Tobie Kerridge
Staff details
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
Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2018. Design: Energy Babble.
Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Phillips, Robert and Wilkie, Alex. 2011. The Photostroller.
Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Cameron, David; Wilkie, Alex and Phillips, Robert. 2010. The Photostroller (Overview).
Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Gaver, William; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie and Wilkie, Alex. 2010. The Prayer Companion (Overview).
Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Gaver, William; Jarvis, Nadine and Kerridge, Tobie. 2010. The Prayer Companion.
Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Beaver, Jacob; Humble, Jan; Kerridge, Tobie; Villar, Nicholas and Wilkie, Alex. 2008. Local Barometer (Overview).
Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Beaver, Jacob; Humble, Jan; Kerridge, Tobie; Villar, Nicholas and Wilkie, Alex. 2008. The Plane Tracker (Overview).
Show/Exhibition
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.
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.
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.
Boucher, Andy; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Hauenstein, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike; Ovalle, Liliana; Pennington, Sarah and Wilkie, Alex. 2015. Web Science 2015. In: "Web Science 2015 Conference Exhibition", Web Sci '15, United Kingdom, 28 June – 1 July 2015.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Kerridge, Tobie; Pennington, Sarah; 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.
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.
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.
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.
Gaver, William; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah; 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.
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
Kerridge, Tobie. 2017. Turning People into Workbooks. Interactions, 24(6), pp. 6-7. ISSN 1072-5520
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.
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.
Book Section
Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Sound Design. In: Andy Boucher; William Gaver; Tobie Kerridge; Mike Michael; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie, eds. Energy Babble. Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 56-60. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0
Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Studios, Problems, Publics. In: Andy Boucher; William Gaver; Tobie Kerridge; Mike Michael; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie, eds. Energy Babble. Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 90-96. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0
Film/Video
Kerridge, Tobie and Caddick, James. 2022. Stop Aquind - Eastney and Milton Allotments.
Printed Ephemera
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.
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
Andersen, Kristina; Auger, James; Kerridge, Tobie and Kettley, Sarah. 2017. Research Through Design 2017 - conference panelist and review committee member.
Kerridge, Tobie. 2016. Empirical Speculation - US Invited Talks.
Project
Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2018. Project: Energy and Co-Designing Communities (Energy Babble).
Thesis
Kerridge, Tobie. 2015. Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
