All Outputs (5)

Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting: Design Practice into Practice-led Research. (2015)
Journal Article
Lambert, I. (2015). Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting: Design Practice into Practice-led Research. Making Futures, 4,

This paper appraises design practice as research and how my own work continues to transform into practice-led research. I have worked as an academic and designer-maker of furniture and related products for 25 years. While I have gained much in person... Read More about Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting: Design Practice into Practice-led Research..

Diverting Textile Waste from Landfill with Crafted Objects. (2015)
Journal Article
Lambert, I., & Lliopoulou, T. (2015). Diverting Textile Waste from Landfill with Crafted Objects. Making Futures, 4,

This paper appraises how materials from industrial waste streams have been appropriated for design-craft processes – in this case, synthetic textile waste compression moulded into hard shell clutch bags. Cross-referencing research-led practice with... Read More about Diverting Textile Waste from Landfill with Crafted Objects..

Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting (Exhibition Abstract) (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I. (2015, September). Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting (Exhibition Abstract). Presented at Creative Practice Conference (Making Research Researching Making)

The experimental aluminium sand-cast bowls shown in the attached portfolio (pages 4 - 5) are part of an investigation into design practice as research. This knowledge in doing is being written up and will be the basis of a paper abstract also submit... Read More about Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting (Exhibition Abstract).

Convergence in Industrial and Craft Processes in UK Undergraduate Product Design Courses. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I. (2015). Convergence in Industrial and Craft Processes in UK Undergraduate Product Design Courses.

This paper will discuss the convergence of craft practices and industrial processes in undergraduate Product Design programmes in the UK, and explore how the economy and new technologies have changed the priorities in the curriculum. Tom Inns, Direct... Read More about Convergence in Industrial and Craft Processes in UK Undergraduate Product Design Courses..

Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019 (2015)
Physical Artefact
Lambert, I. Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019. [Images]

The experimental aluminium sand-cast bowls shown in the attached portfolio are part of a practice-based auto-ethnographic heuristic research inquiry into knowledge in doing. John Dunnigan’s essay on Thinking (2013) describes practice-led/based resea... Read More about Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019.