Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Spicer, A. (2023, November). Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place. Presented at Invited talk, Portico Library, Central Manchester

This presentation explores the concept of a 'media city'. It begins with a definition: media cities are a planned, highly structured intervention that is part of a transformational change in the urban landscape. The presentation then discusses a part... Read More about Media cities and the reconstruction of space and place.

Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G. (2023, November). Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking. Paper presented at Architecture 101: Questioning the Fundamentals, Newcastle

Beyond our most basic needs, Maslow, posited belonging (alongside love) as our most significant psychological need. Belonging noun “the feeling of being comfortable and happy in a particular situation or with a particular group of people, and bein... Read More about Belonging in place/-making tools to creatively cultivate belonging in processes of public placemaking.

Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Parker Moon, Z., Palmerini, P., Drayton, J., Noon, R., Gibson, K., Gold, L., & Ochu, E. (2023). Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis. Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 2(1), 1-18

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted human flourishing worldwide as in-person teaching and learning provision within universities and schools rapidly shifted online. This exposed challenges as staff and students worked from home. Digital competences in onl... Read More about Digital storytelling: A relational pedagogic approach to rebuilding hybrid places for creativity, equity and community building in a crisis.

Child safeguarding and immersive technologies - An outline of the risks (2023)
Report
McIntosh, V. (2023). Child safeguarding and immersive technologies - An outline of the risks. London: NSPCC

Given the rapid growth of new technologies, including immersive environments, the current generation of extended reality products – Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) – and the clear shift towards the development of the metaverse, resear... Read More about Child safeguarding and immersive technologies - An outline of the risks.

Child safeguarding and immersive technologies - Key concepts (2023)
Report
McIntosh, V. (2023). Child safeguarding and immersive technologies - Key concepts. London: NSPCC

Given the rapid growth of new technologies, including immersive environments, the current generation of extended reality products – Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) – and the clear shift towards the development of the metaverse, resear... Read More about Child safeguarding and immersive technologies - Key concepts.

Black everyday lives, material culture and narrative: Tings in de House (2023)
Journal Article
Agusita, E. (2023). Black everyday lives, material culture and narrative: Tings in de House. Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, 8(1), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.20897/jcasc/13532

Review of the book "Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House" by Shawn-Naphtali Sobers.

Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Fratczak, M., Ochu, E., Medina-Perea, I., Bates, J., & Kennedy, H. (2023, April). Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining. Paper presented at CHI Generative AI Workshop, Online

Patterns in Practice (PIP) is a qualitative study investigating how practitioners' beliefs, values and emotions shape their interaction and engagement with the use of machine learning (ML) and data mining across three contrasting domains-science, edu... Read More about Values, emotions and beliefs within generative AI arts practice patterns in practice: Values, beliefs and emotions within arts practitioners' engagements with machine learning and data mining.

From bitter ground (2023)
Digital Artefact
Abba, T. (2023). From bitter ground. [Book, website]

From Bitter Ground is an experience that weaves between the printed page, a building that cannot possibly exist, and your presence within the whole work. Taking the form of a set of books delivered to each of 2 readers, the work subsequently cons... Read More about From bitter ground.

Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Eagle, R. (2023). Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual. In D. Villa, & F. Zuccoli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Images and Imagination (355-363). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_39

With the proliferation of devices that display augmented reality (AR), now is the time for scholars and practitioners to evaluate and engage critically with emerging applications of the medium. AR mediates the way users see their bodies, hear their e... Read More about Augmented reality as a thirdspace: Simultaneous experience of the physical and virtual.

Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Simmons, J., Bown, A., Bremner, P., McIntosh, V., & Mitchell, T. J. (in press). Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality. . https://doi.org/10.1145/nnnnnnn.nnnnnnn

This paper introduces a novel methodology for the sonification of data, and shares the results of a usability study, putting the method- ology into practice within an industrial use case. Working with partners at Sellafield nuclear facility, we explo... Read More about Hear here: Sonification as a design strategy for robot teleoperation using virtual reality.

Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Agusita, E. (2023, March). Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices. Presented at CKC 2023: New Futures for Creative Economies, Bristol, UK

This workshop presents and explores initial findings from a pilot research study that considers ways in which young people’s emerging and developing entrepreneurial creative practices might challenge and disrupt prevailing discourses about creative a... Read More about Fuzzy entrepreneurship: Exploring young people’s emerging creative entrepreneurial practices.

