All Outputs (116)

Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants (2023)
Journal Article

Two of the most significant cases of extant 16th-century featherwork from Mexico are the so-called Moctezuma’s headdress and the Ahuizotl shield. While the feathers used in these artworks exhibit lightfast colors, their assembly comprises mainly orga... Read More about Printing with tonalli: Reproducing featherwork from precolonial Mexico using structural colorants.

Visual anthropology of home, culture and identity (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Specially commissioned staff development lecture for housing professionals at Stonewater, (one of UK's largest social housing providers). The lecture discussed different ways of thinking about the idea and importance of home and housing, through th... Read More about Visual anthropology of home, culture and identity.

Laundry probes (2023)
Book Chapter

This book presents a unique collection of 50 methods for exploring the actions, relationships and material contents of wardrobes. Organised as a practical guide to gathering information about people and their clothing beyond the point of purchase, it... Read More about Laundry probes.

Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation (2023)
Journal Article

We report the results of a structured expert elicitation to identify the most likely types of potential food system disruption scenarios for the UK, focusing on routes to civil unrest. We take a backcasting approach by defining as an end-point a soci... Read More about Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation.

BBC Free Thinking Episode: Victorian Colour, Jewellery and Metalwork (2023)
Digital Artefact

Man-made gems are the subject of research being undertaken by jeweller Sofie Boons. She joins presenter Nandini Das alongside Matthew Winterbottom, the curator of an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford which explores the explosion of colour... Read More about BBC Free Thinking Episode: Victorian Colour, Jewellery and Metalwork.

“Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents (2023)
Journal Article

The complexities of domestic abuse as both a lived experience and a crime generate unique communicative challenges at the scene of emergency police call-outs. Space is a prominent and complex feature of these ecounters, entailing a juxtaposition of t... Read More about “Can I have a look?”: The discursive management of victims’ personal space during police first response call-outs to domestic abuse incidents.

The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF (2023)
Journal Article

If the Anthropocene is the unconscious of the art, literature, and media of our time, then sf films that are not overtly about climate change will nonetheless express Anthropocenic concerns. In Marjorie Prime (2017), an intense inward focus on the do... Read More about The Anthropocene unconscious: Climate anxieties in suburban SF.

Optimization and prediction of different building forms for thermal energy performance in the hot climate of Cairo using genetic algorithm and machine learning (2023)
Journal Article

The climate change crisis has resulted in the need to use sustainable methods in architectural design, including building form and orientation decisions that can save a significant amount of energy consumed by a building. Several previous studies hav... Read More about Optimization and prediction of different building forms for thermal energy performance in the hot climate of Cairo using genetic algorithm and machine learning.

FREEDOM Project (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

In tandem with 30 Years Anniversary of the Polish Book Art Museum in Łódź, the FREEDOM Project is a response to the series of crises and ongoing global conflicts humanity is facing today. Students, educators and professional artists were invited to s... Read More about FREEDOM Project.

The alchemical dream of man-made gemstones (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With crystal growing techniques having been around for many years, bespoke man-made crystals now drive innovations in a range of industries. This has however not fully translated to the jewellery industry, where innovations with man-made crystals hav... Read More about The alchemical dream of man-made gemstones.

Communicative perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the intersection of culture, science, religion and politics (2023)
Book

This collection explores the communicative dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, redressing the absence of perspectives from Africa and the Global South in pandemic discourses and highlighting the importance of considering the impact of local... Read More about Communicative perspectives on COVID-19 in Ghana: At the intersection of culture, science, religion and politics.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023 (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize received 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates located across the world for its 2023 edition.

A total of 124 works by 111 drawing practit... Read More about Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition 2023.

Intergem Fair display (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

During the Intergem Fair 2023 the pieces created in collaboration with Brevalor were displayed by the stand 'Klein & Becker'.

Laundry Justice Case Study (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presenting methods and ways of working from the Laundry Justice project as a case study of decolonising design within a transition design framework at Pluriversal Borderline Roundtable.

Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion (2023)
Journal Article

This paper details practice-based research exploring new creative possibilities involving the ceramic extrusion process. The paper begins by providing a short overview of the extrusion technique, its charac-teristics and some contextual coverage of t... Read More about Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion.

Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order (2023)
Journal Article

This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholi... Read More about Catholic intellectuals and transnational anti-communism: Pax Romana, from the Spanish civil war to the post-1945 world order.

Signs of the times (2023)
Journal Article

Sarah Bodman on reading the ongoing, environmentally-focused works encompassing Termómetos Project from Mexican artist Ireri Topete.

Lights, camera, justice: ​An evaluation of the first 12 months of video broadcasting sentencing in the Crown Courts of England & Wales  (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

On 28 July 2022, the case of R v Ben Oliver made history when the sentencing remarks of Munro J were filmed and broadcast from the Old Bailey, marking the first time cameras were allowed into the Crown Court. This unarguably represented a significant... Read More about Lights, camera, justice: ​An evaluation of the first 12 months of video broadcasting sentencing in the Crown Courts of England & Wales .

Scalable production of 2D material heterostructure textiles for high-performance wearable supercapacitors (2023)
Journal Article

Wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) have emerged as a promising platform for seamless integration of electronic devices into everyday life, enabling nonintrusive monitoring of human health. However, the development of efficient, flexible, and s... Read More about Scalable production of 2D material heterostructure textiles for high-performance wearable supercapacitors.

VR and Biography (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

eXtending Reality: Immersive Design, Production and Technology
University of Portsmouth – Monday 11th September 2023

Abstract – Tom Livingstone and Mandy Rose – 24/05/23

VR and Biography:

This paper will explore the adaptability of new tech... Read More about VR and Biography.