Activities
Recent research outputs by members of the Design Research Centre.
Exhibitions
Shaw, A., Goldsmith, S., 2012. 'PAIRINGS II CONVERSATIONS & COLLABORATIONS', Museum in the Park, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 28th April-27th May 2012.
Shaw, A. Alexander, M., Carreducker, Crawford, S.,Easton, S., Fine Cell Work, Ford, F., Godwin, F., Jenkins, K., Matthews, R., Messum, S., Nelson, D., Pemberton, K., Pitt, T., Pymm, C., Robins, F., Twigger-Holroyd, A., White, H., Wilson, D., Wrigg, J.,, 2012. 'WOW' (WONDER OF WOOL), Gallery @ Rheged, Penrith, Cumbria, 14th January - 15th April 2012.
Brook, R. and Dodge, M., 2012. Infra_MANC. Post-war Mancunian Infrastructures, CUBE Gallery & RIBA Hub, 24th February - 17th March.
Blakey, S. and Samanidou I, 2012. Pairings 2, SIT, Stroud International Textiles, April 27 - May 27 2012.
Cuthbert, V., 2012. Print Biennale, The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, July 2012.
Manning, M., 2012. The Magic Theatre, MMU Holden Gallery, Feb 2012.
McCullagh, J., 2012. The Magic Theatre (A touring group exhibition) curated by Mark Manning, Manchester School of Art, Holden Gallery, The Gallery NUCA, Norwich, November 2011/14 to 25 February 2012.
Manning, M., 2012. The Magic Theatre NORWICH School of Art NUCA, Norwich NUCA Gallery, 2011/12.
Haslam, J., 2012. Ties that bind - Aprons, stories and hidden lives, Unit Twelve, Tixall Heath Farm, Tixall, Stafford, 3rd November 2011- 28th Jan 2012..
Samanidou I featuring Blakey, S., 2012. Topography: recording place - mapping surface, The Crafts Study Centre, June - Sept 2012.
Blakey, S. and Samanidou I, 2012. Utensil, The National Craft Gallery of Ireland, August - November 2012.
Egan, K. and Dr Cutler, V, 2012. ‘Pairings II-conversations & collaborations’, Museum in the Park Stroud GL5 4AF, 28 April – 27 May 2012.
Shaw, A., Anita Bruce, Adele Bowden, Kandy Diamond, Elizabeth Gaston, Kate Holdsworth, Joanna Jack, Angela Knipe, Stephanie Potts, Deirdre Nelson, Shetland Mirrie Dancers, and Jane Scott., 2011. 'PURLS BY THE SEA', Belfry Arts Centre, Overstrand, Norfolk, 12-30 August 2011.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. BBC Big Screen, Triangle, Exchange Square, 2012.
Haslam, J., 2011. Crafted, Prescot Museum & Kirkby Gallery, 30th Nov - 6th Feb.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. Flux, Flight, Flow: Art in Motion, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond., September 2011-January 2012.
Haslam, J., 2011. Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Spinningfields, Manchester, 20th - 23th October 2011.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. Hackwood Open Exhibition, Hackwood Festival, Hampshire, 24th June-27th June.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. Royal Academy Summer Show 20011, Royal Academy of Art, London, 4th June-15th August 2011.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. Stockport Open, Stockport Art Gallery, June 23rd- August 15th.
McCullagh, J., 2011. The World 100 Design Schools, Taipei, World Trade Centre, Taiwan, October 22 to 30, 2011.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. Urban Nomad Film Festival, China, LOCATION: HUASHAN 1914 CREATIVE PARK #1 SEC. 1 BA-DE RD, TAIPEI, WAREHOUSE #2-EAST-A, May 2011.
Cuthbert, V., 2011. Urban Nomad Film Festival, China, LOCATION: HUASHAN 1914 CREATIVE PARK #1 SEC. 1 BA-DE RD, TAIPEI, WAREHOUSE #2-EAST-A, May 2011.
Artefacts
Welsh, A., 2013. 'Translating Tradition', Translating Tradition examined the pattern cutting methods used to construct traditional Gujarati menswear costumes; jamas, kediyun and angarakhas. The project asked the question; how might Indian tailors interpret and respond to a contemporary western tr, Made For Manchester, Manchester Craft and Design Centre, September 2011, as part of the Asia Triennial Manchester., September 2011.
Welsh, A., 2012. '1900 Smock', Artists smock This project uses archive images of artists’ smocks as the catalyst for constructed textile narratives, which combine hand and digital stitching technologies to reference the history of Manchester School of Art., 2012 Beijing Fashion Art International Exhibition. Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing., September 2012.
Welsh, A., 2012. 'Another Peace - Cotton Exchange', Travellers Tales Contemporary Applied Art. London, 2009.
Welsh, A., 2012. 'Another Peace - Cotton Exchange', Queen St Mill Burnley, Lanchashire. England, 20 June to 15 July 2012.
