Research Biennale 2021 projects archive

The Biennale platform takes the work beyond its final outcomes, to consider the processes, methods and contexts for this array of research. What you will encounter will include finished works/outputs, text pieces, written texts, workshops and provisional thinking. This is one of the largest concentrations of art and design research students within a university setting.

Re-empowering Disempowered Women: Embodying The (Im)Materiality Of Papier-mâché Medium In Practice As A Tool Of Resistance And Hope
Elizabeth Olukoya
Materiality
Encounter
Feminist
Writing
Experimentation
Reflection-in-Action
Autoethnography
Psychology
Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism to Create Artworks: An Experiment in Countering Cultural Hegemony and Post-colonialism in Chinese Public Space
Chang Gao
Encounter
Psychology
Resistance
Eroticism
Post-Colonialism
Bodily Affect
Identity
Political Sensitivity
Interdisciplinary
Robotics
Information service design for global carbon emissions and climate issues
Dongxiang Zheng
Futures
Design
Service Design
Design Probes
Information
Behaviour Change
Policy Design
Social Design
Sustainability
MRes 2021
an alternative way of thinking, being, communicating and doing
Graham Hutchison
Deleuze
Experimentation
Psychology
Futures
Mental Health
Embodiment
New Materialisms
Design
Research Practice
Speculative design
JUST A FOOTNOTE:
Catherine Dormor
Architecture
Just a Footnote
Lumia as a Constructive Myth: Case Study on Thomas Wilfred's Lumia from the Interwar US
Trent Kim
Animation
Unseen
Archive
Performance
History
Audio Visual
Light Art
"I theorise, I analyse things"
Carmen Hannibal
Animation
Moving Image
Creativity
Interdisciplinary
Experience
Metaphor
Hermeneutic Phenomenology
Metaphysics
Language
Meaning
Embodying the Reparative Turn: Generating Agency and an Exit Through Painting Practice
Shannon Forrester
Drawing
Materiality
Encounter
Feminist
Transdisciplinary
Painting
Resistance
Colour
Identity
Repair
Curating-in-Formation between Art, Science and Technology: Envisioning curating as translocal and cross-diciplinary co-working that supports epistemic justice
Hang Li
Transdisciplinary
Collaboration
Resistance
Reflective Practice
Co-creation
Tacit knowledge
Curatorial Practice
Digital Technology
Feminism
Investing for Care
Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa
Architecture
Resistance
Care
Curatorial Practice
Just a Footnote
Touch and Motion of Reality - A practice-based inquiry on augmented fashion practices
Carmem Saito
Materiality
Embodiment
Reflective Practice
Fashion
Tacit knowledge
Digital Technology
Objects of Healing
Bryan Clark
Experimentation
Transdisciplinary
Healthcare
Performative
Storytelling
Everyday
Participatory Design
Education
Communication Design
Empowering Design Literacy and Engagement in Health Promoting Hospitals
Wenbo Ai
Collaboration
Healthcare
Participatory Design
Communication Design
Blow: Improving Experience for People with Asthma
Karim Sandid
Healthcare
Health
User Experience
Empowerment
Hubbacouture
Kirsty Smith
Moving Image
Autoethnography
Photography
Embodiment
Reflective Practice
Publishing
Research Practice
Documentary As Method
Visual Ethnography
Family as Method
A Textile-Thinking Ecology
Alison Mercer
Textiles
Autoethnography
Phenomenology
Interdependent
Interchangeability
Ecologies
Heart Space
Practices of narration: the role of narratives to guarantee rights to the city
Bruna Ferreira Montuori
Site-specific
Architecture
Territory
Feminist
Resistance
Care
Just a Footnote
Latin America
Brazil
Narration
Inhabiting the Street as Interior Practice
Anak Warakanyaka
Architecture
Typology
Urban Studies
Just a Footnote
Interior
Inhabitation
GESTURE LABS: sculpting with object-gestures
Anja Borowicz Richardson
Sculpture
Installation
Working Gesture
Gesture Lab
Participatory Event
Multimodalities
Material-Semiotic
Material Engagement
The Event of Making: Uncovering Alternative Modes of Communication in the Work of Anni Albers
Larissa Nowicki
Textiles
Materiality
Writing
Experimentation
Embodiment
Qualitative Research
Performative
Studio Practice
Communication Design
Research Practice
Design History in the Anthropocene
Naiyi Wang
Design History
Temporality
Anthropocene
Geological Time
Materiality
Counter-practice; Engaging Epistemologies of Struggle Against International Development
Georgia White
Architecture
Subaltern Class
Research Practice
Action Research
Development
International Development
Social movements
Designing the learning university
Sarah Britten Jones
Diagram
Reflective Practice
Education
Service Design
Cybernetics
User Experience
Other Knowledges
Organisational Learning
Inclusive Design
Feminism
Supreme (In)formality: The Productive Mastery of Silicon Valley's 'Tech' Corporate Architectures
Maria Paez
Just a Footnote
Silicon Valley
Corporate Architecture
Cognitive Capitalism
Immaterial Labour
The Architecture of Global Compliance; Mapping Lawscapes to Protect the Rights of the Individual.
