The coronavirus crisis revealed the vulnerability of shared space especially as a space for civic actions. The media, during lockdown and social distancing, become the main channel for maintaining ...

People place tools on their bodies during daily activities that impact their health and safety. Mapping the locations of this equipment and evaluating the appropriateness of these locations can aid...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)

The paper aims to unravel a do-it-yourself biocomposite’s relationship with time and its various implications from a theoretical standpoint. The study derives from shrinkage & warpage behaviour of ...

The visual appearance of the products is a significant factor that defines their characteristics. As one of the most significant artefacts associated with characters and pareidolia, cars and car fa...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors were required to strictly isolate themselves, as the disease affects them disproportionately. Simultaneously, seniors had particular difficulty adjusting to th...

The world’s deserts are vast, and unfortunately the degree of damage is also significantly high. Worse still, people’s extensive reclamation has caused its constant expansion and invasion, even res...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 6, 2023)

Over the past decades, ‘trust’ has gained recognition as an important concept in service research, playing a vital role in establishing long-lasting and strong relationships between service provide...

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa is arguably the most controversial work created by the Roman Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680). The debate surrounding the statue centers on the question: di...

I argue that Part 2 of Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine the Great (1587; published 1590) upends the narrative operations of ekphrasis at work in Part 1 to expose Sir Philip Sidney’s ‘brazen world’...

This article uses eighteenth-century correspondence and daily writing to unpack the complex networks of emotional, artistic, and poetic exchange that surrounded Plas Newydd, the home of the so-call...

This paper identifies perceptions of injustice, grievance, and alienation as online drivers of radicalisation by concentrating on contemporary visual radicalisation patterns. It focuses on far-righ...

The majority of art education research in the United Kingdom originates from England; however, the devolved nations each have responsibility for education resulting in four different curricula working concurrently across Great Britain. It can be argued that in comparison to England, art and design education research in Scotland is an under-researched area though one that is increasingly garnering interest

Framed by Guillermo del Toro as “a love letter to the cinema,” the academy award-winning feature The Shape of Water (2017) speaks to one of the core debates in film studies: film’s status as a “uni...

This study examines the visual representation of vulnerable individuals in documentary photography while prioritising ethical considerations and aiming to avoid exploitation. By leveraging the powe...

Breaking the Chains is an ethnographic documentary about the use of physical restraint and confinement of people with mental illness in Indonesia, a practice known as pasung. The film contributes t...

In 2021 the Crafts Council launched its national education programme, Craft School, alongside the pedagogical framework Make First. Both Craft School and Make First were a culmination of decades of learning, experience, and research from staff at the Crafts Council and are underpinned by anti-racist and anti-ableist learning methodologies. Through this we hoped to work towards methodologies for equal

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Despite the increasing application of digital education in intangible cultural heritage (ICH), user acceptance of digital technology needs further investigation. In this study, a mobile AR system f...

Published in Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)

‘Live minting’ is an emerging trend in exhibition design which offers visitors the opportunity to mint an NFT memento in the exhibition. This paper examines three examples of this current trend in ...

The current state of function and design of accessible assistive technology is lacking, evidenced by low usability and high abandonment rates by people with disabilities (PwD). A significant contri...

The 2023 CSA Scholars’ Roundtable focused on the role of collaboration within teaching, learning, costume design, and museum practice. The scholars reflected on the challenges, successes, opportuni...

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)

In Australia, the rate of clothing consumption and disposal is high and increasing rapidly. New methods of approaching consumption and intervening in waste streams are needed to develop a more circ...

This article explores code as part of a reading strategy, focusing on a case study of works produced as part of a programming challenge entitled National Novel Generation Month (NaNoGenMo). For the...

Visual research has historically been productive in foregrounding marginalised voices through photovoice as alternative to the written and oral forms of participation that dominate public participa...

