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.
Louise Finney: Working through Fragments: Fictionalising the Archive
Exploring how archives and indexes can be applied to blur the boundary between fact and fiction
Jerome Harrington: Process made visible: In and outside the object
A practice-based PhD that investigates our relationship to and understanding of the object and its materiality
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.
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.
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
Bryan Eccleshall: Resisting Arrest: Doubting the Art Object through Visual Translation
Bryan Eccleshall's research seeks to investigate the nature of that interest in more detail and has moved towards a more nuanced approach
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
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.
Research groups
Research areas at the Art, Design and Media Research Centre