Paul Priest
Architecture
Just a Footnote
Policy Design
Lawscape
Comparative Law
Modern Slavery
International Development
Professional Standards
RIBA
Due Diligence
Renewal of Urban Village
Yunyun Guo
Video
Site-specific
Architecture
Identity
Landscape
Culture
Designing to improve the safety of the vulnerable road user in London?
Orla Fahey
Machine Learning
Architecture
Feminist
Collaboration
Co-Design
Vulnerability
Studio Practice
Virtual/Reality Merging
Communication Design
Design
Empowering the urban Indian population to manage metabolic syndrome
Sreya Ahuja
Co-creation
Metabolic Syndrome
Holistic Wellness
Type 2 Diabetes
Behaviour Change
Mindfulness
Bio-impedance
Aware patients
Lifestyle Interventions
Hyperlocal Fulfilment
Failed Art of Popular Heroes
Yun Lu
Drawing
Animation
Absurdity
Experimentation
Painting
Failure
Echo Klin
Zijun Wang
Ceramics
Installation
CosmosZ-online VR platform
Chen Luo
Virtual/Reality Merging
Digital Technology
Between Design and Digital in Architectural Education: Studies on the Architectural Design Studio
eleonora antoniadou
Architecture
Education
Interdisciplinary
Architectural Design Studio
Digital Technology
Democratising Design from the Domestic Sphere: Investigating 3D printing as a textile craft technology in the home.
Frances Murphy
Textiles
Innovation
Craft
Digital Technology
Domesticity
3D Printing
Material Engagement
Sly Fox Shed at Home
NOE IWAI
Imagination
Body
Self-portraiture
Performing Images
Performance Art
Relationship between observation and interpretation, & the observer's self-projection, within a contemporary multi-cultural art practice
Alice Motte-Munoz
Drawing
Materiality
Transdisciplinary
Autoethnography
Body
Photography
Colour
Storytelling
Reflective Practice
Identity
PRACTICAL RESEARCH FOR THE WAY OF ARFID OTHERNESS EMPATHIZING.
