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Lucy Russell

Lucy Russell

Lucy Russell lives and draws in London, having graduated in BA (Hons) Fine Art Printmaking from Winchester School of Art and a Printmaking MA from the Royal College of Art.   Her practice explores the body, visual saturation, narcissism of small differences and...

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Hannah Rollings

Hannah Rollings

Hannah Rollings is an illustrator and lecturer working across publishing and editorial illustration utilizing hand drawn elements. She is interested in the dialogue between research, practice and teaching, undertaking workshops and collaborative activities with a...

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Almudena Cano Piñeiro

Almudena Cano Piñeiro

Almudena Cano Piñeiro is an architect and urban designer. She is also co-founder of LAnA, a laboratory dedicated to urban anthropological research, design and teaching. In 2012 she graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where she first...

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Berthe Fortin

Berthe Fortin

Berthe Fortin trained in Costume Design for Performance at the London College of Fashion where she gained an MA with distinction. As designer for the renowned site-responsive company dreamthinkspeak her credits include Before I Sleep and The Rest is Silence.  ...

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Federico Campagna

Federico Campagna

Federico Campagna has a BSc and MSc in Economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths College (London). He writes extensively on ethics and political philosophy, especially anarchism. He is the author of ‘The Last Night,...

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Supports for Community Life

Supports for Community Life

[slideshow_deploy id='295']   “Supports for community life” proposes innovative instruments that can better describe and transform community life in the contemporary city. The urban fabric is revealed as a mechanism by which alternative ways of urban life emerge....

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What I See I Own?

What I See I Own?

  Can fashion/media body images via the process of drawing be re-appropriated to positive effect as part of the creation of a social innovation design tool that can be accessed or shared with groups to question negative body image/s and to build well-being and...

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Metaphysical Design in Strategy Video Games

Metaphysical Design in Strategy Video Games

At the basis of my research lies the belief that video games (and strategy, government simulation video games in particular) are a medium of communication which offers unparalleled possibilities for philosophical analysis and philosophical design. On the one hand,...

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Ritual Created Around the Crafting of Costume

Ritual Created Around the Crafting of Costume

  My subject for this practice-based research is the role of materiality when making costume, and performativity through gesture such as putting on a mask, in the creation of ritual.   My interest in this subject was initiated when, as a MA student in...

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