Outputs (363)

Technology preoccupation of product design students: How data-driven approaches lead to abandonment of human connection (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Why do cameras exist? While investigating possible futures with product design students in the ‘Design Futures’ module, staff witnesses arising challenges deriving from an all-encompassing excitement for technology.
Students increasingly favour ‘tec... Read More about Technology preoccupation of product design students: How data-driven approaches lead to abandonment of human connection.

Designing with purpose: Developing research ecologies in product design education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As global challenges intensify, it becomes vital product design education empowers students to engage critically with the world around them. This presentation showcases the development of a classroom ecology that places research, inquiry and real-wor... Read More about Designing with purpose: Developing research ecologies in product design education.

Computational polyphony and diffractive ethnography: An emergent set of methods for futures-centred work in visual anthropology (2025)
Journal Article

This paper proposes an emergent set of methods for Visual Anthropology through which to generate new encounters with and knowledge in possible and uncertain futures. These methods are grounded in ‘computational polyphony’, a mode of practice that the... Read More about Computational polyphony and diffractive ethnography: An emergent set of methods for futures-centred work in visual anthropology.

Exchanges, exhibitions and experiments in colour (2025)
Journal Article

This past year, I have been working on a subject that I most enjoy – colour – and it seems that many others share the same passion. In April 2024, I hosted a celebration and exploration of colour featuring an exhibition and a colour seminar.

The C... Read More about Exchanges, exhibitions and experiments in colour.

Montage (2025)
Book Chapter

Convenors’ note – Biotextiles and sustainable textiles (2024)
Journal Article

The environmental implications of textile practice are a critical consideration for contemporary design and research. As an industry where toxicity, pollution, waste, and resource depletion are devastating problems, alongside exploitative use of reso... Read More about Convenors’ note – Biotextiles and sustainable textiles.

School art: Where is it? (Re)exploring visual arts in secondary schools (2024)
Report

In this innovative research study, Joanna Fursman, Will Grant, and Carol Wild begin by revisiting the work undertaken by Dick Downing and Ruth Watson in their Tate-sponsored 2004 School Art: What Is It? report. Twenty years later, they replicate the... Read More about School art: Where is it? (Re)exploring visual arts in secondary schools.

A virtual gallery of international illustration research (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

https://www.illustrationacademics.com/2024

Into the 21st century, a criticality in the framing of illustration as a unique discipline with its own research methods and approaches is required for the field to transcend professional practice. Whethe... Read More about A virtual gallery of international illustration research.

We have all been on a journey (2024)
Digital Artefact

Album of 6 works, made using synthesis, field recording and generative techniques.

OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Archival repositories are results of historical narratives, but in turn, are also building blocks of new ones. This 40-minute artistic intervention / performative lecture takes the archival collec tions of mainly the Library of Congress as a starting... Read More about OCCLUSION: Performative Re-use.

When Seeds Speak (2024)
Digital Artefact

When Seeds Speak is a collaborative project with artist Miranda Whall that explores creative potentials within a dataset derived from the metabolic fingerprint analysis of six black oat seeds. The project seeks to uncover the processes and history ar... Read More about When Seeds Speak.

Flourish printmaking award (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

I was recently awarded the International Flourish printmaking award.

All shortlisted artists will have their work shown in the Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2024 exhibition.

The Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2024... Read More about Flourish printmaking award.

Broken Words/Broken Language Portfolio (2024)
Physical Artefact

Portfolio of prints and books made during a week-long knowledge exchange event (07-13 Oct 2024) with printers and museum volunteers/Linotype and Ludlow casters at Vingaards Officin Book Printing Museum, Viborg, Denmark. Edition of 20.

Angie Butler... Read More about Broken Words/Broken Language Portfolio.

Connecting and developing printing heritage: The Nordic letterpress network (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

We wish to showcase how a hands-on craft has relevance and capacity within the Nordic regions, and in doing so: to discover what role a heritage process and facilities can play in our contemporary culture and connect its existing communities of pract... Read More about Connecting and developing printing heritage: The Nordic letterpress network.

When Seeds Speak (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

When Seeds Speak is a collaborative project with artist Miranda Whall that explores creative potentials within a dataset derived from the metabolic fingerprint analysis of six black oat seeds. The project seeks to uncover the processes and history ar... Read More about When Seeds Speak.

Capturing and cultivating print & book craft practices in the UK (2024)
Journal Article

The type of intensive training previously needed for crafts in the printing trade is now redundant, but as craft practices are added biannually to Heritage Craft’s UK Red List of Endangered Crafts, there is a pressing need to preserve skills whilst a... Read More about Capturing and cultivating print & book craft practices in the UK.

Innovation with impact: Interdisciplinary approaches and empirical research with ceramic extrusion (2024)
Digital Artefact

This booklet covers research exploring innovative approaches with the ceramic extrusion process. The research was carried out from October 2021 to April 2024 and led by Dr Tavs Jorgensen, Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) at... Read More about Innovation with impact: Interdisciplinary approaches and empirical research with ceramic extrusion.

Mending and making anew with creative, elegant frugality (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Mending and making anew with creative, elegant frugality.
Angie Butler and Davina Kirkpatrick at The Launderette (artist-led project space), Stokes Croft, Bristol.

“The act of sewing is an act of emotional repair” - Louise Bourgeois

Anxieties... Read More about Mending and making anew with creative, elegant frugality.

Innovative laser technology for textile coloration and patterning (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

Innovative laser technology has been explored for textile coloration and patterning. This laser-assisted dyeing technique allows intricate targeted surface design of textile fabrics. In this technique, the dye diffusion and reaction takes place at th... Read More about Innovative laser technology for textile coloration and patterning.

An ongoing collaborative project with a poet and a printer/publisher (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

To share the development of a collaborative relationship – promote an inclusive method of making work that usually has a particular hierarchy of roles, tasks and outcomes.

A short descriptive history of the Printed Poetry Project, a collaboration... Read More about An ongoing collaborative project with a poet and a printer/publisher.