Design Research Society LEARNxDESIGN Conference 2021, 24–26 September 2021 Jinan|China
My colleague and I presented two papers at this conference; One about the card education resource I had developed and another about teaching Design History in China.
Category: Making
Dyspla — Words Not Walls Festival
I created this folding brain anatomy model (based on a tetraflexagon) for the DYSPLA festival in Enfield 18th — 19th September, 2021.
Continue reading Dyspla — Words Not Walls FestivalCumulus Design Culture(s) Roma
Paper delivered at Cumulus Conference: Design Culture(s) Sapienza University of Rome, Faculty of Architecture and School of Industrial Design
Title of paper: Thinking with Card: Curriculum-Led Making Activities Integrated with Distance Learning
Continue reading Cumulus Design Culture(s) RomaLBB Climbing Game and DIY Papercraft Toy
An interactive game exhibit based on popular children’s IP, LuoBaoBei, coupled with a DIY toy both based on an episode about climbing.
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I contributed my design of a DIY Minecraft Pinball machine to Pixelmania — a book of gaming-inspired projects for makers. It’s in French.
Zoetrope Papercraft
This design was created for a series of workshops our studio was commissioned to produce for CCTV. Using the materials provided, participants could make a working zoetrope and create their own simple animation to play. The activity was part of an introduction to animation, from which a group of kids would work with an international team of professional animators to create short movies.
Continue reading Zoetrope PapercraftOskar Zieta — Interview
After following his work for several years, I finally got the chance to interview visionary engineer and designer Oskar Zieta for AD China in 2013.
Continue reading Oskar Zieta — InterviewBlack Box Design: A Hands-On Workshop to Design Equipment with a Magical Interface
This workshop was created for the 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion, Blatantly Blues, IIT Institute of Design, Chicago. 4th-7th October, 2010
Continue reading Black Box Design: A Hands-On Workshop to Design Equipment with a Magical InterfaceNext Stages in Automated Craft: The Integration of Rapid Manufacture Technologies into Craft and DIY Applications
A conference paper, co-written with Matt Sinclair, that I presented at the IDSA Conference 2010 DIY: Threat or Opportunity, 4th-7th August 2010, Portland, Oregon.
Continue reading Next Stages in Automated Craft: The Integration of Rapid Manufacture Technologies into Craft and DIY ApplicationsSeats of Learning – A Template for Design Modelling
A paper presented at 4th Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference, Salzburg, Austria. Published in Educating Designers for a Global Context, Rothbucher, B., Kolar, M., Ion, B. and Clarke, A. (Eds.), Hadleys, UK 2006
ISBN 0955394201