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WIRAD is Wales’s premier Art & Design research institution and by building on the research excellence and talent that Wales possesses aims to be an internationally significant player in the Art & Design research field. The WIRAD partnership includes Art & Design Researchers at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, University of South Wales, Cardiff Metropolitan University, and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum of Wales.
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Simulated Environments for Food Packaging Design Assessment
(2019-06-27)Using applied retail research, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the viability of using a simulated environment to conduct packaging design validation tests in order to gain deep insights into the ways in which ... -
Integrating ideas from design disciplines into the STEM curricula
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)The ‘Future of Jobs’ report from the World Economic Forum (2016) highlights that the three most important skills needed by the workforce from 2020 onwards are complex problem solving skills, critical thinking and creativity. ... -
‘I’ve drawn, like, someone who was the world’: drawings as embodied gestures of lived yoga experience
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-03-25)There have been strong calls to develop the study of sensory embodied scholarship in sport and physical culture that is open for all academic fields to consider. Work so far relies largely upon the sensory intelligence of ... -
Nowhere man: John Lennon and spectral liminality
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)Cath Davies examines the posthumous representation of John Lennon. Where the majority of deceased celebrities are embalmed within comforting discourses that sustain their alive-ness, Lennon, Davies suggests, is different. ... -
Smells like teen spirit: Channelling subcultural traditions in contemporary Dr Martens branding
(Sage, 2014-02-03)In 2012, the Dr Martens footwear company announced profits of £22 million with a 230% rise in sales from 2011–2012. In the light of this achievement, this paper will investigate the ideologies behind recent marketing ... -
What lies beneath: Fabric and embodiment in Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In
(Ingenta, 2017-06-01)This article investigates discourses about fabric and embodiment in Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In (2011). The aim of the study is to consider how the film’s narrative and mise-en-scène positions fabric as an expression ... -
The poetics of the fragment
(Wales in Venice, 2019-05-24)Installation art has two defining features. The first is that it requires the experience of the viewer or visitor for its completion. This is on the understanding that what is offered in an installation is distributed in ... -
From insignificance to significance
(Bloomsbury, 2020-02-01)Through a series of artworks, the name ‘Martin Creed’ leads us to a position where the concept of what counts as an object of attention cannot be taken for granted. We find ourselves in a context where any minute, ordinarily ... -
Art, philosophy and the connectivity of concepts
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-05-01)In the history of philosophy, concepts are traditionally pictured as discrete containers that bring together objects or qualities based on the possession of shared, uniform properties. This paper focuses on a contrasting ... -
Mechanical Entanglement: A Collaborative Haptic-Music Performance
(2019-03)Mechanical Entanglement is a musical composition for three performers. Three force feedback devices each containing two haptic faders are mutually coupled using virtual linear springs and dampers. During the composition, ... -
Game|lan:Co-Designing and Co-Creating an Orchestra of Digital Musical Instruments within the Fab Lab Network
(CCRMA, Stanford University, 2019-03-23)This paper presents an ongoing project focused on the co-design and co-creation of a small orchestra of digitally fabricated digital musical instruments (DMIs) based on the Bela board, an open-source embedded computing ... -
The Role of Education in the Sustainable Regeneration of Built Heritage: A Case Study of Malta
(MDPI, 2019-05-03)Vernacular architecture has great historical, cultural and architectonic value, but also much potential for reducing energy demand. However, the eco-refurbishment of heritage buildings within Mediterranean countries poses ... -
Industrialised: Art in Manufacturing in the Gallery
(2019)International artists uncover the humanity, brutality and ingenuity of factory production in a rare gathering of work exploring mankind and manu-facturing in INDUSTRIALISED. Featuring work unexhibited in the UK to date and ... -
Design Fictions: A Tool for Debating Societal, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Personal and Pervasive Health Systems
(Springer, 2016-12-01)The potential benefits offered by health-related technologies are counterpoised by the societal, legal and ethical challenges concomitant with the pervasive monitoring of people necessitated by such technological interventions. ... -
Energy and economic analysis of Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) used in non-domestic buildings
(Elsevier, 2016-12-08)The potential savings in space heating energy from the installation of Fumed Silica (FS) and Glass Fibre (GF) Vacuum Insulation Panels (VIPs) were compared to conventional expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation for three ... -
Additive Manufacturing: A Novel Method for Fabricating Cobalt-Chromium Removable Partial Denture Frameworks
(FDI World Dental Press, 2017-06)Additive manufacturing (AM) often referred to as 3D printing (3DP) has shown promise of being significantly viable in the construction of cobalt-chromium removable partial denture (RPD) frameworks. The current paper seeks ... -
User-centred design and experience prototyping: Design and implementation of pre-handwriting intervention to children with coordination difficulties/dyspraxia
(AIP Publishing, 2017-10-03)We have proposed a method to assist children with coordination difficulties or dyspraxia to improve their pre-handwriting skills. We have chosen an animation technique called ‘Rotoscopy’, a method that normally been used ... -
A comparison between preference judgments of curvature and sharpness in architectural façades
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-12-28)Can curvature drive preference, perceived familiarity, complexity, stability and approachability for architectural façades? In this study, we generated four versions of the same reference building, varying only the amount ... -
Emotive architecture – Sensory design evaluation of schools
(LSIPublishing, 2018-09)Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) is an established process for assessing the thermal performance of buildings already constructed and in use. It could be argued that POE tends to focus predominantly on assessing whether ...
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