The Beacon: Health & Wellness Futures
This research tested how a public work could:- i) leverage science/tech to improve public health; ii) redefine a discarded urban space to improve well-being; and iii) humanise the development and delivery of this work through multi-generational health activities and public workshops to encourage co-discovery of solutions to help fix the broken US healthcare system.
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
Affective Graphs - the Visual Appeal of Linked Data
This research forms part of Petrelli’s enquiry into the human interaction with extra-large data sets and the design of visual mechanisms to support the user in making meaning out of millions of entities
SMART 1
A rehabilitation device for people who have suffered a stroke
Life Café
The Design to Care research led to the development of the Life Café, a product comprising of curated creative activities which enables individuals to engage in conversation about end of life.
Are translucent structures possible?
This AHRC-funded research builds on the knowledge in 'TTURA - Open Loop Solutions' to investigate a radical new application for glass/polymer composites in architecture.
Lifestyle Matters
More investment has been made into research into interventions to prevent mental illness than into those designed to improve mental well-being. This intervention is designed to improve and sustain mental well-being in older adults.
Tracking Obesity Using Games
This project explores how design processes and tools can be used to create games that promote physical activity amongst adolescents
Of Sound in the Landing Page
The performance work, Of Sound in the Landing Page, was a re-articulation of ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ as a soundscape created from the various elements of the natural world that Nietzsche weaved into his text
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.