Thursday 05 February 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Heath Reed (Design Futures, SHU)

An image of Heath Reed, Design Futures SHU

Title: Positioning creative, three dimensional design practice and understanding its role and value in university based social research and development projects Speaker: Heath Reed (Design Futures, SHU) Heath Reed is an Industrial Designer and Design Researcher embedded within Sheffield Hallam Universities commercially focused product design consultancy, Design Futures and the Art and Design Research Centres Lab4living initiative. He graduated with […]

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Friday 30 January 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Robyn Healy (RMIT University, Australia)

An image of Professor Robyn Healy

Title: Saving lives and design activism: Fashion and textiles research Speaker: Professor Robyn Healy (RMIT University, Australia) Professor Robyn Healy, Head of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University Melbourne will discuss RMIT’s current research initiatives including cross disciplinary cohorts, research centre and practice-led PhD programs. This lunchtime seminar is hosted by Dr Alison Gwilt, Reader in Fashion […]

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Wednesday 21 January 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Alessandro Soranzo

A colour contrast illusion.

Title: Why the same colour can appear different? Speaker: Dr Alessandro Soranzo (Psychology, SHU) Dr Alessandro Soranzo is a Reader in Psychology within the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. His main area of interest lies in the Psychology of Perception, including; Colour and Illumination Perception, Visual Illusions, Perception and Art, Virtual Reality, and Robotics. Colour contrast […]

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Wednesday 14 January 2015 – Lunchtime Seminar with Dr Luigina Ciolfi (Communication, SHU)

Some digital social interaction examples.

Title: Understanding Digital Social Interactions Through Foursquare Speaker: Dr Luigina Ciolfi (Reader in Communication, SHU) Dr Luigina Ciolfi is Reader in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University. She holds a Laurea (Univ. of Siena, Italy) and a PhD (Univ. of Limerick, Ireland) in Human-Computer Interaction, and has researched for many years the design and evaluation of interactive technologies for human use […]

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Wednesday 10 December 2014 – Lunchtime seminar with Maria Hanson and Melanie Levick-Parkin

Title: Create & Connect: Connecting female artisan craft producers in Zanzibar with tourist markets Speaker: Maria Hanson and Melanie Levick-Parkin Maria Hanson supervises undergraduate, post-graduate and PhD students and is a researcher, designer and craft maker. Research interests and activities include the exploration of rituals and craft objects and the reading of craft objects in the context of contemporary visual […]

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Tuesday 11 November 2014 – Lunchtime seminar with Warren Neidich, Artist

Title: Remapping Dissensus in Cognitive Capitalism: The Glossary of Cognitive Activism Speaker: Warren Neidich Warren Neidich is a Berlin and Los Angeles-based post-conceptual artist and theorist who exposes the interfaces between Marxist inspired cultural production and its interrelationship to the brain and cognitive capitalism to produce an Emancipatory Materialism. His interdisciplinary anarchic experimental works combine photographic and video elements, Internet […]

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Fine Art lecture series : Gravity 2014/15 programme

Poster for 2014-2015 Fine Art lecture series - Gravity

The programme for the Fine Art lecture series, Gravity, has been announced for 2014/15. Please see below for information on each discussion, the invited artist and the chair. In 2014/15 we invited guests to discuss their work by focusing on Time. We will look at how time is used as form, content and material by artists and how they have […]

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