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Tobie Kerridge
BA(Hons) MA RCA
Researcher and PhD candidate
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His thesis unpacks the ways in which a speculative approach to design has become mixed up with the public engagement of science and technology. A desire for design to bring about a public debate about the implications of emerging technologies is here entagled in a broad set of interests. Authorship of the processes that lead to design outcomes, descriptions of those design outcomes, and the effects of those outcomes become subject to a complex and sometime conflicting set of commitments. Here is an opportunity for designers to encourage a sceptical discussion of public engagement, and to foster reflexive accounts of their own practice.
Conference papers
Kerridge, T. (2009). Does speculative design contribute to public engagement of science and technology? Paper presented at the Multiple Ways to design Research - Research cases that reshape the design discipline, Lugano, Switzerland.
Kerridge, T. (2009). Material Beliefs - designing speculatively with biotechnology for public engagement. Paper presented at the ISEA 2009.
Kerridge, T., Loizeau, J., Caccavale, E., Auger, J., & Soares, S. (2009). Material Beliefs - open labs, speculative design, science and society. In I. Bago, O. Majcen Linn & S. Ostić (Eds.), Touch Me Festival (pp. 134 - 151). Zagreb: KONTEJNER.Kerridge, T. (2008). Material Beliefs; Technology for People. Paper presented at the ISDN3.
Kerridge, T. (2008). Material Beliefs - Engineers and Designers in Collaboration for Public Engagement. Paper presented at the Swiss STS Meeting 2008.
Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Law, A., Pennington, S., Bowers, J., Beaver, J., et al. (2008). Threshold devices: looking out from the home. Paper presented at the CHI '08, New York, NY, USA.
Gaver, W., Bowers, J., Kerridge, T., Boucher, A., & Jarvis, N. (2009). Anatomy of a failure: how we knew when our design went wrong, and what we learned from it. Paper presented at the CHI '09, Boston, MA, USA.
Kerridge, T., Boucher, A., Law, A., & Gaver, W. (2007). Form and Movement in Domestic Networked Systems. Paper presented at the DeSForM 2007.
Gaver, W., Sengers, P., Kerridge, T., Kaye, J., & Bowers, J. (2007). Enhancing ubiquitous computing with user interpretation: field testing the home health horoscope. Paper presented at the CHI '07, San Jose, California, USA.
Kerridge, T. (2005). Media Mediators: exploring movement in the home. Paper presented at the DeSForM 2005, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Kerridge, T. (2004). Weather Watchers: Domestic Weather Observation as a Narrative Framework for a Practice-Based Design Research Project. Home Cultures, 1(3), 275-305.
Exhibitions
WHAT IF…, Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Touch Me Festival 2008 - Feel Better!, Zagreb, Croatia
Crossing Over, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK
Nowhere/Now/Here, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Spain
Natural History, Wonder Wall, Selfridges Wonder Room, Selfridges, London,
Design & Emotion, Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Germany
Design & the Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Our Cyborg Future, Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Wired NextFest, Los Angeles Convention Centre, LA, US
Biojewellery, Guy’s Hospital Atrium, London, UK
ENTRY-2006, Coal Wash Building, Zollverein, Germany
Design For Thought, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Why Am I Here? Eventnetwork, London, UK
Design For Thought, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Transmediale.04, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Germany
Books
Beaver, J., Kerridge, T., & Pennington , S. (2009). Material Beliefs. London: Goldsmiths, University of London.
Thompson, I., Stott, N., & Kerridge, T. (2006). Biojewellery: Designing Rings with Bioengineered Bone and Tissue. London: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, King's College London.
Events
The Objects of Design and Social Science, seminar series 09/10 academic year, Goldsmiths, London, UK
TWEAK festival, 21st - 26th September 2009, Limerick, Ireland
ISEA 2009, 23rd August - 1st September 2009, University of Ulster, Belfast, Ireland
Science and the Public Conference ,June 13th - 14th 2009, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Science and the Nation, 29th May 2009, E:ventGallery, London, UK
SIDeR '09 Conference, April 15th - 17th 2009, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Is design good for you? Symposium, 20 February 2009, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
INTERACTIVOS?09: Garage Science Workshop-Seminar, 28th January - 14th February 2009, Madrid, Spain
Fly Eating Robots - Family fun day, 1st November 2008, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK
BioPlay, 28th October 2008, The Dana Centre, London, UK
Crossing over: fusing science and art. 22nd October 2008, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, UK
Arts & Technology: The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making, 15th October 2008, National Theatre, London UK
The Future Object 2008, V&A ThinkTanks , 12th September 2008, Victorial & Albert Museum, London, UK
Bioengineering public interviews - Selfridges Wonder Room, 31st July 2008, Selfridges London, UK
Secret Garden Party Festival, Guerilla Science tent, 24th July 2008, Secret Garden Party, Huntingdon, Cambridge, UK
Ignite - My Space, My City, My World, 8th April 2008, The Stephen Lawrence Centre, London, UK
Techno Bodies; Hybrid Life? Dana Centre, 22nd January 2008, London, UK.
Cafe Scientifique: Our Future Human Body? 15th October 2007, World Headquarters, Curtis Mayfield House, Newcastle
BioBling, 18th January 2006, Dana Centre, London, UK
(Un)common ground - Scale and Intimacy, PICNIC07, 24th September 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fleshing Out - Wearable Interfaces, Smart Materials, and Living Fabrics, 9th November 2006, V2, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Funding
Material Beliefs, EPSRC Partnership for Public Engagement award, 2007
Biojewellery, EPSRC Partnership for Public Engagement award, 2005
Future Something Project, NESTA Education grant.