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Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., Stoltenberg, E., & Jennings, T. Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design. Presented at iJADE Conference: Sustainability in Creative Arts Education

The world is facing environmental changes that are increasingly affecting how we think about manufacturing, the consumption of products and use of resources. Within the HE product design community, thinking and designing sustainability’ has evolved t... Read More about Using an Outdoor Learning Space to Teach Sustainability and Material Processes in HE Product Design.

Using Moving Image to Facilitate Storytelling as an Ideation Methodology and a Platform to Enhance the Integration of International Student Cohorts Within HE Product Design. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., & Stoltenberg, E. (2016, September). Using Moving Image to Facilitate Storytelling as an Ideation Methodology and a Platform to Enhance the Integration of International Student Cohorts Within HE Product Design. Presented at 18th International

The use of moving image within HE Product Design education is increasing. Here, film is commonly used as a tool for the presentation of concepts or finished objects, as an instructional tool, and in user observations and research. Iteration technique... Read More about Using Moving Image to Facilitate Storytelling as an Ideation Methodology and a Platform to Enhance the Integration of International Student Cohorts Within HE Product Design..

Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., Jennings, T., Cochrane, R., Taks, M., & Van de Graaf, P. (2016). Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies.

‘Work on the move’ is a design, process-driven methodology, which uses multiple locations within an outdoors setting and movement between locations, all of which function as learning places, confined to a specified time period. Between 2012 and 2015... Read More about Work on the Move: mobile and nomadic working methodologies..

An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design (2015)
Journal Article
Buwert, P. M. (2015). An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design. Artifact, 3(3), 4. https://doi.org/10.14434/artifact.v3i3.3960

Design is often thought of as an activity seeking to change existing situations into preferred ones (Simon, 1969). But how are designers to discern what the nature of this “preferred” change should be? What would it mean to truly design ethically? In... Read More about An/Aesth/Ethics: the ethical potential of design.

Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2015). Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum. In PLDC 2015 Proceedings

Exhibition lighting in museums and galleries usually strives to render the true nature of the surface of the exhibits. This would normally include using light sources that provide the most accurate rendering of colour and tone - white light sources w... Read More about Digital Lighting for the Analogue Museum.

Lighting Design as a Second Language. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Innes, M. (2015, October). Lighting Design as a Second Language. Presented at LES RENCARDS DE L’ACETYLÈNE 2015, Paris

Lighting Education for Non-Specialists: How does anyone end up working as a lighting designer? We have all discovered the joy of lighting design through different routes. When friends in kindergarten wanted to be firemen and astronauts, I did not... Read More about Lighting Design as a Second Language..

Sand Casting on the Beach - Introducing Traditional Making Skills, Materials and Process through Play and Experimentation. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Firth, R., & Stoltenberg, E. (2015, September). Sand Casting on the Beach - Introducing Traditional Making Skills, Materials and Process through Play and Experimentation. Paper presented at 17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN E

Within the higher education (HE) product design field, many researchers stress the importance for students to recognise and value the relationship between practical 3D object-making experience, and experimenting with process and materials. Given the... Read More about Sand Casting on the Beach - Introducing Traditional Making Skills, Materials and Process through Play and Experimentation..

Thermochromic dyes and sunlight activating systems - An alternative means to induce colour change. (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ledendal, M., Christie, R. M., & Vettese-Forster, S. (2013). Thermochromic dyes and sunlight activating systems - An alternative means to induce colour change

The general purpose of this work is to investigate the potential of a mobile phone to capture soil colour images and process them, returning the corresponding Munsell colour coordi- nates from the digital RGB captured images, and also estimate the tr... Read More about Thermochromic dyes and sunlight activating systems - An alternative means to induce colour change..

Relating Innovative 2D Ideas into 3D Garments in Terms of Structure, Using ‘Sculptural Form Giving’ as an Intermediate Step in Creation. (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kalkreuter, B., Vettese-Forster, S., & Huang, Y. C. (2011). Relating Innovative 2D Ideas into 3D Garments in Terms of Structure, Using ‘Sculptural Form Giving’ as an Intermediate Step in Creation.

This research focuses on finding a fashion design methodology to reliably translate innovative two-dimensional ideas on paper, via a structural design sculpture, into an intermediate model. The author, both as a fashion designer and a researcher, h... Read More about Relating Innovative 2D Ideas into 3D Garments in Terms of Structure, Using ‘Sculptural Form Giving’ as an Intermediate Step in Creation..

