This PhD is inspired by The Skatepark Foundation, a national UK organisation which seeks to increase the number and quality of spray-concrete public skateparks in the UK. Established in response to 10,000+ stakeholders (councils, young people, community groups)...
This area of investigation has developed from a funding award I was granted: a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). This award enabled a design residency at Chalmers University of Technology and SP...
This practice-based research explores challenges in documenting physically shifting landscapes and considers audience engagement with lost sites in the 21st Century. Positioning contemporary illustration practice alongside, and in relationship to, humanity...
Olivia’s research explores how interactive timelines can be used to make sense of cultural data (digitised museum, library and archive collections). Cultural institutions have become swamped by digital data. Digitising the objects, images and texts in their...
Starting from the acknowledgment of design as a socially constructed practice (Whitely 1993), which is understood and applied differently by participants, in different design contexts, I will investigate the role, the meaning and the impact of design when...
Design Facilitator: The Body as a meeting place and materials as a medium for enhancing communication between breast reconstruction patients and surgeons. The landscape of design is becoming increasingly complex as it shifts towards applications within...
Born out of an ideal that good healthcare should be available to all regardless of wealth, the UK National Health Service was created in 1948 focusing on curable diseases and patients’ pressing concerns for diagnosis, prescribed treatment and symptoms relief. The...
[slideshow_deploy id='295'] “Supports for community life” proposes innovative instruments that can better describe and transform community life in the contemporary city. The urban fabric is revealed as a mechanism by which alternative ways of urban life emerge....
Can fashion/media body images via the process of drawing be re-appropriated to positive effect as part of the creation of a social innovation design tool that can be accessed or shared with groups to question negative body image/s and to build well-being and...
The subject area is the children’s natural history picture book. The disciplines include education (with links to the UK national curriculum Key stage 2), science and visual communication. As we consider our roles and responsibilities in the safeguarding...
At the basis of my research lies the belief that video games (and strategy, government simulation video games in particular) are a medium of communication which offers unparalleled possibilities for philosophical analysis and philosophical design. On the one hand,...
My subject for this practice-based research is the role of materiality when making costume, and performativity through gesture such as putting on a mask, in the creation of ritual. My interest in this subject was initiated when, as a MA student in...