JUNK - Rubbish to Gold
Maria Hanson is one of 50 jewellers taking part in JUNK: rubbish to gold, a playful exploration of community economies (exchange, giving, bartering, gathering, earning, harvesting); putting on display the process of creating the ‘work of art’.
Jewellery as Prostheses
In the collective search for improvement, ultimate functionality, beauty and perfection, the body has been commodified, becoming the subject of design, a luxury item.
Chevolution
Chevolution is an interrogation of the impactful journey of the famous image of Che Guevara taken at a memorial service in Havana in 1960 by Alberto Korda
Vindskaber
Vindskaber was an inquiry into how the use of Virtual and Augmented Reality might impact on our perception and understanding of the landscape in the future.
Mirror II: Distance
Mirror II: Distance is a dual-screen video installation. It was produced as the result of two field trips to Pakistan in 2015 focussing on the heavily fortified diplomatic enclave of Islamabad.
Human Animal (This Moment Here)
This strand of Chloë Brown’s research investigates a particular use of animals as substitutes for human experience, questioning notions of anthropomorphism and through this, narrative fictions. The resulting work makes specific references to animal characters found in children’s narratives, cartoons and films highlighting the use of the animal as a signifier of human emotion and experience.
Elevation
Elevation is a unique portrait of Sheffield's (in)famous Park Hill estate, created during an eclipse period between clearance and reinvention
LabStudio - Design Research between Architecture & Biology
‘LabStudio: Design Research between Architecture and Biology’ simultaneously challenges and expands contemporary notions of what collaboration across broad knowledge domains means and how that might operate within and then expand the liminal space that exists between laboratory and studio practices.
Telecare and Health Technologies - CLAHRC 2
Telehealth and Care Technologies is a core theme of Collaboration in Leadership for Applied Research and Healthcare (NIHR). The overarching aim of this theme, led by the University of Sheffield, is to produce a step change in knowledge and practice in the design and use of telehealth and care technologies in services that are effective, cost-effective and are usable by the broadest possible range of people.
Ambiguous Implements
Ambiguous Implements is the result of an enquiry that investigates the extent to which ambiguous eating implements, when used to consume food, have the potential to create new forms of experience.