Art & Design and Built Environment, Fourth College Research Conference and Festival 2013
Conference Programme Day 1: Thursday 4 July
Welcome: Bonington Atrium
Ann Priest, Head of College Art & Design and Built Environment
Bonington Lecture Theatre, Bonington building
9 am
AM
Keynote: Tom Jefferies (Manchester University, Future Cities Agenda)
9.15 am
Keynote: Stephen Scrivener (University of the Arts, London)
10.15 am
11.15 am
Break: Bonington Atrium
Parallel Session 1: Bonington Lecture Theatre
Chair Name: Marjan Sarshar
Parallel Session 2: Bonington 002
Chair Name: Tom Fisher
Amin Al-habaibeh – District heating by the utilisation of disused
coal mines for low cost green energy
Shane Guy - The Use of Theatrical Techniques in Early Virtual Reality
Simulators
Daizhong Su - Sustainable product development (grant)
Benachir Medjdoub - Virtual Reality Lab and cities
Rupert Soar – Physiomimetics: a process in architecture and
construction paradigm
Kath Townsend and Jane Taylor - Reprogramming the hand: Bridging
the craft skills gap in 3D/digital fashion knitwear design
11.30 am
12 noon
12.30 pm
1 pm
Lunch: Bonington Atrium
PM session continued over page
PM
Parallel Session 1: Bonington Lecture Theatre
Chair Name: Duncan Higgins
Parallel Session 2: Bonington 002
Chair Name: Michael White
Max Kandhola – Social Media
Simone Allin - Towards a comparative understanding of strategic spatial
planning practices in Europe
Tom Fisher - Nottingham lace: capturing and representing
knowledge in people, machines and documents
Phillip Breedon - The Microsoft 'Kinect' 3D for facial paralysis
rehabilitation (Grant)
2 pm
2.30 pm
Break: Bonington Atrium
3 pm
Parallel Session 1: Bonington Lecture Theatre
Chair Name: Tim Cooper
Parallel Session 1: Bonington 002
Chair Name: Soumyen Bandyopadhyay
Christine Pasquire – Lean Production
John Newling – A Shopping Centre and a City Council building (Worth
and Value)
Tilak Dias – Advanced Materials
Duncan Higgins – Art Research - In these places
Tim Cooper - INDEMAND: NTU’s new centre of research
excellence
Giamila Quattrone and Soumyen Bandyopadhyay - Changing
communities and discarded landscapes. Strategies and methods
towards new life cycles for Omani traditional oasis environments
3.15 pm
3.45 pm
4.15 pm
Closing address: Bonington Atrium
Marjan Sarshar – Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Sustainability in the Built Environment
4.45 pm
Day 2 session continued over page
Conference Programme Day 2, Friday 5 July
10.45 am
AM
11 am – 1
pm
Welcome: Research In and Through Practice
Emma Cocker and Danica Maier
Bonington 122
Research In and Through Practice
Duncan Higgins: Artist Research, The Wider Context
Danica Maier: The Shape of Research in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University
Sean Cummins and Jo Lee: Open Curriculum
Emma Cocker: Embedded Approaches for Excavating Enquiry
Danica Maier: The Lodges – a collegiate approach to sharing research
Andy Pepper: Fine Art Research Online
Summer Lodge Participants: Distinctiveness of Summer Lodge – A personal response
1 pm
Lunch: Bonington Atrium
PM
2 pm – 4
pm
The ‘Positionality’ of Artistic Research
Bonington 122
Emma Cocker: Introduction - Interstitially / Alternation
Andrew Brown, Ben Judd, Debra Swann, and Derek Sprawson: A Series of presentations from Fine Art staff discussing the potentiality
of inhabiting multiple positions of the ability for ‘being both’ as a critical methodology within their own artistic research practice.
Launch and drinks
Visual Arts Research Archive (VARA)
and
Tour of the Summer Lodge studios
4 pm
5.30 pm
Closing event: Mrs. Ricks Cupboard
Solo show: Derek Sprawson curated by Craig Fisher
Primary Studios, Seeley Road, Nottingham NG7 1NU