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Keynote: Time traveling with Gregor Samsa, or what you can do with six legs |
Professors Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Eben Kirksey use Gregor's transformation in 'Metamorphosis' to muse on the everyday changes we all experience and their relations to disability, design justice and ableism. |
Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Eben Kirksey |
07 Aug 2024 |
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That's a Wrap! |
Resilience, cool communicators and space robots. This episode wraps a brilliant season of PTNPod, with Ari and Claudine's favourite 5 moments. |
Arianna Schuler Scott, Claudine Tinsman |
11 Jul 2022 |
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People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes |
A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019. |
Alice Purkiss, Helen Antrobus, Grace Davies, Kate Stoddart |
16 May 2019 |
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Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age |
Russell Maret talks about the development of the primary themes of his artist's books - alphabet design, colour printing, and geometric form, also the influences of history and technology on his methods and subject matter. |
Russell Maret |
08 Dec 2017 |
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Operationalising empathy in refugee camp design |
Neysan Zölzer (Mensch) gives a talk for the Design in Humanitarian Innovation panel. |
Neysan Zölzer |
02 Dec 2016 |
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Experiences with a threefold humanitarian innovation approach |
Jochan Bader and Reihaneh Mozaffari, More than Shelters give a talk for the Design in Humanitarian Innovation panel. |
Jochan Bader, Reihaneh Mozaffari |
02 Dec 2016 |
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The impact of design for humanitarian action: examples from Design without Borders’ projects |
Anjali Bhatnagar (Design without Borders), gives a talk for the Design in Humanitarian Innovation panel. |
Anjali Bhatnagar |
02 Dec 2016 |
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Art, Design and World War |
History of Art - Dr Claire O'Mahony |
Claire O'Mahony |
15 Apr 2015 |
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Creative Commons |
A Bardic Rite? Designing the Savoy Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
For a few nights in March 1914 if contemplating buying a theatre ticket in London, there was a brief chance when one could have seen Nijinsky dance at the Palace Theatre one night and the next the new Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the |
Claire O'Mahony |
05 Dec 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Divining the 1920s: Precious Body Image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Ballets |
This paper examines the ways in which dancers’ body image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 ballets The Rite of Spring and Jeux looked forward to 1920s developments in ballet and fashion. |
Katerina Pantelides |
05 Dec 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring |
Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs. |
Alexander Schwan |
05 Dec 2014 |
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How Disabled Design Changed the History of Modernism. |
This lecture explores disabled design as an alternative to canonical aesthetic and political histories of |
David Serlin |
16 Oct 2014 |
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Designed to Kill: The Social Life of Weapons in Twentieth Century Britain |
Weapon design and modern warfare. |
Joanna Bourke |
16 Oct 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal |
Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial. |
Bryony Whitmarsh |
30 Sep 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
‘Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’ |
The paper highlights tensions that appeared in the near routine collection of trophies for memorials and the design of war cemeteries between British imperial offices and those of former colonies, particularly Australia’s War Records Section. |
William Taylor |
30 Sep 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound |
On adapted reuse of military establishments. |
Per Strömberg |
30 Sep 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design |
Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer efficiently a specific purpose. How can we morally accept that the act of killing led to the development of an important design industry? |
Marie-Anne Michaux |
30 Sep 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia |
My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s. |
Triin Jerlei |
30 Sep 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections |
Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to track images across early forms of printed literature. Visit http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/. |
Giles Bergel, Andrew Zisserman, Relja Arandjelovic |
13 Dec 2012 |
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Creativity Lecture 2: Creative Selves, Creative Expression |
Professor Richard Harper (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) presents on how to design for 'being human' in an age when human-as-machine type metaphors, deriving from Turing and others, tend to dominate thinking in the area. |
Richard Harper |
20 Jun 2011 |
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Urban Informatics: The Internet, locative media and mobile technology for urbanites |
Marcus Foth overviews various urban informatics projects, exploring the communicative ecology of urban residents, community engagement using public history and digital storytelling, and social navigation for mobile urban information systems. |
Marcus Foth |
03 Jul 2009 |
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The Second Life of Urban Planning |
Marcus Foth demonstrates the value of various tools and services (eg Second Life) for engaging people in novel and participatory planning exercises, and for investigating how the public interpret and understand proposed urban designs and urban planning. |
Marcus Foth |
03 Jul 2009 |
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'Link' and 'Place': A New Approach to UK Street Planning and Design |
Prof. Peter Jones (Centre for Transport Studies, UCL) talks on ''Link' and 'Place': A New Approach to UK Street Planning and Design' as part of the OxTran Seminar Series at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford in 2009. |
Peter Jones |
26 Feb 2009 |
