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Jessica Yan

adelmootranto i-DAT, Researcher

Jie Yan (Jessica) is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. Her research explores the relationship and interaction of vision, social media and health. It will start with the food images on Instagram to find out the impacts on food perception as well as the potential influences and implications of health situation.

Food images can influence health indirectly by impacts on eating behaviours, and an individuals’ health situation could be predicted by the food perception from vision, so it seems to be a link between vision and health. This research aims to investigate what parts of vision tend to play the key role in a food image linking to health, and the changes in this cycle because of the engagement of social media.

A series of design-based approaches will be used to investigate personal’s perception, attitudes and opinions of food images on Instagram in this qualitative research, in order to assist the comprehension of the link between vision and health as well as exploring new sorts of food representation.

Dr Alejandro Veliz Reyes

adelmootranto i-DAT, Supervisor

Research interests

My research focuses on the role and impacts of digital tools in architectural design education. Some areas of interest are those of cognition and semiotics, modelling and representation, technology-enhanced learning and computer-supported collaborative work. During my doctoral research I observed the impacts of augmented reality tools and the use of Wikis to support design studio teaching.

Grants & contracts

Digital Learning Suite (Project leader, 2015) – School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University (~£4.500).
Collaborative learning proposal for sunlight and daylight (Associate researcher, 2014-15) – School of Architecture, Design and Environment, Plymouth University, in collaboration with Lightup Analytics (~£14.800).
Reflective and dynamic use of Wikis to support collaborative design learning (Research assistant, 2013-14) – Higher Education Academy, and University of Liverpool (~£19.000).
Augmented pedagogies (PhD research)
Update and Upgrade of the Laboratory System (Computing laboratory manager, 2010) – UTFSM (~£25.000).

Rosie Brave

adelmootranto i-DAT, Researcher

Wearers of prosthetic limbs can choose to express their style through a choice of colours and finishes. The same choice is not available for women who wear external breast prostheses. My research seeks to establish how a reimagined breast form might be designed, involving the wearers themselves, and exploring how this impacts their wellbeing.

I have a broad education across performing and visual arts. My professional life has been a blend of creativity, education and wellbeing, comprising events, projects and training since 2003. My professional experiences have helped me to structure my research and informed my research methodology of design workshops and group discussions.

My Masters research was inspired by the experiences of my friend and ex-colleague Sam’s mother and her disappointment at receiving a beige prosthesis that was both unappealing and uncomfortable. My previous training in applied colour psychology and my love of design inspired me to actively discover if the look of prosthetic breasts could be improved. I was confident this would have a positive effect on confidence and wellbeing levels if women could have more choice.

My university life has been an adventure. I’ve made great friends, learned about electronics, critical and speculative design, taught myself 3D modelling and experimented with 3D printing to create prototypes. Being able to meet with health and design practitioners for feedback on both my concepts and practice has been invaluable. Being part of an Art, Design & Architecture school, and the Arts & Humanities Faculty means I am mixing with people from a wide range of disciplines and am constantly getting new perspectives on my work. This has been helpful in shaping ideas around the cultural significance of my work.

As a part-time research student I have been able to re-adjust to academic life, acquire research skills and have time for exploring the commercial potential of my research. I recently co-founded a company, Boost Innovations Limited, and I am looking forward to testing my research and its reception in the marketplace. I am a finalist on the Design Council’s product development support and funding programme, Spark, and my work will be showcased at London’s Design Museum in June 2018. After graduating, I plan to continue to combine my passion for enhancing wellbeing through design and codesign to create products and experiences that make people feel better.

You can follow my research and business journeys on Twitter @braveresearch @wewearboost

Rosie Brave
ResM Digital Art & Technology
3D3 Studentship

https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/news-opinion/meet-spark-finalists-2018
https://www.facebook.com/events/257199331491141/  

 

Automatik

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Automatik

Design Research Workshop.

[Skunk-Works #2] Automatik:

Date: Monday 17 December 2018

Time: 10:00-16:00

Location: Design Lab, 2nd floor Roland Levinsky Building.

