Redistributed & Digital: How can digital finishing technologies be used to enhance non-woven textile materials and contribute towards a model for circular production? This project seeks to investigate how digital technologies can be used to enhance...
This project is part of a postdoctoral Creative Engagement Research fellowship that aims to develop an iconographic, interactive, and symbolic design language for artificial intelligence and machine learning, and make the case for design in this field which is...
The Hands of X project produced a collection of prosthetic hands featuring a palette of everyday materials and piloted a new service model which offered patients an experience that facilitated engagement and co-design of their limb. The Hands of X service, and...
Creative Leadership is central to innovation in the 21st Century and a growing area of research enquiry at The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) and for the RCA. The research is led by Rama Gheerawo, HHCD Director, who has brought together creative methods from...
The research is part of a new decentralized vision of the territories and takes part in the construction of new socio- technical models of circular economy, which seek to increase the environmental efficiency of processes, optimize the use of accessible resources and...
[slideshow_deploy id='2175'] The complex societal challenges of mass-urbanisation, ageing-population, migration and housing are just a few that exert pressure on the physical and social fabric of the built environment. Yet despite claims...
Materials form us and constitute the world around us, they carry in them an inherent symbolic and emotional expression. This semantic expression of a material is largely influenced by the social, geographical and the cultural context of the user. To find this out is...
[slideshow_deploy id='2024'] Fashion and textiles in, on and around the body are silent, but visible and sensory forces and indicators of cultural, social and environmental change. My work explores how command of fashion and pervasive nature of textiles...
The research will be based on a selection of dairies and their door-step milk delivery service with a focus on electric milk floats (first widely introduced after the second world war) and how they are part of the cultural heritage of a neighbourhood, a town or a...
"The century is no longer about expanding cities but rather deepening territories" (Sébastien Marot, 2010) This research seeks to create a...
[slideshow_deploy id='1988'] The research focuses on exhibition-making, with particular reference to the presentation and interpretation of gender-neutral fashion within the museum, or gallery context. The initial hypothesis is that conventional, binary gender-based...
Situated in the field of expanded illustration practice, this practice-based research explores the entanglement and inter-relationship between a ‘script’ and its ‘image’ and uses methodologies that foreground intertextual approaches to illustration and image...