Award nomination for Design Futures collaborative project with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Mark Jayes with MCAST toolkit

A collaborative project between John Kirkby of Design Futures, speech and language therapist Mark Jayes, and staff and patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation has been recognised by Mediplex NHS Innovation Awards 2017.   The Mental Capacity Assessment Support Toolkit (MCAST) supports multidisciplinary staff to carry out robust mental capacity assessment and could better support vulnerable patients to communicate their needs.  MCAST has been tested with […]

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Tuesday 28 March 2017 – lunchtime seminar with Julie Westerman (Fine Art, SHU)

Image of 01 spray-painted on the ground

Speaker: Julie Westerman (Fine Art, SHU) Title: Trigger Point – Lisbon Julie’s practice embraces both individual research concerns and interdisciplinary curatorial practice. She works across sculpture, drawing, film, animation, and CAD processes. Ongoing research brings together a body of work that considers our pervading anxiety over global warming and our reactions to catastrophic events of natural forces. Recent curatorial projects have been concerned […]

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Researcher blog by Annie Watson of SOLAR: Walking at the Speed of Light #1 From where we began to where we are now and where we might want to go

SOLAR - Walk at the Speed of Light Launch. Photo by Andrew Robinson.

  About the author Annie Watson is Subject Group Leader for Film and Photography and a founder member of the Walking Arts Research Group in Media Arts. In this post, Annie gives us a brief introduction to the Walking Arts Research Group – the people behind the new walking / art app SOLAR: Walking at the Speed of Light.   Myself […]

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Esther Johnson to present ‘Abstractions of Holderness’ at Hull: City of Cinema on 26 March 2017

Image from Abstractions of Holderness by Esther Johnson

Abstractions of Holderness is an audio-visual work by Esther Johnson and Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs inspired by Basil Kirchin’s 1970s residency in East Yorkshire. Kirchin, an English drummer and composer, is known as a pioneer of musique concrète and has been described by Brian Eno as, “a founding father of ambient”. Hull: City of Cinema is a […]

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Conflict Minerals – Exhibition opens 24 March and features ‘Kuannersuit; Kvanefjeld’ by Lise Autogena (Cross-Disciplinary Art, SHU)

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

In a month-long exhibition and inquiry, Arts Catalyst looks at artists’ practices that explore the nature of conflict in relation to the use of the Earth’s geological natural resources. 24 March 2017 – 22 April 2017 Arts Catalyst London WC1H 8DR Exhibition open Thursday – Saturday, 12PM – 6PM Preview: 6:30PM – 9PM on Thursday 23 March Advances in technology […]

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Friday 24 March – Make.Practice.Perfect at CVAN East Midlands Annual Event features talk on procrastination by Joanne Lee (Graphic Design, SHU)

Banner images for event Make.Practice.Perfect by CVAN East Midlands

Joanne Lee, photographer, writer, researcher and publisher and Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Sheffield Hallam University will be speaking at Make.Practice.Perfect. at The Collection, Lincoln on the topic of Procrastination: preparation, perfection and excuses. Find out more about Joanne’s work here.   Make.Practice.Perfect. Annual Event Friday 24 March 2017 10AM – 5PM The Collection & Usher Gallery, Lincoln LN2 1LP How do […]

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Somewhere Becoming Sea – Esther Johnson’s moving image work included in Film & Video Umbrella Hull 2017 (April – June)

Concrete blocks near the sea, with warning of coastal erosion

Esther Johnson‘s Hinterland (2002), and new commission Retreating the Line (2017), have been selected for Somewhere Becoming Sea curated by Film and Video Umbrella as part of Hull 2017 UK City of Culture. 5 April 2017 – 17 June 2017 Somewhere Becoming Sea Humber Street Gallery, Hull HU1 1TU Somewhere Becoming Sea reflects how expanses of water that divide countries […]

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Designing for Service – Key Issues and New Directions – Features chapter by Professor Ian Gwilt

Image by Bloomsbury - Designing for Service book

Service design is the activity of planning and organising people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service in order to improve its quality and the interaction between service provider and customers. It is now a growing field of both practice and academic research. Designing for Service brings together a wide range of international contributors to map the field of […]

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