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Ezzam Rahman, recipient of President’s Young Talents (2015) and Young Artist Award (2016), is a multidisciplinary artist recognised for his exploration of the body through sculpture, installation, digital media and …

Fashion education has evolved to meet the changing needs of the industry and train creative individuals to become effective storytellers, image-makers, curators and producers. The role of fashion is becoming …

A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed and developed in relation to interactive performances that draw upon or encapsulate primary themes from the distinct but interrelated disciplines of cybernetics and Existentialist …

Over the past ten years, the profession of arts therapy has come a long way in South East Asia. As the first and truly only international professional association in the …

This chapter analyses a theatre performance of The Kite Runner performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 2014. Borrowing Walter Benjamin’s concept of ‘aura’ interpreted as a way of ‘getting …

This paper examines the reflection on artwork created by four educators, of two postgraduate art psychotherapy training programmes from two distinct cultural and geographic parts of the world, the UK …

Abstract: A 5000-word excerpt of a novel-in-progress devoted to global climate change and its concentration in Canada’s contentious Alberta tar sands. Citation: Whetter, Darryl. “Scraping Off the Velvet.” The Fiddlehead, …

Western contemporary dance has long benefited from mental imagery practice for enhancing choreography, somatic embodiment and performance. Although science supports many psychophysical benefits of mental imagery practice, less is known …

Ideas and themes central to both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy converge in the work of some of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Utilizing little or no technology, these artists …

This paper discusses the value of design rights using the example of UK’s most high-profile case of design right litigation: Trunki, a ride-on travel case for children. Rob Law MBE …

This paper constitutes a critical and detailed review of an investigation into design right infringement in the UK. The original mixed-method study was commissioned by the UK IPO in 2015/2016 …

One of the first principles of capitalism is, undeniably, instrumentalisation; the subjection of one thing to another with the speculative aim of producing some future ‘value’, regardless of how dubious …

The being of human beings and, in particular, their wellbeing is profoundly spatial and temporal. We feel well in dramaturgically stimulating, sheltered, yet expansive spaces that lend themselves to daydreaming, …