Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
News from CCRI researchers and their projects
For two weeks in July 2019, the Art & Design Research Centre is joined by a visiting design researcher to work on projects currently in development in Lab4Living and Design Futures. Avika Sood, a recent MA graduate from Sushant School of Art and Architecture, is working with designers Heath Reed and Andy Stanton on projects including ‘Playponics‘, a suite of […]
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Digital Ecologies II: Fiction Machines Senior Fine Art Lecturer Michelle Atherton presented her research project The Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIGs) in the form of a performance lecture at the Digital Ecologies II Symposium: Fiction Machines, hosted by The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University on Tuesday 16 July 2019. In the introduction to his book Fiction as […]
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As part of the programme of research activities funded through the Expanding Excellent in England programme, Lab4Living will host the first in a series of Visiting Scholars this week. Researcher Dr Sonja Pedell, who heads up the Future Self and Design Living Lab will be joining the Lab4Living team from Friday 19th July for a month. Dr Pedell will be working […]
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An innovative interactive prototype demonstration by the RoboSHU team including Dr Louis Nisiotis recently gained interest from international experts and won an award at the 6th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics at Santa Maria al Bagno, Italy. The prototype featured the RoboSHU ‘Virtual Reality Museum’, which includes information about the history of Robotics, the work of Sheffield Robotics and CARR. […]
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Ubumuntu – 13.07.19 David and Ru will be presenting their new production, Mother Wall, at the Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity in Kigali, Rwanda this weekend. The play is a collaboration with the actors Nadie Kammallaweera and Akalanka Prabharshawa from Stages, the visual artist, Ian Gouldstone and the composer Ranil Goonawardena. The project is developed with support from Piumi Wijesundara and Nipuni […]
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Research active staff from across the University are warmly invited to participate in the upcoming ‘Lab4Living and Beyond’ symposium on the morning of 22nd July 2019. Arranged by early career researchers within Lab4Living, we hope the symposium will provide a snapshot of what we do in the Lab, as well as enable meaningful connections and collaborations for future work. Plan […]
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Fine Art Reader Becky Shaw will be one of three speakers opening the conference tomorrow at Sheffield Hallam University. Organised by the University’s Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), this one day event will focus on Social and spatial inequalities. Autonomy is central to the production, reproduction and reduction of social and spatial inequalities. Becky will join Becky Tunstall (University of […]
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Air de fête is an open-air exhibition taking place this summer on the streets of Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, Brittany. Amongst 50 artists, Reader in Fine Art Sharon Kivland will exhibit work in the festival – a collaboration between the town of Siant-Briac and Frac Bretagne – with an aim to raise awareness of contemporary art. The exhibition will run from Saturday 06 July to Sunday […]
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Professor Lise Autogena will present her research on the Kvanefjeld mine in Greenland at the RICOMET 2019 conference – Social Science and Humanities in Ionising Radiation Research. The conference is hosted by IS Global, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, on Monday 01 to Wednesday 03 July 2019. The RICOMET conference is an international, multidisciplinary and stakeholder driven annual event, devoted to academics, researchers, experts […]
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On Saturday 29 June 2019 Burning Pool premiered at Ohm, the battery room inside the famous techno club Tresor. SHU’s Ron Wright presented SonUrban and the tracks were accompanied by films of post industrial landscapes, street dancing and graffiti including his work Burning Pool. You can watch a video of the performance here. Cover of Burning Pool by Ron Wright and Neil Webb Burning […]
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