Caroline Claisse: The Augmented House: Crafting tangible interaction in house museums.
With my practice-based PhD, I intended to broaden current practice in exhibition design by means of designing for tangible interaction in house museums.
Louise Finney: Working through Fragments: Fictionalising the Archive
Exploring how archives and indexes can be applied to blur the boundary between fact and fiction
Jerome Harrington: Process made visible: In and outside the object
A practice-based PhD that investigates our relationship to and understanding of the object and its materiality
Victoria Lucas: Reclamation Ground: Reconstituting Place and Female Subjectivity through Artistic Practice
This practice-led PhD explores how the materiality of post-industrial landscapes may be used to deconstruct and reconstitute female subjectivity.
Sophie Parkes-Nield: Thankstide: The English calendar custom as narrative device in contemporary fiction
A practice-based PhD programme, Sophie is writing a novel that incorporates a calendar custom, Thankstide, to examine what it reveals about individuals and communities in contemporary England, and how useful it is as a narrative device for the contemporary creative writer.
Daniela Cascella: Nothing As We Need It: For Chimeric Writing
Nothing As We Need It: For Chimeric Writing is a thesis-work in which a new form of critical writing is imagined, enacted, and studied.
Bryan Eccleshall: Resisting Arrest: Doubting the Art Object through Visual Translation
Bryan Eccleshall's research seeks to investigate the nature of that interest in more detail and has moved towards a more nuanced approach
Amy Graham: On London Buses: Heritage Practices in Everyday Life
The project develops research approaches into ‘heritage’ as both a locus of meaning (the heritage object) and a practice of meaning (a doing) which has affecting as well as personal, political, cultural, and ethical consequences within our everyday lives.
Amal Al-Ismaili: Interpreting the Traditional Jewellery of Bedouin in Oman through Contemporary Jewellery Practice
Research project exploring the subjective value of traditional Omani jewellery
Design 4 Health conference
Events to reflect on how the disciplines of Design and Health might develop new ways of thinking and working, and impact positively and sustainably on social, economic and cultural factors within communities