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Supporting new products Our Design Centre offers businesses and practitioners a range of design, sampling and prototyping services and has continued to work with a wide range of clients, both locally and nationally. Many of the projects are commercially confidential, but recent examples include: — healthcare: medical devices used during surgery, hospital ward products and healthcare products to be used by patients at home — truro Cathedral: new resources to enhance the experience for younger visitors — Design companies: watersports products, new household products, interior designs for commercial outlets and restaurants. Arts and environment Falmouth plays an international role in examining the relationship between the visual arts and ecological thinking, and has close links with leading organisations such as Cape Farewell, the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University, the Eden Project and the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Collaborations between artists and scientists in our RANE research group explore how we can creatively respond to our rapidly changing 21st century environment. RANE researchers have specialist skills in art and photography, sculpture, installation and public art, as well as garden design, user-led landscape planning and environmental aesthetics. 3D digital production and digital economies The Autonomatic research team focuses on digital technologies in relation to autonomous craft practices, with particular emphasis on collaboration, accessibility, scales of production and how manufacturing is changing through digital technologies. Their research explores ways of integrating computeraided design and manufacture with traditional making skills, challenging perceptions of the boundaries between craft and industrial production. Researchers are also developing new ways of designing and making that exploit the creative potential and connectivity of digital technologies, and new business approaches to flexible small-scale production that can connect with a global economy through the web. Superfast Cornwall labs This group is engaged in the key research challenges associated with the roll-out of superfast broadband across Cornwall. Members include Cornwall Development Company, BT, University College Falmouth and selected academic institutions and business representatives. As the first county in the UK to benefit from 40Mbs-100Mbs broadband, there’s a significant opportunity to develop expertise and capacity to make the most of pervasive ‘superfast’ connections and to open up new prospects for digital commerce and cultural engagement. The pervasiveness of the proposed broadband connections promises a greater breadth of inclusion amongst the social and commercial communities distributed across Cornwall’s rural and coastal landscape. Socially, this new infrastructure could connect communities in ways previously not possible – bringing towns, villages and cities together through interactive and connected public spaces. The research team is exploring the match between the needs and challenges across Cornwall and the new capabilities the digital infrastructure presents.
COllAbORAtIve PhD PROJeCtS — Falmouth has recently been awarded research funding from the European Social Fund for ten research students to work with a Cornish business on themes related to economic regeneration. These include... 1. Cornwall, Romanticism and the Maritime empire In association with the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, this research explores Cornwall’s role in national and international contexts during the period of the Napoleonic Wars and early 19th century – in particular how that role can be brought to a wider public attention via digital heritage initiatives. The project examines how Cornwall, and Falmouth in particular, served as a communications hub in the expanding British Empire that contributed to the work of significant figures in Romantic literature and art such as Lord Byron, Robert Southey and JMW Turner. 2. environmentally and ecologically durable surface design for the coastal built environment A collaboration between UCF, the University of Exeter and the University of Plymouth, this PhD aims to better understand the ecology of artificial urban coastal habitats, in order to promote biodiversity and sustainable approaches to coastal protection. Taking a design approach, it aims to marry findings from scientific studies of how biologically diverse colonisation of animal and plants in coastal regions can be encouraged. The effects of saltwater and sand weathering are also being investigated using both a scientific and design-focused approach. 3. Storytelling as a paradigm for promoting pro-environmental behaviour: the effects of perceived social norms on business attitudes towards sustainability Working with Low Carbon Futures, this research investigates the effects of storytelling on businesses’ sustainable behaviour. Individuals’ sustainable behaviour has been shown to be affected by their perceptions of what others are doing (social norms) – and anecdotal evidence suggests the same principles may apply to businesses. Exploring whether businesses are resistant to change because they think they’re doing more than they are, this research assesses how these perceptions can be challenged. 39 reseArch Postgraduate Study Guide 2012 www.falmouth.ac.uk
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