The Isle of Harris Fish Slice: Industrial Crafting with Ocean Plastic
Presentation / Conference
Lambert, I. (2017, September)
The Isle of Harris Fish Slice: Industrial Crafting with Ocean Plastic. Paper presented at Making Futures 2017: Crafting a sustainable Modernity - towards a maker aesthetics of production and consumption, Plymouth College of Art
This paper appraises the adaptation of injection moulding, a process quintessentially associated with mass production, as a craft process, with ocean plastic as the raw materi...
Making as Growth: Narratives in Materials and Process
Journal Article
Lambert, I., & Speed, C. (2017)
Making as Growth: Narratives in Materials and Process. Design Issues, 33(3), 104-109. https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00455
As an activity, research through design gives rise to new knowledge from both creative processes and, if there are any, resultant artifacts. Arguably, all creative practitione...
Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019
Physical Artefact
Lambert, I. Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019)
Lambert, I. Sand Casting Portfolio 2015-2019
The experimental aluminium sand-cast bowls shown in the attached portfolio are part of a practice-based auto-ethnographic heuristic research inquiry into knowledge in doing.
J...
Pencils Don't Crash.
Conference Proceeding
Lambert, I. & Firth, R. (2006)
Pencils Don't Crash. ISBN 0-9553942-0-1
While the title might suggest otherwise, this is not a polemic against CAD. The aim of this paper is to examine how the emphasis on drawing in design education has changed and...