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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

Call for papers: Design4Health 2018

Design4Health banner image - Call for papers. Courtesy of Kirsty Christer

Call for papers: Design4Health 2018 Lab4Living at Sheffield Hallam University is pleased to invite papers from researchers and practitioners for the fifth European Design4Health conference. Established in 2011, Design4Health is a conference that brings together designers and creative practitioners with researchers, clinicians, policy makers and users to discuss, disseminate and test their approaches and methods. Our events provide an opportunity […]

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‘Hope is Strong’: New exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery features work by SHU’s Sharon Kivland and Hester Reeve – Opening event on 21 February

Banner image for Millennium Gallery's 'Hope is Strong' exhibition - courtesy of Sharon Kivland

Readers in Fine Art Hester Reeve and Dr Sharon Kivland will both have their work featured in a new exhibition at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery entitled Hope is Strong. The exhibition seeks to explore the power of art to question the world in the turbulent times in which we live. With far right parties and hate crimes on the rise, civil liberties and […]

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‘Beneath the city streets’: Researchers discuss urban infrastructure in evening talk at Sheffield Hallam University, featuring Dr Becky Shaw – Wednesday 21 March 2018

Flyer for 'Beneath city streets' event - courtesy of Dr Becky Shaw

Beneath the city streets: four researchers explore urban infrastructure and its invisibility will bring together researchers exploring urban infrastructure in an evening of discussion on Wednesday 21 March 2018 in Cantor building at Sheffield Hallam University. Sewers, cables, roads and myriad other infrastructural networks are the enabling frameworks of modern life, and yet we so rarely notice them. This free, open-to-all, evening […]

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NESTORE: Novel Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities

Image of a woman holding a map from an "exhibition-in-a-box". Image courtesy of NESTORE project's Professor Paul Chamberlain. With NESTORE and EC logos.

The NESTORE ‘expert by experience group’ (EBE) met this week at Lab4Living in Sheffield to reflect and build upon the initial findings from the community living older people workshops that have been conducted over the past two months in the UK. The workshops have explored what is meaningful in people lives and adopts the “exhibition-in-a-box” method developed and facilitated by […]

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‘Rhinoceral Words’: New exhibition in Geneva features work by Sharon Kivland – Opens 09 February 2018

Banner image for exhibition at Fonderie Kugler - featuring work by Sharon Kivland. Image from Rhinoceral Words page of Fonderie Kugler's website

Dr Sharon Kivland, Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, will feature in an exhibition taking place at Fonderie Kugler in Geneva entitled Rhinoceral Words II – Exposition. The exhibition opens on Friday 09 February 2018 and brings together five artists from different European regions to open a dialogue about the meaning of words – this “forgotten language, which goes beyond […]

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Professor Esther Johnson writes for The Conversation about Asunder

ASUNDER logo/background and The Conversation logo

Professor of Film and Media Arts Esther Johnson has written a piece for The Conversation about the hidden stories of heroism and tragedy during World War I, which she uncovered during the research for her film Asunder. The film highlights nine real-life accounts based in Sunderland and the north-east, a vulnerable area during WWI due to its shipyards and munitions […]

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Professor Esther Johnson’s ‘Asunder’ – Screenings announced

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Professor Esther Johnson‘s Asunder tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories. New dates for screenings of Asunder, with Q&As are below: 21 February 2018 Newcastle University […]

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Artist’s talk with Karen Lofgren introduced by PhD researcher Victoria Lucas: Wednesday 14 February 2018

Banner image for Karen Lofgren's artist's talk at SHU, introduced by Victoria Lucas

Los Angeles-based artist Karen Lofgren will be introduced by SHU PhD researcher at SHU Victoria Lucas at an artist’s talk on 14 February 2018. Karen’s current research focus is on ‘cultural beliefs and how they influence approaches to sickness and cure from a more-or-less feminist and decolonial standpoint’. Artist’s Talk: Karen Lofgren 14 February 2018 1PM – 2PM Cantor 9003 Karen Lofgren is […]

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The Snake Show: Exhibition features work by Sharon Kivland on the subject of snakes – Opens 02 February 2018

Image to promote The Snake Show, featuring work by Sharon Kivland. Image from Snake Show Facebook page

Dr Sharon Kivland, Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, will feature in an exhibition telling the story of the changing perception of snakes through history entitled THE SNAKE SHOW being held in the space formally known as ECOTRACO in Valletta, Malta and opens on Friday 02 February 2018. “The serpent will come from the hole On the brown Day […]

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Rose Butler’s ‘Come and Go’ awarded honourable mention at the inaugural Surveillance Studies Network Arts Fund Prize

Still from dual-screen mockup of Come & Go by Rose Butler

Rose Butler, senior lecturer and Fine Art research scholar, has been awarded an honourable mention by the selection committee of the inaugural biennial Surveillance Studies Network Arts Fund Prize for her interactive artwork Come and Go.  The Surveillance Studies Network (SSN) is a registered charitable company dedicated to the study of surveillance in all its forms, and the free distribution of scholarly information. In […]

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