Staff
Louise Valentine
PhD, FRSA, MDes, BA(hons)
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 01382 38966
Email:
l.valentine@dundee.ac.uk
Visual Research Centre Annexe, 22 Springfield,
Dundee, DD1 4JE
Biography
Dr Louise Valentine is a designer and researcher leading the major Arts and Humanities Research Council project 'Past, Present and Future Craft Practice' with Professor Georgina Follett. She is director of the Craft Festival Scotland 2010 initiative, collaborating with contemporary practitioners, and major public and private bodies including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Creative Scotland and Dundee Contemporary Arts. She is also an Executive Member of the European Academy of Design and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
Louise delivers workshops, seminars and lectures on the theory and practice of design thinking, knowledge management, research methods, teamwork and visualisation within the graduate programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College. Before focusing on research, she was Course Director for the multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural Master of Design programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College. She taught on Design Studies (for BSc Interactive Media and Product Design) and Design History, Theory and Practice programmes, as both module and programme leader.
Louise examines and supervises PhD students in art and design. She wrote and had validated the new MSc Craft and Creative Business programme which opens in 2010 and had responsibility for the development of a new interdisciplinary / inter-university postgraduate programme entitled 'Capitalising on Creativity', which synthesises creative and management practice.
She gained her undergraduate degree in Industrial Design (Textiles) from Heriot-Watt University, Galashiels Campus, a postgraduate degree in Printed Textile Design from Duncan of Jordanstone College and a doctorate (2003) entitled 'The Activity of Rhetoric within the Process of a Designer's Thinking', University of Dundee. Prior to returning to Higher Education Louise worked with the Scottish Qualifications Authority holding the remit to develop a knowledge management programme for a new advisory board.
Research Projects
V&A at Dundee
Funder: Scottish Government
Role: Product Team Member
Internal Collaborators: Georgina Follett, Graham McKee, Judith Barnard.
Through V&A at Dundee, Scotland will have a dedicated centre for showcasing and promoting excellence in design and a permanent venue committed to design that is large enough to showcase large-scale international design exhibitions. As a centre of design for Scotland, the V&A at Dundee will highlight the importance of design in everyday life and will be a powerful advocate for investment in the highest qualities of design. It will be the catalyst for new projects, companies, institutions and initiatives across Scotland. Finally, the V&A at Dundee will build on Scotland's reputation and firmly establish the country's position as a global player in design, cementing its role in the history of design. It will help attract major investments and contribute to the stimulation of Scotland's cultural and economic growth. It will be a clear statement of Scotland's place in both the history and the future of design.
Past Present and Future Craft Practice: exploring the interrelation between skill, intent and culture.
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council, £442K, £306K, 2005-2010
This major study asks, is there a future for crafts? It conducts comparative analysis of visual and cultural aesthetics of craft based practice, addressing issues of plurality of perspectives inherent in creative thinking; develops visual methods for interrogating the process of craft practice and communication of the relation between past, present and future in crafts methodology.
www.craftresearch.blogspot.com
Craft Festival Scotland
Funder: Creative Scotland, £32K, 2009-2010
CFS is a new model for promoting the economy of craft and developing audience(s).
www.dundee.ac.uk/djacd/cfs2010
www.dundee.ac.uk/djacd/cfs2011
www.facebook.com/CraftFestivalScotland
# CraftFestScot
Innovation and Creative Development in Scottish Craft
Funder: Scottish Arts Council: £55K, 2008-2010
This project investigates how the level of innovation within craft practice can be developed. Framed in the context of craft as an economy, the study tests a new creative development framework with eight professional practitioners.
Curatorial Strategies for Contemporary Craft: Cut n Paste
Funder: Crafts Council, £5K, 2008-2009
Collaborator: Sally Reaper, SMART Consultants, Aberdeen
This study investigates the use of craft objects and curatorial strategies as effective business tools. The work explores the relationship between craft and its audience, moving away from the traditional 'white cube' environment for showcasing craft.
European Design Research 1995-2010
Funder: in progress, £30K, 2011-2013
Collaborator: Dr Paul Atkinson, Sheffield Hallam University
European Design Research charts the development and consolidation of a series of issues within the field. It shows how one group of design researchers have worked to introduce new lines of inquiry and further the intellectual argument.
Prototype: craft in the future tense.
Funder: in progress, £20K, 2009-2011
Collaborator: Dr Glenn Adamson, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
This study is one conversation in an ongoing dialogue devoted to Future Craft, which is understood to be a mobile concept central to all disciplines: a theory and practice about progressiveness and the ability to imagine and re-imagine the future
Websites
www.craftresearch.blogspot.com
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