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The Acquisition of Design Skills: A Hybrid Practice in the Digital Age (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Allan, D. (2017, June). The Acquisition of Design Skills: A Hybrid Practice in the Digital Age. Presented at LearnXDesign

This paper will briefly discuss the debate between technological determinism and cultural materialism by reviewing relevant literature. Auto-ethnography will be used to explore the experience of the author as a digital native and her experience with... Read More about The Acquisition of Design Skills: A Hybrid Practice in the Digital Age.

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.

3D Scanning: Conference Documentation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Allan, D. (2017, July). 3D Scanning: Conference Documentation. Presented at British Human Computer Interaction 2017, Sunderland University

The intention of the installation, ‘Make What You Desire’ is to make the user feel liberated from manufacturing constraints. They are invited to use plasticine to model anything they like. This is then 3D scanned and 3D printed to form part of a larg... Read More about 3D Scanning: Conference Documentation.

Can You Hear What I Feel? (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moir, Z. (2017, December). Can You Hear What I Feel?. Paper presented at Art of Record Production, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden

No abstract available.

Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2017, December). Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival. Paper presented at European Revivals Conference V - Cultural Mythologies around 1900, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

This paper will argue that the Irish Revival of the late nineteenth, early twentieth century was first-and-foremost a Symbolist movement. Focusing on the writing, thought and actions of, in particular, W. B. Yeats, George Russell (Ӕ), and Patrick Pea... Read More about Seeking God by strange ways: Symbolism and the Irish Revival.

Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2017, November). Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound. Presented at Cumulus conference Bengaluru 2017 – Letters to the Future

In this sound installation, the artist plays back stomach noises recorded before and after a meal, at 1/100th of their normal speed. Douglas Gordon discovered hidden performative meaning in his extreme slow-motion “24 Hour Psycho” (1993). Similarly... Read More about Gastric Tones: A Study in Sound.

Underwater Plastic Frankenstein (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2017, November). Underwater Plastic Frankenstein. Paper presented at Gothic Nature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dewberry, E., Sheldrick, L., Sinclair, M., Moreno, M., & Matkatsoris, H. (2017, November). Developing scenarios for product longevity and sufficiency. Presented at Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) 2017, Delft University of Technology

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

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.

Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M., & Winton, E. (2017, November). Lighting for Cities Inhabited by People, Not Cars: Community Co-Design and Creative Lighting. Presented at Professional Lighting Design Convention: 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.

Illness and the Political Body in Gabby Schulz’s Sick (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kohlert, F. B. (2017, October). Illness and the Political Body in Gabby Schulz’s Sick. Paper presented at PathoGraphics: Stories of Illness/Disability in Literature and Comics Conference, Freie Universität, Germany

True Colours: explorations in art, design and research (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2017, September). True Colours: explorations in art, design and research. Presented at Color and Imaging Conference 25

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, September). 3D printable recycled textiles : material innovation and a resurrection of the forgotten ‘shoddy’ industry. Presented at Intersections, Loughborough University London

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

No abstract available.

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.