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Levelling-Up with Live Projects in University Teaching
Get PDFThis blog article outlines a proposed 'Hierarchy of Live Briefs' to act as a guide for lecturers to consider how to best present such opportunities to students. Live Briefs are frequently used in Higher Education and this article explores the various ways they can be used to enhance employability and equity for the students. This hierarchy is proposed following 10 years of teaching experience, 4 years of running live paid brief projects with external organisations and many conversations with other staff members. The aim of this article is to spark conversation, in an attempt to change practices against the use unpaid live briefs that are not embedded in the curriculum as this is muted as a practice that disadvantaged the already disadvantaged students. As a result of this work being published there have been many conversations with other practitioners, and it has resulted in people being more considerate about practice
The Impossible and the Impromptu
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New Technology Can Support Natural Capital Valuation
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Ammeth: Farming in Cornwall
No full textThe exhibition explores stories and issues from one of Cornwall’s most important industries. Over 70% of land in the county is farmed and the relationship between farming and the landscape has been a continuing source of inspiration for local artists. This exhibition examines how farming is depicted in historic and contemporary art, reflecting on environmental concerns and celebrating Cornwall’s rich farming tradition and the positive impact of regenerative farming methods and sustainable food production.
I was invited to take part in this exhibition to show work from the ongoing research project Anthology of Rural Life.
This particular output represents a series of works that form a fragment of a substantial photographic record of the surroundings, and activities of two elderly, unmarried brothers who farm in Cornwall.
A.R.L uses ethnography and fieldwork to place the researchers in communities to build understanding of social practices and cultures through flexible, open-ended methods. Visual ethnography helps convey rural contexts, with photographs facilitating discussion or serving as standalone inquiries. A participatory approach fosters collaboration, allowing researchers and participants to co-construct knowledge about rural life. This multidisciplinary method integrates narrative, visual, and contextual research, offering a deep, holistic understanding of rural environments and creating a nuanced portrayal of the subject matter
Evolution of Laundry
Get PDFThis report seeks to understand laundry habits and the factors that shape how we clean our clothes. To do this the report tracks key moments in the historical evolution of laundry from the 1600’s to the present day, showing how ideas of cleanliness and laundry practices have adapted alongside changes in technologies, materials, and social norms. Laundry detergent advertising has also had a powerful influence on laundering and section two details key themes from an analysis of 60 ads from the 1950’s to the present day. The final section examines eRorts made by researchers to understand everyday laundry routines alongside the social and psychological drivers of over-washing. In the context of, a lack of progress in reducing the environmental impacts of laundry in recent decades, the final section asks what can be done to disrupt and re-shape our laundry habits. To address this challenge, a laundry attitudes and habits survey has been developed, alongside three communications briefs that are designed to encourage shifts in social norms and routines
Anthology of Rural Life: Shifting the Scope of Regional Archives
No full textThis paper will discuss the work of the Anthology of Rural Life (ARL) in relation to proactive archival practice. ARL is a collaborative photographic and archival venture focused on the visual documentation of rural communities across Europe. Through engaging with individuals and social groups the photographers record and reflect elements of shifting European economic, social, and cultural climates within diverse rural contexts.
The model that ARL has developed with the regional archive Kresen Kernow for collecting photographic work could be seen as a useful way to respond to an era of ‘massification’ in imagery. We will discuss some of the ambitions for this approach, particularly to develop an international context for archival practices in provincial and regional institutions.
Some of the considerations for a proactive archival practice would include: approaches to the commissioning of photographic work (systematic production rather than ad hoc collecting/donation policies); a broadening awareness of photographic history and practice (including the material nature of the medium) and the dissemination of work (within immediate social and geographical arenas as well as seeking commonalities with other national or international regional institutions)
Evolution of Laundry
Get PDFThis report seeks to understand laundry habits and the factors that shape how we clean our clothes. To do this the report tracks key moments in the historical evolution of laundry from the 1600’s to the present day, showing how ideas of cleanliness and laundry practices have adapted alongside changes in technologies, materials, and social norms. Laundry detergent advertising has also had a powerful influence on laundering and section two details key themes from an analysis of 60 ads from the 1950’s to the present day. The final section examines efforts made by researchers to understand everyday laundry routines alongside the social and psychological drivers of over-washing. In the context of, a lack of progress in reducing the environmental impacts of laundry in recent decades, the final section asks what can be done to disrupt and re-shape our laundry habits. To address this challenge, a laundry attitudes and habits survey has been developed, alongside three communications briefs that are designed to encourage shifts in social norms and routines
Immersed in Cabilla
Get PDFHave you ever experienced a temperate Atlantic rainforest? Have you ever experienced an ancient oak woodland?
The paper will present a critical-contextual account of the practical, technical-affective, and eco-philosophical considerations associated with the recording, composition and production of an immersive soundscape soundtrack to Screen Cornwall’s 2023 ‘Immersive Nature Film’ commission as part of their ‘Launching a Cornish Public Service Media’ programme funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
Inspired by Cornwall Council’s Environmental Growth Strategy, and in collaboration with Cabilla Cornwall, Thousand Year Trust, Real Immersive, Cornwall Wildlife Trust and Falmouth University, Screen Cornwall put out a call for expressions of interest for filmmakers based in a limited company registered in Cornwall to pitch for the creation of a 10 min 360 media work to raise awareness of Cabilla – one of the largest temperate rainforest and ancient oak woodlands in British Isles – and to help Thousand Year Trust meet their target of tripling the amount of Atlantic temperate rainforests growing in UK. The call was for the creation of a: “360º media immersive nature experience that transports audiences into a virtual experience of Cornwall’s ancient temperate rainforest through sound and image”.
The commissioned film maker will work in collaboration with Falmouth University’s Faculty of Screen, Technology and Performance researchers Dr Antti Saario and Dr D Ferrett, who will create an immersive soundscape composition for the Cabilla film and are researching the value and potential of immersive sound in amplifying the reach and impact of the project, and in engaging audiences with nature and the environment.
This film will premiere at the immersive dome at Real Immersive, Market Hall, Plymouth and will then tour on the international network of immersive domes. The fully immersive production and the need for ‘sensitive production’ presents a range of practical challenges and unique creative opportunities in relation to on-location recording of the ecosystem at the protected site, the composition of the post-acousmatic soundtrack, sound design, and the sound optimisation for 360º dome experience.
In principal terms, the research focuses on public engagement with immersive sound, and sound led eco philosophy as derived from deep listening and the idea of dark sound/dark ecologies (Ferrett 2020, Morton 2018) which in this case, are the unknown, hidden and unheard voices, sounds and systems of communication, that are part of the life forces and ecology at Cabilla, as well as the notions of network of communication and entanglement of life, as associated with Atlantic temperate rainforests
The CACHE lectures: Changing Behaviour for Good
Get PDFA lecture about changing behaviour for good using behavioural economics. Written by Lucy Cokes, who leads the Behavioural Change for good modules on the Advertising courses at Falmouth University. Published on the free reading platform LEO, which has been especially designed and created for advertising students that are neurodivergent. This lecture will provide educational material online to reach audiences across the UK who are either studying advertising or may have an interest in advertising. The LEO e-reading platform was produced by CACHE – the Creative Advertising Collective for Higher Education – a supportive network of like-minded University professionals that work together to debate, share and enhance teaching practice of Creative Advertising