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Touch for luck, a jeweller's perspective on touch (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Boons, S. (2020, December). Touch for luck, a jeweller's perspective on touch. Presented at Touch: Reflections on making, Online

Microscopic interpretations trough touch in the jeweller’s practice. A reflection of touch in our culture today; from ‘touch for luck’ to ‘touch and get Corona’ and how changed perceptions are impacting practice or providing inspiration.

Communicating touch: Physical places via digital spaces (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Butler, A. (2020, December). Communicating touch: Physical places via digital spaces. Paper presented at Touch: Reflections on Making, online

To organise and host an online research event for ten creative practitioners that was planned previously as a physical one, required a specific way of thinking about structure and content. The curation (of the event) would be crucial to the participa... Read More about Communicating touch: Physical places via digital spaces.

Touching is believing (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Fahy, N. (2020, December). Touching is believing. Paper presented at Touch symposium- Craft Council Reflections on making, Online hosted by Centre for Print Research and Crafts Council UK (Bristol)

Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Boons, S. (2020, December). Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds. Presented at Art of Research 2020, Aalto, Finland

The aim of the presentation is to explore and question the definitions assigned to materials and their promotion as natural’ and ‘real’. When it comes to identifying materials, how many processes applied to the material can be justified for it to be... Read More about Questioning the ‘real’ and ‘natural’: A case study on diamonds.

3d models for the visually impaired: The Unesco for all project making of (2020)
Presentation / Conference
D'Agnano, F. (2020, December). 3d models for the visually impaired: The Unesco for all project making of. Presented at 3DVis: Symposium on 3D Visualization Technologies in Cultural Heritage, On Line - Warwick

Presentation of the production of the replicas for the Unesco 4 All project, made by the CFPR. The EU UNESCO4ALL TOUR project aims to create an innovative, thematic, transnational tourism product based on the UNESCO WH sites and targeted to visually... Read More about 3d models for the visually impaired: The Unesco for all project making of.

Now you see it, and Now you don’t: Illusive colour (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2020, November). Now you see it, and Now you don’t: Illusive colour. Presented at Twenty-eighth Color and Imaging Conference, Online

Colour, as beauty, lies in the eye of the beholder. In 1861, based on the RGB model of colour perception, James Clerk Maxwell produced the first colour photographs by exposing black and white film through red, green and blue filters, thus recording i... Read More about Now you see it, and Now you don’t: Illusive colour.

The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2020, October). The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century. Presented at Printing for Fabrication, Japan (online)

Invention, innovation and insight are keywords for any technologist and designer working in the academic or commercial sector. In the twenty-first century, a wealth of new and emerging materials, alongside digital methods for the manufacture of produ... Read More about The art of the maker – Craft, design and technology in the 21st century.

Teaching Drawing Online (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L. (2020, October). Teaching Drawing Online. Presented at Thinking Through Drawing, Online

Interpreting interruption (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Fahy, N. (2020, October). Interpreting interruption. Presented at Don't Press Print: De/Rr Constructing the Collodion Process, Bristol (Online)

The planning and precision involved in wet-plate collodion photography necessitates a certain amount of formality, through the methodical workflow followed, a sense of order is imposed (Barger, 2015). However, this order co-exists with the countervai... Read More about Interpreting interruption.

The use of low-cost 3D printing technology to develop fabrication tools for clay profile extrusion (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Jorgensen, T. (2020, August). The use of low-cost 3D printing technology to develop fabrication tools for clay profile extrusion. Poster presented at Print for Fabrication, Japan

This paper reports on interim results from ongoing research which investigate how low-cost 3D printing technologies can assist innovation with the clay extrusion process. The project explores the possibility of using standard plastic filament 3D pr... Read More about The use of low-cost 3D printing technology to develop fabrication tools for clay profile extrusion.

RCA Symposium: Reportage drawing at the end of the world (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Embury, G. (2020, July). RCA Symposium: Reportage drawing at the end of the world. Presented at Royal College of Art Symposium, Online

Symposium RCA 2020: Reportage drawing at the end of the world Reportage drawing has always borne witness to the world’s most consequential events. For most of the 19th century, reportage drawing was the news image and its perception as a piece of o... Read More about RCA Symposium: Reportage drawing at the end of the world.

