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.

John Backwell

John specialises in learning environments, cognitive development and ICT as both a learning and a teaching tool.

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

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

Andy Boucher

Andy is a designer and maker, developing practice-based approaches centred on the production of interactive devices.

Alan Bright

Alan's interests include the use of digital portfolios to support assessment, the promotion of creativity in the classroom and effective the development of mentoring skills and the role of school mentors in the training of outstanding teachers.

Duncan Fairfax

Duncan’s areas of research are the discourses of contemporary ecology, sustainability and environmental ethics.

Roberto Feo

Roberto Feo is a partner in the multidisciplinary design studio EL ULTIMO GRITO, winners of the 2012 London Design Medal.

Sandra Fruebing

Sandra is a social designer whose work is informed by cultural observation and carried out through direct collaborations with the general public.

Sam Gathercole

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

Professor William Gaver

Bill’s research concerns design-led methodologies and innovative technologies for everyday life.

Becca Rose Głowacki

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 is an associate lecturer and tutor in studio practice on the BA Design.

Ruby Hoette

Ruby is a designer/researcher exploring fashion in context, seeking to expand what constitutes fashion 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.

Julia Lockheart

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.

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.

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.