Browse research from the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Submissions from 2025
Threshold Sites of Encounter: Dialogic (Place) Making to Enable Cross-Cultural Community Development—Lessons from Tuti Island, Khartoum, Sudan, Ioana Popovici and Robert Brown
Digital material passports in the AEC industry: a scoping review and conceptualisation of future research challenges, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Duhan Olmez, Jason Grout, and Alexandra Carr
Breaking barriers: understanding factors constraining women’s career choices and progression in the South African construction industry, Abimbola Olukemi Windapo, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, João Alencastro, Dineo Mbekwa, Christiana Ekpo, Muhammad Qasim Rana, and Amanda Filtane
The xeremies of the Banda Municipal de Barcelona: from the symphonic turn of the cobla to the invention of the barítona, Nuria Bonet and Albert Fontelles-Ramonet
Afon Marteg: Site-specific film screening, Kayla Parker, Stuart Moore, Ruth Hogg, and aim king
Father-land: Narratives of Memory in a Place of Conflict, Kayla Parker
Advancing generative AI for music with photonics, Eduardo Miranda and Siegelwax Brian
The Voice of Gods in Your Ear:: Becoming the Avatar in Immersive Performance, Misha Myers
Making intra-urban monitoring ‘a walk in the park’: A mobile monitoring approach for assessing pedestrians’ environmental conditions, Cho Kwong Charlie Lam, Halat Alnaqshabandy, Shaun Lewin, Jack Morewood, Xiaoxiong Xie, and Steve Goodhew
Ruptured Atlas: a trauma-informed approach to spatial storytelling for survivors of genocide (the case for Yazidis in Iraq), Sana Murrani, Kimbal Bumstead, Zoe Paris, Ghazi Murad Ismael, Jameela Rasho, and Omeed Khider Joqey
Negotiating Musical Practices in Chilean Prisons during Pinochet’s Dictatorship (1973-1990), Nuria Bonet
The role of librarians in improving AI literacy and awareness, Hillary Anderson, Anabel Quan-Haase, Takuya Maeda, Selena Gignac, and Katharine Willis
Marking Tidetime: Mudlarking as Intertidal Performance, Sarah Blissett
The Silicon Shrink: How Artificial Intelligence Made the World an Asylum by Daniel Oberhaus: Reviewed By Hannah Drayson, Hannah Drayson
A quantum reservoir computing approach to computer-aided music composition, Eduardo Miranda and Hari Shaji
Towards a Sustainable Construction Industry: A Fuzzy Synthetic Evaluation of Critical Barriers to Entry and the Retention of Women in the South African Construction Industry, Olugbenga Oladinrin, Abimbola Windapo, Joao Alencastro, and Muhammad Rana
Creative Coastal Futures: Developing cultural and creative industries, Katharine Willis, Chris Bennewith, and Kasper de Graaf
Using Diagrams in Place-Based Performances, Phil Smith
Gap filling crowdsourced air temperature data in cities using data-driven approaches, Miao He, Zhiwen Luo, Xiaoxiong Xie, Peng Wang, Haichao Wang, and Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster
En-Crip-Ing Time: How to Care for&with a SexCI Chronic Job, George Simms and Mariana Marangoni
For a Decolonial Approach to Game Design Methods Beyond Representation, Rafael Arrivabene
Connecting to the sea: A place-based study of the potential of digital engagement to foster marine citizenship, Katharine Willis and Ashita Gupta
Dusting the Catacombs, Michael Punt
Instruments autèntics?: L’adquisició d’instruments catalans a través de les cartes de Victor-Charles Mahillon, Nuria Bonet
Introduction: from broken systems towards extended possibilities of XR technologies, Misha Myers, Victoria Duckett, Katy Morrison, and Lienors Torre
Three-Dimensional Metaphor: After 'Site', Phil Smith
Doctor Jekyll & Mister Hyde, Phil Smith and Paul Stebbings
Crab & Bee's Matter of Britain, Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst
Ambient writing in a terrain of threatened subjectivity: Unfolding codes, tainted models and holey spaces, Phil Smith
Balancing Nature and Tradition: Ocean Governance in the Noosa World Surfing Reserve, Kirra Molnar, Michael Court, and Kizzy Beaumont
Community, Culture, and Capacity: Transformative Governance in the Gold Coast World Surfing Reserve, Andrew McKinnon, Scott Gillies, and Kizzy Beaumont
Electrical characterization of the alleged bio-memristor Physarum polycephalum, Markus Schmidt, Günter Seyfried, Uliana Reutina, Zeki Seskir, and Eduardo R. Miranda
From Recognition to Action: Surf-Driven Governance in the Manly and Freshwater World Surfing Reserve, Joao Castro and Kizzy Beaumont
