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Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dewberry, E., Sheldrick, L., Sinclair, M., Moreno, M., & Matkatsoris, H. (2017). Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency. In PLATE: Product Lifetimes And The Environment (108-113). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-820-4-108

This paper explores the narrative of peoples' relationships with products as a window on understanding the types of innovation that may inform a culture of sufficiency. The work forms part of the ‘Business as Unusual: Designing Products with Consumer... Read More about Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency.

Observing Women at Work - Franki Raffles (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, A., & Brownrigg, J. (2017, November). Observing Women at Work - Franki Raffles. Paper presented at Fast Forward: Women in Photography, Vilnius, Lithuania

Paper reflecting on the photographs of Franki Raffles (1955-94) from her two project 'To Let You Understand...' (1988) and 'Soviet Women Workers' (1989) shown in the exhibition at The Reid Gallery, The Glasgow School of Art, March-April 2017

Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M., & Winton, E. (2017). Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting. In PLDC 6th Global Lighting Design Conference

Electric street lighting has developed wholly in the age of the motor car. Therefore, normal models of urban lighting are based firmly on designing for vehicle traffic. Standards documents and good practice guidance typically focus on lighting vehicl... Read More about Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting.

Community Media Practice: Filming local knowledge past and present (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MacLeod, K. (2017, November). Community Media Practice: Filming local knowledge past and present. Paper presented at Centre for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews

Seminar presentation at Centre for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews (1/11/17). "Community Media Practice: Filming local knowledge past and present". Presentation of interim research on Asylum Armada research project alongside previous Govan an... Read More about Community Media Practice: Filming local knowledge past and present.

True Colours: explorations in art, design and research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2017). True Colours: explorations in art, design and research. In Color and Imaging Conference (309-312)

Do you see colour the same way that I see colour? As my initial training was as an artist, it is possible that I look at colour very differently from someone with a scientific background. But do all artists or all scientists see the same, how do spe... Read More about True Colours: explorations in art, design and research.

3D printable recycled textiles : material innovation and a resurrection of the forgotten ‘shoddy’ industry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vettese, S. (2017). 3D printable recycled textiles : material innovation and a resurrection of the forgotten ‘shoddy’ industry. In Loughborough University Textile Design Research Group INTERSECTIONS Conference 2017

This paper will disseminate an interdisciplinary project, undertaken at Edinburgh Napier University between the Design and Advanced Materials. Several 3D printable materials are commercially available that use recycled material, but none that incorpo... Read More about 3D printable recycled textiles : material innovation and a resurrection of the forgotten ‘shoddy’ industry.

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.

Jamming in the 3rd Room. (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, September). Jamming in the 3rd Room. Paper presented at Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK

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Carousel: a study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impacts on delivering ‘one week’ exchange experiences (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stoltenberg, E., Firth, R., & Taks, M. (2017, September). Carousel: a study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impacts on delivering ‘one week’ exchange experiences. Paper presented at 19th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE 2017), Oslo, Norway

To prepare students for their future careers in a globalizing society, several large-scale higher education student and staff exchange programmes focus on international collaboration. The organisation and duration of such programmes can often be a ba... Read More about Carousel: a study on collaboration within a small international design community of practice and its impacts on delivering ‘one week’ exchange experiences.

Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buwert, P. (2017, April). Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture. Presented at Design for Next. 12th Eurpoean Academy of Design Conference, Rome, Italy

This paper presents a conception of aesthetic justice which builds on
thoughts of Theodor Adorno and Wolfgang Welsch and attempts to reconcile design’s relationships with both aesthetics and ethics. Where legal justice operates on a principle of hom... Read More about Aesthetic Justice. Design for a blind-spot culture.

Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buwert, P. (2017, April). Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design. Presented at Design for Next. 12th European Academy of Design Conference, Rome, Italy

This paper presents the argument that design is by nature an activity which extends and transforms potentiality and that therefore, because of this, it is always an ethical activity. This foundational ethicality does not guarantee that design will al... Read More about Potentiality: the ethical foundation of design.

A study of the relationship between personalised 3D printed 'Souvenirs of Place' and public perception of modern architectural heritage (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vettese, S., Anastasiadou, C., & Vones, K. (2017, April). A study of the relationship between personalised 3D printed 'Souvenirs of Place' and public perception of modern architectural heritage. Presented at EAD12/2017 Design for Next, Rome, Italy

At present, there is a disconnection between academic and public perception of Modern heritage, particularly Brutalist architecture. This research utilises the processes and experiences of making 3D printed ‘souvenirs of place’ to investigate their p... Read More about A study of the relationship between personalised 3D printed 'Souvenirs of Place' and public perception of modern architectural heritage.

The Love That Dare Not Solve Pre-Victorian Crimes (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bishop, D. (2017, September). The Love That Dare Not Solve Pre-Victorian Crimes. Paper presented at Criminal Heritage: Crime, Fiction, and History

In recent decades gay and lesbian detectives have emerged as a growing, overt presence in crime fiction. But queer sleuths remain hard to find in historical mystery fiction, especially novels with pre-Victorian settings. Are market considerations or... Read More about The Love That Dare Not Solve Pre-Victorian Crimes.

Make What You Desire: An Interactive Blending of the Digital and the Analogue (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Allan, D. (2017). Make What You Desire: An Interactive Blending of the Digital and the Analogue. In Proceedings of the 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017) (HCI)https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.72

3D printing technology has the potential to democratize the manufacturing process. 3D printers have become more affordable so almost anyone can access them either at home, work or a local Fablab. Now that this access is becoming more widespread, it i... Read More about Make What You Desire: An Interactive Blending of the Digital and the Analogue.

The edges of lighting design: Research and practice on the fringes (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2017). The edges of lighting design: Research and practice on the fringes. In New Perspectives on the Future of Healthy Light and Lighting in Daily Life (16-21)

If architectural lighting design is contained within a defined circle, then the edges are, at the very least, quite blurred. All kinds of other lighting practice has straddled the boundaries: theatre, live event, film, light art... All these areas ha... Read More about The edges of lighting design: Research and practice on the fringes.

SKiN: Designing pseudo-physiology into personal technology devices to create enhanced interactions through visceral signifiers and behaviours (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O 'Dowd, A. (2017). SKiN: Designing pseudo-physiology into personal technology devices to create enhanced interactions through visceral signifiers and behaviours.

The majority of technology is now personal. Humans, in turn, are expected to and have personal relationships with their devices. The issue is that humans are biological beings and relate to the world as animals, in a biological way. In contrast, pers... Read More about SKiN: Designing pseudo-physiology into personal technology devices to create enhanced interactions through visceral signifiers and behaviours.

Modernism and Imagist Poetry (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2017, July). Modernism and Imagist Poetry. Presented at Scottish Universities International Summer School, University of Edinburgh

Lecture to the Scottish Universities' International Summer School, University of Edinburgh.