Kirsty Smith
Kirsty Smith is a practising image maker and PhD candidate in the school of visual communication. A life long participant of skateboarding and fashion photography her work has been published in Vogue and Harpers Bizarre while also featuring in leading European...
Interviewing skateboarders in LA
Typically characterised as outcasts, lawbreakers and nuisances, skateboarders have come to signify a visual representation of cool. Traveling to Los Angeles California, the birth place of skateboarding, my aim was to capture this authentic narrative from...
Transpires
That which Transpires behind that which Appears: An immersive interaction www.transpires.info Sonics Immersive Media Labs Goldsmiths University of London St James Hatcham Building Private View THU 7 MARCH 6 to 10 PM Workshop SAT 9 MARCH...
Keynote 14: Designing in the peripheries
Designing in the peripheries: the politics of challenging dominance and embracing pluralities Monday 4th February 2019, 6pm, RCA Kensington Sign up via our Eventbrite page We would like to invite you to the 14th LDoc Keynote event. The lecture will be followed...
Sonic Inclusion Digital Research Platform
Written by Will Renel, who was awarded an LDoc SDF grant to support the development of a new digital research platform My PhD research at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design investigates sonic inclusion – the multiplicity of ways that sound makes people feel...
Jana Scholze
Jana is a curator specialising in contemporary design and is Associate Professor and Course Director of the MA Curating Contemporary Design programme at Kingston School of Art. She spent over a decade at the V&A where she co-curated the exhibition 'What is...
Design Residency at Aalto University’s School of Chemical Engineering
Miriam Ribul received a funding award from the AHRC’s Student Development Fund (SDF) towards a design residency at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at Aalto University in Finland between December 2017 and January 2018. The aims of the residency at Aalto...
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2018, Hong Kong
Written by LDoc student Olivia Vane, who was awarded LDoc Student Development Funds to enable her to attend the DIS Conference in Hong Kong in 2018 I attended Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) conference 2018 earlier this year at the Hong Kong Polytechnic...
Fish Skin, sustainability and craftsmanship in the luxury industry
The use of fishskin to create articles of clothing is a tradition shared by the Amur delta people with other Siberian and circumpolar peoples (Fitzhugh, 1988). Before synthetic fibres were invented, people clothed themselves with natural materials available in their...
Hermione Townsend
Hermione is a researcher, designer and co-founder of Spaghetti Brain, an EdTech startup based at InnovationRCA. Her current work is focused on finding an innovative solution to address the problem that children require support to understand their metacognitive...
Community architects
Raül's thesis researches on the new roles that architects are assuming in the city of Barcelona in a context of economic crisis, where the so celebrated Barcelona Model that emerged for the 1992 Olympic Games has proved to be obsolete and unable to give a response to...
Elisa Palomino
Elisa Palomino is the BA Fashion Print Course leader at Central Saint Martins and member of UAL’s Textile Future Research Centre (TFRC). She is a recognised fashion designer and an experienced educator with an extensive history of working at international...