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CSAD is home to a range of centres and groups engaged in cutting-edge, world-leading research. Through the use of innovative and participatory research methods and a collaborative approach to working with external partners, our staff use their art and design expertise to respond to global challenges across a range of fields; from healthcare, wellbeing and vision science, to innovations in new technologies, exhibition practice, and the ecological performance of new and heritage buildings.
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Impact and the Research Environment: An Art And Design Case Study
(Coventry University, 2021-09-01)There is much debate on how to successfully create impact. Discussions often centre on the role of discipline, researcher skills and behaviour, or institutional systems to capture impact evidence, but little consideration ... -
An Analysis of Repeating Thermal Bridges from Timber Frame Fraction in Closed Panel Timber Frame Walls: A Case Study from Wales, UK
(MDPI, 2021-02-23)Calculating Repeating Thermal Bridges (RTBs) for Timber Frame (TF) closed panels that could occur in Offsite Manufactured (OSM) Modern Methods of Construction (MMC), such as exterior walls for nearly-to-zero operational ... -
Evolution of policy labs and use of design for policy in UK government
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-03-18)At the intersection between theory and practice on “design” and “policy,” there is small but expanding knowledge base on the concept of “design for policy.” Government interest in design methods for policy-making has grown ... -
Enabling design: a case of maker workshops as a method for including special educators in creating digital interactions for learners with profound disabilities
(Emerald, 2021-04-08)Purpose This purpose of this paper is to present findings from three workshops that aimed to enable learners with profound and multiple learning disabilities to have a richer, more meaningful experience of a digital ... -
Perspectives of UK catering staff on adolescents’ food choices at school
(School Nutrition Association, 2021)PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES This study explores what school catering staff (nutrition program personnel) in the United Kingdom (UK) perceive to influence adolescents’ food choices during the school day with observational research ... -
An examination of the factors influencing a cohort of post-graduate architecture students in the adoption of sustainable design practices that support health and well-being
(IOP Science, 2020)Presented in this paper are the results of an interactive workshop undertaken with a cohort of international architecture students, which aimed to explore their approaches to sustainable decision-making and design, including ... -
Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2020
(Springer, 2021)This book contains the proceedings of the 12th KES International Conference on Sustainability and Energy in Buildings 2020 (SEB20) held in Split, Croatia, during 24–26 June 2020 organized by KES International. SEB20 invited ... -
Identifying research and development priorities for an in-hospital 3D design engineering facility in India
(Ingenta, 2020-10-01)Advanced three-dimensional (3D) design and engineering technologies have revolutionized patient-specific implants, prostheses and medical devices, particularly in the cranio-maxillofacial and oral medical fields. Lately, ... -
Toward quantifying ambiguities in artistic images
(ACM, 2020-11-01)It has long been hypothesized that perceptual ambiguities play an important role in aesthetic experience: A work with some ambiguity engages a viewer more than one that does not. However, current frameworks for testing ... -
Sherlock Holmes and the case for toxic masculinity
(Routledge, 2020-11-30)The presence of toxic masculinity, which often appears as random violence such as road rage or high school shootings, is partly attributed to patriarchal values of hegemonic masculinity embedded in society. This chapter ... -
From emo kid to stylish GQ Gent and back again: Matty Healy and hybrid masculinity
(Ingenta, 2020-12-01)This article examines the evolution of the appearance of British musician, Matty Healy, lead singer of contemporary band The 1975, in his performance as a hybrid man in style and fashion magazines. Hybrid masculinity is ... -
Fashion, Sustainability, and the Anthropocene
(Penn State University Press, 2017-12-01)The unbridled consumption of clothing threatens the environment. A discussion is developing around the adoption of new materials and economic models to reduce the impacts of clothing production and use. We discuss these ... -
Garment Quality and Sustainability: A User Based Approach
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-11-07)This paper explores the role played by female perceptions of garment quality in relation to how long clothing is kept and how it is used. It considers perceptions of quality in relation to implications for sustainability ... -
The Importance of Presencing in Creativity
(Trifoss Business Press, 2020)Creativity needs to thrive inside and across organisations to help address the major global challenges we face. We review some key findings from creativity research and present a new model for creativity where the ideas ... -
Participatory Design Research of Vegetable-based Snack Products with Adolescent Participants
(The Design Society, 2020-08-26)The childhood obesity epidemic is often attributed to the widespread marketing of High Fat, Salt and Sugar (HFSS) foods. Currently, there is a lack of vegetable-based New Product Development (NPD) targeting adolescent ... -
Slow Looking at Slow Art: the Work of Pierre Bonnard
(MIT Press, 2020-03-11)Slow looking is an increasingly prevalent strategy for enhancing visitor engagement in the gallery, yet there is little research to show why looking at artworks for longer should be beneficial. The curator of a recent ... -
Neuroscience and Posthuman Memory
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)In the early 1980s a remarkable piece of evidence was uncovered about the importance of the brain in our everyday conscious life, but it has not been widely discussed since. At that time a young man was given one of the ... -
Improvements in and relating to image making
(United States Patent Application, 2015-12-17)A method of making an image of a scene (including a scene made by the method) generally corresponding to that perceived by the human brain via the human eyes, the method including the steps, in any Suitable order, of ... -
Compassionate Design: a methodology for advanced dementia
(Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University, 2020-07-01)Predicted increases in the numbers of people living into the advanced stages of dementia pose a significant problem for health and care providers around the world. Finding ways to ameliorate the distressing dementia symptoms ... -
Design for dementia: Making spaces for uncertainty
(Centre for Design Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology, 2017-12-04)This paper presents research undertaken as part of the LAUGH project to explore design processes and design of hand held playful objects for people living with advanced dementia. A series of six co-design ...