Tag: ADRC

Art & Design Research Centre

Lab4Living flying the flag for Design at the College of Occupational Therapists’ Harrogate Conference

Lab4Living - Claire Craig at RCOT Harrogate

Lab4Living’s Claire Craig and Swiss Colleague Ursi Gubler attended the Royal College of Occupational Therapists Conference in Harrogate to highlight the value of design in health. Claire and Ursi delivered a joint paper presentation describing the eight-year collaboration between Lab4Living and ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) and the developments in research and practice that have occurred through this. Claire […]

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Lab4Living – Redesigning mental health services in London

2017-04 Lab4Living redesigning mental health

Lab4Living’s Claire Craig was recently invited to facilitate a series of master classes in London for occupational therapists wanting to deliver and embed the Lifestyle Matters approach into mental health services. Lifestyle Matters is an intervention developed through research with older people in Sheffield. The original research was undertaken over ten years ago by Claire Craig and Gail Mountain and […]

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Lab4Living’s Claire and Paul are invited to visit a Maori Marae

Lab4Living in Auckland visiting a Maori Marae

Lab4Living Claire Craig and Paul Chamberlain had the honour of being invited to visit a Maori Marae in Auckland, New Zealand. Here they were able to learn of rich history and the cultural traditions of the Maori community as well as hearing about some of the health and social care challenges facing individuals. One of their hosts, Kataraina Davis, is […]

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Lab4Living – Bringing older people together on Waiheke Island

Lab4Living on Waiheke Island

Claire Craig, Paul Chamberlain and Dan Wolstenholme, Lab4Living were recently invited to meet with a group whose formation was inspired by research in Sheffield. When researchers from the Design for Health and Wellbeing Lab in New Zealand visited Sheffield in September 2016 they had the opportunity to meet attendees of the Lifestyle Matters Group. Claire established this group 12 years ago in a research […]

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Echoes of Protest – Article by SHU’s Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin published in The Journal of the Oral History Society

An image of a badge held in a pair of hands. The badge reads 'It's our future / Kids against pit closures'

Echoes of Protest is a collaborative research project by SHU’s Esther Johnson and Debbie Ballin. The Journal of the Oral History Society has published the co-authored journal Echoes of Protest: untold stories of the 1984–1985 UK Miners’ Strike, by Esther and Debbie. It will feature in their Spring 2017 issue. For more than thirty years the Oral History Society has […]

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Wednesday 05 April 2017 – Lunchtime seminar with Professor Deniz Hasirci (Izmir University, Turkey)

An image of a chair with the DATUMM logo

Title: Modern Furniture and Interiors – The DATUMM Project Speaker: Associate Professor Dr Deniz Hasirci (Izmir University, Turkey) DATUMM: Documenting and Archiving Turkish Modern Furniture is based on the history of modern furniture design in Turkey. The aim of this project is to highlight modern furniture designed and produced in Turkey in the modern periods that can be defined as […]

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Wednesday 29 March 2017 – Lecture and workshop on ‘Wool, a national sustainable fibre’ featuring Lynn Wilson from Zero Waste Scotland

Promotional image for Lynn Wilson's lecture/workshop entitled Wool, a national sustainable fibre

Speaker: Lynn Wilson (Zero Waste Scotland) Title: Wool, a national sustainable fibre Hosted by: Alison Gwilt and Jackie Leaver Dr Alison Gwilt and Jackie Leaver host textile designer Lynn Wilson (Zero Waste Scotland) this Wednesday, with a lecture open to all researchers and students. Following the lecture there will also be a workshop. Lynn has a textiles background and the […]

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Visibility Conference – Askance? Oblique – 31 March 2017

Visibility Conference logo

It is central to the shaping of political, ethical and socio-economic concerns, in culture and within the subcultures it informs. Visibility within practice-based research can expose and question visual hierarchies, authority, authorship, the politics of technology, balances of power and representation or prompt dissent. Here, visibility is a concept that we have adapted and extended from the philosophies of Michel […]

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Lise Autogena’s ‘Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld’ selected for screening in Nuclear Art and Archives, Dundee on 08 April 2017

An image of a landfill by the sea, from overhead.

Nuclear Art and Archives Visual Research Center Dundee Contemporary Arts DD1 4DY 08 April 2017 1.30PM – 7PM A day of artists’ films and discussions about nuclear art and archives considering the kinds of knowledge and reflective spaces that contemporary art produces for rethinking the nuclear. As the civil industry starts to consolidate its archives at the new Nuclear Archive […]

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