Materials form us and constitute the world around us, they carry in them an inherent symbolic and emotional expression. This semantic expression of a material is largely influenced by the social, geographical and the cultural context of the user. To find this out is...
This was an exciting week as it marks the beginning of a Smithsonian Fellowship at Cooper Hewitt, the flagship US museum for historical and contemporary design. Cooper Hewitt has digitised its entire collection, more than 200,000 design objects, and I will be spending...
LDoc student Rhian Solomon is launching her design consultancy OurOwnsKIN at the Material Anatomies in Design talk at the London Design Festival. The studio's design connects with medical, material and apparel communities on collaborative design projects, and...
"Funding awarded by LDoc's student development fund facilitated attendance of the DCDC conference 2016. A high profile international conference; a unique experience to gain perspective and knowledge from archivists, librarians and institutes on a range of global and...
"Presenting my early stage research at the Emergent Culture conference provided a good opportunity to test its relevance in a context outside of design. The cross-disciplinary nature of my research - a combination of experimental design perspectives from Information...
"In these early stages of my research endeavour, I believe that I have learned the most valuable lesson to date, during the Across RCA, People-centred Design Workshop, led by the HHCD - “Design to Improve Life”. With my assigned cluster of fellow design students, I...
"In July 2016, the MAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bellas Artes in Santiago the Chile held the international conference ‘Political Imagination and the City’ organised by the FAU Universidad de Chile. As a result of extensive media coverage (REUNA Ciencia y...
The Creative Recovery Toolkit offers an intimate view into service users life-worlds through creative workshops. Completing the kit alongside traditional assessment/key-working techniques could help services to personalise recovery roadmaps and identify harmful...