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Keynote: Time traveling with Gregor Samsa, or what you can do with six legs

Professors Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Eben Kirksey use Gregor's transformation in 'Metamorphosis' to muse on the everyday changes we all experience and their relations to disability, design justice and ableism.
Proving the Negative (PTNPod): Swanning About in Cyber Security
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That's a Wrap!

Resilience, cool communicators and space robots. This episode wraps a brilliant season of PTNPod, with Ari and Claudine's favourite 5 moments.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

People's Landscapes: Creative Landscapes

A roundtable discussion exploring the ways in which writers, artists and musicians have both responded to and created conceptions of 'place' throughout history. Thursday 16th May 2019.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age

Russell Maret talks about the development of the primary themes of his artist's books - alphabet design, colour printing, and geometric form, also the influences of history and technology on his methods and subject matter.
Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation

Operationalising empathy in refugee camp design

Neysan Zölzer (Mensch) gives a talk for the Design in Humanitarian Innovation panel.
Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation

Experiences with a threefold humanitarian innovation approach

Jochan Bader and Reihaneh Mozaffari, More than Shelters give a talk for the Design in Humanitarian Innovation panel.
Humanitarian Innovation Conference 2015: Facilitating Innovation

The impact of design for humanitarian action: examples from Design without Borders’ projects

Anjali Bhatnagar (Design without Borders), gives a talk for the Design in Humanitarian Innovation panel.
Department for Continuing Education Open Day 2014

Art, Design and World War

History of Art - Dr Claire O'Mahony
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A Bardic Rite? Designing the Savoy Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

For a few nights in March 1914 if contemplating buying a theatre ticket in London, there was a brief chance when one could have seen Nijinsky dance at the Palace Theatre one night and the next the new Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Divining the 1920s: Precious Body Image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Ballets

This paper examines the ways in which dancers’ body image in Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 ballets The Rite of Spring and Jeux looked forward to 1920s developments in ballet and fashion.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Disruption in Continuity: The Use of Ornament in The Rite of Spring

Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography for the Rite of Spring was structured by movement patterns based on simple geometrical forms – such as circles, triangles, lines and angles – which his dancers incorporated with their bodies and limbs.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

How Disabled Design Changed the History of Modernism.

This lecture explores disabled design as an alternative to canonical aesthetic and political histories of
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Designed to Kill: The Social Life of Weapons in Twentieth Century Britain

Weapon design and modern warfare.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

The Politics of Memory: Designing the Ganatantra Smarak (Republic Memorial), Kathmandu, Nepal

Examination of the design competition of Nepal's republic memorial.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

‘Public memory and everyday memorials: work of the Imperial War Graves Commission’

The paper highlights tensions that appeared in the near routine collection of trophies for memorials and the design of war cemeteries between British imperial offices and those of former colonies, particularly Australia’s War Records Section.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Funky Bunkers: The Post-Military Landscape as a Readymade Space and a Cultural Playgound

On adapted reuse of military establishments.
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Designed to Kill : The Difficult Study of Military Design

Design is perceived by most as a positive concept meant to improve people lives. But it is first a means to answer efficiently a specific purpose. How can we morally accept that the act of killing led to the development of an important design industry?
Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

The secret dollhouse: craft and resistance in Stalinist Estonia

My presentation will focus on the subject of nonprofessional craft as a tool of resistance against the official power. I will be concentrating on one particular case study from Soviet Estonia, dating from the 1940s.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections

Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to track images across early forms of printed literature. Visit http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.
Keble College

Creativity Lecture 2: Creative Selves, Creative Expression

Professor Richard Harper (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) presents on how to design for 'being human' in an age when human-as-machine type metaphors, deriving from Turing and others, tend to dominate thinking in the area.

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