Projects for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Engaging Students across Design Disciplines in a Shared Undergraduate First Year Curriculum. (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I., & Firth, R. (2010). Projects for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Engaging Students across Design Disciplines in a Shared Undergraduate First Year Curriculum.

On undergraduate design courses at Edinburgh Napier University, two thirds of the first year curriculum is shared. Working in open studios, students are able to gain awareness of each others’ modes of practice and the common skills that transcend dis... Read More about Projects for Multi-Disciplinary Teams: Engaging Students across Design Disciplines in a Shared Undergraduate First Year Curriculum..

Lost in Translation: Teaching Product Design Across Cultural and Language Boundaries in China and the United Kingdom (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I., & Firth, R. (2009). Lost in Translation: Teaching Product Design Across Cultural and Language Boundaries in China and the United Kingdom.

This paper will explore strategies for transcending cultural and language barriers by two British design tutors when teaching in design studios at a Chinese university. Ian Lambert and Richard Firth, both based at Edinburgh Napier University in Scot... Read More about Lost in Translation: Teaching Product Design Across Cultural and Language Boundaries in China and the United Kingdom.

Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together. (2008)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rodgers, P., Rogers, J., Anusas, M., Milton, A., Pengelly, J., Whittet, C., …Kasprzak, M. (2008). Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together. In Proceedings of Engineering and Product Design Conference (377-38

This paper describes the work of Product Scotland, a collaborative network of product designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers based in Scotland. One of the key aims of the Product Scotland network is to achieve research excellence through k... Read More about Product Scotland: bringing designers, anthropologists, artists and engineers together..

Pencils Don't Crash. (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lambert, I., & Firth, R. (2006). Pencils Don't Crash.

While the title might suggest otherwise, this is not a polemic against CAD. The aim of this paper is to examine how the emphasis on drawing in design education has changed and the future implications in a digital world. Drawing is unquestionably a... Read More about Pencils Don't Crash..

Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable, 3D printed Souvenirs (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Forster, S., & Anastasiadou, C. (2015). Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable, 3D printed Souvenirs. In Proceedings Heritage Tourism & Hospitality International Conference 2015

This research set out to investigate whether technological innovations in design and the personalisation of tourist souvenirs through 3D printing, could offer opportunities to break away from stereotypically throwaway, low quality, mass manufactured... Read More about Enhancing the Tourist Heritage Experience through In-Situ, Customisable, 3D printed Souvenirs.

Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vones, K. (2013). Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects. In All Makers Now?

The idea of creating a jewellery organism that comes alive on the body has fascinated and inspired my research ever since learning about the potential inherent in smart materials almost ten years ago. While smart materials have been known to scientis... Read More about Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects.

Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vones, K. (2014). Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects. In All Makers Now?

The idea of creating a jewellery organism that comes alive on the body has fascinated and inspired my research ever since learning about the potential inherent in smart materials almost ten years ago. While smart materials have been known to scientis... Read More about Towards the Posthuman: Materiality and process in the creation of stimulus-responsive jewellery objects.

Technological Microcosms – Considering Materiality and Collaborative Practice in the Creation of Wearable Futures (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vones, K. (2013). Technological Microcosms – Considering Materiality and Collaborative Practice in the Creation of Wearable Futures. In Praxis and Poetics - Research Through Design 2013 (59-62)

With the increased prevalence of digital technologies in our everyday lives, the questions posed to the contemporary craft practitioner regarding creation of an emotionally resonant interaction between the digitally enhanced object and its wearer hav... Read More about Technological Microcosms – Considering Materiality and Collaborative Practice in the Creation of Wearable Futures.

Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 2, 2012. (2012)
Book
Lambert, I., Firth, R., Forster, S., Innes, M., Macdonald, I., MacLeod, M., …Winton, E. (2012). Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 2, 2012. Edinburgh Napier University

Since the publication of the first issue of our journal twelve months ago our team of creative practitioners and academics has expanded (see pages 32-39), as has our work with industry and the public sector. We have worked on several more SFC Innovat... Read More about Journal of Design Practice and Research Volume 2, 2012..

Evaluating the cultural significance of historic graffiti (2012)
Journal Article
Forster, A. M., Vettese‐Forster, S., & Borland, J. (2012). Evaluating the cultural significance of historic graffiti. Structural survey, 30(1), 43-64. https://doi.org/10.1108/02630801211226637

Purpose Graffiti, both ancient and contemporary, could be argued to be significant and therefore worthy of protection. Attaching value is, however, subjective with no specific method being solely utilised for evaluating these items. The purpose of t... Read More about Evaluating the cultural significance of historic graffiti.