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Kirsty Smith

Kirsty Smith

  Kirsty Smith is a practising image maker and PhD candidate in the school of visual communication. A life long participant of skateboarding and fashion photography her work has been published in Vogue and Harpers Bizarre while also featuring in leading European...

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Interviewing skateboarders in LA

  Typically characterised as outcasts, lawbreakers and nuisances, skateboarders have come to signify a visual representation of cool. Traveling to Los Angeles California, the birth place of skateboarding, my aim was to capture this authentic narrative from...

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Transpires

Transpires

  That which Transpires behind that which Appears:  An immersive interaction www.transpires.info   Sonics Immersive Media Labs Goldsmiths University of London St James Hatcham Building   Private View THU 7 MARCH   6 to 10 PM   Workshop SAT 9 MARCH...

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Keynote 14: Designing in the peripheries

Designing in the peripheries: the politics of challenging dominance and embracing pluralities Monday 4th February 2019, 6pm, RCA Kensington Sign up via our Eventbrite page   We would like to invite you to the 14th LDoc Keynote event. The lecture will be followed...

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Sonic Inclusion Digital Research Platform

Sonic Inclusion Digital Research Platform

Written by Will Renel, who was awarded an LDoc SDF grant to support the development of a new digital research platform   My PhD research at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design investigates sonic inclusion – the multiplicity of ways that sound makes people feel...

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Jana Scholze

Jana Scholze

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 'What is...

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Hermione Townsend

Hermione Townsend

Hermione is a researcher, designer and co-founder of Spaghetti Brain, an EdTech startup based at InnovationRCA.   Her current work is focused on finding an innovative solution to address the problem that children require support to understand their metacognitive...

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Community architects

Community architects

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 response to...

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Elisa Palomino

Elisa Palomino

Elisa Palomino is the BA Fashion Print Course leader at Central Saint Martins and member of UAL’s Textile Future Research Centre (TFRC).   She is a recognised fashion designer and an experienced educator with an extensive history of working at international...

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