Here you'll find a mix of apparently random projects over the years, some more conceptual than others, some speculative while others are more down to Earth. The red threads? Participation, experience and connections – between people, objects, ideas technology and place.
FEED: Making musing from the world around you. Art direction, UX and UI design for a music making app for Incidental.
The app was designed to be used individually, as part of group performances or as an educational tool for primary school students.
Original concept: David Gunn. Build: Miles Warren and Leigh Davis
For "The Displaced Object", a temporary display at Freud's Museum in London, we took one of Freud's collection statues for a tour in the area around his home in Finchley Park. How does changing context and our own experience affect our perception of an object? How many new meanings can it take? Lots of projections. Freud would be proud... 2011
There's a theory that says the universe is made of teeny tiny vibrating strings. Vibrations make sounds but this ones are so small that we can't really hear them. What if we could see them though, or taste them, or make them louder and make music with them? My starting point was a faint understanding of this theory, a mathematical model drawn to me by a clever theoretical physicist and a collection of plausible but imagined sounds. What followed was a collection of mail out kits with instructions to translate all that into a creative something, a group of artists, architects, musicians and designers taking part either at workshops or at home and a collection of "translated outputs" - reinterpretations of those sounds as graphics, edible stuff, beats, and videos. Oh, and a slightly better understanding of string theory, both on my part and my participants.
CSM Degree project. 2010.
Graphic and exhibition design for Whitechapel Stories. Research and curation: Evi Kontova. Whitechapel, London. 2010
A speculative design exhibition imagining a potential future for the city of Pforzheim and its residents in 2030. We imagined a place where conditions such as dyslexia and synaesthesia, previously seen as disadvantages or hindering, are explored under new light and valued for the perspectives and views of the world they offer. Not all rosy though... it's all still a bit underground and tainted by not such a happy past. 2010. Collaboration between Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design and the University of Pforzheim.
A design research project for Cisco exploring how their Telepresence technology could be used to connect people around the world. Our project connects young women from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and creates a safe space for them to ask questions and discuss topics that could otherwise be considered taboo. All while reinventing the teen zine both in terms of its content and aesthetic. With Mariana Pestana, Elli Resvanis and Gaby Ron. 2009-2010
A new "Speakrs' Corner". Prototypes used in Lichfield and Oslo. 2008
