Activities
Recent research outputs by members of the Design Research Centre.
Exhibitions
Welsh, A., 2012. Asia Triennial Manchester 11 - Made For Manchester - Craft Objects of Exhchange, Manchester Craft & Design Centre, 17th September to 12th November 2011.
Brook, R. and Dodge, M., 2012. Infra_MANC: Post-war Mancunian Architecture, CUBE Gallery & RIBA Hub, 24th February - 17th March.
Blakey, S., 2012. Pairings 2, SIT, Stroud International Textiles, April 27 - May 27 2012.
Haslam, J., 2012. Ties that bind - Aprons, stories and hidden lives, Unit Twelve, Tixall Heath Farm, Tixall, Stafford, 3rd November 2011- 28th Jan 2012..
Egan, K. and Dr Cutler, V, 2012. ‘Pairings II-conversations & collaborations’, Museum in the Park Stroud GL5 4AF, 28 April – 27 May 2012.
Welsh, A., 2011. By A lady, I Am Human, The School House Gallery, York, 27 Jan-26 Feb 2011.
Welsh, A., 2011. By A Lady, Artefact’ Platform Gallery - Ribble Valley, Lancashire, 22nd May to 17th July 2010.
Haslam, J., 2011. Crafted, Prescot Museum & Kirkby Gallery, 30th Nov - 6th Feb.
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.
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. 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.
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.
O'Neill, C. J., 2010. Artefact, Platform Gallery, Clitheroe, 22 May - 17 July.
McCullagh, J., 2010. Communication with the Natural Environment and Design—International Design Exhibition, 1, 2, 3 Gallery in Busan Metropolitan City and Gallery in Art Factory in Dadaepo, South Korea, May 31–June 5 and June 8 Monday-June14.
Haslam, J., 2010. Domestic Bliss, Ferrers Gallery, Staunton Harold, Ashby de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, UK, 6th Aug - 10th Oct.
O'Neill, C. J., 2010. Embracing Technology, Craft Council of Ireland Galleries, Kilkenny, Ireland, 6th August-20th October 2010.
Shaw, A., 2010. EXTRAVAGANSEY, The Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther, Fife, 1st October - 31st December 2010.
Miller, M., 2010. Global Intrigue II - 4th Riga International Trienial, Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia, July 9th - September 5th 2010.
Felcey, H., 2010. Helen Felcey | Carina Ciscato, Blas & Knada, Stockholm, September 2009.
Shaw, A., 2010. International Creative Pattern Design Competition, China Academy of Art, 2010 China Cultural and Creative Industry Expo, Hangzhou, China, 13-19 October 2010.
McCullagh, J., 2010. Love and Peace International Design Exhibition, Yiang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, (www.galleryiang.com), 19–25 May 2010.
Miller, M. Walker, J, 2010. Pairings - collaboration with Jenny Walker, Special Collections, MMU and touring UK, 26th July - 13th november 2010.
Felcey, H., 2010. Place Settings: Helen Felcey / Alice Kettle, Special Collections, MMU, August 2008.
Felcey, H., 2010. Pots of Light, Galerie Besson, May 2009.
Dunn, N., 2010. Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, 14 May - 10 July 2010.
Russell, A., 2010. Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, 14 May - 10 July 2010.
Russell, A., 2010. Salon Indigo at Premiere Vision, Parc d'Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte, 14-16 September 2010.
Russell, A., 2010. Salon Indigo at Premiere Vision, Parc d'Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte, 9-12 February 2010.
Shaw, A., 2010. STORMFORCE, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, 1st October - 28th November 2010.
Haslam, J., 2010. The Art of Dining, RBSA, 24th May - 23rd July.
Miller, M., 2010. The Power of Copying, Xuzhou Art Gallery, Xuzhou, China, 14th May 2010 - 14th July 2010.
Cuthbert, V., 2010. The Windhorse Project, Manchester Digital Development Agency, 16-09-10.
Artefacts
Welsh, A., 2011. '1838', Smock, Artschool! Holden Gallery. Manchester Metropolitan University. Special Collections. MMU Library, 09.03.09 - 27.03.09.
Welsh, A., 2011. '1966', Book, Bibliomania - MMU Holden Gallery, 2007.
Welsh, A., 2011. 'Revive', A contemporary garment exhibited alongside an 'original' vintage 'Kurta', Power of Copying, Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China,, 14 May - 10 July 2010..
