Art & Design and Architecture projects
Collaborative activities across Art & Design and Architecture including research, public engagement, and campus projects
Art & Design and Architecture projects
Public engagement project
Zinc House is one of a number of architectural projects guided by ‘Place, Programme & Presence’ as a critical framework for the realisation of new buildings exploring the serial development of types.
Research project
The study, funded by ClimateXChange for Scottish Government was carried out by academics in Architecture and Planning to assess the effectiveness of greenhouse gas emission reduction policies in Local Development Plans in promoting the uptake of low and zero-carbon generating technologies.
Public engagement project
The City is a Thinking Machine is a research exhibition bringing together in a single space, Geddes’ collection of city plans with his thinking and lecture notes.
Research project
MacroMicro Studio is building a body of work situated in the unique sociological and physical contexts of remote rural Scotland.
Research project
With support from the Scottish Government, a specialist research team made up of members from the University of Dundee, Eclipse Research and Kevin Murray Associates has produced a report into the facilitation of participatory placemaking.
Research project
Forensic Art aids in the identification, apprehension or conviction of offenders and the location of victims or identification of unknown human remains.
Research project
SGHT aims to preserve the island’s natural and historical heritage for future generations
Research project
The Centre for Remote Environments (CRE), previously known as Project Atlantis, was established by the late Brigadier David Nicholls and Prof Elaine Shemilt as a research and consultancy group concerned with environmental protection and education, and to provide environmental educational resources through digital media
Public engagement project
‘GROW Observatory’ by Mel Woods centres around a design framework and operational information system for climate action at scale.
Research project
Design in Action (DiA) is a £5m Knowledge Exchange (KE) Hub for the Creative Economy, funded in 2012 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to demonstrate design as a key strategy for economic growth and innovation within industry. A further £500k was awarded from Creative Scotland to support Scottish SMEs to apply design innovation and strategy in both the creative and non-creative industries.
Research project
The Museum of Loss and Renewal investigates issues such as the value and significance of objects, life and death, and artist-led curatorial practice
Research project
A Drama in Time draws on histories shaping Edinburgh’s forms and ideas, presenting iconic images in neon, illuminating a journey, a life, and questioning what lies beyond.
Research project
This work develops Mick Peter’s evolving research interest in the rhetorical, self-reflexive potential of making an exhibition which is apparently about making an exhibition, by showing exhibition-making as something that can reflect on how sculptural form is understood in mainstream visual culture.
Research project
The Slave’s Lament is a five-channel video artwork by Graham Fagen.
Research project
‘Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art from 1540 until Today’ is a curatorial and editorial research project led by Arthur Watson.
Research project
‘Hands of X’ by Andrew Cook, investigates prosthetic hands, identity, fashion, and ownership.
Research project
‘Jacobites by Name’ was a solo exhibition of 27 new works by Calum Colvin.
Research project
‘Urban Gold Rush’ by Sandra Wilson is a research project comprising three exhibitions and supporting publications.
Research project
‘Women’s Early Video Art’ is a multi-component research project, led by Elaine Shemilt,
Research project
Witness was developed as a new series of drawings for a solo exhibition (curated by Esen Kaya), with eight drawings first exhibited in ‘DRAWN’ – Anita Taylor (solo exhibition).
Research project
Sàl (Saltwater) is a collaboration between Dalziel + Scullion and composer Iain Morrison, commissioned by 14-18 NOW, WWI Centenary Art Commissions, in collaboration with An Lanntair.
Research project
‘TIDE’ is a multi-layered creative research project by Tania Kovats which examines the uniquely dynamic nature of tides in the UK.
Research project
Rosnes Bench is a permanent artwork commissioned by Wide Open, for the diverse and vast landscape of Dumfries & Galloway Forest.
Research project
‘Sounding Coastal Change’ (SCC) is a project by Gair Dunlop, exploring how sound, music, film and alternate ways of listening are useful tools in a facilitated process of public engagement.
Research project
ECZEMA! is a cumulative performance work for one voice and pipe organ, written and directed by Maria Fusco, commissioned by National Theatre Wales to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS.
Research project
‘IN TIME AND SILENTLY’ and ‘A WIND FROM THE NORTH’ is a portfolio of two exhibitions of landscape paintings by Philip Braham.
Research project
'Nunalleq: Stories from the Village of our Ancestors' is an interactive educational resource for children aged 7-15, by Alice Watterson.
Research project
Kieran Baxter uses aerial Photogrammetric techniques and digital media integrated with the more traditional and commonly used method of repeat photography to create new perspectives on landscapes, revealing the change that has taken place over decades.
Research project
The UK Royal Navy War Graves project comprises three MoD licensed underwater surveys of the historically significant Naval shipwrecks located on the seabed around Orkney.
Research project
‘Making Sense’ embodies socio-technical design research to support participatory sensing initiatives addressing urban environmental challenges in areas such as noise and air pollution.
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase One
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase One
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase One
Public engagement project
A two-year four-phase contemporary art exhibition and forum programme, showcasing for the first time in China the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland, its grass-roots spirit and its keen debates with the social and political dimensions of art and culture.
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Four
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Two
Public engagement project
Focuses on the history, development and current conditions of artists’ moving image works to further explore the distinctiveness of contemporary art made in Scotland, its grass-roots spirit and its keen debates with the social and political dimensions of art and culture.
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Three
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Three
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Three
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Four
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland | Phase Four
Public engagement project
CURRENT | 不合时宜 : Contemporary Art from Scotland
Public engagement project
Citizen-powered data ecosystems for inclusive and green urban transitions
Research project
Sustainable design-led innovation for a green transformation of Health Services.