Index
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Cultural history, cultural theory, history of medicine and science, curating, visual and performing arts.
The theory and design of multi-sensory, interactive, narrative environments, physical and/or virtual spaces that tell stories or allow stories to be told.
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Typography, Graphic design, Public lettering, Signing. Underlying themes include an interest in history & experimentation, and in the relationship between form & content.
The role of culture in graphic communication, cross-cultural design, globalization and design, ethical design, design and cultural sustainability.
Modernism, modern furniture/lighting genre, meaning and function, Introspective Furniture and Individual exhibitions.
Artists' Moving Image, Archives and Collections, Experimental Film, Video Art, Landscape, Urban Space.
The development of recreational & outdoor leisure clothing in the 20th century; fashion, class & social aspiration; the role of textiles in fashioning the modern leisured body; photographic narratives of suburban leisure; hair, cosmetics & the fashionable body.
Painting, performance, photography, poetry and cultural critique. Locating performance, Performance Related text, the performance paradigm.
Design-driven Innovation/Strategy; Design process, practice & theory; Design Theory & History (particularly: Product & Industrial Design); Cultural Studies; Philosophy of Art/Æsthetic Theory.
Contemporary jewellery, design for dance performance, collaboration, installation of work in historic buildings.
CAD/CAM woven textiles, woven jacquard, on loom finishing effects, Integrated woven textile circuits, woven switches, woven switches & sensors, communication wear, smart textiles.
Contemporary Performance Design and Practice, the relationship between Design and Dramaturgy, Post Dramatic Dramaturgies.
Dress, Textiles, Theatre. Textile and dress history, particularly the late Victorian decorative art movements and their influence on twentieth century design.
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Contemporary art and visual culture, photography, performance art, performance studies, queer theory.
Painting: Sites of Meaning, Heterotopias, States of Flux, Constructed Landscapes, Urban Planning, Pictorial Genres and Their Recognition, The Artist as Teacher, Developing Sustainable Practice.
Landscape photography; Portrait photography; Analogue archival and fine printing to museum and gallery standard; Digital media
Contemporary art and visual culture; Transnational art and cultural translation, the migrations of art and artists; Haunting and the presence of the past; Studies in nineteenth-century British art and visual culture.
Visual Perception, illusion, reality, architectonic form, structure and construction.
Socially-engaged practice, Relational practice, Community. Exchange, Participation, Collaboration, Education, Critical Pedagogy, Play, Situation and site-specific, Heterotopias.
Textiles Sustainable design, Future Homes and Architecture, Interactive design, Material sciences, Biology, Emerging technologies and new materials.
History of British artists' film & video, History of international artists' film & video, Curating artists film & video, Public funding of the arts.
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19th and early 20th century British cultural history, particularly art, architecture, design, literature, social history, the relationship between artists and their studios.
Human embodiment, perception and systems of knowledge, belief and understanding; Role of context, artefact and iconography in the production of cultural meaning.
Typography, Typeforms, Type design, history and practice, Public lettering, Type classification, Lettering, Book design, Practice-based research in graphic design.
Sculpture, Installation, video, interplay between image and object, collaboration and authorship, status of sculpture and the logistics of its production.
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Site-specific and situated practice, uses video, photography, drawing and installation to explore national cultural identity and the articulation of landscape.
Theory, development, implementation & evaluation of Design Against Crime. Definitions & conceptual frameworks for knowledge transfer of good practice in crime prevention.
Film, architecture, the projected image, installation.
Contemporary art and its theory; history of exhibitions and curatorial practice; rethinking centres and museums of contemporary art as public spaces that show us the power and value of art in engaging with society.
Twentieth century and contemporary fashion, art, photography and film. Modernism. Visual culture and its relation to the history of sensibilities and the body, gender and masquerade. Theories of vision and looking. The visualization of knowledge.
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Contemporary Jewellery Design Presenting Jewellery and the Body as moving image: Lenticulars Mannequin prosthetics Marketing ideas about the body.
Painting: abstraction as representation, hegemonic structures, materiality of images, pictorial dispositifs, economies of transcription, archives and appropriation.
Using ideas of memory, trace and future lives of objects to map thought processes of fashion collections, from source imagery through production to final show, as exhibition or film.
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Design Against Crime as Socially Responsive Design (SRVD), using design to address social issues linked to products, public spaces and/or public services.
Sculpture 3D Digital Modelling Sculptural and Architectural Theory Rapid Prototyping Metal Casting Ceramics.
Critical theory, modernism, theories of history, exhibition practices, the changing interpretations, both visual and historical, of works of art and avant-garde practices in the Postwar period.
My personal research centres on artist's moving image practice, Conceptual writing and poetics, and more broadly the use of language and literary tropes in the visual arts.
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Development and production of limited edition ceramic decorative vessels, use of moulds in a more fluid state, specifically sand casting.
Installations which use architecture, spatial sounds and automated visual devices, site-specific interactive environments.
Developing practice-based tools for enhancing thinking skills. Exploring ways to reconnect ourselves with places/communities around us.
Hybrid practice within digital art in which animation meets live presence; animation as both performance and performative act.
Product design/development, concept, image and its relationship to function. Design against crime, anti-theft bag prototypes.
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Development and application of interactive technologies in the built environment. Use of sound to reconfigure our perceptions of space and vice versa.
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Video installations, single screen video and use of internet as live feedback element in installations, using both virtual and real space. Arena for art as psychoanalytic interplay
Social and cultural history of fashion, clothing and textiles; clothing and textiles in everyday life (laundry, mending, maintenance); fashion as a domestic process; domestic interiors; surface effects and pattern in designed objects; historical retailing; design history and material culture c.1850-1939.