Intertidal Encounters: Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts Quarterly, Sarah Blissett, James Jordan Johnson, Cherry Truluck, Anastasia (A) Alevtin, Monstera Deliciosa, Arbonauts, Sam Hodge, and Olga (F) Koroleva
KEYNOTE: New Myths for New Realities: Being 'Up and Doing' in Plymouth, Angela Piccini and Sefryn Penrose
Pride in Plymouth Archive, Angela Piccini, Sefryn Penrose, and Alan Butler
The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood by James Boyle: Reviewed by Hannah Drayson, Hannah Drayson
Submissions from 2024
Touching Distant Time and Place: Place-Based Augmented Reality Storytelling, Misha Myers
Evaluation of the thermal insulation potential of post-harvest blocks using the native strain of the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, Miguel Aravena, Leonardo Almonacid-Munoz, Carlos Rojas-Herrera, Hector Herrera, Juan Pablo Cardenas Ramirez, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, and Cristiane Sagredo-Saez
Space of resilience: architecture, communication, and immersive experience in “St Sebastian: Plague Memory”, Mathew Emmett
Regeneration: A Collaborative Writing, Making, and Moving Inquiry, Melissa Dunlop, Alys Mendus, Mark Price, Karen Abadie, Laurinda Brown, Carol Laidler, Marian Liebmann, Marina Malthouse, and Grace Mendus
Could residential air-source heat pumps exacerbate outdoor summer overheating and winter overcooling in UK 2050s climate scenarios?, Xiaoxiong Xie, Zhiwen Luo, Sue Grimmond, Yiqing Liu, Carlos E. Ugalde-Loo, Matthew T. Bailey, and Xinfang Wang
Impact of the energy crisis on indoor temperatures and thermal comfort in UK houses during winter 2023, Omar Al-Hafith, B. K. Satish, and Pieter de Wilde
Urban planning education in the global south: exploring the possibilities for Egyptian curricula, Ola Ahmed Maged, Robert Brown, and Nancy Abdel-Moneim
One Minute: volume 12, Kayla Parker, Stuart Moore, and Kerry Baldry
A perspective on solar railway potential for the UK, M. Braima, T. E. Butt, M. A. Maraqa, S. Goodhew, S. Sundaram, and M. M.A. Mohamed
Flow + Cadence, Kayla Parker, Stuart Moore, Luke Christison, and Benjamin Payne
Hula, Dani Landau
Illustrated Stories of Severe Asthma: a Case Study., John Kilburn, Darren Aoki, Rupert Jones, Alice Inman, Isabel Keen, Devon Tipping, Danielle Glover, and Joseph Lanario
Exploring Children’s Attitudes towards Digital Good/Bad through hybrid arts practices. Final Project Report., Dylan Yamada-Rice, John Potter, Steve Love, Eleanor Dare, Angus Main, and Richard Nash
Body, Ritual, and Place: Advancing Their Chronotopic Interrelationship in Design Praxis and Pedagogy Through an Exploration of Juxtaposed Surfaces, Threshold Sites of Dialogic Encounter, and Collage, Robert Brown and Zoe Latham
Spinner, Dani Landau
Lo-Fi, Quick and Glitchy: T(h)inkering with Unreal Engine in Digital, Hybrid, and Expanded Theatre, Andrew Prior, Musaab Garghouti, and Greg Bott
Preferred music listening for people living with dementia: Two home-based case studies discussing compilation process, autobiographical and biophysical responses, Paul Fernie, Alexander Street, Jörg Fachner, Leonardo Muller, Ming Hung Hsu, Patrizia Di Campli San Vito, Stephen Brewster, Sube Banerjee, Nicolas Farina, Hari Shaji, Paulo Itaborai, Alexis Kirke, and Eduardo Reck Miranda
Where Lean Construction and Offsite Construction Meet: A Bibliographic Scientometric Analysis, Emmanuel Itodo Daniel, Anthony Babalola, Olugbenga Oladinrin, Lovelin Obi, and Olalekan OSHODI
Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses, in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law: by David Howes, Hannah Drayson
spɛktə/ - on Digital Dust, Ectoplasm and the Infinite Architecture of the Fulldome., Mike Phillips
The advent of quantum computer music: mapping the field, Eduardo Miranda
Habit and the Potential for Actor Training with Immersive and Virtual Production Technology, John Matthews
Instruments catalans al Musical Instrument Museum de Phoenix, Nuria Bonet
‘In the Future We Will Make Our Own Superheroes’: Reflections on the Future of Broadcast for Children Aged 7–11, Dylan Yamada-Rice
Polluted Pool in Apollo's Decathlon, Cultural Olympics, Paris 2024: Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art, Mathew Emmett
Codesign principles for the effective development of digital heritage extended reality systems for health interventions in rural communities, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Marius N. Varga, Hannah Bradwell, Rory Baxter, Ray B. Jones, and Daniel Maudlin
Hauntological Form: Where We Might Find the New in Contemporary Videogames, James Sweeting
Quatermass 2: The Alien-Vegetable Core Of A New Canon, Phil Smith
Psalms, Mike Phillips
