Data Objects
The data-objects project asks can the creation of physical artefacts based on data extracted from complex digital information systems change the way we read
Make, do and mend
The 'Make, Do and Mend' project explores how we might reinvigorate community-based approaches to the repair of clothing and examines the potential roles for online and offline activities to facilitate knowledge exchange, build communities and develop new repair processes and strategies.
Photography in care homes
This study used the medium of photography to explore the experiences of older people living in residential care settings in a city in the North of England
ARTHOUSE
This EPSRC funded project by Professor Ian Gwilt and Dr Claire Craig explored the potential of film and animation in promoting communication between younger and older people growing up and growing old in care
Tipple Tails
Tipple Tails, an artisan business founded by Jane Stammers, produces cakes which are made with ingredients from local producers and local family businesses. Her products are widely sold in the UK.
Engagingaging
This research explores the role of the exhibition as a ‘theatre for conversation’ and its role and format as a research tool as well as a means of dissemination.
Looking for Hyperborea: A search for a mythical North
This strand of Chloë Brown’s research considers notions of ‘Northerness’, specifically that found in the most Northern parts of Norway above the Arctic Circle and revolves around Hyperborea, a place in Greek mythology behind the north wind, where the sun never sets
Unhomely Street: The Architecture of Cinematic and Psychological Space
This research explores the relationship of psychological and cinematic space. The principal output, Unhomely Street, a 20 minute essay film, uses a character in a state of fugue as a strategy to explore attitudes towards capitalism and contemporary society.
Pile
Simmond’s work exhibited in ‘Pile’, a comprehensive sculpture show that questioned the conventions of group exhibitions, explores the relation between pattern and decoration and formalist abstraction, questioning if painting can establish a visual pulse, and enabling a re-interpretation of a previous painting and a body of new paintings/drawings.
Dazzle
A collaborative research project with Matthew Harrison