Giorgio Salani
Giorgio Salani is a ceramic maker and doctoral researcher specialising in the intersection between traditional crafts and design. His focus on materials, methods and technologies derives from his engineering background and 8 years of consulting experience. He...
Rhian Solomon
Rhian is a maker, and design researcher exploring cross-disciplinary interactions between design and health sectors. Completing a BA in Materials Practice, her projects conceptually explore emotional and technological relationships between skin and cloth, the body and...
Miriam Ribul
Miriam Ribul is a design researcher exploring new models for design interventions at the intersection of collaborative and trans-disciplinary practice for materials research. She developed research in material coding systems with a funding award from COST, the...
Leah Fusco
Leah explores ideas in relation to landscape, people and time. Drawing on geographic and historic subject matter, she is interested in past, present and future stories that observe the shaping of communities by physical environment. Her current doctoral research...
Hannah White
Hannah White is a textiles designer and academic with a passion for structural textiles forms and their application to innovative design solutions. After graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 1998, she set up a textile design business, continuing to...
Olivia Vane
Olivia is a PhD candidate in Innovation Design Engineering at the Royal College of Art. Her work explores how interactive visualisation may be used to make sense of cultural heritage data (digitised museum, library and archive collections). During her PhD, Olivia...
Paola Pierri
Paola Pierri has a BA in Politics and a MA in Community Development. She has more than 10 years’ experience working in the field of social innovation, using innovative approaches to support community organisations’ growth and development. As a citizen and as an...
Victoria Geaney
Between the worlds of Fashion, Art, Science and Technology, Victoria Geaney’s work as an interdisciplinary and conceptual fashion designer examines the intersections between these areas. Informed by the emerging Metamodern movement, Victoria produces multidisciplinary...
Addressing alcohol misuse in the public realm: design led interventions
Addressing alcohol misuse in the public realm: developing design led interventions to increase support uptake and reduce anti-social behaviour There exists a significant need to develop strategies to encourage and maintain engagement with alcohol support...
Towards a Taxonomy of Artisanal Ceramic Tableware
The resilience of functional handmade ceramic craft in the global ceramic market suggests there are qualities (e.g. throwing marks, rustic glazes) and values (e.g. ceramic traditions, regionalism) engendered in artisanal objects and not generally associated...
Architectural Couture
Hannah White’s work aims to re-contextualise traditional hand manipulated textile craft techniques through her use of innovative materials and processes. Her PhD proposal combines three-dimensional textiles such as hand stitching, pleating and weaving,...
The Social Design of Public Space to better include Young People – Skateparks
This PhD is inspired by The Skatepark Foundation, a national UK organisation which seeks to increase the number and quality of spray-concrete public skateparks in the UK. Established in response to 10,000+ stakeholders (councils, young people, community groups)...