Re-thinking Design Aesthetics of Post Mastectomy Lingerie
My project is inspired by the personal story of a friends battle with breast cancer, specifically with the physical and emotional scars of her mastectomy treatment. With her story in mind, this practice led research aims to determine a relationship between...
Designing Transformative Learning Tools to Propagate Sustainability Literacy in Middle Childhood
If everyone on the planet lived as we do in the UK, 3.5 earths would be needed to support our consumption habits. Development that satisfies even basic human needs is still required in many places, but in the UK we are clearly setting an untenable example. The...
Addressing the Gaps in Domestic Abuse Support Services: A Co-design Approach
Existing domestic abuse (DA) support services, such as those offered by healthcare and law-enforcement, are currently insufficient, and often inadequate, while funding is continuously reduced. According to the Office for National Statistics, 28.3% (4.6...
Beyond Participation: Use of Photographic Methodologies in Peer-led Therapeutic Environments by Those Accessing Mental Health Services
A current report published by the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust advocates Long Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (LTPP) rather than medications like antidepressants to support the recovery of Treatment-Resistant Depression (World Psychiatry,...
Ancient Technology: The Role of the Body and Senses in Communicating Rapid Cultural Change
My practice-led research looks at how we use our bodies and senses to transmit the culture that we are a part of. It is an investigation into how we experience and make sense of our culture, and in turn enact the culture. The term culture here is not intended...
Harmonising Human Material Interaction (hHMI) in Interiors of Public Transportation
This research is an effort to analyse, understand and enhance the quality of Human-Material-Interaction in interiors of public transportation, aiming to generate a rational understanding of elements that contribute to the 'wellbeing' for humans in these shared...
Silke Hofmann
Silke Hofmann is a womenswear designer and university professor at Mediadesign University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She holds a BA in Fashion Design (Magna Cum Laude), from the Fashion Institute of Technology and an MA in Fashion Knitwear (with Distinction), from...
Mireille Fauchon
A graduate of UAL and the RCA, Mireille Fauchon is an Illustrator and Lecturer. Her practice is ultimately concerned with visual storytelling and the documenting of local history and social and cultural narratives. Mireille has been published widely and in 2011...
Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson is an enthusiastic communicator with a passion for design and its potential to make positive social and environmental impacts in the world. On graduating from Goldsmiths (Eco Design BA) in 2003, Sarah set up [re]design, to promote and support ‘good and...
Roxanne Alves Leitao
Roxanne’s work focusses on social design research and practice. She has been involved in a wide range of projects related to healthcare and security, with audiences varying from children and adults with chronic conditions, to clinicians, nurses, law-enforcement...
Claire van Rhyn
Claire van Rhyn is a design researcher and educationalist with a distinctly interdisciplinary approach. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, funded by the AHRC’s London Doctoral Design Centre. Her work investigates the body as modality of...
Julia Johnson
Julia’s established practice includes producing multimedia ‘films’ and photographic projects, developed from working with diverse marginalised communities: soldiers who have experienced issues such as homelessness, alcoholism, or entered the criminal justice system in...