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Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Berridge, S., McEwen, L., & Chun, K. (2023). Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK.

Flood-prone places and people often face conflicting interests that hinder their ability to cope with, and adapt to, wider water security issues. To enhance capacities of these places and people, interdisciplinary researchers (UWE, Bristol) and Acta... Read More about Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK.

Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Ebizie, N., Cropper, S., Ochu, E., Scott, S., & Pulleda, F. (2022). Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self.

Visual Snow is a neurological condition that is experienced as an ‘augmented’ reality of auras, glowing lines, depression, anxiety and depersonalisation (Solly et al. 2021). Whilst Visual Snow produces a collection of different symptoms, it is clinic... Read More about Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self.

Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Renney, N., Renney, H., Mitchell, T. J., & Gaster, B. R. (2022). Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517656

Digital lutherie is a sub-domain of digital craft focused on creating digital musical instruments: high-performance devices for musical expression. It represents a nuanced and challenging area of human-computer interaction that is well established an... Read More about Studying how digital luthiers choose their tools.

Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Nash, C. (2021). Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision.

This paper details a workshop and optional public installation based on the development of situational scores that combine music notation, AI, and code to create dynamic interactive art driven by the realtime movements of objects and people in a live... Read More about Automatic for the people: Crowd-driven generative scores using Manhattan and machine vision.

Three observations on filming tactility and movement in crafts-based practice: A preliminary investigation (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Ho, W. (2021). Three observations on filming tactility and movement in crafts-based practice: A preliminary investigation. . https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.4407

This extended abstract accompanies a research film submission. This film makes three observations on the filming of tactility and movement in order to adequately convey tacit knowledge in embodied ways. The author, Wuon-Gean Ho, studied the craft... Read More about Three observations on filming tactility and movement in crafts-based practice: A preliminary investigation.

Creativity in children's digital music composition (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Ford, C., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Nash, C. (2021). Creativity in children's digital music composition. In Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). https://doi.org/10.21428/92fbeb44.e83deee9

Composing is a neglected area of music education. To increase participation, many technologies provide open-ended interfaces to motivate child autodidactic use, drawing influence from Papert’s LOGO philosophy to support children’s learning through pl... Read More about Creativity in children's digital music composition.

Public written statement to the UN WGEPAD 27th Session: The urgency of now - Systemic racism and the lessons of 2020 (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Olaiya, M.A., H. B. A. (2020). Public written statement to the UN WGEPAD 27th Session: The urgency of now - Systemic racism and the lessons of 2020.

The UN WGEPAD 27th public session: "The Urgency of Now - Systemic Racism and the Lessons of 2020" was held between 30 November to 3 December. This thematic session built on the WGEPAD’s COVID-19 report, systemic racism and global protests, and set t... Read More about Public written statement to the UN WGEPAD 27th Session: The urgency of now - Systemic racism and the lessons of 2020.

Draw of a Drawing (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Banou, S. (2020). Draw of a Drawing. In D. Hallama, R. Liptau, A. K. Hougaard, G. Lidia, C. Rikke Lyngsø, & E. Drach (Eds.), Artefakte des Entwerfens (182-191)

Draw of a Drawing is a transcription of the installation Kaleidoscopic City (a survey of Edinburgh focused on the transitory elements of the urban). As such it marks the moment that the elements of the survey are projected upon a single surface. Und... Read More about Draw of a Drawing.

Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Nash, C. (2020). Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan. In F. Schroeder, & R. Michon (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (259-264)

This paper details technologies and artistic approaches to crowd-driven music, discussed in the context of a live public installation in which activity in a public space (e.g. a busy railway platform) is used to drive the automated composition and pe... Read More about Crowd-driven music: Interactive and generative approaches using machine vision and Manhattan.

Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Bodman, S. (in press). Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques.

The field of artists' books has grown exponentially over the last 30 years. The range of subject matter and context held within it includes that of many practitioners and curators who use the artist's book as a means of exploring our relationship wit... Read More about Lire entre les couvertures: petite exploration des liens qui unissent artistes, livres et bibliothèques.

The development of methodologies for designers engaging with digital colour inkjet printing in textile design (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Gooby, B. (2018). The development of methodologies for designers engaging with digital colour inkjet printing in textile design. In Proceedings of the International Colour Association (AIC) Conference 2018 (327-334)

Digital textile printing (DTP) offers exciting, creative potential and entrepreneurial business models in textile design. However, there is a marked difference between screen-colour to print-colour. Colour results are affected by numerous variables w... Read More about The development of methodologies for designers engaging with digital colour inkjet printing in textile design.

In search of the place of being ready-to-hand. Uncovering reciprocity between architectural design research and philosophy (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Meraz, F. (2018). In search of the place of being ready-to-hand. Uncovering reciprocity between architectural design research and philosophy.

Based on Graham Harman’s illuminating interpretation of Heidegger’s concepts of ready-to-hand and present-at-hand, the paper elucidates some of the consequences of such an analysis for an architectural design research existentially revealing. Once th... Read More about In search of the place of being ready-to-hand. Uncovering reciprocity between architectural design research and philosophy.

Interdisciplinary textile design research for material innovation: Synthesising design, science and industry collaboration (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Morgan, L. (2017). Interdisciplinary textile design research for material innovation: Synthesising design, science and industry collaboration.

Within the landscape of contemporary textile design research lies a rich site for collaboration, with the opportunity to draw on specialist knowledge across disciplines. This paper argues that Integrating textile design practice with specialist scien... Read More about Interdisciplinary textile design research for material innovation: Synthesising design, science and industry collaboration.

Textiles design research: from chemistry to craft, towards sustainable design innovation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Kane, F., Morgan, L., Akiwowo, K., & Tyrer, J. (2016). Textiles design research: from chemistry to craft, towards sustainable design innovation. . https://doi.org/10.7190/ead/2015/66

Academic research in textile design has traditionally been dominated by technical studies situated with science and engineering knowledge frameworks. Increasingly textile designers are undertaking research into technical areas with creative intention... Read More about Textiles design research: from chemistry to craft, towards sustainable design innovation.

The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Morgan, L., Tyrer, J., & Kane, F. (2014). The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design. . https://doi.org/10.2351/1.5063061

The consumption of water and energy used in current dyeing and finishing processes in the textile industry pose significant environmental concern. By offering alternative solutions to traditional textile wet processing through laser technology, there... Read More about The effect of CO2 laser irradiation on surface and dyeing properties of wool for textile design.