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Sacred space of the diaspora as exhibition space embodying spiritual heritage, culture, values and tradition. (Draft)
(Book chapter)Sacred space of the diaspora as exhibition space embodying spiritual heritage, culture, values and tradition. This chapter aims to critically analyse the sacred space of the diaspora as exhibition space; in the context ... -
Sarah Turner–Eco-artist and designer through craft-based upcycling
(Article)Sarah Turner is an eco-artist and designer who practices craft-based upcycling with waste plastic bottles and cans to create lighting, sculpture and decorative home interior products. Since 1998, her enthusiasm, creativity ... -
Scaling up British fashion upcycling businesses: Multi-stakeholder perspectives
(Conference)Purpose: Fashion upcycling, the process of using waste clothing and textiles to create new products, is an alternative to business-as-usual practices which can effectively address concerns on excessive consumption of energy ... -
Seaming Hands: The Meaning and Value of the Handmade in Contemporary Fashion
(Article)The perpetual crisis of subjectivity experienced today means that the modern self is always partial and relative to what is “other.” This corresponds to the more individualized and coded values relevant to what is currently ... -
'Seaming, Writing, and Making Strange: between material and text'
(Conference)Although prevalent in the process of practice-led research for the arts, uncertainty and ambiguity seem to be most powerfully present in the transaction between material and textual elements. This article discusses the ... -
Seaming, Writing, and Making Strange: Between material and text.
(Article)Although prevalent in the process of artistic research, uncertainty and ambiguity seem to be most powerfully present in the transaction between material and textual elements. This article focuses on the productive aspects ... -
Seamlessness: Making and (Un)Knowing in Fashion Practice
(Book)Taking the concept of “seamlessness” as her starting point, Yeseung Lee offers an innovative practice-based investigation into the meaning of the handmade in the age of technological revolution and globalized production ... -
Selective enzymatic modification of wool/polyester blended fabrics for surface patterning
(Article)An enzyme-based process was investigated to achieve surface patterning of fabrics as an alternative to conventional chemical processes. In the current study, the enzyme protease was employed to selectively modify a ... -
Semi Automatic Venting Closure for Plastic Beer Barrels (Keg Closure with Venting Mechanism)
(Other)Semi Automatic Venting Closure for Plastic Beer Barrels (Keg Closure with Venting Mechanism) – Practice as research This commissioned (Petainer Holdings – Czech Republic) design research explores the potential for the ... -
Shopping and the Senses: Retail, Browsing and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century England
(Article)Interest in the senses has blossomed over the last decade, leading to numerous explorations of touch, smell, sound, taste and sight throughout history. Increasingly, historians are considering how this sensory methodology ... -
The Shopping Experience of Older Supermarket Consumers
(Article)The purpose of this research is to investigate the difficulties and challenges faced by the older supermarket consumers in order to form insights into potential ways of applying IT support and design solutions within the ... -
Silver Speaks, 'Idea to Object'
(Image, 3-D)Silver Speaks is a part of a programme of events created by Contemporary British Silversmiths to celebrate silver in contemporary life, in collaboration with the V&A and supported by the Goldsmiths’ Company and Arts Council ... -
The skin, the garment surface, and the production of modern magic
(Conference)As the membrane which serves as the interface between what is ‘inside’ and what is ‘outside’ the body, skin possesses a powerful symbolic function in generating metaphors for the boundaries between the self and others. ... -
Smart Garment Fabrics to Enable Non-Contact Opto-Physiological Monitoring
(Article)Imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) is an emerging technology used to assess microcirculation and cardiovascular signs by collecting backscattered light from illuminated tissue using optical imaging sensors. The aim of ... -
Static Shear Testing of 3M VHB 4611F and VHB 4941P Tape in the construction of Acoustic Movable Partition Wall panels
(Conference)This paper investigates the effectivenes of 3M VHB 4611F and VHB 4941P tape in the construction of Acoustic Movable Partition Wall panels. -
Stepping out on a limb: the design and manufacture of a 3D printed titanium prosthesis
(Conference)Keynote presentation, Conference paper presentation and prosthetic limb demonstration, RAPDASA Additive Manufacturing in Industry Conference, South Africa. November 2017 Dr Lionel T Dean was invited to make a keynote ...