Research
IMprints
IMprints: Public Responses to Future Identity Management Practices & Technologies is a major EPSRC multidisciplinary research project, asking about the influences on UK and US publics to engage and/or disengage with identity management practices, services and technologies of the future. These involve, among others, new forms of biometric authentication; innovative ‘smart’ tokens like ID or customer cards, jewellery, garment, or further enhanced smart phones.
See http://imprintsfutures.org/
With funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland I was able to explore the historical relationship between jewellery and wellbeing. This involved studying supersitious jewellery in the collections of the V & A London and spending time in the Library of the Goldsmiths Company in London exploring old Lapidaries.
Evoke: The Meaning of Jewellery in the Digital Age was funded by an Arts & Humanities Research Council small grant to explore the ways in which digital presentation of contemporary jewellery mediates and in some cases alters its meaning. I also curated the exhibition and managed the research project.
Just a sample of my research. To see more or discuss a possible collaboration >>
Evoke
Jewellery & Superstition
Pulse
Pulse: The stuff of Life was a collaborative research project with Dr Jivan Astfalck from the Birmingham School of Jewellery and Dr Bernard de Bono, from the Medical Research Council Cambridge. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council this research took raw protein data and converted file information into 3D printed elements of new jewellery.
