Tobie Kerridge

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

Staff details

Position

Senior Lecturer in Design, Director of Research

Department

Design

Email

t.kerridge (@gold.ac.uk)

Tobie has worked as a design researcher since 2003, with the Interaction Research Studio and as a Helen Hamlyn Research Associate. He is committed to taking a collaborative and speculative approach to design, and in providing empirical and critical accounts of that practice. His research projects have been supported by Philips Design, Intel and France Telecom, and funded by UK and EU funding councils. Previously Tobie has lectured at the Royal College of Art, Central St. Martins, and the Industrial Design faculty at Technical University Eindhoven. He led two EPSRC funded public engagement projects, collaborating with Nikki Stott and Ian Thompson at the Maxillofacial unit at Kings College London to deliver a project called Biojewellery, and took a two-year visiting researcher role with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College to support the Material Beliefs project. His designs have been exhibited internationally, including shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Design Triennial in Beijing.

Tobie’s PhD thesis provided an empirical analysis of Material Beliefs, where speculative design and public engagement with science and technology become mixed up, and he is able to supervise PhD students dealing with complimentary topics.

Publications and research outputs

Design

Design: Energy Babble Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Wilkie, Alex ; Boucher, Andy ; Ovalle, Liliana ; and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew . 2018. Design: Energy Babble.
The Photostroller Boucher, Andy ; Bowers, John ; Cameron, David ; Gaver, William ; Jarvis, Nadine ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Phillips, Robert; and Wilkie, Alex . 2011. The Photostroller.
The Photostroller (Overview) Gaver, William ; Boucher, Andy ; Bowers, John ; Jarvis, Nadine ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Cameron, David ; Wilkie, Alex ; and Phillips, Robert. 2010. The Photostroller (Overview).

Show/Exhibition

Milton Village Hall Spring Energy Fete Kerridge, Tobie ORCID logo ; Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca ; and Matsuda, Naho. 2022. Milton Village Hall Spring Energy Fete. In: "Milton Village Hall Spring Energy Fete", Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 2 April 2022.
Energy Babble Gaver, William ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Wilkie, Alex ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; and Boucher, Andy . 2016. Energy Babble. In: "Climactic: Post Normal Design", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States, Nov - Dec 2016.
Experimental Thinking / Design Practices Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; Wilkie, Alex ; Gabrys, Jennifer ; and Boucher, Andy . 2015. Experimental Thinking / Design Practices. In: "Experimental Thinking / Design Practices", Griffith University Art Gallery, Australia.

The Energy Babble in Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; Wilkie, Alex ; and Gabrys, Jennifer . 2015. The Energy Babble in Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design. In: "Experimental Practice: Provocations In and Out of Design", Melbourne International Design Festival, Australia, 11 – 30 May 2015.
Web Science 2015 Boucher, Andy ; Cameron, David ; Gaver, William ; Hauenstein, Mark ; Jarvis, Nadine ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Michael, Mike ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Pennington, Sarah ORCID logo ; and Wilkie, Alex . 2015. Web Science 2015. In: "Web Science 2015 Conference Exhibition", Web Sci '15, United Kingdom, 28 June – 1 July 2015.
Feral Experimental Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; Wilkie, Alex ; Gabrys, Jennifer ; and Boucher, Andy . 2014. Feral Experimental. In: "Feral Experimental", UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia.
Energy Babble Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; Wilkie, Alex ; and Gabrys, Jennifer . 2014. Energy Babble. In: "A Sense of Energy", The Senedd, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2014.
A Sense Of Energy: Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities Gaver, William ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Wilkie, Alex ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; and Boucher, Andy . 2014. A Sense Of Energy: Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities. In: "A Sense of Energy", The Welsh Assembly, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2014.
Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities Gaver, William ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Wilkie, Alex ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; and Boucher, Andy . 2014. Multimodal Encounters With Energy Communities. In: "A Sense of Energy", The White Building, London, United Kingdom, 26-28 June 2014.
Energy Babble Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; Wilkie, Alex ; and Gabrys, Jennifer . 2014. Energy Babble. In: "A Sense of Energy", The White Building, London, United Kingdom, 26 Jun - 28 Jun 2014.
The Curious Home Boucher, Andy ; Bowers, John ; Jarvis, Nadine ; and Kerridge, Tobie . 2008. The Curious Home. In: "The Curious Home at Science Oxford", Science Oxford, United Kingdom, 21st January - 29th February 2008.
Biojewellery Kerridge, Tobie ; Stott, Nikki; and Thompson, Ian. 2008. Biojewellery. In: "Design and the Elastic Mind", Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States, February – May 2008.
The Curious Home Boucher, Andy ; Bowers, John ; Gaver, William ; Jarvis, Nadine ; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah; Wilkie, Alex ; and Kerridge, Tobie . 2007. The Curious Home. In: "The Curious Home", Pacific Playhouse, London, United Kingdom, 29 June to 15 July 2007.

Book

Energy Babble Boucher, Andy ; Gaver, William ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Michael, Mike ; Ovalle, Liliana ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; and Wilkie, Alex . 2018. Energy Babble. Mattering Press. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0

Conference or Workshop Item

Redesigning Stewardship Kerridge, Tobie ; and Hartley, John. 2019. 'Redesigning Stewardship'. In: Redesigning Stewardship. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 16 September 2019.
Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement Kerridge, Tobie . 2016. 'Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement'. In: DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking. Brighton, United Kingdom 27-30 June 2016.
Plans and Speculated Actions Ranner, V; Lockton, D; Steenson, M W; Galik, G; and Kerridge, Tobie . 2016. 'Plans and Speculated Actions'. In: DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking. Brighton, United Kingdom 27-30 June 2016.

