Home \ Seminars & Conferences
Seminars & Conferences
The 2nd WIRAD Symposium for Emerging Art & Design ResearchersWales Millennium Centre, CardiffThursday 29th to Friday 30th March 2012
This is a symposium for those new to Art & Design research to research in areas connected to Art & Design. The symposium will cover all aspects of Art & Design research and provide an opportunity to access expertise from other parts of WIRAD, present your research, find out about the research of others, discuss synergies and differences with peers and learn about the whole process of research. The authors of the best work will be invited to submit full papers for a peer reviewed publication. Further details are available here.
PDR - PROGRAMMES FOR WELSH INDUSTRY
Thursday 27th October 2011, 8.30am -12.30pmLiberty Stadium, Swansea, SA1 2FA Knowledge Transfer Centres (KTC's) within PDR currently deliver projects directly to Welsh Industry across three areas of expertise. This event is an introduction to these programmes and an opportunity to learn how businesses could benefit from the experience, skills and technology within PDR. The event will include short presentations from PDR and companies that PDR have worked with over the past year.Places are free but must be booked in advance here: www.pdr.eventbrite.com PATIENT-SPECIFIC DESIGN
There is increasing demand for such developments from patients and health services; however, this has not been possible with traditional manufacturing processes because of the costs involved. In order to meet this need our centre acts as a knowledge centre for advanced digital and additive manufacturing technologies which provide a way of developing products for this market. To find out more about Patient-Specific Design click here. SERVICE DESIGN
Service innovation is becoming increasingly important as businesses struggle to compete on cost and quality alone. Service is often the key difference between one company and another, but how do you actually achieve service innovation? Design Wales deliver the service design programme that companies to use the latest design-led approaches when developing new services. To find out more about Service Design visit the website. USER CENTERED DESIGN
By placing the user at the heart of product design, development risk can be reduced as the end design more accurately reflects user needs. At PDR we utilise capabilities in rapid and interactive prototyping together with facilities for structured user observation and expertise in product interaction analysis to shape the development of products. To find out more about User Centred Design click here.
WIRAD Development Seminar Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Dynevor Centre for Art, Design & MediaSwansea Metropolitan University Hosted by Swansea Metropolitan University, the purpose of this event is to bring together the universities, public bodies and individual researchers interested in discussing the future development of WIRAD.
Photography at the Borders: eCPR Seminar Programme 2010-2011 As part of the unifying theme of Photography at the Borders, the seminar programme will begin on October 21st at 4.15pm. The seminars/presentations will be held at on Thursdays at University of Wales, Newport. All the senior academics will be leading one seminar and eCPR would also welcome contributions from staff and research students who would like to contribute to this series.
The first four are: October 21st room H8A: Mark Durden : An introduction to Photography in South East Asia November 18th room E10: Helen Sear presents From the East a film by Chantal Akerman December 2nd room H8A: Ian Walker: Terrain Vague December 9th room H8A : Russell Roberts: On Curating
The WIRAD Research MarketplaceTuesday 2nd March 2010, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Originated by UWN and hosted by the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth this event demonstrates the impressive breadth, range and quality of Art and Design scholarship in Wales. This is a significant gathering of academics across the Universities of Wales and research active public institutions who have expressed a commitment to be part of WIRAD - the Wales Institute for Research in Art & Design. The founding partners are University of Wales, Newport and University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, with expressions of interest regarding membership from the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University; National Museum Wales; National Library; Glamorgan University, Aberystwyth University and Glyndwr University. We have invited the distinguished writer, critic, broadcaster and historian Sir Christopher Frayling to give the keynote address and this is followed with a panel discussion involving influential figures in the realms of policy, strategic development and delivery of visual arts and design at national and international levels: Yvette Vaughan Jones (International Visiting Arts); Louise Wright (British Council); Peter Florence (Director of Hay Festival); Jenni Spencer Davis (Senior Curator, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery); Emma Posey (Director of Bloc); Andrew Green (National Library of Wales). The aim being to stimulate discussion around the research, cultural and social benefits of WIRAD. The afternoon session is geared towards research staff engaging in discussion around research partnerships and possibilities within the network. Programme Drwm Lecture Theatre, National Library of Wales
10:00 - 10:45 Registration / Tea & coffee in Drwm Theatre foyer
11:00 Welcome - Andrew Green, Librarian, National Library of Wales
11:05 - 11:15 Introduction - WIRAD Board
11:15 - 12:00 Keynote Speaker - Sir Christopher Frayling - "Research in and through the Creative Arts: What's the problem?"
