This research seeks to investigate how community-based projects use making to enable more connected communities and to support more sustainable economic practices.

The "Practical Design for Social Action" project's goal is to develop and extend the capability of social action organisations to creatively design new practices by appropriating and adapting Internet Communication Technologies.

With welding by robots on the up the challenge is to develop flexible automation systems that can be set up quickly and can be transferred to another product line while maintaining quality and profitability.

3D scanning of the Man of Steel sculpture, a metallic work of art created by local artist Steve Mehdi.

M.B O’Toole is a UK based artist, researcher, and associate lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. In 2014 she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s PhD Scholarship from Sheffield Hallam University to undertake practice-based research.

Analogue Kingdom is an audio-visual installation by Esther Johnson, commissioned by Sound and Music and BBC Radio 3 for Cut and Splice: Transmission.

The publication Brutalist Speculations and Flights of Fancy is based on six buildings from the period of Brutalist architecture commissioned for Sheffield in the 1960s. Park Hill Flats, Castle Markets, Moor Street Substation, Holy Cross Church Gleadless Valley, Norton Water Tower and the now demolished Psalter Lane Art School.

If we may agree that there is another unheard language, beyond the ring of our ears, may we begin to say what ‘is being said’, what we ‘are not hearing’? This forces us to look deeper, to search for patterns, to learn how to recognise the forces at play. What do these forces look like?

The exhibition Not For You opened in Berlin at LoBe in April 2011. We used this space to set out a boundary encircling common and contested ground, to externalize a developing dialogue through a structure of mediating ideas.

Fly Birdie Fly is a product of The Arty Sciency Sporty Art (ASSA) initiative, a cross-college project at Sheffield Hallam University, which intends to use Sport as a gateway into Art and a gateway into Science for the general public