Tianmiao Li
Psychology
New Materialisms
ARFID
Sensory Integration
Designing Moments: How Design Can Support Collaborative Engagement in Evidence-Based Medicine
Nadia Beyzaei
Healthcare
Health and Wellness
Participatory Design
Children
Communication Design
Interdisciplinary
The Future of Ritual: Joss paper culture in Thailand
Parinda Sakdanaraseth
Materiality
Collaboration
Futures
Co-Design
Preferable Futures
Ceramics
Culture
Speculative design
Ritual
The Innovativeness of the Phenomenological Understanding of Vernacular Architecture
Ziad Alnussayan
Architecture
Phenomenology
Heritage
Innovation
Research
Vernacular
Song
Virtual
Experience
Synthetic Er(r)o(r)s: Art as a Co-Creative Practice with Algorithmic Agents
Dario Srbic
Machine Learning
Sculpture
Artificial Intelligence
3D Printing
Desire
Ana-materialism
Digital Sculpture
Algorithmic Art
Complexity Theory
Reinforcement Learning
Health Inequality Research
Christian Tighe
Healthcare
Inequality
Digital Product
Health
Activism
Action Research
Constructing Adaptive Street Ecologies; Designing Interaction-Based Models
Selin Zileli
Human and Space
Cybernetics
Interaction Design
Artificial Intelligence
Street Ecology
Polar Aesthetics: Art of the Arctic and Antarctic
Wayne Binitie
Arctic
Antarctic
Solid
Freezing
Melting
Liquid
Condensation
Evaporation
Vapour
Sublime
Online networked practices and the Triangle Network
Rosie Hermon
Network
Online
Arts Organisations
Curatorial Practice
International
Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma
Susan Young
Animation
Transdisciplinary
Autoethnography
Mental Health
Embodiment
Blind Aesthetics, Ways of (Not) Seeing: Memory, Matter and Synaesthesia
David Johnson
Autoethnography
Blind Aesthetics
Disability Gain
Phenomenology
Designscapes of Childbirth
Stiliyana Minkovska
Materiality
Architecture
Healthcare
Human Body
Design
Matrescence
Motherhood
Design Conversational Services
Vincent Slevin
Technology
Human-Computer Interaction
Soundscape
Conversational Interaction Design
Service Design
Cybernetics
Conversation Analysis
Usability Factors
Experience Factors
Interaction Design
EDGES
Emily Sparkes
Materiality
Encounter
Fictioning
Diagram
Image Appropriation
Painting
Figural
Network
Humour
Assemblage
Queer animality: a code of practice in Painting, Installation and Alter-politices
Yajie Liang
Fictioning
Painting
Animality
Installation
Queerness
Antirepresentation
Alter-polictics
13 Styles of Innovation Under Resource Constraints
Idrees Rasouli
Qualitative Research
Futures Education
Decolonising Design
Decolonised Innovation
Human-Connected Design
Resource Constraints
Design for a New Culture
Design In Emergencies
Action Research
The Importance of Being Specialist? The Impact of Component Suppliers on Metropolitan Building Practices, 1850-1914
Roxanne Ravenhill
Architecture
Archive
Design History
Interdisciplinary
Prefabrication
Urban Studies
Construction History
Networks
Communication Design MRes Pathway 2021 -- Athenaeum: The Library Re-imagined
Emily Candela
Drawing
Animation
Video
Feminist
Moving Image
New Perspective
Graphic design
Typography
Libraries
Design
Qualm
Algy Falconer
Ageing
Futures
Healthcare
Resilience
Amicis Viventes
Geffen Refaeli
Drawing
Fictioning
Writing
Transdisciplinary
Collaboration
Imagination
Post Human
Embodiment
Performative
Consciousness
Emotion Regulation and Impulsivity in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Alexandra Diaconescu
Mental Health
Healthcare
Qualitative Research
Participatory Design
Impulsivity
Design Probes
Emotional Regulation
Im/perfect Design: Uprooting One's Own Practice From Embedded Histories and Traditions
Melissa Lu
Autoethnography
Reflective Practice
Decolonising Design
Tacit knowledge
Graphic design
Typography
Culture
..>>The Mythical Hystory of Kyng Midas and Hys Gylden Inseckt
Samantha Rebello
Drawing
Materiality
Writing
Moving Image
History of Images
Painting
Form/Substance
Word/Image
Allegory
Vital Assemblages: A Fashion-Led Research Investigation into Collaboration Between Fashion Design Research and Biology
Victoria Geaney
Collaboration
Biofashion
Fashion
Microbiology
Synthetic Biology
New Materialisms
Bacteria
Co-creation
Biodesign
Tracing the geometry of fotminne: walking the patterns of ancient landscape to imprint foot memory
Writing
Memory
Soundscape
Walking
Landscape
Folding
Pleating
Geological Time
Defining Architectural Typologies Through Structural Topologies and Machine Learning
Yakim Milev
Machine Learning
Architecture
Technology
Typology
Structural Engineering
In between places
luya wang
Photography
Memory
Everyday
BEING THERE 2018-2021
Hao Xu
Life Trace
Identity
Mundane Futures: Generation Zoom
June Huebner
Autoethnography
Storytelling
Illustration
Reflective Practice
Technology
The Spaceship Ziggurat and the Ripped Concrete
Gareth Proskourine-Barnett
Materiality
Site-specific
Architecture
Fictioning
Futures
Performing Images
Landscapes
Forensic
Ms.B.