The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID (2023)
Book Chapter
Presence, S. (2023). The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 (177-199). (1). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This chapter is based on research conducted under the aegis of the UK Feature Docs research project (2018-20, https://ukfd.org.uk/), a three-year study of the UK’s feature-length documentary film industry funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Co... Read More about The DFC: Developing nonfiction policy frameworks after COVID.

The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo (2023)
Book Chapter
Presence, S., & Quigley, A. (2023). The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo. In D. Sills-Jones, & P. Kaapa (Eds.), Documentary film cultures in the age of COVID-19 (48-61). (1). Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

This interview explores the pandemic from the perspective of Doc Society, the lead body for UK documentary film funding. From the outset of the crisis to the formation of the Screen Sector Taskforce and the launch of the BFI Doc Society SOS Fund, the... Read More about The view from the funders: An interview with Doc Society’s Sandra Whipham and Lisa Marie Russo.

Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial (2023)
Journal Article
Agusita, E., & Naudin, A. (2023). Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial. Makings, 4(1),

Research in Art, Design and Media (ADM) Higher Education matters because it has the potential to enhance educational practice from the perspective of creative pedagogies and the cultural and creative industries. Specifically in practice-based ADM edu... Read More about Special Issue - Creative Higher Education Curriculum and Pedagogy - Editorial.

Caring to listen: Developing listening practices to better understand experiences of socially engaged artists from working class backgrounds (2023)
Thesis
Shepherd, C. Caring to listen: Developing listening practices to better understand experiences of socially engaged artists from working class backgrounds. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7864513

I examine how working-class backgrounds shape experiences of success when working as a socially engaged artist in the UK. This research is important because until experiences of class inequality are better understood in relation to the working condit... Read More about Caring to listen: Developing listening practices to better understand experiences of socially engaged artists from working class backgrounds.

Co-creating green a strategic public art vision for Lyngford Park, Taunton (2023)
Report
Lovesmith, G. (2023). Co-creating green a strategic public art vision for Lyngford Park, Taunton. https://somersetartworks.org.uk: Somerset Art Works

Understandings of Lyngford Park and proposals for the space have been developed through a series of creative engagement activities held throughout the summer of 2022 as part of the Pride in Priorswood Family Fun Days in the park. This builds on deep... Read More about Co-creating green a strategic public art vision for Lyngford Park, Taunton.

Beyond lending - A case study (2022)
Book Chapter
Lovesmith, G., Miah, M. F., & Singleton, A. (2023). Beyond lending - A case study. In M. McVicar, S. Kite, & C. Drozynski (Eds.), Generosity and Architecture (252-261). Abingdon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Maindee Library+ , Newport, is a volunteer-run, community initiated, piece of social infrastructure. Through a co-produced, socially engaged art programme, Maindee Unlimited appointed architects George Lovesmith (Integrated Workshop) & Sarah Hollingw... Read More about Beyond lending - A case study.

Understanding VR audiences (2022)
Book Chapter
McIntosh, V. (2022). Understanding VR audiences. In S. Jones, S. Dawkins, & J. McDougall (Eds.), Understanding Virtual Reality: Challenging Perspectives for Media Literacy and Education (66-85). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367337032-9

Becoming an audience member in virtual reality can be a surreal experience; like entering a pocket reality, like finding Narnia in your wardrobe, like popping through a chalk painting on the pavement. Quite distinct from our relationship with big and... Read More about Understanding VR audiences.

Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research (2022)
Book Chapter
Aston, J. (2022). Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research. In F. Merino, & M. Penafria (Eds.), Storybits I – Narrative and Digital Media (15-30). (1). Covilha, Portugal: Universidade de Beira Interior. https://doi.org/10.25768/654-889-6

This article is based on my keynote and accompanying workshop for the inaugural StoryBits conference in April 2021. This was ten years on from the first i-Docs symposium in March 2011, with the StoryBits conference taking a similar approach in relati... Read More about Ten years of I-Docs: A reflective discussion on polyphony and practice-led research.

Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field (2022)
Journal Article
Aston, J. (2022). Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field. Interactive Film & Media Journal, 2(4), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v2i4.1732

This article responds to the 4th Interactive Film and Media International Conference (IFM 2022) themes of eco-media, epistemologies and listening by focusing on the role that interactive documentary can play in addressing the existential and pressing... Read More about Interactive documentary: Re-setting the field.