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Art & Design Research Centre

Wednesday 23 January 2019 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor David Swann (Professor in Design)

Seminar banner for David Swann - Work in Progress. Image by David Swann.

Speaker: Professor David Swann (Professor in Design, Subject Leader for Product, Furniture and Interior) Title: Work in Progress Funded by the Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC) and the Department of Art & Design this lunchtime seminar will share research activities related to three of David’s on-going projects: Kos: Material Witnesses Warchild: Digital Tablet Desks UNICEF: U-Think Biography: David is […]

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‘MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS’: Sharon Kivland featured in exhibition

Alexis Granowsky, Les Aventures du Roi Pausole, 1933

MAINS GANTEÉES ET PIEDS BOTTÉS: Représentations d’armées de femmes et corps collectifs féminin Éditions Incertain Sens / Cabinet du livre d’artiste, Université Rennes  17 February 2019 – 19 March 2019 Curated by Lise Lerichomme Women in battalions are often portrayed as caricatures, assigned to be only the mechanical or erotic repetition of a generic character. Yet these alignments of booted […]

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Feminist Methodologies 2019 Symposium on 01-02 April 2019 features talk by Dr Sharon Kivland

Feminist Methodologies logo

Loughborough University’s Feminist Methodologies Symposium will take place this year on Monday 01 and Tuesday 02 April, showcasing a a multi-disciplinary range of current feminist methodologies and approaches. There will also be a PGR session as part of the programme (currently TBC) followed by evening performances. Feminist Methodologies Symposium 2019 Martin Hall, Loughborough LE11 3TU See here for ticketing. Final programme TBC. Featuring talks […]

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‘Queer as Folklore: A year of English customs’ – Andrew Robinson featured in BBC article documenting calendar customs across England

Two of Andrew Robinson's images from 'Another England' with BBC logo

Work by Andrew Robinson, Senior Lecturer in Photography at Sheffield Hallam, is currently included in a popular BBC On-line article about seasonal customs entitled Queer as Folklore: A year of English customs. The article has been receiving worldwide attention with upwards of 90,000 views. The images are from an unpublished body of work Andrew undertook in the late 1990s documenting calendar customs […]

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Rose Butler’s ‘Line of Resistance’ screening at the Filmwinter Stuttgart Festival for Expanded Media this month

Still from Rose Butler's 'Lines of Resistance' and Stuttgarter Filmwinter logo

Rose Butler‘s Lines of Resistance will be screened at the 32 Filmwinter Stuttgarter Festival for Expanded Media on Saturday 19 January 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany. Lines of Resistance will form part of the screening curated by A BROKEN LINK, a survey of contemporary practice in artist film and video. The themes explored include ideas of temporal and geographical displacement, of how digital technologies bring […]

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SIP success: Design Futures’ festive pop-up shop raises nearly £500 for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity

Image of John Kirkby at the Design Futures SIP pop-up festive shop

Design Futures raised nearly £500 for Sheffield Children’s Hospital Charity at their festive pop-up shop last month, selling products the packaging design consultancy had designed the packaging for as part of the Sheffield Innovation Programme. John Kirkby and his team within the University’s design consultancy, Design Futures, have been supporting local businesses across the region and providing packaging expertise as part of […]

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‘The computer mouse at 50’ – Professor Paul Atkinson on the BBC World Service’s Click

Image of Paul Atkinson, an old computer mouse (from BBC World Service, Prototype of the first mouse computer presented in 1968 (invented in 1963 by Douglas C. Engelbart) Credit: Apic/Getty Images) and BBC World Service logo

Professor of Design and Design History Paul Atkinson  was a guest on BBC World Service’s Click programme on Saturday 29 December talking about the computer mouse on its 50th anniversary and how the design was developed and refined. Fifty years ago Doug Engelbart, engineer and inventor from the Augmentation Research Center Lab, gave what has become known as the ‘mother of […]

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‘Exorcising the present ghosts of our immediate future’: Fine Art’s Gravity series in collaboration with SIA and Site Gallery Sheffield – Discussion on Thursday 06 December

Site Gallery Discussion: Exorcising the present ghosts of our immediate future

On the cusp of Site Gallery’s 40th year this event in collaboration with Sheffield Institute of Arts and Fine Art Gravity lecture series looks back at the archive of curatorial history (particularly in relation to technology) – to the ghosts of exhibitions that haunt us – to see how this process impacts on contemporary curating. Discussion: Exorcising the present ghosts […]

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Creative People Facing Global Challenges: Professor Lise Autogena speaking at COP24 on Friday 07 December 2018

Professor Lise Autogena 'Creative People Facing Global Challenges' panel at the COP24 climate conference in Katowize

On Friday 07 December 2018, Professor Lise Autogena will be speaking at the Creative People Facing Global Challenges panel at the COP24 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowize, Poland. The event takes place at Muzeum Śląskie and involves prestigious international artists and architects, including artists Lise Autogena, John Gerrard, Jérémy Gobé and Polish architect Marcin Szczelina. The panel will be […]

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