Welsh, A., 2011. 'Translating Tradition', A collaboration between the contrasting aesthetics of a western design sensibility and traditional Indian tailoring techniques, Made for Manchester: Craft Objects of Exchange - Manchester Craft and Design Centre, 17 September – 12 November 2011.
Miller, M., 2010. 'Jeans, baseball cap, sweatshirt, jeans, baseball cap, sweatshirt', Embroidery created on the multi-needle MMU schiffli machine, Global Intrigue II – 4th Riga internation textile and fibre art trienial, July 9th – September 5th 2010..
Books
Russell, A., 2011. The Fundamentals of Printed Textile Design, AVA Academia SA, Lausanne.
Dunn, N., 2010. Architectural Modelmaking, Laurence King.
Jointly Authored Book
Brook, R. and Dunn, N., 2011. 'Urban Maps: Instruments of Narrative and Interpretation in the City', Ashgate, Farnham, UK.
Edited Books
McCullagh, J. Swindells, S., 2010. 'Radar: Review / Art / Design / Architecture / Research. Volume.1 Number 1.', University of Huddersfield.
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.
Shaw, A., 2010. 'Looking backwards to look forwards'. In Jessica Hemmings (eds.) In the loop: Knitting now, 128-131, Black Dog Publishing, London.
Miller, M., 2010. 'Mixed Messages: an exploration of issue-based work'. In Alice Kettle and Jane McKeating (eds.) Machine Stitch Perspectives, A & C Black, London.
Internet Publications
Cahill, C., Watkinson, C., 2010. 'Pairings: A Conversation', Pairings: A Conversation, http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Pairings+a+conversation.
Journal Articles
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..
Dunn, N., 2010. 'Hybrid Modes of Inquiry - [Re]Mapping the Nature of the Design Studio in Architecture Education', Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, 4, 2, pp.39-46.
Russell, A., 2010. 'Patterns Design', XFUNS, June 2008, 64-69.
Cahill, C., 2010. 'Reflecting The Wake', The blue Notebook Vol. 4, No. 2. 2010.
Wheeldon-Wyatt, L., 2010. '‘Ready or Not – graduation to industry.’', Shellsuit Zombie, Issue 1..
Presentations
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.
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.
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/.
O'Neill, C. J., Dixon, Stephen, 2010. 'collaboration within manchester school of art', collaboration - research in ceramics now, University of Westminster, 23rd June 2010.
Dunn, N., 2010. 'Digital Networks: between open source mobility and closed loop assemblages', Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2010: Confronting the Challenges of the Post-Crisis Global Economy and Environment, Royal Geographical Society and Imperial College, London, 1-3 September 2010.
Cuthbert, V., 2010. 'Drawing on film. An alternative history.', Animation Explosion, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 19-01-10.
Cuthbert, V., 2010. 'Experimental narratives in animation', Animation Explosion, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 02-01-10.
Cuthbert, V., 2010. 'Impact of Experimental cinema on current animation practice', Animation Explosion, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 09-02-10.
Dunn, N., 2010. 'Infrastructural Urbanism: Ecologies and Technologies of Multi-Layered Landscapes', Spaces & Flows: the Inaugural International Conference on Urban & ExtraUrban Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 4-5 December 2010.
Dunn, N., 2010. 'Mapping Interstices: understanding urban conditions through the lived experience of societal margins in contemporary film', Once Upon A Place: Haunted Houses & Imaginary Cities, 1st International Conference on Architecture and Fiction, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian & Museu da Electricidade, 12-14 October 2010.
Cuthbert, V., 2010. 'The impact of new technology on contemporary film making', Animation Explosion, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 23-02-10.
O'Neill, C. J., 2010. 'The social value of craft and what it means', Assemble, St Lukes, London, 22nd June 2010.
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'.
McCannon, D., 2010. 'Character Based Learning', Design for Children.
McCullagh, J., 2010. 'Design Week journal', Pedagogic work featured in article ‘University event proposes better links with industry’ 6 May 2010, p4..
Cuthbert, V., 2010. 'Judge at Kino film festival', Involved in judging the Best International Animated film category at the Kino film festival 2010.
Brook, R., 2010. 'Manchester Modern: The Shape of the City', Thesis submitted to the RIBA Library..
McCannon, D., 2010. 'Productive Relationships Curriculum Development', North Wales School of Art and Design BA ‘Design for Decorative Arts’: An outward facing course designed to embrace available technologies and traditional skills in Wales.
McCannon, D., 2010. 'Towards a Visual Poetics: Illustrating Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’', First Illustration Research Symposium: Shadow Play.
