How does health feel? Exploring use of materials in technology led behaviour change for wellbeing
[slideshow_deploy id='2024'] Fashion and textiles in, on and around the body are silent, but visible and sensory forces and indicators of cultural, social and environmental change. My work explores how command of fashion and pervasive nature of textiles...
Two Pints Please: Does a creative research-based participation approach to the depiction of places in the everyday that have a strong connection to the past?
The research will be based on a selection of dairies and their door-step milk delivery service with a focus on electric milk floats (first widely introduced after the second world war) and how they are part of the cultural heritage of a neighbourhood, a town or a...
Creating Balance Between Transformation and Preservation Within UNESCO World Heritage Sites
"The century is no longer about expanding cities but rather deepening territories" (Sébastien Marot, 2010) This research seeks to create a...
Exhibition-Making As A Method To Display Contemporary Gender-Neutral Fashion in Museums and Gallery Spaces
[slideshow_deploy id='1988'] The research focuses on exhibition-making, with particular reference to the presentation and interpretation of gender-neutral fashion within the museum, or gallery context. The initial hypothesis is that conventional, binary gender-based...
I underline the things you should keep: The Para-illustration of JG Ballard
Situated in the field of expanded illustration practice, this practice-based research explores the entanglement and inter-relationship between a ‘script’ and its ‘image’ and uses methodologies that foreground intertextual approaches to illustration and image...
Matthew Richardson
Matthew Richardson originally studied Graphic Design (BA) at Middlesex University, followed by Illustration (PG) at Central St. Martins, and Fine Art (MA) at UWIC, Cardiff. His practice is diverse and uses photography, film, sound, assemblage and collage to...
Gesture, Trace and Performance Exhibition
Gesture, Trace and Performance stages a constellation of contemporary works developed through artistic research, inquiring into collective notions of memory, time and space. The exhibition is organised around three thematics: disappearance, masks, and becoming, and...
Microsoft Research Internships
LDoc Partner Microsoft Research is recruiting for students to join their 12 week summer internship programme. Interns will support their current Microsoft projects and explore new areas of interest for research, as part of the Human Experience and Design team. ...
AHRC International Placement Scheme 2018
The 2018 round of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) International Placement Scheme (IPS) will enable early career researchers (ECR), doctoral level research assistants and AHRC funded doctoral students to take up short term placements in order to make...
Keynote 10: What can participatory design contribute to participatory democracy?
'What can participatory design contribute to participatory democracy: A response to the call to Stand Up for Democracy', presented by Professor Lorraine Gamman and Professor Adam Thorpe. We would like to welcome you to our 10th Keynote lecture, lead...
The LDoc Team
More information to follow Dr Emma Wakelin Professor Sandy Black Professor Fran Lloyd Dr Catherine Dormor Beki Gowing - LDoc Co-ordinator
LDoc 2018 Applications Are Open
New and current PhD students are invited to apply for an LDoc funded studentship at the Royal College of Art, Kingston University, or University of the Arts London. More information can be found on the How To Apply page, or by visiting the institutions'...