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Movement and moment: in-between discreteness and continuity. (2014)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. and COESSENS, K. 2014. Movement and moment: in-between discreteness and continuity. Somatechnics [online], 4(1), pages 149-167. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2014.0117

This paper explores a paradox. We breathe in, and then out. We walk by making paces, alternating left and right feet. Walking and breathing are made up of discrete intervals of space and time, involuntary actions of the living body, sustaining contin... Read More about Movement and moment: in-between discreteness and continuity..

Contemporary craft and cultural sustainability: a case study of the Scottish Craft Centre (1970-1990). (2013)
Journal Article
PEACH, A. 2013. Contemporary craft and cultural sustainability: a case study of the Scottish Craft Centre (1970-1990). Making futures journal [online], 3: proceedings of the 3rd Making futures international research conference: interfaces between craft knowledge and design: new opportunities for social innovation and sustainable practice, 26-27 September 2013, Torpoint, UK, pages 524-529. Available from: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n2tXWhwnr37F23cWIjX5nEmISQS2Rud7

1970-1990 was a period of renaissance for the crafts in the UK and North America. The creation of national organisations and infrastructures to support craft, and define its identity, played a crucial role. It is often assumed that Scottish craft his... Read More about Contemporary craft and cultural sustainability: a case study of the Scottish Craft Centre (1970-1990)..

Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs. (2013)
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MALINS, J. and GULARI, M.N. 2013. Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs. Swedish design research journal [online], 2(13), pages 32-39. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3384/svid.2000-964X.13232

Providing appropriate innovation support to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is an on-going challenge. Governments offer a range of initiatives from advice, to research and development grants; however, the underlying methodological frameworks... Read More about Effective approaches for innovation support for SMEs..

Practising equality? Issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality. (2013)
Journal Article
HARRIS, P. and FREMANTLE, C. 2013. Practising equality? Issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality. Participations: journal of audience and reception studies, 10(2), pages 183-200. Available from: https://www.participations.org/Volume%2010/Issue%202/11.pdf

Increasingly co-creativity and participation are considered central aspects of practices across art and design (including architecture) (Bishop, Bourriaud, Hope, Kester, Till). The discourse on Web 2.0 (Leadbeater, Shirky) addresses co-creativity and... Read More about Practising equality? Issues for co-creative and participatory practices addressing social justice and equality..

What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today. (2013)
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PEACH, A. 2013. What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today. Craft research [online], 4(2), pages 161-179. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/crre.4.2.161_1

This article critically reviews the concept of 'revival' in relation to making in contemporary culture. The 1970s are a period, which craft historians and theorists generally acknowledge as one of revival and reinvention of craft practice across Brit... Read More about What goes around comes around? Craft revival, the 1970s and today..

Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools. (2013)
Journal Article
KEARNEY, G. and HARRIS, P., 2013. Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools. International journal of education through art [online], 9(3), pages 311-326. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.9.3.311_1

Increasing interest in the concept of the Creative Industries with emphasis upon the industry aspect, presents questions as to how Art Schools can best prepare students. Indeed the industrial aspect encourages consideration of business and entreprene... Read More about Supporting the creative industries: the rationale for an exchange of thinking between the art and business schools..

Beyond the creative industries. (2013)
Journal Article
MACDONALD, S. 2013. Beyond the creative industries. International journal of education through art [online], 9(3), pages 293-309. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.9.3.293_1

Although Creative Industries as engines of post-industrial economies have assumed an increasing global priority with implications for art education at all levels few studies exist. Nomenclature here is contested, especially when arts role appears fre... Read More about Beyond the creative industries..

Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. (2013)
Journal Article
HACKETT, C. 2013. Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow. International journal of social, political and community agendas in the arts [online], 7(3), pages 1-14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v07i03/36367

Voices narrate their views on skills, transferable skills, marginalisation and poverty in relation to society, opportunity and drug addiction. Narcotic addicts need to educate themselves on where to source and buy drugs and how to go about raising en... Read More about Transferable skills and the drug dependent: a journey through the city of Glasgow..

The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments. (2013)
Journal Article
SPARK, J. 2013. The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments. PhaenEx: journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture [online], 8(1), pages 185-207. Available from: https://doi.org/10.22329/p.v8i1.3908

Any attention paid to the positioning of telecommunications installations in natural landscapes usually relates to the aesthetic impact. However, such paraphernalia, particularly when contrasted with natural surroundings, invites us to think beyond t... Read More about The environing air: a meditation on communications structures in natural environments..

Unravel: revaluing the craft of knitting for new emergent design contexts within a post-industrial world. (2012)
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STEED, J. 2011. Unravel: revaluing the craft of knitting for new emergent design contexts within a post-industrial world. Making futures journal [online], 2, pages 297-306. Available from: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/media/75867/steed_josephine.pdf

Knitting is embedded within our culture and navigates between practice, artefact, and narrative, acting as a rich metaphor for social change (Hemmings, 2010). Knitting can transcend traditional boundaries of craft practice and transfer knowledge from... Read More about Unravel: revaluing the craft of knitting for new emergent design contexts within a post-industrial world..

