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Anthropometries Revisited - A Homage to Yves Klein (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I., & Galama, F. (2017, December). Anthropometries Revisited - A Homage to Yves Klein. Poster presented at Drawing Conversations 2: Body, Space, Object

This project is presented as a homage to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries series (1960), but with reference to Klein’s devotion to judo. Klein was a 4th dan black belt in judo, and wrote a book: Les Fondements du Judo (1954; recently republished in Engli... Read More about Anthropometries Revisited - A Homage to Yves Klein.

The Isle of Harris Fish Slice: Industrial Crafting with Ocean Plastic (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I. (2017, September). The Isle of Harris Fish Slice: Industrial Crafting with Ocean Plastic. Paper presented at Making Futures 2017: Crafting a sustainable Modernity - towards a maker aesthetics of production and consumption

This paper appraises the adaptation of injection moulding, a process quintessentially associated with mass production, as a craft process, with ocean plastic as the raw material. This process arose following a visit to the small island of Scarp, just... Read More about The Isle of Harris Fish Slice: Industrial Crafting with Ocean Plastic.

Making as Growth: Narratives in Materials and Process (2017)
Journal Article
Lambert, I., & Speed, C. (2017). Making as Growth: Narratives in Materials and Process. Design Issues, 33(3), 104-109. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00455

As an activity, research through design gives rise to new knowledge from both creative processes and, if there are any, resultant artifacts. Arguably, all creative practitioners are researchers of one kind or another, whether through materials, aesth... Read More about Making as Growth: Narratives in Materials and Process.