Design Researcher and Educator
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Working between design research and science and technology studies (STS), my research examines how design intervenes in the practices through which worlds are produced, negotiated and contested. I am interested in design not only as a means of responding to existing situations, but as a way of participating in how those situations become knowable: how they are described, evidenced, performed, felt, valued and opened to dispute.
Across a series of interconnected research strands, I study how institutions, technologies, forms of expertise and everyday practices become available for reconfiguration through design. Together, these projects develop conceptual and methodological approaches that position design as an epistemic practice, capable of reorganising existing ways of knowing and altering how worlds are understood and experienced.
Quasi-Design
Design interventions into existing knowledge practices.
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Quasi-Design develops an account of design as an intervention into established ways of knowing. Through workshops, academic presentations and theoretical work, it explores how design can reorganise the practices through which knowledge is produced, communicated and contested.
Technical Breakdown
Making knowledge practices visible through technical breakdown.
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Technical Breakdown treats moments of technical failure as research events. By staging and analysing breakdowns in academic presentation, the project makes visible the sociotechnical arrangements through which knowledge is performed, authorised and shared.
Changing Rooms
Troubling social theory through participatory design.
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Changing Rooms uses participatory design to intervene in theories of identity and performance. Through workshops structured around participation, refusal and negotiation, it examines how identities are socially organised, enacted and contested.
Consumer Feedback
Negotiating ethics, participation and technology through humour.
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Consumer Feedback studies humorous product reviews as public accounts of human-technology relations. Through workshops and collaborative storytelling, it explores how humour redistributes responsibility, agency and ethical judgement between consumers, designers and everyday objects.
Cinematic Translations
Translating research through speculative cinematic worlds.
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Cinematic Translations translates academic research into speculative film concepts. Working with genre, narrative and world-building, the project investigates how cinematic thinking can surface tensions, assumptions and possible futures that are difficult to articulate through conventional academic formats.
Affirmative-Critical Design
Reconfiguring the histories and practices of critical design.
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Affirmative-Critical Design revisits the history of critical design from within commercial and institutional practice. It develops an account of critique as something produced through, rather than outside, the organisations and infrastructures that shape design knowledge.
Teaching / Supervision
My teaching approaches design as a form of inquiry through which social, technical and institutional realities can be investigated and reconfigured. At Goldsmiths, I lead the MA Design Expanded Practice pathway Interactions and Experiments, supervise postgraduate design research, and curate the MA lecture programme.
Beyond Goldsmiths, I have taught at London College of Communication, UAL, since 2016, held a Design Researcher-in-Residence position at Lancaster University, and contributed to teaching, workshops, talks and reviews at Rhode Island School of Design, the Royal College of Art and the Architectural Association.
Last updated: 12.07.26