaps with disciplines of photographic anthropology, cultural geography and rural sociology. Their work can be situated more specifically within a distinguished history of comparable photographic projects that combine the visual language of artistic practice with the remit of an investigative survey. They describe what they do as ‘gently mapping’ a place and its inhabitants. The result avoids agrarian romanticism and rural heroism. Rather, it provides an understated, descriptive emphasis on individuals and specific sites’. (Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Can they survive without the BBC
Full text linkA look at the future of Drama and wildlife programming at the BBC
Autumn 2025 is the start of a process that could prove existential for the BBC — negotiations with the government on the next Royal Charter and the level of licence fee. Debate on this has never been more febrile. Anti-BBC talk now comes from friends as well as enemies. What is the BBC getting right, and what wrong? Are there viable alternatives to the licence fee? What will the organisation look like after 2027
Exploring similarities and differences in how researchers and young people understand key terms in youth mental-health research
Full text linkA lack of a shared understanding of key terms is acknowledged as a significant barrier to interdisciplinary research. This paper examines the ways in which a broadly interdisciplinary team of academics and youth co-researchers involved in mental health research interpreted a number of research and mental health terms that are central to their work in order to understand conceptual differences in how different stakeholder groups approach these terms. Data was collected in four phases (interviews, written responses, and two participatory ‘living labs’) and was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Results revealed a wide disparity in the way participants understood key terms (including: ‘research’, ‘data’, ‘loneliness’, ‘safe space’ and ‘resilience’). Our study highlights the need for more inclusive approaches to mental health research, where diverse perspectives and lived experiences inform both methodology and practice from the outset. In conclusion we suggest a new framework (the EQUITY framework) as a tool to operationalise these findings