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
Esther Johnson‘s poetic documentary feature film Asunder is featured in the current 14-18 NOW programme of arts events connecting people with the First World War. 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. Asunder has a soundtrack […]
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Joanne Lee (Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at SHU) will speak at a symposium entitled Re-thinking Thinking in Art and Design Education: thoughts on/from/with creative practice with the aim to explore the location and practice of thinking in art and design education and what it means to integrate thinking and making, theory and practice. The symposium, organised by UWE Bristol […]
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C3RI secure £50,000 funding to lead on revolutionary work looking at how virtual reality can help injured children through painful rehabilitation. In a partnership between Hallam, the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust the project, currently dubbed ‘VR Rehab PlayRoom’, aims to develop interactive VR scenarios which will require the children to perform the required exercises for […]
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Professor Esther Johnson has been invited to present at Practices of belonging, practices of place: Conversations in film & research, an afternoon workshop aimed at those interested in video and film methods at Goldsmiths. It will bring together three teams of researchers and film-makers to discuss the process of collaboration and the potential of using film in social research and […]
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SHU has revealed plans for three new public art installations in the Sheffield Institute of Arts Head Post Office building, to celebrate Sheffield’s creativity and the history of creative teaching at the SIA. Claire Lockwood, Head of the Department of Art & Design at Sheffield Hallam, has spoken to The Star as the University reveals plans for three artworks to […]
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Update: Alaster’s work was featured in Elite Business where the finding of his research found that 20% of the older age group will switch brands rather than struggle to open a carton or bottle. Healthcare catering operators, NHS buyers and suppliers are being urged to use their influence to help make food and drink packs easier to open. A coalition […]
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Ivan Phelan and his team have just completed the ‘Confidence in Concept’ phase of their virtual reality (VR) for pain distraction project. This research used the application of VR gaming to medical procedures for burns patients with a focus on in-patients’ need for diversion from pain when undergoing painful dressing changes. Following a consultative workshop with burns survivors and clinicians, […]
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Immaterial structures and material products are invariably subject to physical decay and social decline – no matter how grandiose or technologically advanced they might be. This exhibition explores sites of urban development and transformation to consider how we navigate and repurpose the future ruins of our urban surroundings. Hard Engineering – Propositions for Future Ruins is an exhibition curated by […]
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Hester Reeve, artist and Reader in Fine Art in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC), has just completed the first part of her joint residency at Kings College London (KCL) and at Kunsthuis SYB in The Netherlands. Based at the Centre for Philosophy and the Visuals Arts (CVPA) at KCL, Hester has been working with Dr John Callanan on Kant’s Groundwork of the Metaphysics […]
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[Photograph by Alex Irklievski] SHU Professor of Sculpture Keith Wilson as Director of Humanities at the Graduate Centre at City University of New York (CUNY) has recently been involved with the relocation of iconic casts of friezes, metopes and pediments of the Parthenon as part of a refurbishment of the Graduate Centre, preserving of a key piece of history and […]
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