The School of Design and the Environment believes in the transformative power of research in exploring and investigating traditional culture and new knowledge. This has led the school to promote both traditional research and the production of creative works. DBE regularly showcases the works from practice-led research carried out by our enthusiastic HDR cohort to demonstrate such diversity and pragmatism. This exhibition showcased the work of HDR students Molly Ryan and Gregor MacGregor.
Exploring Narratives in Lace: The Process
– Molly Ryan
This exhibition of work follows a process of making textiles and using textile processes that explore the lived experience of three ancestrally significant lace textiles. In this practice-based research project, theory and practice oscillate to navigate the significance of information extracted from historical textiles in navigating contemporary social and cultural issues.
No Direction Home: Photogrammetry and the
Post-Natural World
– Gregor MacGregor
The digitalisation of objects from the natural world reflects humankind’s need to collect and catalogue objects to preserve and retain memories, the same need that gave us museums. Through the deconstruction of digital photogrammetry, the process of triangulating photographs to generate three-dimensional objects, this research aims to examine the creative potential that emerging optical technologies offer beyond the role of empirical observation.