As with the previous Skunk-Works, this workshop will explore key aspects of the UK’s Industrial Strategy as framework for individual/group research activities within the Design Area. The workshop will focus on a practical engagement with the new Automation Call for the South West Creative Technology Network: https://swctn.org.uk/.

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

The aim of this workshop is to:

  • enlighten participants to contemporary issues and practicalities of Automation.
  • provide a brief but accessible hands-on experience of AI and Robotic systems
  • enable insights to how these processes can inform individual research practices
  • discuss issues around Intellectual Property within collaborative academic/industrial research
  • provide a platform for discussion around academic/industrial knowledge exchange
  • provide first-hand accounts of the SWCTN fellowship experience.

https://designresearch.info/automatik/

UBIQUITY: ISSUE #1: VOLUME 5.

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UBIQUITY: ISSUE #1: VOLUME 5.

“A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward into stability and then retreated into insubstantial uncertainty.”

(Phillip K. Dick 1969)

Ubiquity: Journal of Pervasive Media: Issue #1: Volume 5,

22 Articles generated by The Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture – THE ATEMPORAL IMAGE.

The Atemporal Image: This manifestation of the Aleph is the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conferences Series, an international conference that generated the content for this issue of Ubiquity. The Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging at the Intersections of Art, Science and Culture – THE ATEMPORAL IMAGE – was hosted by i-DAT at Plymouth University on the 1-3 July 2016 (http://transimage.i-dat.org/). The Fourth International Conference on Transdisciplinary Imaging adopted the theme of the Atemporal Image and the series of papers included in Ubiquity explore how a new temporality informs and plays out across contemporary visual culture. Our contemporary quotidian lives are becoming increasingly indebted to virtual platforms for social exchange and cultural mediation. The ubiquity of social media has necessitated the birth of virtual graveyards; frozen digital reliquaries marking the cessation of our online busywork. Museums and culture conservationists are hurriedly digitizing material fragments of the Anthropocene in an anxious contest against time and entropy. In this world the family photo-album is no longer an object but a well pool of dematerialized data.

Future Past: The Atemporal Image is the fourth iteration in the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conferences Series, with previous iterations in Istanbul (2014), Melbourne (2012) and Sydney (2010). The next manifestation will be Edinburgh (2018).

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3D3 EOI- 09/02/18

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3D3 EOI- 09/02/18

THE 3D3 CENTRE FOR DOCTORAL TRAINING.

Expressions of Interest closes on 9th February 2018.

The purpose of the EoI process is to: ensure that your proposed research is appropriate for the consortium and, if so, in which institution and research unit; ensure that you are appropriately qualified to undertake this research with a reasonable chance of being funded; offer some support and feedback to those applicants who are invited to submit full applications.

While you may apply for a 3D3 studentship without submitting an EoI, the consortium is unable to offer you advice or guidance on your application if you do not. Students who submitted an EoI last year, and who were encouraged to take their application forward as a result, had a far greater chance of success in the studentship competition. We are also unable to consider any EoIs that arrive after the deadline of 9th February 2018.

More information and application process here…

Jane Conway

adelmootranto Editor

Jane Conway: has a history of researcher in the negotiable field of human intelligence, psychometrics and IQ. She is a member of the British Psychological Society and fondly remembered as a highly imaginative Research Assistant by Professor John Cohen at University College London, a lab currently occupied by the Slade School of Art.

Henrietta Knight

adelmootranto Editor

Henrietta Knight: is a writer and landscape architect. Her keen interest in artificial arcadia and synthetic landscapes has allowed her to develop a platform for a national community of writers, critics and poets around Warwickshire, UK

Michael Kissick

adelmootranto Editor

Dr Michael Kissick: is a Biochemist at ESU (Empire State University), Greenwich Village, New York University, USA. As an expert in neural toxins and their antidotes, his work has become notorious for its engagement with popular culture, in particular comics and relationships with super heroes and villains.

Patricia Conley

adelmootranto Editor

Patricia Conley: is an independent editor and archivist, working for the North American Confederation. An expert on alternative time frames and time-based editorial processes, with an almost psychic ability to edit the past, she has developed a keen appreciation of the ‘half-life’ and its significance in literature and predictive histories.