This article reflects on 4?years of research activities in the fields of horticulture and creative praxis. The initial project was a personal one and set out with a simple methodology of collecting, observing, and recording a specific genus of plants, that of Mentha. But as the specific question of whether a garden can, or should, be thought of as a work of art was raised it developed into an interactive

This article considers the notion of belonging as an always incomplete and evolving journey integral to which is the gift of otherness; a journey that consists of a continuous mutation of self, others and world. This contrasts with the more fixed notion of ‘belonging-to’ that suggests prescribed identities affiliated to an established order, which can then invoke the negation of ‘not belonging’ and

The study presented in this article is part of the project ‘Finding Viability in Daily Life’. In the project, participant-produced photographs of situations of well-being were used in interviews. A...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) secondary art and design trainees facilitated an art education project for pupils at a specialist school for visual impairment (VI) in the Northwest of England. This paper focuses on the ways in which the art education project was designed to better prepare PGCE trainees for working with pupils with VI. There is an exploration of a series of reflections

This article explores how the colonisation of womens bodies, as perpetuated through the art trope of the female nude, has constructed a specific bodily ideal that still resonates and informs how we view women's bodies in contemporary life. I address how the same narratives that restrict our understanding of the female body, also restrict our understanding of drawing. I share part of my PhD practice

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)

While affordances and play experiences are both topics of high interest in design research, there is a need to better understand the relationship between affordances and toys. The aim of this study...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Universal design aims to maximise usability for all, and to achieve this participation of people with disabilities in design processes is essential. However, it is unknown how universal design and ...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Russian religious aesthetics, and in particular the canon of Orthodox iconography, had a huge impact on all spheres of Russian culture. Among these areas, the influence of religious aesthetics on S...

While mobile and wearable applications leverage biosensing and self-tracking technologies to promote healthy lifestyles through data-based self-reflection, there have been criticisms that they perp...

This article examines two instances of an analogical construction by which architects living and working outside of Western metropoles are identified as “the Le Corbusier of …”: Shiv Nath Prasad (1...

This article examines cross-national, geographical analogizing through the under-theorized example of an artist colony in Japan nicknamed the “Ikebukuro Montparnasse” (a title coined by the poet Hi...

The professionalism of artists and further education (FE) teachers is often questioned. This research will evaluate the impact this has on artist–teachers working in FE. Sch?n defines a professional as an individual who works in a highly specialized occupation. This article examines how this applies to artists and FE teachers, with reference to historical and contemporary cross-disciplinary research

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Photographs are rarely given much academic attention, especially, in Africa. This is against the popular use of photography in political communication. Against this background, this study examines ...

The current school uniform customization mode cannot satisfy the requirements of customers regarding the elements such as design and efficiency, though the demand for the customization of the schoo...

Understanding and advancing pluralist worldviews through education is a tenet of decolonisation. This paper explores the importance of a decolonial pedagogical framework in visual art and design education by disrupting epistemic injustice through employing creative body-based learning (CBL). This approach focuses on relationality and inter-subjectivity through embodied strategies that create encounters

Theoretical studies and perspectives have argued that humanities positively influence art and design learning performance, yet little study has tested this argument empirically. Further than testing the impact of humanities on art and design learning performance, the present study explores how humanities influence art and design learning performance. The present study investigates the influence of

Faculty continue to support extracurricular activities, co-curricular activities and service learning for the long-term student's benefits that outweigh obstacles present in community engagement. This case study describes relationship building between a community partner and an interior design programme through extra- and co-curricular activities which led to more robust projects for service learning

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 2023)

Abstract Particularly since the 1990s, there has been an active discussion on inclusive design and on the possibility of designing products that would be suitable for every kind of user. Wearable technology products that need to be in close contact with the user’s skin to function must be a good fit for the user’s body. As wearable technology has transitioned from a specialty of the “quantify-yourself”

Different and competing conceptions of knowledge have recently been the focus of debate in education, especially art education. The cognitive science conception of knowledge as information processing and storage in long-term memory is especially prominent in educational policy. By contrast, within writing that is directly about art education, discussion of knowledge has often been framed in negative

In the challenging – and frightening – times in which we now live, education is seen as playing a key role in making change for the better. However, the Department for Education's (2022) strategy on education for sustainability and climate change, applicable to schools in England, is lacking in many areas and fails to address students’, teachers’, and teacher educators’ priorities. Crucially, the environment