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News from CCRI researchers and their projects

CHEAD Research Alliance: Next Generation Design Leadership – Event at Derby University on 07 March 2018

Banner image for CHEAD Research Alliance events - courtesy of CHEAD

The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design (CHEAD) will be holding a Research Alliance Network event on the morning of Wednesday 07 March at Derby University entitled ‘Next Generation Design Leadership’ featuring SHU’s Professor of Design, David Swann. CHEAD Research Alliance: Next Generation Design Leadership School of the Arts, Derby University DE22 3AW Wednesday 07 March 2018, 9.30AM – […]

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Professor Lise Autogena delivers keynote at the National Gallery in London – 15 February 2018

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Professor Lise Autogena and frequent collaborator Joshua Portway delivered a keynote at The National Gallery, London on 15 February 2018, for AALERT: an interdisciplinary meeting aiming to foster debate and dialogue about the role of arts and the artist in landscape and environmental research today. Jointly sponsored by the Valuing Nature Network and Landscape Research Group, the meeting will explore and re-consider the contribution […]

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‘Perpetual Uncertainty’: exhibition featuring Lise Autogena’s work investigates Art and Radioactivity and opens on 23 February in Malmö

Banner image for 'Perpetual Uncertainty', courtesy of Lise Autogena

Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-Disciplinary Art at Sheffield Hallam, will have her work exhibited as part of Perpetual Uncertainty: Art and Radioactivity at Malmö Konstmuseum opening Friday 23 February 2018. The exhibition will be opened by Isabella Lövin, Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Development Cooperation. The exhibition brings together artists from Europe, Japan and the USA to investigate questions of nuclear technology, radiation […]

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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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