Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Showcasing research from the Culture & Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University
Art & Design Research Centre
Title: Folles de leur corps / Crazy about their bodies Speaker: Dr Sharon Kivland (Fine Art, SHU) In a footnote in Capital, chapter 2: The Process of Exchange, Karl Marx writes: ‘In the twelfth century […], very delicate things often appear among these commodities. Thus a French poet [Guillot de Paris] of the period enumerates among the commodities to be […]
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Heidi Probst and Heath Reed have won another National Institute for Health Research Invention for Innovation (NIHR i4i) project for Lab4Living. With a development fund of £576,000, the Lab4Living team with clinical and industrial partners can now move forward with the development of a support device that will allow accurate positioning of the breast on a day-to-day basis, that is […]
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Dr Alessandro Soranzo‘s article, PSYCHOACOUSTICS: a comprehensive MATLAB toolbox for auditory testing recently published in Frontiers in Psychology, received a total of 1944 clicks making it among the best performing articles in Frontiers. Alessandro has been invited to use the article as the foundation for a Frontiers Research Topic. With Research Topics, Frontiers seeks to change the way research is […]
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Title: Positioning creative, three dimensional design practice and understanding its role and value in university based social research and development projects Speaker: Heath Reed (Design Futures, SHU) Heath Reed is an Industrial Designer and Design Researcher embedded within Sheffield Hallam Universities commercially focused product design consultancy, Design Futures and the Art and Design Research Centres Lab4living initiative. He graduated with […]
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Title: Saving lives and design activism: Fashion and textiles research Speaker: Professor Robyn Healy (RMIT University, Australia) Professor Robyn Healy, Head of the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University Melbourne will discuss RMIT’s current research initiatives including cross disciplinary cohorts, research centre and practice-led PhD programs. This lunchtime seminar is hosted by Dr Alison Gwilt, Reader in Fashion […]
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Title: Why the same colour can appear different? Speaker: Dr Alessandro Soranzo (Psychology, SHU) Dr Alessandro Soranzo is a Reader in Psychology within the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. His main area of interest lies in the Psychology of Perception, including; Colour and Illumination Perception, Visual Illusions, Perception and Art, Virtual Reality, and Robotics. Colour contrast […]
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Professor Paul Chamberlain, Head of the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC) at Sheffield Hallam University, was keynote speaker at the Design Turkey Conference and was part of the international jury for the Design Turkey Industrial Design Awards 2014 which took place in Istanbul on 28 November 2014. Paul’s keynote was titled: Design for Well Being – Living Labs and […]
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Title: Remapping Dissensus in Cognitive Capitalism: The Glossary of Cognitive Activism Speaker: Warren Neidich Warren Neidich is a Berlin and Los Angeles-based post-conceptual artist and theorist who exposes the interfaces between Marxist inspired cultural production and its interrelationship to the brain and cognitive capitalism to produce an Emancipatory Materialism. His interdisciplinary anarchic experimental works combine photographic and video elements, Internet […]
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The programme for the Fine Art lecture series, Gravity, has been announced for 2014/15. Please see below for information on each discussion, the invited artist and the chair. In 2014/15 we invited guests to discuss their work by focusing on Time. We will look at how time is used as form, content and material by artists and how they have […]
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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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