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The emotive city (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, December). The emotive city. Presented at Future Cities, London

How can a city, with its connections, people and architecture be viewed as a living cultural artefact? Every city has at least one ArtSpace; larger urban conurbations have a multitude of spaces devoted to art. The ArtSpace is a venue designed to con... Read More about The emotive city.

Transforming guns to goods at the Manchester Science Festival 2010 (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Ingleson, S. (2010, November). Transforming guns to goods at the Manchester Science Festival 2010. Presented at MANCHESTER BEACON Summit 2010, Museum of Science & Industry

How do you melt metal? Inspired by the Salford Scientist James Joule, this event is a combination of science experiments, art workshop and exhibition all based around the transformation of metals from one state to another. The event builds upon an... Read More about Transforming guns to goods at the Manchester Science Festival 2010.

Challenging the traditional culture vulture: Experiential marketing in the cultural tourism sector (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Leighton, D. (2010, November). Challenging the traditional culture vulture: Experiential marketing in the cultural tourism sector. Presented at ATLAS Annual Conference: Mass tourism vs Niche tourism, Limassol, Cyprus

This paper investigates experiential marketing as a means of promoting cultural heritage within a highly competitive leisure and tourism marketplace. It explores the role and significance of heritage tourism and the emergence of cultural heritage tou... Read More about Challenging the traditional culture vulture: Experiential marketing in the cultural tourism sector.

The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sermon, P. (2010, October). The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments. Presented at ISMAR 2010 The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, COEX/Art Centre Nabi, Seoul, Korea

My work in the field of telematic arts explores the emergence of a user-determined narrative by bringing remote participants together in a shared telepresent environment. Through the use of live chroma-keying and videoconferencing technology, two pub... Read More about The emergence of a user determined narrative in telematic environments.

The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Thomas, A. (2010, September). The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales. Presented at LeNS Conference: Sustainability in Design: Now! Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century., Bangalore, India

The paper examines the relationship between design and sustainability in a policy context of sustainable development, in Wales, UK, a devolved Government with a legal remit to sustainable development. A case study approach has been used alongside g... Read More about The role of design in enabling sustainability in small scale textile manufacturing: A case study of small scale textile manufacture in Wales.

Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Sihvonen, M., & Simpson, S. (2010, September). Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK. Presented at Reinterpretations of the Public Enterprise (RIPE) conference ‘Public Service Media After the Recession’, University of Westminister, London

This paper explores recent patterns of minority interest television programming in Finland and the UK and their implications for future public service broadcasting (PSB) environments. The provision of resources to cater for minority interests of va... Read More about Catering for Minority Interests in Public Service Media Environments: Finland and the UK.

Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Archetti, C. (2010, September). Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change. Presented at American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Convention, Washington, DC

Based on a range of interviews with foreign diplomats in London, the paper explains the considerable variation in the way communication technologies both affect diplomatic practices and are appropriated by diplomats to pursue the respective countries... Read More about Media impact on diplomatic practice: An evolutionary model of change.

From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks (2010)
Presentation / Conference
O'Reilly, C. (2010, September). From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks. Presented at City and Society in European History: Conference of the European Association for Urban History, Ghent, Belgium

This paper examines the evolution of the municipal public park in Manchester from the Victorian people’s park to the Edwardian (and later) citizen’s park. The linguistic shift from the people to the citizen is mirrored in the change of emphasis from... Read More about From ‘the people’ to ‘the citizen’: Municipal leisure in Manchester’s urban parks.

Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Watson, J., & Al-Azraqi, M. (2010, July). Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri. Presented at Seminar for Arabian Studies, London

Arabic was traditionally described as lughat al-Ρād ‘the language of Ρād’ due to the perceived unusualness of the sound. From Sībawayhi’s description, early Arabic Ρād was clearly a lateral or lateralized emphatic. Lateral fricatives are assumed to h... Read More about Lateral fricatives and lateral emphatics in southern Saudi Arabia and Mehri.

The narrative of creativity in the city (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, July). The narrative of creativity in the city. Presented at PARC North West, Manchester Metropolitan University

The subject is to study expression of creativity in the city with the recording of the creative gesture presented as visible narratives. The first phase will focus on Manchester and Salford. Both cities are locations are significant centres for cultu... Read More about The narrative of creativity in the city.

