Thought Curfew
Thought Curfew is an original performance project developed for presentation as the headline act of the Ubumuntu Festival of Culture in Kigali, Rwanda in 2018.
‘I See Faces’ - Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning
This chapter, a contribution to a book in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series, presents findings from an inquiry into the human propensity for making meaning with and from ordinary things and materials.
Northern Light: Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography
This body of work investigating photography in the Northern Landscape consists of two book chapters, two book editorials, and two exhibition co-curations.
From Scotland With Love
Virginia Heath's BAFTA-nominated documentary evokes the spirit of 20th century Scotland
Gender and Design
This body of work investigates how design research informed by feminist theory and philosophy can facilitate future design ontologies conceived beyond normative patriarchal and capitalist value constructs.
Writing the Design History of Computers
This research investigates what factors are particular to research in the area of the design history of recent technologies, and asks how those factors might be mitigated.
ASUNDER
ASUNDER tells the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men abroad fighting and its women and children left behind.
Domesticated
Domesticated is an enquiry into the omnipresent social engagement in bodily practices of self-improvement, since training facilities for all ages have become familiar sites in peoples’ homes, as well as in contemporary urban public spaces.
Hiding in Plain Sight
‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ explores the relationship between staff, space, institution and the visibility of care work, in the disintegrating UK healthcare system.
Lift Share
The work is an enquiry into whether two strangers suffering past family trauma – a Romanian woman in search of a child that was forcibly taken from her and a Scottish musician confronting the death of his abusive father – can discover a shared empathy to help heal their pain.