Altering a fixed identity: thinking through improvisation. (2012)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. 2012. Altering a fixed identity: thinking through improvisation. Critical studies in improvisation [online], 8(2), article number 2122. Available from: https://doi.org/10.21083/csieci.v8i2.2122

Replacing artist with player as if adopting an alias is a way of altering a fixed identity. And a changed identity is a principle of mobility, of going from one place to another¦ (Kaprow, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life 125-6) This paper explo... Read More about Altering a fixed identity: thinking through improvisation..

Experiential knowledge and improvisation: variations on movement, motion, emotion. (2012)
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DOUGLAS, A. and COESSENS, K. 2012. Experiential knowledge and improvisation: variations on movement, motion, emotion. Art, design and communication in higher education [online], 10(2), pages 179-198. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/adch.10.2.179_1

Improvisation is a way of knowing that is experiential, pivotal to the body's movement and growth in the world. It allows us to manage constraint and freedom in a rich world of possibility. Within this article we trace a trajectory from improvisation... Read More about Experiential knowledge and improvisation: variations on movement, motion, emotion..

Tools for community: Ivan Illich's legacy. (2012)
Journal Article
MACDONALD, S.W. 2012. Tools for community: Ivan Illich's legacy. International journal of education through art [online], 8(2), pages 121-133. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1386/eta.8.2.121_1

Although it is 40 years since Ivan Illich published Tools for Conviviality, the word 'convivial' retains an appeal conjuring up liveliness, sociability and, in this age of economic uncertainty, optimism. But in an era of co-creation and co-production... Read More about Tools for community: Ivan Illich's legacy..

Contemporary craft and the commodification of national identity in 1970s Scotland: what can be learned from cultural policy? (2011)
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PEACH, A. 2011. Contemporary craft and the commodification of national identity in 1970s Scotland: what can be learned from cultural policy? Making futures journal [online], 2: proceedings of the 2nd Making futures international research conference: the crafts as change maker in sustainability-aware cultures, 15-16 September 2011, Totnes, UK, pages 230-239. Available from: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/media/75860/peach_andrea.pdf

Scotland benefits from a long and rich cultural heritage, which is readily associated with its material culture (Butler 2000). This heritage has, in the latter half of the twentieth century, provided economic opportunities for the craft practitioner,... Read More about Contemporary craft and the commodification of national identity in 1970s Scotland: what can be learned from cultural policy?.

Innovation by design: a programme to support SMEs. (2011)
Journal Article
MALINS, J.P. 2011. Innovation by design: a programme to support SMEs. Swedish design journal, 2011(2), pages 25-31.

Small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs)1 are generally clear on the need for innovation; however they are very often less clear on how innovation can be achieved. One possible reason for this may be because of a lack of a culture supportive of innov... Read More about Innovation by design: a programme to support SMEs..

Designing transformations: schools of excellence. (2011)
Journal Article
FAIRBURN, S.M. 2011. Designing transformations: schools of excellence. Acta astronautica [online], 69(11-12), pages 1132-1142. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2011.07.006

For over 50 years, including some form of Space education in school curriculum has become an established approach for inspiring young minds to study the sciences and pursue science-based careers. Space camps and schools are active all around the glob... Read More about Designing transformations: schools of excellence..

On probation: 'Tracey Emin' as sign. (2010)
Journal Article
KOKOLI, A.M. 2010. On probation: 'Tracey Emin' as sign. Wasafiri [online], 25(1), pages 33-40. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/02690050903425342

Emin’s multimedia practice is not merely profoundly autobiographical, narrating intimate details of her teens in Margate and beyond, but has become emblematic of a genre of confessionalism, which attracts popular attention, if not always critical acc... Read More about On probation: 'Tracey Emin' as sign..

Craft, souvenirs and the commodification of national identity in 1970s' Scotland. (2007)
Journal Article
PEACH, A. 2007. Craft, souvenirs and the commodification of national identity in 1970s Scotland. Journal of design history [online], 20(3), pages 243-257. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epm015

This article explores the relationship between craft, national identity and the souvenir in 1970 Scotland. Britain experienced a revival of craft practice generally in 1970s' Scotland, but this paper argues that what happened in Scotland was distinct... Read More about Craft, souvenirs and the commodification of national identity in 1970s' Scotland..

Research papers: leading through practice. (2007)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. (eds.) 2007. Research papers: leading through practice. a-n magazine [online], 2007(3), supplement. Available from: https://www.a-n.co.uk/tag/leading-through-practice.

Artist as Leader is a programme that aims to understand the ways artists lead through their practice with a view to informing and developing a critical understanding of the role of creativity in culture. There are two complimentary parts to the Artis... Read More about Research papers: leading through practice..