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
Plunge, Flip, Bump and Score refers to the common features of a traditional pinball machine, the mechanics used in order to win. Pinball machines are a symbol of nostalgic Americana yet there is still a dedicated community of pinball players who compete in tournaments around the world. Pinball might conjure up nostalgic images of dusty seaside arcades, but talk to […]
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The Northern Artists’ Film Programme is a selection of cutting-edge work from innovative artists across the north, featuring work from students and new talent as well as established filmmakers. Work was submitted through open call and selected by a professional panel. For one day Quays Culture are presenting a diverse programme of artists’ films, including Rose Butler‘s digital short The […]
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Professor Lise Autogena, Professor of Cross-disciplinary Art, is taking part in the exhibition and symposium-performance Anthropocene Monument at Les Abbatoirs in Toulouse this October. In 2000 Eugene F. Stoermer and Paul Crutzen proposed that we are now not in the Holocene but the ‘Anthropocene’, a new geological epoch in which human beings are the determining geological force. The Anthropocene Working […]
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After leaving the Slade in the late 1980s, Keith Wilson worked for a year with deaf-blind adults as art instructor. Drawing two spaced fingertips in a wave motion across the forehead of a student, a tactile ‘brainwave’ sign announced the arrival of the artist, the subject of art, and the imminent activity of making art. This modification of the British […]
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Professor Paul Chamberlain, Design Director of Lab4Living has received official membership status with other new network members of the European Network of Living Labs (ENOLL). Professor Paul Chamberlain and Dr Claire Craig (Design and Health Directors of Lab4Living respectively) travelled to the Netherlands recently to attend the European Network of Open Living Labs’ annual conference. During the course of the […]
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Professor Christoph Zellweger has been invited to give a lecture at this year’s Šperk Stret 2014 conference, taking place from 08 – 10 October. He will be presenting ‘What’s up with jewellery / news from the edge’. The 6th International Conference of Contemporary Jewellery in Bratislava Šperk Stret 2014 follows running tradition, evolves consciousness in this art discipline and creates […]
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Professor Paul Chamberlain will deliver a keynote at the Design Thinking Symposium which will be part of Design Week held at Marinha Grande in Portugal between 03 and 11 October 2014. The Symposium is a week dedicated to design and engineering that includes conferences and exhibitions, promoted by universities and industrial institutions. This event has the support of the Presidency […]
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The 21st International Seminar on Urban Form – ISUF2014, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, took place from 03 to 06 July 2014. Professor Paul Chamberlain delivered a keynote speech at the conference, and you can see a short clip here. The theme of the conference was ‘Our common future in urban morphology’. It reflects […]
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Dr Esther Johnson‘s Chalk Trace, which was made in 2013 for Channel 4’s Random Acts, is being shown between 06 September and 05 October as part of the Stroud Arts Festival. The centenary of Stroud’s most celebrated writer Laurie Lee (1914 -1997) is being marked with a host of events throughout the year in Stroud and the surrounding valleys. Chalk […]
Read moreRegister here for the workshops and action tanks in the Business Innovation Network or BIN@Sheffield 2014. You can also use the same weblink to register for a range of evening social events across the BIN event.
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