Research & Knowledge Exchange Repository
Arts University Plymouth’s research community benefits from an unique environment dedicated to practice-led creative inquiry within a world-class suite of material and digital resources which provide evolving opportunities for original scholarship and innovative outputs.
Presentation [author accepted abstract, presentation slides attached and proceedings attached] The Art of Business for Sustainable Fashion: The 9th International Conference of Marketing Strategy and Policy Research Group (MSP2025) held on 5th & 6th June, 2025. Kingston University.
Colossal, a mobile print studio, operates as evolving artwork and research method, generating knowledge through embodied, participatory practice across contexts, exploring labour, imagery, authorship, and post-digital engagement
Eight large-scale murals at North Cross reframe a key Plymouth gateway, combining local narratives, colour and collaboration to enhance placemaking, accessibility, visibility and civic pride.
A workshop that poses a troublesome future before imagining fantastic solutions through the playful invention of rituals, folk tales, artefacts and idols.
The Thinking through Making workshop seeks to harness the power of play & imagination as a means to approach and conceptualise global challenges.
Approaching the design and delivery of contextual modules in ways that develop the skills of student illustrators: extending their knowledge and understanding through critical writing practices which combine drawing and illustration.
This case study of teaching practice seeks to harness the potential of curiosity, play and imagination as a means to approach and conceptualise global challenges.
At its core, the objective of this project is to empower individuals and organisations to generate ideas and visually communicate them effectively.
Presentation exploring how Arts University Plymouth students are supported to create and pursue visions of a better world by developing competencies, skills, attributes and values linked to subject knowledge.
Creative education requires a creative approach and Hirons & Brown developed the Illustration Pedagogy project using the tools and contexts of illustration itself to teaching and learning.
The journal article focuses on the invention of a new generative participatory design process that uses Tasseography. It is a ritualistic, participatory, performance process that implements a new set of generative tools that promotes a shared language between myself and my participants resulting in a collection of co-designed abstract textile artworks.
This paper sets out to explore thinking-through making as a complex dynamic of learnt skills and intuitive thought and to examine how these may be taught in what will be termed in this context 'learning and doing'. The paper proposes that, whilst there are established strategies relating to the acquisition of craft skills and to creativity, it is less clear how intuition, as the act of knowing or sensing in the moment, can be taught in the context of art and design education. The paper will take the practice of drawing as its exemplar in this exploration of intuition, examining how it might be described and imparted in an education context and its value in creative, entrepreneurial and sustainable practice.