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
The 21st International Seminar on Urban Form – ISUF2014, hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, took place from 03 to 06 July 2014. Professor Paul Chamberlain delivered a keynote speech at the conference, and you can see a short clip here. The theme of the conference was ‘Our common future in urban morphology’. It reflects […]
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Dr Esther Johnson‘s Chalk Trace, which was made in 2013 for Channel 4’s Random Acts, is being shown between 06 September and 05 October as part of the Stroud Arts Festival. The centenary of Stroud’s most celebrated writer Laurie Lee (1914 -1997) is being marked with a host of events throughout the year in Stroud and the surrounding valleys. Chalk […]
Read moreRegister here for the workshops and action tanks in the Business Innovation Network or BIN@Sheffield 2014. You can also use the same weblink to register for a range of evening social events across the BIN event.
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Professor Paul Chamberlain and Dr Claire Craig (Design and Health Directors of Lab4Living respectively) travelled to Netherlands recently to attend the European Network of Open Living Labs annual conference. During the course of the three-day event, there was a ceremonious welcome to all new network members with Lab4Living standing proudly as one of this new wave of members. The European Network […]
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The UK Premier of Rose Butler‘s Lines of Resistance will be at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival in September 2014. Lines of Resistance is a body of work comprising of a short 7-minute digital short film and two composite photographic panoramas. The Berlin Wall presents a brutal environment illustrating a bleak history, which is disrupted by the arrival […]
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Hester Reeve’s YMEDACA: 28 June 2014 – 07 September 2014 The artist’s concerns are documented in two exhibitions – ‘The Temple of the Muses’ in the NAEA and ‘The Game Plan’ in the Upper Space. YMEDACA is the name for Reeve’s experimental open-air academy which, on 30 August 2014, will offer visitors a unique chance to experience creative activities inspired […]
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Made entirely of Scottish film archive, From Scotland With Love is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director and Sheffield Hallam University Professor of Film Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long […]
Read moreIn the Health Services Research Network (HSRN) Symposium 2013, Trish Greenhalgh suggested that new, more engaged research approaches “are strangled at birth in the name of rigour”. She argued that the research establishment was hostile to the kind of health services research that might make a difference, providing insight into the complexities of the NHS (from Tara Lamonts’ blog http://taralamont.blogspot.co.uk/). […]
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Professor of Design and Design History Paul Atkinson has been invited to be one of the keynote speakers at the New Horizons of Design Symposium on Research and Innovation in Design Graduate, which is to be held from 6 – 10 October 2014 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Besides being one of the most recognised universities in […]
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Transmission Annual #4: Labour, Work, Action is framed by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on three important themes of human agency. Arendt refused to be called a philosopher, for philosophy, she said, deals with the singular, while she addressed the plural, that humans not man inhabit the world. She proposes that freedom is constructed in community, in common space, and it is […]
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