Multicomponent Title: True Colours: explorations in art, design and research
Multicomponent with contextual information – Other / Conference
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- MI_True
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multicomponent with contextual information – Keynotes / Other
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- November
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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https://portfolios.napier.ac.uk/view/view.php?t=b5XhB2PlCDtQa6TUepiM
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This multi component output, which includes a number of keynote presentations, written texts and project work, focuses on the author’s contesting of accepted concepts and scientific precedents within the discipline of colour in lighting design. These tenets are often practiced unquestioningly in environments where much is at stake if elements are flawed including the lighting of museums and historic architectural sites. The author has developed a particular methodology of artist’s tacit visual understanding alongside a unique use of scientific data and use of a broad range of historic and contemporary literature for inspiration. The research presented in this output focuses around the author’s application of this methodology to a wide range of audiences and disseminates how it has been sought out by experts in different fields where coloured light is impactful. This output shows that the author brings together a variety of approaches, inspired by a comprehensive range of sources and applies it to a discipline that is, it could be suggested, both emerging and entrenched in traditions that are sometimes based on inaccurate, dated science, The author has a unique perspective on this, evidenced in the dissemination of his research included in this output and the impact that it has had on the stakeholders he has worked with. The author’s methodology includes action research - an inductive process where he embedded art and design practice to identify the gaps between existing theories of colour perception and the practical experience of working with colour. It is a body of work extolling the virtue of empirical practice and inductive reasoning. It is about recognising the importance of qualitative research and understanding the limitations of quantitative research. The author then utilises a spectrometer and spectral analysis software to allow for the generation of quantitative data to compare alongside the empirical personal experiences.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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