Manning, M., 2012. 'Stone Lithography, Prose and Artifacts series " THE GUNNERS DREAM "', Stone Lithography Print set and Creative Prose and Animation, Margaret St Art School, Birmingham City University, 2012/13.
Welsh, A., 2011. '1966', Book, Bibliomania - MMU Holden Gallery, 2007.
Welsh, A., 2011. 'Revive', A contemporary garment exhibited alongside an 'original' vintage Jama., Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China,, 14 May - 10 July 2010..
Welsh, A., 2011. 'Slavery Now - ‘Because children have got rights”', Textile artwork, 'Artefact’ Platform Gallery - Ribble Valley, Lancashire, 22nd May to 17th July 2010.
Welsh, A., 2011. 'Translating Tradition', Asia Triennial Manchester 11 - Made For Manchester - Craft Objects of Exchange, Manchester Craft & Design Centre, 17th September to 12th November 2011.
Books
Dunn, N., 2012. Digital Fabrication in Architecture, Laurence King.
Russell, A., 2011. The Fundamentals of Printed Textile Design, AVA Academia SA, Lausanne.
Jointly Authored Book
Brook, R. and Dodge, M., 2012. 'Infra_MANC. Post-war Mancunian Infrastructures', bauprint: Manchester.
Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2011. 'Urban Maps: Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City', Ashgate, Farnham, UK.
Edited Books
Manning, M., 2012. ''LANUGO FUR' Poetry Selected Works 2102 M.Manning', Lanugo Press.
Book Chapters
Russell, A. and Briggs-Goode, A., 2011. 'Printed Textile Design'. In A Briggs-Goode and K Townsend (eds.) Textile design: Principles, advances and applications, (pp. to follow), Woodhead Publishing Limited.
Internet Publications
Manning, M., 2012. 'Into the Lap of the Land', Log Journal, on main site also.
Journal Articles
Dunn, N., 2013. 'The End of Architecture?: Networked Communities, Urban Transformation and Post-capitalist Landscapes', Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, 3, 2, pp.67-75.
Dunn, N., 2012. 'Altered States: Social Networks, Digital Ecologies and Affecting Change in the Urban Landscape', Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, 2, 1, pp.151-159.
Brook, R., 2012. 'Building as Sign: Architecture in the Image Economy', The International Journal of the Image, Volume 1, Issue 4, 67-82.
Brook, R., 2012. 'Police Brutality', The Modernist, 4, 12-15.
Brook, R., 2011. 'A Hidden Chapel', Greater Manchester Churches Preservation Society, Winter 2011/12, 9.
Blakey, S., 2011. 'A Lull in the Conversation', Ceramic Review, Issue 249, Page 50.
Brook, R., 2011. 'Boldly Gone', The Modernist, 1, 10-11.
Brook, R., 2011. 'Hard Brilliance', The Modernist, 2, 14-15.
Dunn, N., 2011. 'Infrastructural Urbanism: Ecologies and Technologies of Multi-Layered Landscapes', Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, 1, 1, pp.87-96.
Brook, R., 2011. 'Manchester', C20 The magazine of the Twentieth Century Society, Autumn 2011, 18-19.
Brook, R., 2011. 'Manchester Chapels', C20 The Magazine of the Twentieth Century Society, Spring 2011, 29.
Blakey, S. A.Woodall, L.Mitchell, 2011. 'Mary, Mary Quite Contrary', Ruskin Review and Bulletin, Vol 7, No 1, 36.
Wheeldon-Wyatt, L., 2011. '‘Pairings, Crossing Artistic Boundaries.’ Cover Design for Ceramic Review.', The magazine of Ceramic Art & Craft, Issue 249..
Presentations
Dunn, N., 2013. 'Big Data and the Future of Cities', Issues of Urbanisation, South China University of Technology; Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 25&26 April 2013.
Dunn, N., 2013. 'Integrative Thinking: making as developing and embodying knowledge in architecture education', TEST - Teaching of Environment, Sustainability and Technology in Architecture & Design Conference, The Building Centre, London, 24-25 January 2013.
Dunn, N., 2013. 'Interactive Instruments: situated technology, intelligent terrain and design commons', Seventh International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, 6-8 March 2013.
Brook, R., 2013. 'It's Just Juxtabridity', Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 9 - 13 April 2013.
Brook, R., 2013. 'Manchester. The 59 year history of the inner relief route', Infrastructure and the rebuilt post-war city, Birmingham City University, 25 March 2013.
Brook, R., 2013. 'Manchester: Disconnected City', The making of post-war Manchester 1945-74: Plans and Projects, University of Manchester, 8 May 2013.
Dunn, N., 2013. 'Networked Communities: Urban Transition and Practices of Resistance', Association of American Geographers' Annual Meeting, LA Downtown Hotel, 9-13 April.
Brook, R., 2013. 'The materiality of entropy: an application of order', Time, Space and the Body, Mercure Hotel, Sydney, AU., 11-13 February 2013.