12:00 - 12:10 Short Break
12:15 - 1:00 Panel discussion / Q&A - ‘The Importance of Research & The Possibilities of WIRAD'
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch
2:30 - 5:30 WIRAD Research Market Place event - Drwm Theatre Foyer
5:45 - 6:45 Drinks Reception The new WIRAD Research Directory is now available online!
PSMG 2009 Schedule
AUTUMN 2009
Please note that this autumn PSMG have partnered with ffotogallery to open up its research series to a wider audience. As part of ongoing activity in this area we are proud to announce a series of invited lectures as part of Vision On (a co-curated digital media season at ffotogallery) to be held in Penarth.
14th October 2009
1600-1700 Room H8A Rathmell Internal PSMG Research Seminar "Playing (Un)dead: Killer dolls, corpses and zombie metaphors for games" Emily Flynn-Jones, "Black Holes and Panoramic Tendencies" Lei Cox
24th October 2009
1400-1600 ffotogallery, Penarth "Vision On" Invited Speaker as part of the Playing Things strand (part of May You Live in Interesting Times Digital Media Festival Tale of Tales In Conversation 4th November 2009 1900-2000 ffotogallery, Penarth "Vision On" Invited Speaker as part of the Seeing Things: Data Visualisation strand Ellie Harrison "Confessions of a Recovering Data Collector" 11th November 2009 1900-2000 ffotogallery, Penarth "Vision On" Invited Speaker as part of the Hearing Things strand Matthew Lovett "The future is no longer to listen to music, but to play it" 18th November 2009 1900-2000 ffotogallery, Penarth "Vision On" Invited Speaker as part of the Sensing Things: Distance and Proximity strand Stefan Agamanolis "Slow Communication" 25th November 2009 1900-2000 ffotogallery, Penarth "Vision On" Invited Speaker as part of the Making Things, Breaking Things: Digital DIY, Corrado Morgana "Making things, breaking things" 2nd December 2009 1900-2000 ffotogallery, Penarth "Vision On" Invited Speaker as part of the Disrupting Things: Visual Interventions Fiddian Warman "Action Research" 9th December 2009 1600-1700 Room H8A Rathmell Internal PSMG Research Seminar TBC, Brigitta Zics "Semiotics, Celebrity and the Audience: adaptation to stay the same" Roger Wooster
DIGIT Programme Autumn 2009 Wednesday September 30th 2009
Research ‘show and tell': short introductions to members' interests
1:00 - 2:00pm CTP Digital Hub, N Block, Llandaff Campus. Monday October 19th 2009
Christina Shannon: ‘Victims of Fashion'
6:30 - 7:30pm Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay Tuesday November 17th 2009
Visiting speaker: Amy Houghton - open event for staff and students
5:30 - 6:30pm CTP N Block, Llandaff Tuesday December 15th 2009
Video conference with Keireine Canavan
4:30 - 6:30pm CTP N Block, Llandaff
UWIC to host 5th Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy2009Thursday 27 - Saturday 29 August 2009 UWIC, Cyncoed Campus, Cardiff The conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of European philosophy. The keynote speakers are. Rosi Braidotti (Utrecht) Claire Colebrook (Penn State) Leonard Lawlor (Penn State) Christopher Norris (Cardiff).
The conference will include two open plenary sessions, The Future of Hermeneutics (Chair: Nicholas Davey, Dundee) and The Role of Imagery in Ontology and Thought (Chair: Clive Cazeaux, UWIC), and a work of sound art based on Cardiff's arcades (Jennie Savage) commissioned to accompany the conference. For more information or to register, visit the conference website.
