Staff in the Department of Design

Yemi Awosile

Yemi’s work is informed by cultural insights expressed primarily through textiles and printed matter. The broader scope of her practice bridges design and visual arts through social interventions.

Edward Bagenal

Edward's research is broadly focused on investigating the nature of the curation of authority through its manifestations in material culture and the democratisation of access to governance and agency in civic systems.

Tuur van Balen

Tuur’s practice explores processes of production as cultural, social and political practices.

Stuart Bannocks

Stuart's work is currently focused on zines, self-publishing practices, and comics as vehicles for exploring and interrogating architecture and design.

Sam Gathercole

Sam’s research centres on modernist art and architecture, ranging from modern and contemporary art to design subjects.

Becca Rose Głowacki

Becca’s practice explores feminist computing and radical pedagogies.

Rebecca Glyn-Blanco

Rebecca's work is concerned with migration and its systems, displacement of people and their representation in material and visual culture.

Sean Hall

Sean researches the ways designed objects have normalising conditions of production and categories of consumption.

Arjun Harrison Mann

Arjun is a London-based designer, activist and advocate for dialogue, whose practice proposes the role of dialogical design in Post-Visual Communication.

Liam Healy

Liam's research interests focus around situated speculative design research, DIY design, and critical design practice.

Sahra Hersi

Sahra Hersi is an artist and spatial designer, and she describes her work as “caring about people, places, art & architecture, in that order”. Her work is public and ranges in scales from zines, workshops, public realm interventions and buildings.

Ruby Hoette

Ruby is a designer/researcher exploring fashion in context. Her work unpicks and reconfigures relationships between garment and system, theory and practice.

Tobie Kerridge

Tobie is committed to taking a collaborative and speculative approach to design.

Carolyn Kirschner

Carolyn is a designer and researcher with a background in architecture. Her work explores entanglements of humans, non-humans, bits, bytes, ecologies and emerging technologies.

Juliette Kristensen

Juliette is a design researcher, theorist and historian with a background in cultural studies and critical theory.

Steve Lee

Steve is a Goldsmiths alumnus, Nesta Associate and Design Council Expert. He runs a service design, research and innovation studio working internationally across social, environmental and economic change.

Jimmy Loizeau

Dash MacDonald

Dash creates participatory projects centred on popular education and critical and creative citizenship participation.

Naho Matsuda

Naho has interests in social engagement and interactive experiences, using performance, objects and installation.

Katherine May

Katherine works as a designer/researcher, examining the life of textile materials through research and making.

Nicholas Mortimer

Nicholas is a designer who explores the construction of narratives that surround technological progress.

Soomi Park

Soomi’s work discusses the complex relationship between emerging technologies and human desires.

Sarah Pennington

Sarah has been teaching at Goldsmiths since 2015 as an Associate Lecturer in Design, and tutors on BA Contextual Studies and MA Expanded Practice.

Laura Potter

Laura’s specialist background is in craft, particularly concerning the theory and practice of contemporary jewellery.

Corinne Quin

Corinne's work explores how narrative, images and materiality are involved in the production of space.

Harry Richardson

Harry Richardson is a partner at Committee, a design office and art studio based in south-east London that has, over the last twenty years, created work of many kinds for clients and cultural institutions around the world.

Dom Robson

Pete Rogers

Pete’s interests are in physical computing, mapping-geolocation, crowd theory and participative sensing.

Naama Schendar

Naama Schendar is a performer, director and filmmaker. Her work explores how narrative, speculation and the body are involved in the construction of socio-political norms.

Rose Sinclair

Rose is interested in the use of CAD/CAM for creative development and the textile history of Caribbean women in the UK.

Professor Kay Stables

Kay’s current research is on alternative approaches to design and technology education in schools.

Mathilda Tham

Mathilda’s work sits in a positive, creative and activist space between design, futures studies and sustainability.

Mike Waller

Mike's research continues to develop design innovation research through Goldsmiths Prospecting and Innovation Studio (Pi Studio).

Matt Ward

Matt’s research spans a wide range of interests from speculative design to radical pedagogy

Joanne Wardrop

Dr Alex Wilkie

Alex Wilkie is Reader in Design and Social Science and he is Director of the Centre for Invention and Social Process (CISP) hosted by the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths.

Professor John Wood

John devised electronic toys and interactive installations, before adapting his approach to inventing and performing.