PUBLICATIONS – books
PUBLICATIONS – websites
PRESS
EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
PRESENTATIONS
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Couture Interiors
Marni Fogg,
Laurence King Publishing
Pages 51-53 (2007)
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"Girli Concrete is borne out of a larger drive to transform traditionally ‘hard’ building products, into innovative ‘soft’ products"
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Irish people, Irish Linen
Kathleen Curtis Wilson (USA)
Forthcoming
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Textile Futures
Bradley Quinn (USA) Berg Publishers
(due late 09)
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Gendersite online resource
www.gendersite.org
A case study by Clare Melhuish
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"If and when their proposed Tactility Factory comes into being, they will be firmly positioned at the cutting edge of female-led research and development fusing the materials and aesthetics of the built environment with traditional low-cost, low-tech materials and processes."
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MADE magazine
magazine for those involved in the UK design or materials communities
Issue
Article to be published in forthcoming issue
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Textile & Living
(Belgium Magazine) in Material Lab and Innovation, Textile 2.0
published by Rouge Design
p 100 (Feb 2008)
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"...a research and development project on the integration of textile materials in concrete which aims to create new materials for the interior both technical and soft." |
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Textiles
The Quarterly magazine of The Textile Institute
Feb 2009 No 1
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"although it is utopian & theoretically situated. Girli Concrete is neither an art nor an applied art project" |
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Living Design
Architect designed homes in Northern Ireland
RSUA and Ulster Journals
Spring 08. Vol 1. No 3
pages 56-58)
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"Living design magazine meets two local innovative designers Patricia Belford and Ruth Morrow who have taken their design concept to a whole new level, introducing Girli Concrete" |
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Irish Times
Investment Belfast
24.2.06
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"Prosperity through innovation” |
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BBC news
by Rosy Billingham (Feb 09)
http://news.bbc.co.uk
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"a vision made concrete" |
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Arts Extra
Radio Ulster
Live Interview from The Switch Room gallery
October 2006
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Space Craft: ‘Belfast’ An Exhibition of Applied Art, Craft and Design.
Final at Culloden Hotel
Cultra, NI
19.11. 2008
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"added value is created by innovative use of stitch (Daisy)" |
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Fabrication
PLACE, Architecture Centre, Belfast
Mar 2009
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"Brilliant, its just like turning a building inside out- visitors comment" |
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Urban Buzz
Building Centre London
Nov 2008
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"with 2000 weekly visitors the building centre is widely recognized as the cross over venue for architecture, construction and the general public" |
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IFAI Design Exhibition 2008
Charlotte, N.C. USA
Oct 2008
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"A special exhibition during IFAI Expo 2008 featuring far out innovations with advanced textiles for health & safety.
Girli Concrete showing it’s first developments investigating the acoustic profile of textiles embedded into concrete" |
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Flockage: the flock phenomenon
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery
Bournmouth
Jan – June 2008
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"‘an insight into the tactile soft to touch concrete produced by flocking onto concrete" |
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Museum of Science and Industry
Manchester
April 2007 ongoing
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"Contemporary Textile Hero’ Girli Concrete panels on permanent display taking reference from the Lancashire Textile Industry." |
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The Switch Room
Great Patrick Street
Belfast
4th-12th Dec 2005
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"First public exposure of Girli Concrete" |
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The Big Idea
Final at Culloden Hotel
Cultra, NI
19.11. 2008
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"create, stimulate, innovate" |
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Fespa
Digital Print awards
Europe 2008
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"Fortuny inspired digitally printed panel (Commended)" |
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Innovation Award
Acoustic Concrete
University of Ulster
Dec 2007
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"pre proof of concept award for development of acoustic properties" |
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AHRC
‘woven concrete’
March 2007
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"a good value-for-money innovative project from two innovative academics in their own field" |
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Textile Institute
International conference
Hong Kong (Nov 2008)
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Presentation: Innovative textile applications |
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The Oxford Conference
Re-setting the agenda for Architectural Education
Oxford (July 2008)
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Presentation: Developing hybrid materials between academia and industry |
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Tectonics
Making Meaning, Eindhoven.
(Dec 2007)
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Presentation: Soft Construction |
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Ars Textrina International Textile Conference
Belfast (Sept 2007)
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Presentation: Textile Technologies in Concrete Environments |
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New Craft Future Voices
Dundee (July 2007)
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Presentation: The Development of Girli Concrete |
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