Creative Solutions
Intersecting Art, Science, and Society
Project Portfolio
Exploring Unconscious Racial Bias within Football
Exploring the narrative of the pace and power effect within a football context, establishing when and how it occurs, and why it may contribute to a continuation of limited opportunities for a person based on their skin tone.
Music and Art within the Lives of People Living with Dementia
How can we use art practices and music to mitigate depression within those that live with dementia? Can art and music provide emancipation from psychological and cognitive challenges?
Social Isolation: Community Solutions
Collaborating with the NHS and local charities in Barking and Dagenham, this project combines individual testimonies, case studies, current research, and diverse interdisciplinary insights to address social isolation in patients discharged from Queen’s Hospital, a key factor in high readmission rates.
Branding Design for a Health and Wellness Business
This project involved collaborating with a small business owner to develop a brand identity. Through design workshops and focus groups, we crafted marketing strategies, advertisements, brand visuals, and pricing plans. An exciting experience, offering valuable insights into the various stages of building a startup.
Founding a Women’s 5-a-side Football Team
Starting with just three footballs (from my bedroom), we successfully secured funding to purchase basic equipment, and subsidised match fees. We generated a large community support for our games. I am incredibly proud to have helped establish a football team from the ground up alongside an amazing group of individuals.
Is the UK Prison System Sustainable?
Using quantitative and qualitative research methods to explore: To what extent is the UK prison system sustainable, how does it perpetuate the continuous cycle of recidivism and how can it be further improved? This project delves into how UK prison system – from the architecture of a prison to the social structures that operate before during and after incarceration – further prohibits any chance of successful rehabilitation.
Referee Abuse in Football: Sentiment Analysis of Online Football Communities
This project analyses sentiment in the football community, focusing on language surrounding referee abuse, highlighted by a high-profile incident involving Premier League striker Aleksandar Mitrovic. Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) to analyse data from the Premier League subreddit, the study found that the community’s language had higher valence and dominance scores than general language.
Do Prisons Perpetuate Recidivism: How can Visual Methods Facilitate the Creation of Territories
This project showcases the potential of poetry and collages, as archives, to navigate through the creation of a territory – helping to free the soul from societal restraints. Similar concepts can be seen within art therapy, in which imagery can be used to help process traumatic, personal, and deeply emotional events.
Urban Futures: A Geospatial Data Visualisation Tool
The tool allows users to overlay and compare different maps of London, enabling them to identify and explore correlations between violent crime rate, street lighting, green space and supermarkets as a proxy for the nutritional quality of one’s diet – exploring the link between nutrition and violent crime. This tool is marketed towards law enforcement, charities, and policy makers, to allow them to better scope the landscape of violent crime within London.
How Can We Facilitate Creativity in the Everyday for Non-Creative Workers?
It has been recognised that creative thinking is one of the greatest natural resources (Grabo, 1948), it is integral to any form of innovation and problem solving. Additionally, creative practise has been linked to a multitude of psychosocial and physiological benefits. However, human- created environments that prioritise monetary gain and worker production above all else are reflective of notions presented within Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. This project uses cartography, colour theory, and art practise to explore this complex problem.
Fashion as a Complex System
This is a critical essay that engages complexity from both a quantitative and qualitative approach.
The fashion industry demonstrates a continual oscillation of trends, where each trend gives rise to another. Should a trend reach a point of saturation or extremity, it is naturally counterbalanced by a contrasting movement. This dynamic, encapsulated by the concept of enantiodromia, illustrates the emergence of opposing forces over time.
Bin There Done That: A Community Campaign
Our campaign ‘Bin There Done That’ focuses on the significant issue of single-use plastic cup waste at the Columbia Road Flower Market. According to a report from Tower Hamlets Council, the market contributes substantially to on-street waste, primarily from food and beverage businesses. It only takes one look at the street on a market day to confirm this. This was a sprint campaign aimed towards the local council and achieved extensive social media outreach, over 37,000 views in one week, as well as almost 1000 survey respondents.
Using Visualisation as a Tool for Recovery
3D scanning is a valuable recollection of objective data, allowing a person to take ownership of their injury. This can enable an emancipatory effect, allowing the person to process their injury and begin to use visualisation as a tool for recovery.
A Short Video: Our Relationship with Social Media
This video captures conversations with members of the public in central London (February 2022) regarding their relationship with social media. These discussions often sparked thought-provoking and challenging insights, highlighting how our over-reliance on social media has contributed to a growing disconnect from the physical world around us.
A Short Video: The Reality of Climate Change
This video reveals the ever-increasing dangers of climate change and what a significant loss of biodiversity means for our planet. The video aims to alert audiences to the severity and time sensitive nature of climate change, with the goal of inspiring greater inquiry into actionable solutions.
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