Welsh, A., 2013. 'Translating Tradition', Creative Cut, Huddersfield Univerisity, 6 and 7 Feb 2013.
Richards, D., Dunn, N. and Amos, M., 2012. 'An Evo-Devo Approach to Architectural Design', Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Philadelphia, USA, 7-11 July 2012, in GECCO '12 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp.569-576.
Shaw, A., 2012. 'GANSEYS, IDENTITY EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT & DESIGN', IDENTITY,CULTURE & RELIGION IN BRITISH FISHING COMMUNITIES, YORK ST. JOHN UNIVERSITY, 28th-29th june 2012.
Cahill, C., 2012. 'Imag(in)ing The Wake: graphic mimesis in the reading and visual adaptation of Finnegans Wake', XXIII International James Joyce Symposium, Trinity College, Dublin, 10 - 16 June 2012.
Dunn, N., 2012. 'Interface and Implementation: negotiating the boundaries between physical landscape and digital territories for architectural design', Theoretical Currents II: Architecture and its Geographical Horizons Conference, East Midlands History and Philosophy Research Network / EMMTEC, University of Lincoln, 4-5 April 2012.
Dunn, N., 2012. 'Making + Thinking: designing prototypes for architecture', Future Forms: The Application of 3D Printing in Research and Practice, Manchester Metropolitan University, 25 April 2012.
McCullagh, J., McFadyen, J., Holmes, A., Crow, D., McKeating, J, 2012. 'Re-make, re-model: this is design education tomorrow calling.', DesignEd Asia—Incorporating Disciplinary Dynamics Into Design Education, DesignEd Asia, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, December 2012, in DesignEd Asia—Incorporating Disciplinary Dynamics Into Design Education.
Dunn, N., 2012. 'The End of Architecture? Networked Communities, Urban Transformation and Post-Capitalist Landscapes', Spaces & Flows: Third International Conference on Urban & ExtraUrban Studies, Wayne State University, Detroit, 11-12 October.
Cahill, C., 2011. 'An Eye, Listening at Listening: Precision and Subjectivity: Thinking and Doing as Continuity, a PPR event at , supported by MIRIAD as part of part of Teaching,', Teaching, Listening and Learning, PARC Northwest, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, 17 November 2011.
Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2011. 'Data Mining: Abstract Urban Topographies', Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2011: The Geographical Imagination, Royal Geographical Society and Imperial College, London, 31 August - 2 September 2011.
Cahill, C., 2011. 'Droodles of an Illustrainer', North American James Joyce Conference: Joyce in Science and Art, Huttington Library and Caltech, 12 – 16 June 2011.
Dunn, N., 2011. 'Living on the edge: cultural proximities, social peripheries and spatial margins', Architectural Humanities Research Association 2011: Peripheries, Queen's University, Belfast, 27-29 October 2011.
McCullagh, J., 2011. 'Old School, New School, Art School, contemporary art and design education', British Council, Taipei, Design Convention Centre, 23 October 2011.
Shaw, A., 2011. 'SEAMLESS OLD AND NEW', GANSEYFEST International gansey symposium organised by the Moray Firth gansey project, Centre for Health Science, Inverness, Scotland., 1-2 October 2011.
Cahill, C., 2011. 'Selfscreened Squidsquirts: a visually engaged reading of the Wake', Illustration and Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University, • 11 November 2011.
McCullagh, J., 2011. '‘Let’s have a cross-cultural picnic!’. Being a ‘pedagogic designer’—articulating the language of design and pedagogy by animating social, communicative and improvised cross-cultural learning spaces.', Pairings: Conversations, Collaborations, Materials, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester School of Art, 12-13 May 2011, in http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/pairings/.
Other Outputs
O'Neill, C. J., 2011. 'Collaborations, Creativity and Value', Collaborative paper with Amanda Ravetz.
Brook, R., Chung, M., Dunn, N., Tyson, T., 2011. 'Emerge: Spatial Design Report', Commissioned report into formal design solutions for east Manchester recycling cooperative.
McCannon, D., 2011. 'Folk Art and the Illustration of British Identity', Fifth Global Conference in Visual Literacies.
McCannon, D., 2011. 'Illustration and Gnosis', Second Illustration Research Symposium: Illustration and Writing.
McCannon, D., 2011. 'Lacking Vision', Publication, Varoom Magazine,.
Brook, R., 2011. 'Manchester Modern', A curated set of photos for GMCRO from the Manchester Local Image Collection.
Welsh, A., 2011. 'New Silk Road', Photographs and copy.
Cahill, C., 2011. 'State of Play', A group exposition and critical dialogue around practice-based PhD research in progress. Organized by PPR at RIBA Hub, as part of the PARC Northwest 'Carnival'.
Dunn, N. and Brook, R., 2011. '[Re_Map]: the image of the urban landscape', Co-chaired conference session at the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2011: The Geographical Imagination.
Shaw, A., 2011. '‘THE GREAT SANDWICH PIC-KNIT’ Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Whitby. Talk and exhibited work'.
