Art and research: changing the world – gallery

In 2007, Lucy Orta, professor of art, fashion and the environment at London College of Fashion, travelled to Antarctica as part of an artistic project, which saw her and Jorge Orta living under the severest conditions. With the aid of scientists, they led the creation of an in-situ installation of 50 domed, hand-stitched dwellings on the ice – a symbol of the plight of those struggling to traverse borders to escape political and social conflict.
Lucy and Jorge Orta, Antarctic Village - No Borders, 2007. Photograph: Thierry Bal

The image is part of a larger series of work 'Red Ice - White Ice' that was commissioned and produced for the Cape Farewell expedition’s international touring exhibition Unfold. Professor Chris Wainwright, head of Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon Colleges, is a trustee of the project and co-curator of the exhibition, which has been shown in London, Vienna, Chicago, New York and is going to Beijing and Nanjing in China in May until July this year. The exhibition features the work of 23 internationally established artists who are addressing the pressing issues of climate change and have been involved with Cape Farewell expeditions to the High Arctic region and Peru.
'Red Ice #3', C Type print on aluminium. Chris Wainwright, 2009

Reader and lecturer at Wimbledon College of Art, Michael Pavelka, also co-founded the innovative, mobile theatre group Propeller, which is currently bringing Shakespeare to a younger audience through its Pocket Propeller series. He was voted one of TMA’s Best Set Designers in 2009 for Propeller’s Merchant of Venice.
Photograph: Michael Pavelka’s costume design for the ensemble of Propeller Theatre’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (2004) and ‘Pocket Dream’ (2010)

London College of Fashion’s centre for sustainable fashion provokes, challenges and questions the status quo. Its many initiatives include Shared Talent India, an online toolkit to help UK-based fashion businesses develop productive relationships with Indian suppliers and source sustainable textiles
Styling by Katie Felstead. Photograph: Kerry Dean

Founded in 1999 at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, the Design Against Crime Research Centre aims to tackle common crimes which occur in urban areas across the UK and the world through creative design of places, products, communications and services.
Photograph: Design Against Crime Research Centre

Catalytic Clothing is a ground-breaking project which seeks to purify the air we breathe by harnessing the surface of our clothes. It was conceived by London College of Fashion Professor Helen Storey MBE and University of Sheffield Professor Tony Ryan OBE. It was joint winner of the Condé Nast Traveller Innovation and Design Award 2012. Photograph: <a href="http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/view/creators/Storey=3AHelen=3A=3A.html" rel="nofollow">© Helen Storey </a> and <a href="http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/view/creators/Ryan=3ATony=3A=3A.html" rel="nofollow"> Tony Ryan </a>

Professor of Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, Rob Kesseler’s ground-breaking work explores the interrelationship between arts and science. He has published a number of books including Seeds: Time Capsules of Life (Papadakis, 2006) with Wolfgang Stuppy. Original micrographs are digitally remastered to reveal the mesmeric structures that lie somewhere between science and symbolism, and he has collaborated closely with botanical scientists at London’s Kew Gardens. Trichodesma africanum Photograph: Rob Kesseler, Wolfgang Stuppy, Papadakis Publisher
From Seeds, time capsules of life, Rob Kesseler & Wolfgang Stuppy. Published by Papadakis, London Papadakis, London

Sandy Black, professor of fashion and textile design and technology at London College of Fashion, is author of the Sustainable Fashion Handbook (Thames & Hudson, 2012). She has also played a key role in the designing for the 21st century research initiative, which brought together academics, fashion and textile designers, computer and material scientists, artists, musicians and researchers
The Sustainable Fashion Handbook. Photograph: Sandy Black and Publisher (Thames and Hudson, 2012)

Dr Amanda Windle, DigiLab fellow at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London and Dr Lucas Joppa, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Photograph: screenshot

The first major photography exhibition to be held at Tate Britain in 2007, How We Are: Photographing Britain was co-curated by Val Williams, professor of the history and culture of photography at London College of Communication and director of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC). She is a renowned curator and author whose books on many subjects include photographers Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr and Anna Fox.
Roger Mayne Girl living in Southam Street 1957, V&A Images/Victoria and Albert Museum. Photograph: Roger Mayne

Tate Encounters was a three-year collaboration between Tate Britain, the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School and London South Bank University, which explored Britishness and visual culture and was shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Research Project of the Year in 2008.
Maria Cinta Esmel Pamies: Identity Remix at Late at Tate March 2009. Photograph: Pablo Goikoetxea

‘Murder - Two Men Wanted’, is the only photograph in the collection of the National Gallery, London. It is based on Piero di Cosimo’s painting ‘A Satyr mourning over a Nymph’ (1495) which is also in the National Gallery’s collection. The first solo photographic exhibition shown at London’s National Gallery in 2005/6, Life in Hell and Other Stories was a series of 21 images inspired by Thomas Hardy and the way he interwove newspaper articles from his local paper into his novels. In his series of tableaux photographs, Tom Hunter, professor of photography at London College of Communication has interwoven the headlines from his local paper the Hackney Gazette with classical paintings. This produces images that create a lasting social commentary, blurring the boundary between the notions of documentary and staged fiction. Other works include Life and Death in Hackney and Swansongs.
Murder - Two Men Wanted © Tom Hunter

Chelsea College of Art and Design reader Dr Becky Earley is a lead researcher in TED (Textiles Environment Design), which since 1996 has been developing a set of sustainable design strategies, including the TED’s TEN “ toolbox”, currently in collaboration with the Mistra Future Fashion project in Sweden. She is also acting director of the Textiles Futures Research Centre at Chelsea College of Art and Central Saint Martins.
Kay Politowicz & Sandy MacLennan: Short Life. Photograph: by Aaron Tilley

Hosted at UAL’s CCW Graduate School and London College of Communication, the Artists’ Moving Image Research Network examines the proliferation of screen art and lays the groundwork for the first ever peer-reviewed publication on the subject, Moving Image Review & Art Journal ( MIRAJ).
Production still from Jesse Jones' 12 Angry Films, 2005. Photograph: Hugh McElveen

LIGATUS is leading research within libraries and archives with particular interests in historical bookbinding. Director of the Ligatus Research Centre, Professor Nicholas Pickwoad of Camberwell College of Arts is leading this project to assess the condition of the manuscripts at the Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, Egypt. The oldest active Christian monastery in the world, its library holds a unique collection of Byzantine manuscripts. By employing current semantic technologies, LIGATUS is developing new resources for research that include a European bookbinding thesaurus and various bookbinding databases. LIGATUS works in collaboration with major partners in the field and supports PhD research.
Nicholas Pickwoad and Maria Kalligerou have just detached a piece of parchment from the wall in Cell 31A, Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, Egypt. © LIGATUS

A joint project between the University of Essex and University of the Arts London, Meeting Margins – Transnational Art in Europe and Latin America 1950-1978 questioned the role traditionally ascribed to New York as the dominant force in modern art in the post-war years. Dr Michael Asbury, reader in Latin American Art History at TrAIN (Research for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation), led the project for UAL. Photograph: Re-Contested Sites/Sights. Simon Leung. Squatting Project/Berlin 1994, poster installation