Representation of nature within contemporary culture. Arts and craft movement, modernism, post modernism. Ceramic Art & Design. The territory where Design, Fine Art and Applied Art overlap and explores the interrelationship between the Arts and Sciences
The social history of the fashion image; Iconography and celebrity culture ; Fashion film and digital media; Catwalk shows and narrative; Fashion and psychoanalytic discourse
Post-Kantian Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theories. As a writer my work embraces art theory and philosophy, art history and criticism.
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Contemporary art theory, history of exhibitions, theories of political change and ideology.
Future Fashion & emergent technologies, Sustainability.
Materials in the context of contemporary design, authored books, design and architecture.
Digital printing, screen printing, hand painting in one work. Colour.
Uses film as a gallery installation medium, to reflect and form a critique of dominant cultural forms as they are represented in cinema.
Concept of experience as it is interpreted in the context of the production and the reception of art in general and art education in particular.
Art: painting and text based documentation of place: human relations with land, elements, space and territory; mapping; semiotics of landscape.
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The interface between high and low culture in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century fiction; the body; the Gothic; and ideas of fashion and the fashionable; discourses around genre, particularly novels of sensation, the ‘silver-fork school’ and fiction of the occult; representations of gender, sexuality and sexual dissidence.
Architecture and participation, Rapid deployment structures, Architecture and mobile communications, Building Information Modelling, Community Development, Architectural Education and the Pedagogy of Design
The ontological status of objects as meaning-making machines; affect; the production of subjectivity; postfordism; semio-chemio-neuro capitalism; biopolitics; philosophy of surfaces and skin; contagiontology.
Digital Ornament, Pattern Language, Socio-responsive Textiles, Design Strategies, Visual Anthropology
Writing, directing and producing film, 35mm and digital film, exploring new ways of improvising and devising film dramas and writing feature length film scripts
Design processes, design collaboration and expertise, new user engagement in design, design interaction, practical decision making, information visualisation, information and knowledge management.
Theatre, site-specific design for performance. Practice as research in time and space specific media. Digital imagery in live performance and scenography
The theory and practice of theatre directing; the theory and practice of acting in the Western tradition; acting psychology : in particular the relationship between psychological processes and physical expression
Documentary practice and enquiries into use of the genre contemporarily and historically especially post-colonial practices and particularly around two distinct areas of sousveillance and more recently 'agency'.
Modern and contemporary art; psychoanalysis, autographic narratives, subjectivity, intimacy; art-making, materiality, spaces of practice, critical theory; translation, transcultural aesthetics & diaspora.
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Fashion Curation Visual Culture Twentieth Century London Photography Archives
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Ceramic design, bone china, porcelain and lead crystal, products for the interior.
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Graphic design, book design, non-Latin typography, independent publishing, cross-cultural visual communication, graphic design & typography in the Indian sub-continent
Graphic design history Graphic technologies Propaganda 20C Britain
Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Urban Studies, Visual Culture, Spatial Data.
Painting: pictorial practices including the relationship between still and moving image and experimental approaches to exhibition and curation.
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Cultural history, cultural studies, subcultural studies, film and television studies. 19th century entertainment; television crime drama. Cultural theory, postmodernism in history.
Interdisciplinary practices in performance, video, photography, drawing, installation art and writing; aleatoric procedures in art; politics of improvisation; performance, performativity, 'action' and notation/documentation
Spatial and temporal displacement, the expanded archive, memory, history, conflict and space that explores the interface of private and public memory in still and moving media.
Laser cutting and etching Textile Design Fashion, Interior and Accessories Fabrics Innovation and Enterprise
Interdisciplinary Site-specific/relevant Audience Performer Inter-active Theatre Performative Postdramatic Liveness Live Art Narrative Space Presence Authenticity Design
Contemporary art and the history of exhibitions of contemporary art. Recent curatorial issues, theory and practice. Also theories of prehistoric art and of consciousness, where they intersect with contemporary art.
Film and video maker, art, TV programmes, documentaries and fiction. Critical writing and AV-installations focussing on city, technology and urban identity.
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Contemporary Painting, Contemporary Narrative Painting, Figuration in Painting, Drawing.
Politics of location, displacement and languages of the everyday explored through film, video, assemblage, action, installation and photography.
Research Profile
Scentsory Design, Emotional Fashion, Responsive clothing, Multi-sensorial Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-chip MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), Nanotechnology.
Work spanning issues of fair trade and workplace ethics, ethical and environmental sourcing, creative product strategy and trend direction for fashion and textiles.
Photographic, moving image and sound installations exploring practices of space and temporality in relation to landscape and place.
Social history of fashion and clothing; gender and popular culture; history of uniform clothing: military and civilian; fashion and social identity; conflict and visual/material culture.
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Role and display of Fashion and Costume in Cinema Fashion rhetorics and public debates History and theory of the catalogue Art, fashion, photography and visual culture (19th - 21st century )
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Curatorial concepts, relationship between art and science, representation of medicine and its relation with art.
Film, Structuralist Film, Representation, Melodrama, Politics, Linguistics, Exploring the relationship between communication and the material, Examples and Models.
Self-publishing, cultural piracy, print processes, the status of originals and copies, collaborative strategies and open culture, transformation through reproduction, the creative potential and sociological effects of ongoing changes in media technology.
Leonardo da Vinci; scientific analysis of works of art; art and science collaborations; childbirth in science, culture and history, curating exhibitions.
Crossover between experimental film, theories of place, space and reception, written and visual media and poetry.
Design; public sphere; context; use; informal appropriation; environmental interactions; space, streets; city; details; social space; social innovation; design against crime.
Design Research Age Neutral Design Design Thinking Critical Reflection Pedagogy Fashion & the Crafts.
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Moving image, Memory and History, Spectral and Spectacular Representations of Political Violence, Ways of Seeing, Cultures of Representation, Performativity.
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