Maxine Beuret
Maxine's established practice focuses on combining photography, environmental sound and oral history to depict cultural heritage, with a focus on vernacular architecture and living design history. She works on themed projects lasting several years in partnership with...
Marion Lean
Marion’s practical training is in textiles and design research. She has recently contributed to research on wearable technologies for Alzheimer’s research with Imperial College Dept of Neurotechnology, developing wearable ‘digital presence’ devices with Little Riot,...
A Harmonious Path for Cultural and Creative Organizations? EU Cultural Policy and Business Model ‘Innovation’
A Harmonious Path for Cultural and Creative Organizations? EU Cultural Policy and Business Model ‘Innovation’ Bethany Rex’s LDoc Post-Doctoral Fellowship focuses on situating the Creative Lenses project within the context of a transnational policy environment...
Bethany Rex
Bethany Rex holds a PhD in Museum and Heritage Studies from Newcastle University. Her PhD research – ‘Local Authority Museums After the Cuts: A Study of Other-than-Public Forms of Management’ investigated the application of community asset transfer to local authority...
Textile Production Innovation in the UK Circular Economy
Redistributed & Digital: How can digital finishing technologies be used to enhance non-woven textile materials and contribute towards a model for circular production? This project seeks to investigate how digital technologies can be used to enhance...
Helen Paine
Helen Paine trained as a knitted textile designer at Central Saint Martins (2008) and Royal College of Art (2011). Her PhD was sponsored by an engineering R&D organisation to investigate advanced methods for joining textiles. An interest in pushing textile...
Residency at the Kyoto Institute of Technology
In 2018 LDoc student Silke Hofmann undertook a 4 month placement at the Kyoto Institute of Technology “Prior to this residency I lived in a number of cities around the world and have grown to consider myself somewhat cosmopolitan. Upon my arrival in...
Could a crocodile run a steeplechase? Design research and Artificial Intelligence.
This project is part of a postdoctoral Creative Engagement Research fellowship that aims to develop an iconographic, interactive, and symbolic design language for artificial intelligence and machine learning, and make the case for design in this field which is...
John Fass
John is a fully funded postdoctoral Creative Engagement Research Fellow working with IBM to explore the possibilities of a design language for artificial intelligence and machine learning. John has a background in photography, shooting architecture globally for...
Beyond the Bespoke – Can the Hands of X model of co-design for prosthetic limbs be applied within the context of the NHS?
The Hands of X project produced a collection of prosthetic hands featuring a palette of everyday materials and piloted a new service model which offered patients an experience that facilitated engagement and co-design of their limb. The Hands of X service, and...
Jo Gooding
Dr Jo Gooding, FHEA (RCA/V&A) is a researcher and historian who studied Design History at the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert museum. Her thesis explored the design of National Health Service spectacles and from this she developed an interest in the...
Marion Real
Marion is a systemic design researcher that explores social representation transformation that occurs during transitions toward circular economies and cosmopolitan localism. She looks for decolonizing and recreating new imaginaries by both developing creative and...