3D Printable Recycled Textiles: Material Innovation and a Resurrection of the Forgotten “shoddy” Industry
Journal Article
Vettese Forster, S. (2017)
3D Printable Recycled Textiles: Material Innovation and a Resurrection of the Forgotten “shoddy” Industry. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 5(2), 138-156. https://doi.org/10.1080/20511787.2018.1449073
This paper will disseminate an interdisciplinary project, undertaken at Edinburgh Napier University between the Design and Advanced Materials. Several 3D printable materials a...
Making as Growth: Narratives in Materials and Process
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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...
Learning from the locals: how can co-design support malaria education in a post-colonial environment?
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MacLeod, M., & Macdonald, I. (2018)
Learning from the locals: how can co-design support malaria education in a post-colonial environment?. Design for Health, 2(1), 163-185. doi:10.1080/24735132.2018.1451676
Designing for social good framed within an ethical practice has a long tradition informed by the democratic philosophy of John Dewey, but more recently it has been acknowledge...
Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting: Design Practice into Practice-led Research.
Journal Article
Lambert, I. (2015)
Critical Making with Aluminium Sandcasting: Design Practice into Practice-led Research. Making Futures, 4,
This paper appraises design practice as research and how my own work continues to transform into practice-led research. I have worked as an academic and designer-maker of furn...
Diverting Textile Waste from Landfill with Crafted Objects.
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Lambert, I., & Lliopoulou, T. (2015)
Diverting Textile Waste from Landfill with Crafted Objects. Making Futures, 4,
This paper appraises how materials from industrial waste streams have been appropriated for design-craft processes – in this case, synthetic textile waste compression moulded ...
Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski, Review Paul Kerlaff
Journal Article
Kerlaff, P. (2016)
Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski, Review Paul Kerlaff. Interiors, 7(2-3), 191-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/20419112.2016.1242267
A simple but profound point opens Now I Sit Me Down: that chairs illustrate a kind of democratic manifestation of our relationship to things. Unlike architecture, and to a les...
Design Education without Borders: How Students Can Engage with a Socially Conscious Pedagogy as Global Citizens
Journal Article
Macdonald, I., & MacLeod, M. (2018)
Design Education without Borders: How Students Can Engage with a Socially Conscious Pedagogy as Global Citizens. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 37(2), 312-324. doi:10.1111/jade.12117
This study examines the student experience of a third sector graphic design project in an international context. Inspired by a humanist and socially conscious perspective that...
A study of childrens' relationship with making and use of CAD in collaborative, physical and digital environments : implications for learning and open access fabrication
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Vettese, S., Allan, D., & Thompson, P. (2018)
A study of childrens' relationship with making and use of CAD in collaborative, physical and digital environments : implications for learning and open access fabrication. Design and Technology Education: An International Journal, 23(3), 10-25
In this paper, the researchers will investigate different ways in which school age, 'generation net' children learn, through non-linear, mediated, collaborative ‘making’ envir...
Textile applications of commercial photochromic dyes: part 7. A statistical investigation of the influence of photochromic dyes on the mechanical properties of thermoplastic fibres
Journal Article
Younes, B., Ward, S. C., Christie, R. M., & Vettese, S. (2019)
Textile applications of commercial photochromic dyes: part 7. A statistical investigation of the influence of photochromic dyes on the mechanical properties of thermoplastic fibres. Journal of the Textile Institute, 110(5), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405000.2018.1526444
The influence of the concentration of a commercial photochromic dye, incorporated into as-spun and drawn fibres produced from polyethylene and polypropylene, on their mechanic...