The Table is the Floor

A passage of text based on my reflective research writing that was produced in initially for a CCW symposium on the Substrate (12 February 2014). Here it was revised for publication in the journal Bright Light

WP - liu hua

An installation commenting on the tragic death of a Chinese student studying at Wimbledon College of Arts and the historical relationship between China and Europe, referencing Orientalism, Chinoiserie and the Willow Pattern design

Korea Town

Korea Town focused on the nearby community of North and South Koreans living in New Malden, just two train stops down the line from Wimbledon. 29,000 people live in New Malden and more than 10,000 of these are Korean. This may be because the original South Korean embassy was here, along with Samsung’s first European headquarters, but nobody really knows. Immersion in this unique neighbourhood involved meetings with streets, people, shops, cafes, hairdressers and Karaoke bars. Noraebang (karaoke) is a national obsession in Korea, and is a more private experience than in the West, taking place in small rooms hired out by the hour, singing to friends rather than the public. At New Malden’s epicentre, on either side of the station, lie the HAN and Sing Sing karaoke bars, important sites of research for this project. This exhibition, and the related events, was a journey between cultures and geographies, including the walking route of three miles between Wimbledon Space Gallery and New Malden High Street, crossing the A3 and Beverley Brook, one of London’s forgotten rivers. There was also a link to the traditional Korean Sijo poetic form, which is older than the Japanese haiku, and usually three lines long: You ask how many friends I have? Water and stone, bamboo and pine. The moon rising over the eastern hill is a joyful comrade. Besides these five companions, what other pleasure should I ask? And a nod to K-pop, the Korean Wave and corn tea (oksusu cha)

The Artist Hotel

A collaboration and group process exploring the concept of The Artist Hotel for Knowle West, a deeply urban and deprived location on the edge of Bristol's rural landscape. Originated by the Knowle West Media Centre, my outcomes were text, video, intervention and performance based, subsequently feeding into the ideas of The Naming and the peformance It's Time for Da

PLIO-PLEISTOCENE LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION ON THE HIGH PLAINS OF SOUTHWESTERN KANSAS

This dissertation investigates patterns and forcing mechanisms of Plio-Pleistocene landscape evolution in the Cimarron River valley, southwestern Kansas. Particular attention was given to the geomorphic history of the Cimarron River and the response to environmental forcing. During the Pliocene, the ancestral Cimarron River deposited the alluvial sediments of the Ogallala Formation. The Pliocene age is inferred from stable isotope values that indicate 50% C4 biomass - a Pliocene phenomenon in the Great Plains. In order to provide better age constraints, a new technique to date volcanogenic zircons preserved in paleosols was utilized. A concordia age of 64.2±3.9 Ma was obtained but appears to represent detrital populations. Evidence of late-Pleistocene alluviation occurs in the form of distinct valley fills beneath two terrace surfaces (T-1 and T-2). During Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 5-4, the Cimarron River rapidly aggraded. Paleoenvironmental data from alluvial fills suggest a cool and likely wet environment between ~77-58 ka. Paleoenvironmental data from eolian sediments, however, indicate multiple climatic shifts between ~84-54 ka that resulted in episodic eolian deposition and soil formation on the High Plains surface. During MIS 3, the paleoenvironmental record from both alluvial (~52-28 ka) and eolian (~52-29 ka) deposits indicates a shift to warmer, drier conditions. This shift resulted in slower rates of alluviation and cumulic soil formation in the T-2 fill. Rates of eolian deposition on the uplands also slowed at this time, resulting in the formation of a soil that represents the Gilman Canyon Formation pedocomplex. Chronostratigraphic data indicate that the Cimarron River incised over 25 m before ~28 ka likely due to local base level lowering from the dissolution of Permian evaporite beds during the late Pleistocene. The bulk of the T-1 fill aggraded between ~28-13 ka in response to cooler, wetter climatic conditions. Around 13 ka, sedimentation rates declined due to warmer and probably drier conditions, forming a cumulic soil in the T-1 fill. Overall, this dissertation fills an important gap in our understanding of landscape evolution on the High Plains by shedding light on chronostratigraphic relationships and paleoclimatic change during the period of record

The Changing Financial and Policy Role of State Governments Regarding Higher Education and Prospects for the Future

Higher education in the United States grew rapidly in the post-World War II era, more than doubling the total number of degree-granting institutions (1,851 to 4,084) and increasing the total number of students enrolled more than five-fold (2.7 million to 14.8 million) between 1950 and 2000

Shore platform morphology and tidal duration distributions.

Dept. of Geography. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1979 .L399. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1978

Software Design Criteria for Maintainability

One of the current issues in the software engineering community is related to problems of software maintenance. It is a common belief that these problems are caused by bad software design and poor maintenance practices. The first of these is the concern of this paper. We argue that the existing software design methodologies are not properly developed based on criteria for easy software maintenance at later stages. Therefore, with a set of software design criteria for maintainability, software is believed to be more maintainable. In this paper we shall identify those criteria followed by assessment of several software design methodologies

New knowledge for advancing practice in pain management

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