Julia Keyte
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Julia Keyte is a product designer and researcher, and Course Leader for Furniture and Product Design at Bath Spa University. Innovation through hands-on exploration of material is central to her practice and teaching.
She is currently a PhD researcher at Sheffield Hallam University.
Supervisors: Paul Atkinson and Nick Dulake
Address: Sheffield, United Kingdom
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-keyte-0998b236/?originalSubdomain=uk
Julia Keyte is a product designer and researcher, and Course Leader for Furniture and Product Design at Bath Spa University. Innovation through hands-on exploration of material is central to her practice and teaching.
She is currently a PhD researcher at Sheffield Hallam University.
Supervisors: Paul Atkinson and Nick Dulake
Address: Sheffield, United Kingdom
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engaging an audience in active reflection on their practices of keeping home possessions. Julia Keyte describes how the method incorporates elements of craft production, display, exchange, curation and audience contribution, and discusses how it develops an existing form of contemporary jewellery practice; the making of wearable memories. The method employs jewellery to reallocate the memories and feelings associated with unwanted possessions—and in this way makes a contribution to new knowledge.
Recent work in HCI and design establishes the case for designing longer lifespans into computing devices, to address the problem of increasing waste produced by the fast consumption cycles associated with electronic products. These researchers advocate finding new ways of relating to, and caring for, our devices. The research documented in this paper attempts to understand the emotional and material factors that affect the longevity of people’s personal relationships with computing devices. Computer obsolescence and replacement is often reported and marketed as a necessary by product of technological progress, but the reality of deciding whether a personal computing device should be kept or disposed of is personal and idiosyncratic, and messier than it may at first seem. Understanding the factors that influence whether a device is kept can tell us about the lifespan and obsolescence of computing devices.
Before starting its life in the museum, the jug, bowl and chamber pot set belonged to Mary, the secretary of the museum board. It was gifted to her by a friend four or five years ago, and she kept it in her bathroom filled with potpourri, dried flowers and soaps. When she had her bathroom replaced, there was no longer enough space to display the set. She moved it into storage in the shed, where she kept it on view to remind her that it needed a new home. Then she thought of putting it on display in the new museum toilet, on an old wooden cabinet she had in her conservatory. Her decision to move it out of her home and into the museum toilet was a creative and caring one, which triggered the washstand set’s transformation from a personal possession, into a public historical artefact.
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The seminar develops existing research undertaken by the author. It expands ideas and methods generated through the Campaign for Objects in Purgatory, an ongoing artistic research project exploring emotional attachment to possessions. The Campaign sets out to discover how attachment to a possession develops and changes as it is integrated into the home, and to explore the implications of this for research on emotionally sustainable design.
Participants are invited to share with a partner the story of a gift they have received, and kept. They are asked to sketch their object, and the drawing becomes the basis for reflection and discussion. Their partner is then invited to make or modify a frame for the drawing in order to further elicit and communicate the story connected with the object. This guided creative process will be interwoven with discussion on exchange, value, possession, and design. Participants can keep their personalized frame, and the project will be documented in a booklet documenting the method and the objects created. Previous making experience is not necessary.
Julia Keyte is senior lecturer in Jewellery and Metalwork at Sheffield Hallam University. In her teaching and practice, she sees skilled making is a means of thinking; for interrogating and understanding existing objects, and for generating new ones.
engaging an audience in active reflection on their practices of keeping home possessions. Julia Keyte describes how the method incorporates elements of craft production, display, exchange, curation and audience contribution, and discusses how it develops an existing form of contemporary jewellery practice; the making of wearable memories. The method employs jewellery to reallocate the memories and feelings associated with unwanted possessions—and in this way makes a contribution to new knowledge.
Recent work in HCI and design establishes the case for designing longer lifespans into computing devices, to address the problem of increasing waste produced by the fast consumption cycles associated with electronic products. These researchers advocate finding new ways of relating to, and caring for, our devices. The research documented in this paper attempts to understand the emotional and material factors that affect the longevity of people’s personal relationships with computing devices. Computer obsolescence and replacement is often reported and marketed as a necessary by product of technological progress, but the reality of deciding whether a personal computing device should be kept or disposed of is personal and idiosyncratic, and messier than it may at first seem. Understanding the factors that influence whether a device is kept can tell us about the lifespan and obsolescence of computing devices.
Before starting its life in the museum, the jug, bowl and chamber pot set belonged to Mary, the secretary of the museum board. It was gifted to her by a friend four or five years ago, and she kept it in her bathroom filled with potpourri, dried flowers and soaps. When she had her bathroom replaced, there was no longer enough space to display the set. She moved it into storage in the shed, where she kept it on view to remind her that it needed a new home. Then she thought of putting it on display in the new museum toilet, on an old wooden cabinet she had in her conservatory. Her decision to move it out of her home and into the museum toilet was a creative and caring one, which triggered the washstand set’s transformation from a personal possession, into a public historical artefact.
Please click on URL to download full paper.
The seminar develops existing research undertaken by the author. It expands ideas and methods generated through the Campaign for Objects in Purgatory, an ongoing artistic research project exploring emotional attachment to possessions. The Campaign sets out to discover how attachment to a possession develops and changes as it is integrated into the home, and to explore the implications of this for research on emotionally sustainable design.
Participants are invited to share with a partner the story of a gift they have received, and kept. They are asked to sketch their object, and the drawing becomes the basis for reflection and discussion. Their partner is then invited to make or modify a frame for the drawing in order to further elicit and communicate the story connected with the object. This guided creative process will be interwoven with discussion on exchange, value, possession, and design. Participants can keep their personalized frame, and the project will be documented in a booklet documenting the method and the objects created. Previous making experience is not necessary.
Julia Keyte is senior lecturer in Jewellery and Metalwork at Sheffield Hallam University. In her teaching and practice, she sees skilled making is a means of thinking; for interrogating and understanding existing objects, and for generating new ones.