All-Wales Centre for Creative Teaching and Teaching Creativity in Art & Design10.00 am - 4.00pm, TUESDAY 23rd JUNE
Craft in the Bay, Cardiff Bay
Following on from the international successes of the members of the Creative Pedagogy research cluster, WIRAD is now hosting a one-day event in June for art and design educators in Higher Education in Wales. The event aims to explore setting up an All-Wales Centre for Creative Teaching and Teaching Creativity in Art & Design (and beyond!).
The twenty invited participants will be discussing the remit that such a Centre will have, and how it would be set up. We will be disseminating the outcomes, but do contact us if you are interested in participating in the development and activities of the Centre. We would love to hear from you, particularly if you can think of a more compelling name for the Centre! For more information on the programme... Ruth Dineen or Annie Grove-White for more details.
TRIPS 09: Tuesday Research in Progress Seminars
4.00 p.m., S317 South Block, Howard Gardens A series of seminars on current research within Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design. All welcome. Enquiries, contact Clive Cazeaux. 17 March Critical mass: the shape and direction of CFAR's research. Responding to Dr Emma Posey's report on CFAR. 24 March Aesthetics as ecology,Clive Cazeaux 28 April CFAR participation in WIRAD emerging researcher symposium 5 May Locating practice in a framework of art, science and transgression, Jan Bennett 12 May On Kandinsky, Chris Short 19 May Biting Machine Project, Paul Granjon 2 June Title TBC, CFAR funding recipient TBC 16 June A snowball's chance in New York: reflections on data collection in the Big Apple, John Hammersley
TRIPS 09 is organised by Centre for Fine Art Research (CFAR).
The 1st National Symposium for Emerging Art & Design Researchers
Hilton Hotel, Newport
Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th April 2009 This is a conference for those new to research in areas connected to Art & Design. The breadth of topics is deliberately wide in order to allow all WIRAD members (or potential members) to participate. It will be an opportunity to access expertise from other parts of WIRAD, present your research, find out about the research of others, discuss synergies and differences with peers and learn about the whole process of research. Further details are available here.
Perspectives on Development VI: A University of Wales Colloquium Wednesday 21st - Friday 23rd January, 2009Gregynog Hall, Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK Call for Papers: Abstracts are invited for papers for the Sixth Colloquium of the . The Network is an open, cross-disciplinary, group of academics and practitioners with a common interest in development wherever and however it is practised. The group is particularly interested in the links between international development issues and the post-devolution agenda in Wales.
The colloquium is aimed at experienced and new researchers, postgraduate students, activists and policy makers, from a diverse range of interests and disciplines, such as sociology, social policy, culture, tourism, geography, environment studies, economics, labour and employment, planning, human rights, health, education, child welfare, design and journalism.
Presentations and interventions in fields related (but not limited) to recent research in aspects of national and international development are welcome. This could include discussion of research and actions linking international development issues and the post-devolution agenda in Wales. We also welcome proposals for full sessions, panels, round tables etc. Contributions are invited from activists, policy makers and practitioners, as well as academics, doctoral and postgraduate students. Topics covered in previous colloquia include: planning and governance local participation, community planning and regeneration poverty alleviation sustainability, environment and development media representation of development issues the role of small and medium enterprises local agriculture, international trade and development cultural identity and multi-culturalism design and development papers discussing prospects for the ‘Wales for Africa' framework papers that place the Welsh experience in an international context papers that analyse links between Wales and the developing world
Abstracts Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted no later than 31st October 2008. To submit an abstract or request further information, email Joan Fothergill.  
Archived Seminars and Conferences
Performance and Screen Media Research Group seminars TRIPS: Tuesday Research in Progress Seminars 2008 Physicality 2007: Second International Workshop on Physicality WIRAD Joint Seminars Series 2006/2007 Creativity or Conformity? Building Cultures of Creativity in Higher Education Research Seminar in Preparation for joint RAE Submission Invisible College Third Seminar Series 2nd SPED/PDR Symposium
Joint Research Seminars Fragmented Figure Conference and Scholarly Exhibition ESRC Conference on Development
|
