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Spatial Design and Artefact Research Unit
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The Spatial Design and Artefact Research Unit is a newly formed research team, the members of which selectively have an important and extensive research experience in the research below:
- Politics and Poetics of Space: Exploring Cultural Heritage in a contemporary urban context and the cultural, sociopolitical and economic implications and consequences of such experiments.
- Memory, Identity, Space, Place and Artefact: Communicating the space and the object and experimenting with scenographic and museographic approaches in redefining a sense of place.
- Interactive Design: Interpretation of the urban space in a contemporary perspective through immersive and reactive experiences. Exploring the interaction of artistic interventions in public spaces and their impact on social and political constructions. The operation of space and its artefacts as a means of encounter and communication.
| Position | Name | Department | Research Domain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead researcher | Dr Anna Merry Economou | Arts & Communication | Interactive Design |
| Unit Member | Mr Constantinos Kounnis | Arts & Communication | Memory, Identity, Space, Place and Artefact |
| Unit Member | Ms Pavlina Platonos | Arts & Communication | Co-Design, Space, Place |
| Unit Member | Ms Kally Sozou | Arts & Communication | Visual Communication |
| Start Year | Project Title | Lead Partner/ Assignee | Funding from | Project Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Futures Designed - Exploring Green Futures: Integrating the New European Bauhaus into Art and Design Education | Frederick University | Erasmus+ / European Union | https://futures-designed.frederick.ac.cy/index.php/en/ |
| 2023 | GREAT: Games Realising Effective & Affective Transformation | DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education | Horizon / European Union UKRI |
https://www.greatproject.gg/ |
| 2021 | Re-Placed - Re-mapping Public Space: Investigating Social and Spatial Interactions in Cyprus Post Covid-19 | Frederick University | Frederick University | http://re-placed.frederick.ac.cy//index.php/en/ |
We are a specialized Design Lab focusing on co-creative and participatory approaches. We are keen to be involved in projects focusing on creative interventions and social innovation through European projects, as well as collaborations with local industry and our students.
The newly established lab is approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, where design and artistic installation merge with social science to provide objects and spaces of innovation where all members of society can be actively involved.
