{"id":5895,"date":"2019-01-09T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=5895"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:12:41","slug":"lunchtime-seminar-david-swann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/lunchtime-seminar-david-swann\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 23 January 2019 &#8211; Lunchtime seminar with Professor David Swann (Professor in Design)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/david-swann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor David Swann<\/a> (Professor in Design, Subject Leader for Product, Furniture and Interior)<br \/>\n<strong>Title: <\/strong><em>Work in Progress<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Art and Design Research Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/research\/specialisms\/cultural-communication-and-computing-research-institute\/research-centres\/art-and-design-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ADRC<\/a>) and the Department of Art &amp; Design this lunchtime seminar will share research activities related to three of David&#8217;s on-going projects:<\/p>\n<p>Kos: Material Witnesses<br \/>\nWarchild: Digital Tablet Desks<br \/>\nUNICEF: U-Think<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David is Professor in Design, and Subject Leader for Product, Furniture and Interior. He is a double graduate of the Royal College of Art (MDes Industrial Design &#8211; 1991 and PhD &#8211; 2011). His design research is grounded in global healthcare challenges.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, David won the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design\u2019s World Design Impact Prize. In the same year he was selected to participate in the UK\u2019s inaugural GREAT Festival of Creativity, a showcase for British innovation. David&#8217;s ABC syringe resides in the London Design Museum and Science Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts, Lausanne.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.00PM \u2013 2.00PM<br \/>\nWEDNESDAY 23 JANUARY 2019<br \/>\nCANTOR 9020a<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Professor David Swann (Professor in Design, Subject Leader for Product, Furniture and Interior) Title: Work in Progress Funded by the Art and Design Research Centre (ADRC) and the Department of Art &amp; Design this lunchtime seminar will share research activities related to three of David&#8217;s on-going projects: Kos: Material Witnesses Warchild: Digital Tablet Desks UNICEF: U-Think Biography: David is [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":5897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[5,156,946,944,947,945,655,626],"class_list":["post-5895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-david-swann","tag-digital-tablet-desks","tag-kos","tag-material-witnesses","tag-u-think","tag-unicef","tag-warchild"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-23-SWANN-Work-in-Progress-Seminar.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1x5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4140,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/david-swann-inaugural-professorial-lecture\/","url_meta":{"origin":5895,"position":0},"title":"D for Design: Professor David Swann&#8217;s inaugural Professorial lecture at SHU &#8211; 23 January 2018","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"11\/01\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"David Swann, Professor of Design and Subject Group Leader for Product & Furniture Design at the Sheffield Institute of Arts, will be hosting his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 23 January 2018, presenting a selection of\u00a0projects, milestones and experiences that have shaped his design research practice: past, present and future. 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