Sharon Young
Fictioning
Feminist
Writing
Photography
Reenactment
Word/Image
Beyond Painting via Underbelly
Xiao YU
Drawing
Diagram
Frame
Feminist
Memory
Deconstruction
Studio Practice
Camouflaged
Unseen
Waiting in Healthcare
Nouran Kamel
Psychology
Healthcare
Time
Waiting
Deconstruction
Typology
Decolonising Design
Communication Design
No Smoke Without Fire
Harry Coday
Machine Learning
Video
Moving Image
Futures
Fire
Technology
Loops
Artificial Intelligence
Museum of Infinite Relations: artist's spaces, worlds and models of the universe
Robin Kirsten
Experimental Museology
Embodied Research
Studio Practice
Theatre as Text
Metaphysical Physicality
Turning the Page: a New Dimension to the Language of Clay
Alison Rees
Materiality
Frame
Ceramics
Landscapes
Correspondence
Colour
Page
Storytelling
Studio Practice
Border
Painting in the Age of Technological Reproducibility: Re-establishing the Humanity of Touch
Be Andr
Materiality
Encounter
Deleuze
Digital Inclusion
Painting
Performative
Landscapes
Undecidability
Olfactory-Inspired Aesthetics of Experience Design for Human-AI Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Cecilia Lee
Reflection-in-Action
Aesthetic Experience
Multisensory Experience Design
Olfactory Sense
Human-Computer Interaction
Service Design
MRes Design Grand Challenge: Neo-Wellbeing
Jiho Kim
Futures
Mental Health
Privacy
Transhumanism
Dystopia
Wellbeing
MAKE ME FEEL, MIGHTY QUEER
Giulia Astesani
Feminist
Writing
Transdisciplinary
Performative
Gender
Queer
The Role of Nutrition in Cancer Care
Samantha Destura
Co-Design
Patient Experiences
Healthcare
Health and Wellness
Qualitative Research
Nutrition
Participatory Design
Cancer Care
Action Research
Dark Matter: Latency, Materiality and Distortions
Pragya Bhargava
Materiality
Painting
Astrophysics
Dark Matter
Let There Be Light in the Fire
Chrisoula Konstantakou
Ceramics
2D Laser Technologies
Terracotta
Laser Energy
Ceramic Material
Can design interventions positively enhance the patient journey experience of Deep Brain Stimulation therapy?
Christina Yianni
Collaboration
Co-Design
Patient Experiences
Healthcare
ParkinsonsUK
Dystonia Society
Neurosurgery
Movement Disorders
Deep Brain Stimulation
Action Research
MRes Design Grand Challenge: Futuring Care for Women in the Gig Economy
Alexandra Matz
Collaboration
Futures
Digital Inclusion
Qualitative Research
Gender
Care
Resilience
The Image as a Template for Posing
Moira Lovell
Video
Absurdity
Feminist
Autoethnography
Body
Photography
Image Appropriation
Reenactment
Self-portraiture
Performing Images
What's your blend? Co-designing future mental health services
Chloe Luxford
Mental Health
Blended Services
Co-Design
Digital Inclusion
Preferable Futures
Speculative design
Healthcare for Humanness
Jun Ng
Ageing
Futures
Healthcare
Cognitive Design
Metaphysical
Humanistic psychology
Existentialism
Re-Envisioning the Think Tank
Linda Rocco
Encounter
Experimentation
Transdisciplinary
Collaboration