Recording the creative gesture (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, July). Recording the creative gesture. Presented at Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London

Visible Narratives The digital pathway of gesture This project is created from digital recordings of the gesture. A Visible Narrative is the unseen path created by the pattern of gesture we make during the moment language. This is a deliberate st... Read More about Recording the creative gesture.

Sshhh : the commodification of silence (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Cookney, D. (2010, July). Sshhh : the commodification of silence. Presented at Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics Conference, University of Salford

This chapter documents a process undertaken by the author in summer 2010. Submitted as part of the University of Salford’s MA Communication Design programme, the study resulted in a practice-based outcome – a compact disc of audio recordings housed w... Read More about Sshhh : the commodification of silence.

New governance as political compromise in European telecommunications: the amended European Union electronic communications regulatory framework (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Simpson, S. (2010, June). New governance as political compromise in European telecommunications: the amended European Union electronic communications regulatory framework. Presented at International Telecommunications Society Conference, Tokyo

This paper explores the regulatory character of key parts of the latest incarnation of the EU telecommunications regulatory package, finalised at the end of 2009. Its core argument is that whilst the broad parameters of the modified Electronic Commun... Read More about New governance as political compromise in European telecommunications: the amended European Union electronic communications regulatory framework.

Recording the creative gesture (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Rooney, J. (2010, June). Recording the creative gesture. Presented at Art Promotes Science, Science Promotes Art, University of Salford

The project will posit a question of how to visualise the creative gesture of a city. Every city has its own creative story. The subject matter to be explored in this project will be curated from recordings of past and present narratives. Data will t... Read More about Recording the creative gesture.

The hive in the cliff: an innovative case study for culturally led, cross-sector approaches to sustainable socio-economical development (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Slee, S., Bowker, S., Hamilton, A., & Wilkie, T. (2010, May). The hive in the cliff: an innovative case study for culturally led, cross-sector approaches to sustainable socio-economical development. Presented at Regional Studies Association Annual International Conference 2010, Pecs, Hungary

There is long-standing recognition of the role cultural and creative industries play in regional development . Creative and cultural activities contribute to development in regeneration, social inclusion, education, vocational training, social entre... Read More about The hive in the cliff: an innovative case study for culturally led, cross-sector approaches to sustainable socio-economical development.

The influence of global internet governance institutions on the EU (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2010, May). The influence of global internet governance institutions on the EU. Presented at The Influence of International Institutions on the EU, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona

Since the mid-1990s, the EU has sought to engage in the formation and development of the most important multilateral Internet governance institutions, and, in doing so, has portrayed itself as a leading and influential player in the evolving global I... Read More about The influence of global internet governance institutions on the EU.

Shaping the global communications milieu: The EU's influence on internet and telecommunications governance (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Christou, G., & Simpson, S. (2010, April). Shaping the global communications milieu: The EU's influence on internet and telecommunications governance. Presented at GARNET (Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU ) conference ‘The European Union in International Affairs’, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels

This paper evaluates the EU’s influence in shaping the global governance for telecommunications and the Internet. Through analyzing EU behavior within an actorness framework, we demonstrate how the external opportunity structure and the EU’s internal... Read More about Shaping the global communications milieu: The EU's influence on internet and telecommunications governance.

"Speculating for gold"; Socio-geographic painting and the artist as researcher working within regeneration and urban renewal (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Haywood, P., & Ingleson, S. (2010, April). "Speculating for gold"; Socio-geographic painting and the artist as researcher working within regeneration and urban renewal. Presented at Claiming Creativity: Art Education in Cultural Transition, Chicago, USA

Ambitious and elusive goals are becoming common place in the artists’ brief and yet the core motive of the practitioner remains the process and discovery of new creativity and artistic output. This paper will draw on the experience of a number of pro... Read More about "Speculating for gold"; Socio-geographic painting and the artist as researcher working within regeneration and urban renewal.

‘Visualising the invisible’: Arts and science collaboration (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Heald, K., Liggett, S., Tranter, R., & Poole, R. (2010, April). ‘Visualising the invisible’: Arts and science collaboration. Presented at Claiming Creativity: Art Education in Cultural Transition, Chicago, USA

This research explores, psychoanalyst/linguist/philosopher, Julia Kristeva’s concept that female subjectivity seems linked to both cyclical time (menstruation/pregnancy/repetition) and monumental time in sense of eternity (motherhood/reproduction/gen... Read More about ‘Visualising the invisible’: Arts and science collaboration.