Alternative Research Posters Exhibition

The following images represent the posters selected for the one-day pop-up Alternative Research Posters Exhibition at LifeSpace Gallery, held alongside the Distinctive Investigations of Place hybrid symposium hosted on the University of Dundee campus.

This exhibition features research posters that demonstrate unusual and innovative approaches to engaging in place-based research. Submissions could also consider unique and distinctive methods for communicating research.

Morgan Black, PhD Researcher, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

Susie Campbell, PhD Researcher, Oxford Brookes University.

My poster submission is a collaboration between myself and Hen Campbell (an independent filmmaker who is also my niece). The poster showcases the use of film and site-based performance as investigative methods and a way of sharing findings. My film ‘Wound’ (also a collaboration with Hen Campbell), featured in the poster, uses site-based performance to investigate the mutual wounding of the human and the planetary body by environmental pollution and degradation, and how this is underpinned by cultural (and colonial) processes for allocating ‘value’ within activities of place-making. Here, I am exploring the making of a ‘wasteland’, a landfill site strangely situated adjacent to a popular and valued heritage site.

Happison Chikova, PhD Researcher, UNESCO Centre for Water, Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee.

Hamer Dodds, PhD Researcher, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

Dan Drage, PhD Researcher, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

'Radical Archaeologies', Catherine Hehir, PhD Researcher, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

This poster depicts a series of casting from the bog floor stacked in the traditional manner when footing and turning turf.

Annie Gallagher, PhD Researcher, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh.

'Billions', Susie Johnston, PhD Researcher, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.

'Billions' depicts the underside of a new work which will be a dinner set.

Clay from the North Sea bed extracted from steel casings of a decommissioned oil field, mixed with white earthenware. The clay, whilst raw and unprocessed, is not neutral. It is connected to a long history and legacy of trade routes, slavery and industrial practices which contribute to the earth's climate emergency and continuous racial and social discrimination.