Jewellery ± Scent x Science = Alchemy? (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Boons, S. (2020, July). Jewellery ± Scent x Science = Alchemy?. Presented at Print and Book Festival, Bristol

Contemporary jewellers are considered artists of the miniature sentiment and crafters of the wearable statement. Outside the realm of status and commodity, jewellery can be used to visualise the intangible and conceptual, creating objects and adornme... Read More about Jewellery ± Scent x Science = Alchemy?.

Continuous tone relief prints in gelatin – The Woodburytype (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Leech, D., Guy, W., & Klein, S. (2020, July). Continuous tone relief prints in gelatin – The Woodburytype

Since its inception, halftoning has provided us methods of print that have high throughput and are easily reproducible. However, as the complexity of our printing methods increase, we can instead turn our attention to continuous tone methods, where t... Read More about Continuous tone relief prints in gelatin – The Woodburytype.

Ceramic profile extrusion: New tooling approaches to re-appropriate the use of a heritage medium in architecture (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Jorgensen, T. (2020, June). Ceramic profile extrusion: New tooling approaches to re-appropriate the use of a heritage medium in architecture. Paper presented at CONNECTIONS: EXPLORING HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, ART MEDIA, Virtual / Canterbury, United Kingdom

The ceramic medium is extremely prevalent in our build environment. This medium is used in architecture in a myriad of applications in the shape of: bricks, cladding, roofing and tiles for interior/exterior surfaces. The use of red terracotta is char... Read More about Ceramic profile extrusion: New tooling approaches to re-appropriate the use of a heritage medium in architecture.

Urban lighthouses and a tactile city (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., & D'Agnano, F. (2020, June). Urban lighthouses and a tactile city. Paper presented at AMPS Architecture, Media, Politics, Society, Online

Wayfinding strategies for visually impaired are fundamental for providing social inclusion, a better quality of life, a level of independency and urban accessibility for people with special needs. Recent digital technologies can provide significant b... Read More about Urban lighthouses and a tactile city.

Urban Lighthouses (2020)
Presentation / Conference
D'Agnano, F., Parraman, C., & Roberton, N. (2020, June). Urban Lighthouses. Paper presented at CONNECTIONS: EXPLORING HERITAGE, ARCHITECTURE, CITIES, ART, MEDIA, Canterbury, UK

Wayfinding strategies for visually impaired are fundamental to provide social inclusion, a better quality of life, level of independency and urban accessibility to people with special needs. Recent digital technologies are a great help (GPS localizat... Read More about Urban Lighthouses.

Woodburytype: a forgotten 19th century photomechanical process and its 21st century resurrection (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2020, June). Woodburytype: a forgotten 19th century photomechanical process and its 21st century resurrection

One of the technological achievements of the 19th century was the mass reproduction of photographic images. Woodburytype was the first commercially successful photomechanical continuous tone printing method, of unsurpassed quality until today. Along... Read More about Woodburytype: a forgotten 19th century photomechanical process and its 21st century resurrection.

Sources of Pigmentless Colour in Nature – Seashells, Butterflies and Beetles (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Leech, D. (2020, June). Sources of Pigmentless Colour in Nature – Seashells, Butterflies and Beetles

Colour arises most prominently in the world from subtractive processes, such as pigmentation. When light is shone upon a painted wall, for instance, pigment absorbs portions of the electromagnetic spectrum that the material underneath did not and we... Read More about Sources of Pigmentless Colour in Nature – Seashells, Butterflies and Beetles.

Origins of Colouration in Invertebrates – Pigment and Structure (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Leech, D. (2020, June). Origins of Colouration in Invertebrates – Pigment and Structure. Presented at Field Studies Council Virtual Meet Ups

Colour/pattern recognition is a common cornerstone of animal identification, however, the processes by which animals actually display colour is incredibly complex. Beyond the simple pigmented systems, that also form the basis of our paints and inks,... Read More about Origins of Colouration in Invertebrates – Pigment and Structure.

Colour Without Colour (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Klein, S. (2020, April). Colour Without Colour. Paper presented at Helsinki Photomedia 2020, Helsinki