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.
Company of animals
Company of animals' products were previously packed in plastic clamshell packs or packs with a high plastic component. As an ethical company focused on animal welfare, this is something they were keen to change.
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.
BioFurniture (IMPUMFAID) Improving Materials Properties using Modified Flax and Innovative Design
This project seeks to establish whether modified bio-composite sheet materials made from renewable natural resources can be used as viable alternatives
FRAILsafe
International studies indicate that approximately 10% of all patients who are admitted to hospital suffer some form of adverse event (AE). An AE can be defined as an unintended harm to a patient resulting in injury, death or a prolonged admission.
Mind Sets
Mind Sets is an innovative use of design which utilises the medium of six picture story-making to enable children in care to share their stories. Three-dimensional illustrated environments created a backdrop to help children to frame stories and to engage in active problem-solving using a series of character and challenge cards.
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
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.
The Imposter Series
The Imposter Series is an ongoing project of observational still life drawings taken from objects/artefacts/props used in Yuen Fong Ling’s performance-workshops.
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.