European Academy of Design
In April 2013, at the 10th EAD Conference held in Gothenburg, Professor Paul Atkinson took over the role of Chair of the Academy from Professor Rachel Cooper OBE, who ran the Academy since it was founded in 1994.
Life-saving lullabies
In conjunction with the University of Huddersfield and St John Zambia, this research investigates the potential of using lullaby as a zero-cost intervention to communicate essential knowledge and skills to support the transitioning of adolescents into motherhood
Philip Leverhulme Prize in Performing and Visual Arts for young scholars
The Philip Leverhulme Prize is designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding young research scholars or practitioners of proven achievement, who have made and are continuing to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in their particular field of study.
Can't Wait to Learn: Digital Tablet Desk
In 2011, War Child Holland instigated the Can’t Wait to Learn programme (CWTL) to develop culturally sensitive educational games for children who have never seen a teacher as a result of armed conflict
Freud on Holiday
Freud on Holiday is a series of experimental travel writings in which Kivland meticulously re-constructs Sigmund Freud’s journeys to European sites
Reading as art
Reading as art is a series of events conceived as reading interventions or library 'occupations at the ICA, London, convened by Sarah Wood.
Bigger than the real thing
In 2010, three exhibitions articulated Zellweger's enquiry, using the exhibition format as discursive element: a joint exhibition with artist Emma Woffenden, the medical/artistic context of a group show for the benefit of a Breast Cancer Foundation, and a solo show as installation.
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.
Exchange Brooches
The brooches pictured belong to a series of over 100, made for The Campaign for Objects in Purgatory. They were given to contributors to the Objects in Purgatory exhibition (Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery 2011) in exchange for contributing their story or drawing of an uncherished gift. The project has been initiated and developed by designer Julia Keyte.
AURA
This research examines a viewer’s experience of an ‘original’, authentic artefact and has generated the following outcomes: 23 mixed media drawings, a live work, a digital app, a limited edition print work and a print portfolio.