Creative Reactions

An interactive image, utilizing visual illusions, to depict the shifts in individuals' boundaries and autonomy when interacting with others across diverse environments.

This project focuses on finding a substitutive solution in terms of material to reduce the plastic waste pollution contributed by the toy industry by focuses in two directions providing a durable and aesthetic toy to our growing generation, but in a people and environmentally conscious manner.

This piece will depict the breadth of marine biology and conservation work from polar to tropical climates and from shallow waters to the deep sea. The artist will use a unique painting style of blurring the border between image and painting which represents the publics detachment from the environment and the research being done to protect it.

Although we live in a 3D world, our ability to judge and compare volumes is rather unreliable. This work explores our visual perception of volume using a collection of objects, all of which have a volume of one pint. The objects include geometric shapes, casts of the insides of drinking vessels, and casts of body parts.

This piece focuses on anti-infective drug discovery, principally the development of the novel class of anti-infective agents Strathclyde Minor Groove Binders (S-MGBs). S-MGBs have been shown to be significantly active across a range of pathogens across different taxonomic groups, including bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses.

Raising awareness of Malaria caused by mosquitoes. The syringe represents the mosquitoes and their behaviour, the rounded arms represents the places on our body that they like to suck from, which is arms, other elements were inspired from Matt’s research.

How will we respond to the threat to humans from microplastics affecting the increase of harmful bacteria in birds? How will this affect our relationship with birds? Nowadays, seabirds are in danger of dying because of the plastic we humans are releasing, which is threatening their lives everywhere. In the middle of the twenty-second century, the problem of microplastics accumulated and triggered a serious crisis. The seabirds that survive adapt to the increase of microplastics in their bodies while producing large amounts of bacteria that are threatening to humans, and humans will not be able to stop in areas where seabirds are. This will backfire on humans in a much more dangerous way than just about the accumulation of plastic in the body through the food chain.

Staphylococcus aureus bacterium is a common member of the microbial communities that live on our skin and in our noses, and yet it is an important and potentially deadly pathogen. This piece shows how it changes from being a harmless passenger to causing life threatening diseases like sepsis. There is also great interest in how the other members of our microbial communities (microbiomes) influence these interactions and if they help or hinder our bodies in the fight against S. aureus infection.

This piece looks at person perception, focusing on the dynamic social world and how it shapes our interactions with and understanding of others. This piece encompasses research on stigma and stereotypes, but also the attributions we make to faces, voices and movements.