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.
Daniela Cascella: Nothing As We Need It: For Chimeric Writing
Nothing As We Need It: For Chimeric Writing is a thesis-work in which a new form of critical writing is imagined, enacted, and studied.
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.
Marney Walker: How can design support the expression of personal aesthetic preferences in dementia?
Although dementia may affect the way we think, we will always know what we like.
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
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.
Louise Finney: Working through Fragments: Fictionalising the Archive
Exploring how archives and indexes can be applied to blur the boundary between fact and fiction
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
Marika Grasso: Responsive matter: touch-touchscreen relationship through a material explorative approach
The study explores the conductivity of touch through art practice, and material explorative approach.
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