Modernist Craft and Crafting Coffee
Collaborator: Bauhaus Foundation Dessau Work Conducted: February – June 2016 How can craft history be presented in an exhibition? How can one think about the ways in which craft and design intersect? (Click image to view video of the condensation
Modernist Craft and Crafting Coffee
Collaborator: Bauhaus Foundation Dessau Work Conducted: February – June 2016 How can craft history be presented in an exhibition? How can one think about the ways in which craft and design intersect? (Click image to view video of the condensation
The Future of Workplace Eating
Client: NESTA Foundation, London Work Conducted: Summer 2016 Each year, Nesta develops a set of future predictions about what kinds of design and innovation society and culture is likely to be facing. The futures team were particularly interested in exploring
The Future of Workplace Eating
Client: NESTA Foundation, London Work Conducted: Summer 2016 Each year, Nesta develops a set of future predictions about what kinds of design and innovation society and culture is likely to be facing. The futures team were particularly interested in exploring
Broken Stories
Client: Fixperts What is the Value of Fixing? What are the social motivations and relationships which happen around fixing? Our group set out to help Fixperts conceptualise where, how and for whom fixing works best, and explore new kinds of social
Broken Stories
Client: Fixperts What is the Value of Fixing? What are the social motivations and relationships which happen around fixing? Our group set out to help Fixperts conceptualise where, how and for whom fixing works best, and explore new kinds of social
Design Anthropological Futures
Announcement: Book Release http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/design-anthropological-futures-9781474280600/ The book Design Anthropological Futures will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2016. It comprises a major overview of the various ways in which design anthropology tackles the tricky issue of futures. Chapter 13 outlines
Design Anthropological Futures
Announcement: Book Release http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/design-anthropological-futures-9781474280600/ The book Design Anthropological Futures will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2016. It comprises a major overview of the various ways in which design anthropology tackles the tricky issue of futures. Chapter 13 outlines
Home Futures
Home Futures: Domestic Textiles and Decision Making Client: PDD Human-Centred Design ‘The chief benefit of the house [is that] the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace’ (Bachelard 1958 The Poetics
Home Futures
Home Futures: Domestic Textiles and Decision Making Client: PDD Human-Centred Design ‘The chief benefit of the house [is that] the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace’ (Bachelard 1958 The Poetics
Understanding the Change: Menopause and Materials Design
The world of materials is often considered predictable, repetitive and reliable. Yet because of the materials revolution, it is becoming more unpredictable. This project began with concerns about the long-standing separation in materials research of three different sets of approaches:
Understanding the Change: Menopause and Materials Design
The world of materials is often considered predictable, repetitive and reliable. Yet because of the materials revolution, it is becoming more unpredictable. This project began with concerns about the long-standing separation in materials research of three different sets of approaches:
Cleaning Up After Gropius 2015
An Installation of Ethnographic Art at the ‘Haushaltsmesse 2015’ Design Exhibition On Friday 12 June 2015, we launched a UCL installation on the Anthropology of Cleaning, as a part of the ‘Haushaltsmesse 2015: Zur Kunst des Haushaltens im 21
Cleaning Up After Gropius 2015
An Installation of Ethnographic Art at the ‘Haushaltsmesse 2015’ Design Exhibition On Friday 12 June 2015, we launched a UCL installation on the Anthropology of Cleaning, as a part of the ‘Haushaltsmesse 2015: Zur Kunst des Haushaltens im 21
Long Distance Love
Client: IDEO London As more and more relationships involve living in different places, how can long-distance relationships be supported with new technologies? What comprises a relationship, and how do physical and tangible things help to make it what it is?
Long Distance Love
Client: IDEO London As more and more relationships involve living in different places, how can long-distance relationships be supported with new technologies? What comprises a relationship, and how do physical and tangible things help to make it what it is?
Cleaning Up After Gropius 2014
Work Conducted With: The Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau How can the sensory environment of heritage sites bring us closer to a historical evocation of the past? Is the fixity of heritage, especially the preservation of architectural heritage, a problem, and can
Cleaning Up After Gropius 2014
Work Conducted With: The Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau How can the sensory environment of heritage sites bring us closer to a historical evocation of the past? Is the fixity of heritage, especially the preservation of architectural heritage, a problem, and can
Fixing in the Community
Client: The Restart Project What do Making and Repair activities actually achieve, in social and community terms? Can fixing material things have a social impact, or achieve other kinds of transformation? Fixing Video The Restart Project is a social enterprise
Fixing in the Community
Client: The Restart Project What do Making and Repair activities actually achieve, in social and community terms? Can fixing material things have a social impact, or achieve other kinds of transformation? Fixing Video The Restart Project is a social enterprise
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