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
Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments and products that not only enhance and enrich our lives, but also are mindful of social and sustainable issues. This book sets out to question and challenge the dominant, conventional […]
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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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Title: 5 Walks – A selection of ongoing research projects in the Media Arts Area Speakers: Annie Watson & Jeremy Lee, Media Arts, SHU As a subject group, we have a history of walking, and the idea for this group has organically grown out of our own interests. We are coming from a diverse practice area, and walking has been […]
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Title: Critical Care: the position of artist and patient in artworks made in care contexts Speaker: Dr Becky Shaw I explore the relationship between individual and society through live artworks made in care, education and production contexts. Works are made through rigorous responsiveness to situation, with no prior known outcome. I teach undergraduate creative art practice and MA Fine Art […]
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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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Neubau Forst Catalogue is a 432-page print catalogue of a digital collection of tree silhouettes and sculptures seen at different seasons. Working by hand, the Neubau designers digitally removed the trees from their original Berlin surroundings and thereby crafted a body of visual material whose scope, outstanding quality of detail and excellent image resolution sets it clearly apart from conventional […]
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