Student projects

Student projects

Showing 17 projects

Marika Grasso: Responsive matter: touch-touchscreen relationship through a material explorative approach

The study explores the conductivity of touch through art practice, and material explorative approach.


Caroline Claisse: The Augmented House: Crafting tangible interaction in house museums.

With my practice-based PhD, I intended to broaden current practice in exhibition design by means of designing for tangible interaction in house museums.


Debbie Michaels: Organisational Encounters and Reflexive Undergoings - A Speculative Weaving in Three Transpositions

Gathering threads from psychoanalysis, art psychotherapy, and the arts I (re)examine the psycho-social role of reflexive art practice in honing sensitivity to the affective dimensions of human situations and experience.


Amy Graham: On London Buses: Heritage Practices in Everyday Life

The project develops research approaches into ‘heritage’ as both a locus of meaning (the heritage object) and a practice of meaning (a doing) which has affecting as well as personal, political, cultural, and ethical consequences within our everyday lives.


Emma O'Connor: The Reclamation of Patient Narrative: Interrogating patient experience of genetic conditions through film

Using film to explore the relations between the experience, its representation, and its communication.


Rachel Smith: Drawing out Language: From or to and, Disrupting Dualism through Conceptual Poetics

This research address how the material and conceptual form of artist books may be used to explore the partial nature of communication and to challenge the fixity of meaning implied by dualism in language


Marney Walker: How can design support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia?

Although dementia may affect the way we think, we will always know what we like.


Sophie Parkes-Nield: Thankstide: The English calendar custom as narrative device in contemporary fiction

A practice-based PhD programme, Sophie is writing a novel that incorporates a calendar custom, Thankstide, to examine what it reveals about individuals and communities in contemporary England, and how useful it is as a narrative device for the contemporary creative writer.


Susannah Gent: The Neuroscientific Uncanny: a Filmic investigation of Twenty-first Century Hauntology

A practice-based study explores how filmmaking, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and neuroscience might interact to generate an expanded understanding of the uncanny and the related concept of hauntology


Amal Al-Ismaili: Interpreting the Traditional Jewellery of Bedouin in Oman through Contemporary Jewellery Practice

Research project exploring the subjective value of traditional Omani jewellery


Page 1 of 2