A multimodal study of augmented reality in the architectural design studio, Alejandro Veliz Reyes
Cadence 360, Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore
Flow 360, Kayla Parker, Stuart Moore, and Luke Christison
Sea-ing Differently, Kayla Parker, Marie Lavelle, Karen Wickett, and Stuart Moore
Critical Success Factors in Large-Scale Agile Software Development, Anabel Milagros Salazar, Muhammed Qasim Rana, Ana C González Leyba, Mandeep Saini, Olugbenga Oladinrin, and Angela Lee
Deploying the Hybrid Project Management Methodology Framework in Major Transportation Projects in the United Kingdom, Ana C González Leyba, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Anabel Milagros Salazar, Mandeep Saini, Olugbenga Oladinrin, and Angela Lee
Exploring the Underlying Barriers for the Successful Transition for Women from Higher Education to Employment in Egypt: A Focus Group Study, Muhammad Qasim Rana, Shadia Fahim, Mohammed Saad, Angela Lee, Olugbenga Timo Oladinrin, and Lekan Damilola Ojo
Impact of Energy-Consuming Air Conditioning Systems on People's Thermal Comfort and Preferences: Comparative Study of Iraq and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, Omar Al-Hafith, Satish B.K., Pieter de Wilde, and Sepideh Korsavi
An investigation into the vapour permeability and durability of natural renders on an earthen wall system, Steve Goodhew, Jim Carfrae, Matthew Fox, Karen Hood Cree, and Kevin Owen
When Time Is Not Of The Essence: Slowness And Certainty Beyond The 15 Minute City, Robert Brown, Leah Dinning, Rachel Manning, Emily Childs, and Cansu Basitici
Can Neighbourhoods Save the Smart City?, Alessandro Aurigi
Digital Hybridities: Theorising the ‘Social’ and the ‘Local’ of Fabrication Technologies in Craft Practice, Alejandro Veliz Reyes and Matthew Holmes
The Tone Poem: A Stolen Work, Michael Punt
Machine Learning-Based Indoor Relative Humidity and CO2 Identification Using a Piecewise Autoregressive Exogenous Model: A Cob Prototype Study, Mohammed Hichem Benzaama, Karim Touati, Yassine El Mendili, Malo Le Guern, François Streiff, and Steve Goodhew
Aesthetic Experience of Metabolic Processes: By Desiree Förster, Hannah Drayson
Co-making and Prototyping Community Housing Futures, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Alexandra Carr, and Timothy Crabtree
Digital Seascapes: Can we use digital technologies to engage coastal communities in building marine citizenship?: Resilience and Adaptation: Parallel Workshop (6), Ashita Gupta and Katharine Willis
Digital Seascapes: Digital Technologies For Building Resilience Of Coastal Environments: Coastal Regions and Territorial Policies: Track (7) Environment and Climate, Ashita Gupta and Katharine Willis
Early-stage codesign of a material passport for volumetric timber building components, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Duhan Olmez, and Alexandra Carr
Locating the Archive, Angela Piccini and Sefryn Penrose
Pop-up books, Magic, and Health, John Kilburn
She Said Yes, Angela Piccini and Sefryn Penrose
Spaces for co-creating rural futures: Bridport's Living Lab, Alexandra Carr and Alejandro Veliz Reyes
Submissions from 2023
Addressing the “Whys” of UK Children’s YouTube Use: A Purposes Approach, Fiona Scott, Becky Parry, Jackie Marsh, Jamal Lahmar, Beth Nutbrown, Emilie Scholey, Patrizia Baldi, Lily Law, and Dylan Yamada-Rice
Between research, practice and governmental policies in the global south: understanding the Egyptian urban planning scene, Ola Ahmed Maged, Bob Brown, and Nancy Abdel-Moneim
Indoor Air Quality in Cob Buildings: In Situ Studies and Artificial Neural Network Modeling, K Touati, M-H Benzaama, Mendili Y El, Guern M Le, F Streiff, and S Goodhew
Domicide: Architecture, War, and the Destruction of Home in Syria by Ammar Azzouz, S Murrani
Drivers for Design for Deconstruction (DfD) Implementation Among Design Professionals, H Pittri, K Agyekum, E Botchway, J Alencastro, O Oladinrin, and A Dompey
Development and introduction of a mixed realities playkit: decreasing the incidence of general anaesthesia for paediatric MRI, J Thompson, Dylan Yamada-Rice, S Thompson, Louise Murray, and Matthew Taylor
Polyrhythmic modelling of non-isochronous and microtiming patterns, G Sioros
Instrumental pub decors: non-sounding functional instruments, Nuria Bonet
Variational Quantum Harmonizer: Generating Chord Progressions and Other Sonification Methods with the VQE Algorithm, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí, Tim Schwägerl, María Aguado Yáñez, Arianna Crippa, Karl Jansen, Eduardo Reck Miranda, and Peter Thomas