Doctoral Research Presentations Thomson, Alison ; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew ; Yurman, Paulina ; Migliore, Enza; Gray, Nicola ; Yang, Ya-huei; Hogan, Nicola ; and Kerridge, Tobie . 2015. 'Doctoral Research Presentations'. In: Doctoral Research Presentations: Goldsmiths Design Festival. LG01, Professor Stuart Hall Building, United Kingdom.
Designing With Environmental Data Kerridge, Tobie ; Pennington, Sarah ORCID logo ; Cameron, David ; Bowers, John ; Jarvis, Nadine ; Boucher, Andy ; and Gaver, William . 2014. 'Designing With Environmental Data'. In: Designing With Environmental Data. Umea, Sweden June 16-19 2014.
Energy Babble: Design Interventions for Energy Reduction Communities Gabrys, Jennifer ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Michael, Mike; Wilkie, Alex ; and Ovalle, Liliana . 2012. 'Energy Babble: Design Interventions for Energy Reduction Communities'. In: EASST/4S 2012. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark 17-20 Oct 2012.
Anatomy of a failure: how we knew when our design went wrong, and what we learned from it Gaver, William ; Bowers, John ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Boucher, Andy ; and Jarvis, Nadine . 2009. 'Anatomy of a failure: how we knew when our design went wrong, and what we learned from it'. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Boston, MA, United States April 04 - 09, 2009.
Does speculative design contribute to public engagement of science and technology? Kerridge, Tobie . 2009. 'Does speculative design contribute to public engagement of science and technology?'. In: Multiple Ways to Design Research: Research cases that reshape the design discipline. Proceedings of the Swiss Design Network Symposium. Lugano, Switzerland.
Threshold devices: looking out from the home Gaver, William ; Wilkie, Alex ; Boucher, Andy ; Law, Andy ; Pennington, Sarah ORCID logo ; Bowers, John ; Beaver, Jacob ; Humble, Jan; Kerridge, Tobie ; and Villar, Nicholas. 2008. 'Threshold devices: looking out from the home'. In: Proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2008). Florence, United Kingdom April 04 - 09, 2009.
Form and Movement in Domestic Networked Systems Kerridge, Tobie ; Boucher, Andy ; Law, Andy; and Gaver, William . 2007. 'Form and Movement in Domestic Networked Systems'. In: UNSPECIFIED. School of Design at Northumbria University, United Kingdom December 12th and 13th 2007.

Article

Turning People into Workbooks Kerridge, Tobie . 2017. Turning People into Workbooks. Interactions, 24(6), pp. 6-7. ISSN 1072-5520
Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Wilkie, Alex ; Boucher, Andy ; Ovalle, Liliana ; and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew . 2015. Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups. Proceedings of CHI 2015, pp. 1115-1124.
The Photostroller: supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world Gaver, William ; Wright, Peter; Boucher, Andy ; Bowers, John ; Blythe, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine ; Cameron, David ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Wilkie, Alex ; and Phillips, Robert . 2011. The Photostroller: supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world. pp. 1757-2222.

Edited Book

NON-AQUIND Kerridge, Tobie ORCID logo ; and Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca , eds. 2023. NON-AQUIND. London: Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 9781915983510
Take Me To Your River (Book) Pennington, Sarah ORCID logo ; and Kerridge, Tobie , eds. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Book). London: Goldsmiths, University of London.

Film/Video

Stop Aquind - Eastney and Milton Allotments Kerridge, Tobie ORCID logo ; and Caddick, James. 2022. Stop Aquind - Eastney and Milton Allotments.

Printed Ephemera

Sustainability, Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-designing Communities and Practice Boucher, Andy ; Bowers, John ; Cameron, David ; Jarvis, Nadine ; Gabrys, Jennifer ; Gaver, William ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Michael, Mike ; and Wilkie, Alex . 2010. Sustainability, Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-designing Communities and Practice.
Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science - conference delegate hand-out Wilkie, Alex ; Kerridge, Tobie ; Michael, Mike ; Gaver, William ; Wakeford, Nina ; and Jungnickel, Kat. 2010. Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science - conference delegate hand-out.

Professional Activity

Research Through Design 2017 - conference panelist and review committee member Andersen, Kristina; Auger, James; Kerridge, Tobie ; and Kettley, Sarah. 2017. Research Through Design 2017 - conference panelist and review committee member.
Empirical Speculation - US Invited Talks Kerridge, Tobie . 2016. Empirical Speculation - US Invited Talks.

Project

Reperceiving Communities: Prototyping the More-Than-Human Community Toolkit Thompson, Michael ; and Kerridge, Tobie . 2025. Reperceiving Communities: Prototyping the More-Than-Human Community Toolkit.
NON-AQUIND Kerridge, Tobie ORCID logo ; Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca ; and Matsuda, Naho. 3 March 2022 - 1 December 2023 NON-AQUIND.
Take Me To Your River (Project) Kerridge, Tobie ; and Pennington, Sarah ORCID logo . 2023. Take Me To Your River (Project).

Thesis

Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement Kerridge, Tobie . 2015. Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London

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