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
Update: Find out more about Design Futures’ win on both Packaging News and the SHU Media Centre. Sheffield Hallam University’s packaging design team, Design Futures, are celebrating after winning the distinguished national title of Design Team of the Year in the UK Packaging Awards – the leading industry awards in the country. Other category winners were some of the UK’s […]
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Why Not Associates is a British multi-disciplinary design studio with a world-wide reputation, who believe that compelling communication demands an element of surprise, whether it’s for postage stamps or public art, TV idents or cultural institutions. WNA has been at the vanguard of British graphic design for the past three decades. Inventive and irreverent, progressive and provocative, their output is […]
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Dr David Clarke, Principal Research Fellow in Journalism, has been invited to speak at the inaugural conference of The Science and Technology Archives Group (STAG) taking place at the Dana Research Centre and Library at the London Science Museum. David will be speaking about his work on the UFO archives release with The National Archives on Friday 17 November 2017 […]
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Film & Photography lecturers Andrew Robinson and Tom Harrison, along with recent graduate Colleen Aveston will be presenting research and demonstrating work alongside members of the Royal Photographic Society and visiting speakers at the Historical Group Research Day 2017 taking place on Saturday 18 November 2017. Historical Group Research Day 2017 Saturday 18 November, 10.30AM – 4PM Cantor Lecturer Theatre 9130, […]
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TC McCormack, Senior Lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, will be exhibiting this week as part of AlgoMech Festival in Sheffield, an exhibition of algorithmic and mechanical movement. Playing the ends against the middle is a new site-specific work made in collaboration with Darren Chouings , and the exhibition is on display at The Access Space Labs in […]
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Professor Lise Autogena’s film work Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld will be shown at This Rare Earth – Stories from Below (as part of Artefact 2018) at STUK in Leuven, Belgium. The exhibition runs from 13 February to 01 March 2018. This Rare Earth – Stories from Below is an exhibition and a festival that gives voice to the stories told by geological […]
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Rose Butler, senior lecturer and Fine Art research scholar, will be exhibiting her dual-screen short film The Fairs at Breturn at Kabinet Múz on 16 and 17 November. Rose will also be giving an artist’s talk at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FAVU) in Brno. The Fair, filmed from the quiet edges of a city centre car park in Sheffield, […]
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Professor Daniela Petrelli (Professor of Interaction Design at Sheffield Hallam University) has been invited to give a series of lectures to MA students, PhD students and staff of Politecnico di Milano School of Design this November. On Monday 06 November, Daniela will be unpacking the relationship between materials and interactive experience in a talk entitled ‘Arguing the case of holistic […]
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Fine Art Research Scholar Rose Butler’s short film Fish will be screened at the This Way Up, the UK film exhibitors’ conference taking place this year in Hull on 07 and 08 November with support from The British Council as partner of Hull City of Culture 2017. Across both days of the conference, a selection of short films will be […]
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Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography by Professor of History Walter Isaacson was published last month on 17 October 2017 and reveals Leonardo da Vinci visited a morgue to perfect Mona Lisa’s smile. The book contains references to Dr Alessandro Soranzo‘s research on Leonardo’s La Bella Principessa and her ‘uncatchable’ smile, in which the shape of her mouth appears to change […]
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