C3 and DTA PGR Research Seminar

C3 and DTA PGR Research Seminar

  • Date: 11:00 – 13:00 19 January 2023
  • Where:Catalyst Creativity Zone CA303
  • Who: Open to all PGRs, DTA and C3 members

Research seminar open for all PGRs on the morning of Thursday, January 19th 2023, in the Catalyst Building. Contact Dave Payling for details.

New Factory Events! In-person and Online!

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Factory is delivering a number of events coming up. Do feel free to share this info on with others you think might be interested.

FACTORY is an ERDF funded project, delivered in collaboration with the Chamber, BCB, and Staffordshire University. It supports innovation-led-practices for the SME Creative Industries in Stoke-on-Trent. Our partner organisation BCB has also a webpage dedicated to FACTORY available here

Factory Seminar – A Beginners Guide to Funding and Grant Applications  (In-person)  

  • Delivered by: Clare Wood 
  • Date: 26th October, 2022 
  • Time: 6-7.30pm 
  • Location: Room L410, Flaxman Building, Staffordshire University, College Road, ST4 2DE 
  • More info and to Book Now 

 

Factory Lunch Hour – Keeping it Simple: Admin and Organisation 

  • Delivered by: Natalie Armitage and Rhiannon Ewing-James 
  • Date: 1st November, 2022 
  • Time: 1-2pm 
  • Location: Online 
  • More info and to Book Now 

 

Artist Development Surgeries 

  • The BCB Artist Development Surgeries are an opportunity to talk about a project or idea that has a connection to Stoke-on-Trent, its people, place or industries. This opportunity is for people feel they would benefit from speaking about it with a member of the BCB Artistic Programme/Exhibitions team.  
  • Date: 7th November, 2022 
  • Time: 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm. 
  • Location: Online 
  • More info and to Book Now 

 

Factory Seminar – To Pitch or Not to Pitch: Responding to Procurement Tenders and how this could be an opportunity (Online) 

 

Factory Seminar – The guide to knowing your audience 

 

Factory Lunch Hour – Knowing your worth: Pricing your work and time 

 

Factory Lunch Hour – Streamline Your Client Management 

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks #3

WED JAN 11TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204:

DR. ISLAM ABOHELA. Islam is an Architect with experience in research and teaching
Architecture, Interior Design, Building Science and Design related modules. His research interests and publications focus on implementing simulation tools in understanding building physics, energy performance in buildings, retrofitting micro renewable sources of energy in urban areas and the effect of behavioural interventions on energy consumption in buildings. His publications also cover his research on the image of future city and its architecture in science fiction films.

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks #2

COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co–creating and other fruitful research partnerships

WED DEC 7 TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204

DR. NEIL BROWNSWORD. Prof. Brownsword is an artist, researcher and educator. His
research into the legacy of deindustrialisation in relation to North Staffordshire’s ceramic industry has had national and international cultural impact, through reactivating associated post–industrial spaces and endangered industrial crafts.


DR. MARIA MARTINEZ SANCHEZ. Maria is Associate Professor of Architecture and the
Course Leader of the BArch (Hons) Architecture. She holds a PhD in Architecture and has a professional background in theatre and performance design, specializing in space design within devising theatre processes.

 

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks #1

WED NOV 9TH 3.30-5.00P.M : CA204 – BEGINNINGS – How do projects start? What are the catalysts for interesting research projects? (Michael Day, Alke Groeppel-Wegener)

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WED NOV 9 TH 3.30–5.00P.M : CA204
DR. MICHAEL DAY. Michael is an artist, researcher, lecturer, and occasional curator. He is interested in the ways that digital technologies can structure experience, and produces  artworks that explore relationships between technology and agency. Michael’s practice is interdisciplinary and uses a range of media and technologies, including digital media, sound, installation, electronics and print.


DR. ALKE GRÖPPEL–WEGENER. Alke is Associate Professor of Creative Academic Practice at Staffordshire University, where her teaching focus is Animation Studies. Her research interests are two–fold: within Learning and Teaching she explores the links between creative and academic practice, developing a number of visual analogies and creative activities to help students understand ‘hidden’ academic practice. Alke’s
other research interest is Experience Design, with a particular interest in theme parks

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

DTA Research Seminar Series 2022-23 – Research Frameworks

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The School of Digital, Technologies and Arts is again holding a series of seminars, chaired and curated by C3 member Becky Nunes, following a life-cycle of reserch: It will cover presentations by researchers about how projects start, how to work across teams, how to co-create research with external communities and in the second half of the season will moev to how research gets funded and reviwed.

