Jana Scholze

Jan 10, 2019 | Supervisors

Jana is a curator specialising in contemporary design and is Associate Professor and Course Director of the MA Curating Contemporary Design programme at Kingston School of Art.   She spent over a decade at the V&A where she co-curated the exhibition...

Design Residency at Aalto University’s School of Chemical Engineering

Nov 15, 2018 | Activities

Miriam Ribul received a funding award from the AHRC’s Student Development Fund (SDF) towards a design residency at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at Aalto University in Finland between December 2017 and January 2018. The aims of the residency at Aalto...

Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2018, Hong Kong

Nov 14, 2018 | Activities

Written by LDoc student Olivia Vane, who was awarded LDoc Student Development Funds to enable her to attend the DIS Conference in Hong Kong in 2018   I attended Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2018 earlier this year at the Hong Kong Polytechnic...

Fish Skin, sustainability and craftsmanship in the luxury industry

Nov 14, 2018 | Research

The use of fishskin to create articles of clothing is a tradition shared by the Amur delta people with other Siberian and circumpolar peoples (Fitzhugh, 1988). Before synthetic fibres were invented, people clothed themselves with natural materials available in their...

Community architects

Nov 12, 2018 | Research

Raül’s thesis researches on the new roles that architects are assuming in the city of Barcelona in a context of economic crisis, where the so celebrated Barcelona Model that emerged for the 1992 Olympic Games has proved to be obsolete and unable to give a...