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Art, enterprise, activism
Presentation / Conference
Haywood, P., & Ingleson, S. Art, enterprise, activism. Presented at 5th International Entrepreneurship Educators Conference 2010, Cardiff University

“We publicly declare that education divorced from life and politics is lies and hypocrisy” (V. I. Lenin, 1918).
Enterprise Education can be a medium of artistic creation within which shared identities are recognisable because of common experiences... Read More about Art, enterprise, activism.

Houndstooth, single channel video
Exhibition / Performance
Peploe, G. Houndstooth, single channel video. [Single channel video.]. (Unpublished)

Houndstooth (1 minute Volume 2)', exhibited at: Cow Lane Studios, The Big Screen, The Marseille Project Gallery, The Red Gallery, Roxy Nod, Directors Lounge, Artprojx Space, EXP 24 and The BAck doOR., Salford, Hull, Marseille, Prague, Berlin, Essen,... Read More about Houndstooth, single channel video.

The happy flyer
Physical Artefact
Shadbolt, R. The happy flyer. [Balsawood]

The Happy Flyer a balsa wood glider.

In collaboration with notedco.com and distributed quality retailers ranging from Urban Outfitters to MoMA design Shop to small boutique

Design 2020 - design industry futures
Book Chapter
Cooper, R., Evans, M., Williams, A., Hodgson, L., Hall, N., Sun, Q., & Horn, M. Design 2020 - design industry futures. In Design 2020 - Design Industry Futures. Lancaster: Lancaster University & University of Salford

The objective of this study is to examine the future of the UK design industry. It aims to identify challenges and opportunities facing the UK design industry over the next decade and to develop a framework to signpost and support change.
The projec... Read More about Design 2020 - design industry futures.

The story of things
Exhibition / Performance
Carson, J., & Miller, R. The story of things. [artists' curation of museum collection]. (Unpublished)

The Story of Things explored the ideas of memory, collections and narrative. Engaged by a collection of historical scrapbooks (which in themselves encapsulated some surprising ideas of collections, memory and narrative) held by the museum Manchester... Read More about The story of things.

Scrapbook (the story of things)
Physical Artefact
Carson, J., & Miller, R. (2009). Scrapbook (the story of things). [artists' book]

Published by Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections to coincide with Carson & Miller’s exhibition The Story of Things, this bookwork explores the artefacts held by Special Collections and the North West Film Archive. The result is a b... Read More about Scrapbook (the story of things).

'A game we made up' & 'Stories we have been told'
Exhibition / Performance
Carson, J., & Miller, R. 'A game we made up' & 'Stories we have been told'. [audio and print]. (Unpublished)

'A Game We Made Up' & 'Stories We Have Been Told' were both completed during the exchange project Swap/Vaihto - where artists from Helsinki swapped working environments with artists from Manchester and vice versa. In 'A Game We Made Up', Carson & Mi... Read More about 'A game we made up' & 'Stories we have been told'.

Sea life balance
Physical Artefact
Rooney, J. Sea life balance. [Visual identity]

Visual identity created for the British Science Association to promote awareness of marine conservation

Sinn und sound
Book
Fuchs, M. Sinn und sound. Berlin: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin

The book on the semantics of sound by School of Art & Design researcher Mathias Fuchs has been published by Berliner Wissenschaftlicher Verlag and will be in the bookshops by the end of October. Mathias investigates the possibilities of assigning mea... Read More about Sinn und sound.

House of Caslon
Exhibition / Performance
Rooney, J. House of Caslon. [Sound File]. (Unpublished)

This is a short animation about the life, work and influences of William Caslon I, who was born in Cradley in 1692.

Production on the animation has now commenced and we are looking for typographers, lettering artists, calligraphers, cartoonists, i... Read More about House of Caslon.

Class composition: John Axon, cultural debate and the British left
Journal Article
Harker, B. Class composition: John Axon, cultural debate and the British left. Science and Society, 73(3), 340-356

This article presents influential BBC documentary radio programme The Ballad of John Axon (1958) as a text which refracts, recodes and intervenes into anxious debates within the late 1950s British left about shifting class formations, working-class i... Read More about Class composition: John Axon, cultural debate and the British left.

‘The Manchester Rambler’ : Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass
Journal Article
Harker, B. ‘The Manchester Rambler’ : Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass. History Workshop Journal, 59(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbi016

Best known for his post-war work in theatre, radio, folk music and song writing, Ewan MacColl was born in 1915; the 1930s was a key decade in terms of his political and cultural development. It was in the 1930s that he cut his teeth as a Young Commun... Read More about ‘The Manchester Rambler’ : Ewan MacColl and the 1932 Mass Trespass.

Total place - Discussion paper
Report
Dhar-Bhattacharjee, S., Baldwinson, T., Roy, S., & Thomas, A. Total place - Discussion paper

Total Place – Pooling public money
Total Place was a Labour Government initiative which started last year in April 2009 in Bichard’s work Operational Efficiency Programme, which looked at the scope for efficiency savings in the public sector. It in... Read More about Total place - Discussion paper.

Urban picnic
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P., & Gould, C. Urban picnic. [Interactive Media Art Installation]. (Unpublished)

Following the success of ‘Picnic on the Screen’, presented at the Glastonbury Festival 2009, Paul and Charlotte were recently invited to develop a new version of this interactive public video installation for the MOVES10 Media Arts Festival at venues... Read More about Urban picnic.

Avatarium - A consumer paradox
Exhibition / Performance
Sermon, P. Avatarium - A consumer paradox. [Interactive Second Life Installation]. (Unpublished)

The British artist Paul Sermon, who is visiting Istanbul as a guest of Istanbul Digital Culture and Art Foundation, will exhibit his new interactive public art installation, AVATARIUM - A Consumer Paradox in City's shopping mall between 11 to 16 Nove... Read More about Avatarium - A consumer paradox.