Seminars are designed to be in person, but recordings will be available afterwards. Dates for the seminars are:

  • WED NOV 9TH 3.30-5.00P.M : CA204 – BEGINNINGS – How do projects start? What are the catalysts for interesting research projects? (Michael Day, Alke Groeppel-Wegener)
  • WED DEC 7TH 3.30-5.00P.M: CA204 : COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co-creating and other fruitful research partnerships (Neil Brownsword, Maria Martinez-Sanchez)
  • WED JAN 11TH 3.30-5.00P.M : CA204: : COLLABORATIONS – Working across teams, co-creating and other fruitful research partnerships (Islam Abohela)

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Catch-Up: #RebelliousResearch #1: Agnieszka Piotrowska

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The recording from the first session of ‘Rebellious Research’ (Arts/practice-based research seminar series) is now available to watch online: ‘Tentacular thinking’ in Creative Practice Research as a Radical Intellectual Gesture by Agnieszka Piotrowska.

You can find the recordings from the last year’s edition of the series here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlngmRq1T-8&list=PLMUvev1_9LqMfwY4BBRR71vwa5YQaKxWw

‘Tentacular thinking’ in Creative Practice Research as a Radical Intellectual Gesture by

Agnieszka Piotrowska (Reader in Film, SODA, MMU & Professor, Film and Cultural Studies, The University of Gdańsk). Wednesday 26th October 2022, 15:30-17:00 (GMT)

 In this talk, Agnieszka Piotrowska considere the notion of what ‘knowledge’ might be for a creative research practitioner and how ‘high theory’ might be of assistance in inspiring ideas and creative strategies. She will share her most recent experience of working across disciplines with the new experimental film Wash (2022). It is a hybrid documentary with element of animation and drama dealing with serious issues of development in Zimbabwe, a country in which she has done much work over the years. The piece of work has been funded by Strategic England Research 2021 and the University of Edinburgh.

Age of Creativity: Place Making of Making Place

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This partnership, recorded on 19 May 2022, was co-devised by colleagues at Keele University, Staffordshire University and Age UK Oxfordshire, as part of the Age of Creativity Festival 2022 and Creative Later Life 2025.

The keynote presentations and panel discussions around creative aging and placemaking, is now avaiable from the link above.

C3 Centre’s Professor Carola Boehm gave a talk on #Culture30Walks: How Creative is your Place?

Speakers included:

  • Professor David Amigoni FEA- Director, Keele Institute for Social Inclusion (KISI), Keele Deal Culture & ArtsKeele (chair)
  • Carola Boehm– Professor of Arts and Higher Education, Staffordshire University
  • Rose Gilroy-Professor of Ageing Planning and Policy, Chair of Future Homes Alliance, School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
  • Steven Millington– Director/ Senior Fellow at The Institute of Place Management and Reader in Place Management at Manchester Metropolitan University
  • Jason Jones-Hall– Director of Development, Five10Twelve
  • Neil Johnson– Engagement Project Lead, Liverpool City Region

It covers topics and case studies exploring the following:

  • How does creativity/ culture contribute to ‘vibrant’ places for older people beyond local tourism?
  • What constitutes a creative/ cultural ‘asset’ to older communities experiencing inequality?
  • What ‘value’ do we give creativity/culture and older communities experiencing inequalities in rebranding places?
  • What role does place based leadership have in making places both ‘Creative/ Cultural’ and ‘Age Friendly’?
  • How can inequalities be tackled by ‘making’ in place and is this place leadership?

REBELLIOUS RESEARCH #5 – In the quest of creating a “Third Path in Cinema” in the Greek academic and filmmaking environment

SESSION 5: Wednesday 22nd February, 15:30-17:00 (GMT) – link to join

 

In the quest of creating a “Third Path in Cinema” in the Greek academic and filmmaking environment by Iakovos Panagopoulos (Ionian University)

 

This presentation will focus on the creation of film practice research field in Greece, the “Third Path in Cinema” as I like to call it. I will present the issues, challenges and possibilities of creating this path and the solutions that this field can provide to academia and independent filmmaking industry. I will present examples, case studies and my new book, that got published recently in Greece, entitled: “The Third Path in Cinema: The Academic Filmmaker Model” that is focusing on this specific topic.

REBELLIOUS RESEARCH #4 – Filming the non-human

SESSION 4: Wednesday 25th January 2023, 15:30-17:00 (GMT) – link to join

 

Filming the non-human by Catherine Gough-Brady (Head of Postgraduate Studies at JMC Academy in Australia, and is an associate editor of Screenworks).

 

Dr. Catherine Gough-Brady is exploring ways to film the non-human. This includes filming a river system during a drought and attempting to capture a sense of place in the film. More recently Gough-Brady has been wondering what would happen if she interviewed the place, rather than observed it, and how this would change the way she films and edits the material. This work is leading to a larger project where she intends to film in an urban park and meld the stories of the people, the plants, the water, the sky and the animals, to combine rather than separate nature and culture. 

Gough-Brady will talk about how her practice interacts with research and theory, and how her practice forms part of the post-humanist, feminist and decolonising discussions in filmmaking, including on scale, the act of listening, methodology and precarity.