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Change, as told, interpreted, implemented and strategized
Get PDFThis is a contribution to the book Strategic Thinking, Design and the Theory of Change: A Framework for Designing Impactful and Transformational Social Interventions.
This chapter analyses a Theory of Change model in terms of a discursive, boundary object
Tilting Horizons
No full textA 15-minute video presented at the Fevers, Frets and Futures: Uncertainty and New Ecologies for Post Covid Healthcare online and in person conference at Un diversity College London (UCL)
It was produced in collaboration with
Association of Medical Humanities
University College London
Slide School of Fine Ar
Music jamming as a participatory design method. A case study with disabled musicians
Get PDFWe propose a method that uses music jamming as a tool for the design of musical instruments. Both designers and musicians collaborate in the music making process for the subsequent development of individual “music performer’s profiles” which account for four dimensions: (i) movements and embodiment, (ii) musical preferences, (iii) difficulties, and (iv) capabilities. These profiles converge into proposed prototypes that transform into final designs after experts and performers' examination and feedback. We ground this method in the context of physically disabled musicians, and we show that the method provides a decolonial view to disability, as its purpose moves from the classical view of technology as an aid for allowing disabled communities to access well-established instruments, towards a new paradigm where technologies are used for the augmentation of expressive capabilities, the strengthening of social engagement, and the empowerment of music makers
Top-down, middle out and bottom up: Our participatory and systemic approach to sustainable curriculum design at UAL
Get PDFThe presentation discussed participatory and systemic approach to curriculum design at University of the Arts London - an incremental framework working with staff and students as partners. Part of an ambitious Climate Action Plan, the framework is developing, testing and embedding meaningful change and contributing to climate, social and racial justice by supporting discipline-specific contextualisation across the six colleges of the university. It aims to ensure that all UAL graduates develop sustainability competencies and ethical practices through the decarbonisation and decolonisation of the curriculum
Unravel
No full textUnravel is a participatory multimedia interactive installation to promote equity and sustainability for women; STARP is the collaboration between WSDO, Studio 9 Films and Kim Noce. It is funded with the support from the British Council International Collaboration Grant.
Unravel combines the latest immersive technology and some of the oldest traditional craft from Nepal, in order to promote and celebrate equity for women. A series of events and exhibitions will be held to enable exchange and discussion provoked by the SWDO women’s personal stories and successes.
24 Tapestry 1 carpet 12 Symbols 12 Stories 1 Journey
The WSDO women created 24 large tapestry and a long rug with handmade with traditional Nepalese patterns. The long and slow process follows traditional handcrafted sustainable techniques: from sourcing the cotton, boiling, dyeing, and drying in the sun ready for balling and looming, then for weaving and finally cut to be sewn together into patchwork patterns to form the rug. For weaving they use the oldest form of non-mechanised loom in the world called the “backs-trap loom”. As the women created the rug we recorded audio statements about their hopes and challenging life experiences from discrimination, poverty and abuse to a full recovery and new independent lives.
During the exhibition the audience using their phone with a free app are able to trigger an Augmented Reality (AR) immersive experience scanning individual patterns of the rug. The voices of the WSDO women start narrating through their own unique and personal stories. And on top of the rug, an animation will appear visualising the stories.
At the end of each viewing the participant can shift to another area of the rug and witness another AR testimonial from the WSDO women. The images and (the film) portray a thread being untangled and to form a pattern; a metaphor for WSDO districting itself from the society tangles and difficulties.
Women’s Skills Development Organization (WSDO) is A Fair Trade organisation, which has been working since 1975 A.D. It is a non-profit and income-generating program for economically disadvantaged, disabled, abused, widowed, divorced, single and outcast women from rural Nepal, supporting and empowering them to archive social and economic self-reliance
Can fashion aesthetics be studied empirically? The preference structure of everyday clothing choices
Get PDFHanging in the Balance
No full textUsing the gallery architecture as a fulcrum hanging in the balance works reflexively with movement through and around the exhibition space to involve visitors in a sensorial engagement with ideas of breath, earth and political protest.
Through a series of related floor-based works; a tufted carpet tailored to fit the entrance corridor, a poured painting and a foot-thrown pot made in collaboration with ceramicist Yuta Segawa attention is brought to ground and feet transforming the gallery floor into a painterly field.
The exhibition includes a video work developed with dancers (Antoinette Brooks-Daw, former premier dancer Northern Ballet and Daisy West), non-dancers and a musician in which danced movement is intercut with gestures of protest and the intermittent call of a solo oboe. The installation is part of an ongoing body of work related to women and architecture but in this instance architecture and space are used to reflect on ecological relations
Deconstructing Spaces and Places of Coloniality: A Local Design Pedagogy Walk
Get PDFHow does coloniality thinking impact the designs that shape our surroundings? To explore this question and others we will undertake a derive walk – an unplanned walk around Berlin to uncover how coloniality continues to underpin how design is conceived, taught, and practiced. Starting from the Haus Bastian, the Centre for Cultural Education we will collectively question how our environment, from the trees planted and weeds destroyed to the shape of rooms and local shops, have been designed through a colonial lens and how that creates norms that continue to impact design education
Magnum Magnum
No full textMagnum Magnum, Portrait of Magnum at its 75th Anniversary. An expanded edition of the best selling original 2008 tome, with 25 photographers who have joined Magnum since, adding 150 new photographs