Sarah Pennington

Staff details

Position Lecturer in Design
Department Design
Email sarahpennington (@gold.ac.uk)
Sarah Pennington
Sarah has been teaching at Goldsmiths since 2015 and tutors on BA Contextual Studies and MA Expanded Practice. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also currently a practice-based PhD candidate exploring care sensibilities and design, funded by the AHRC Design Star scheme. 
 
Between 2000 and 2015, Sarah was a design researcher within the Interaction Research Studio, first at the Royal College of Art and then Goldsmiths University.

Publications and research outputs

Design

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Pike, James; Beitra, Robin and Ovalle, Liliana. 2017. Design: Datacatcher.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Bowers, John; Pennington, Sarah and Boehner, Kirsten. 2011. The Light Collector.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Bowers, John; Pennington, Sarah and Boehner, Kirsten. 2011. The Wind Tunnel.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Bowers, John; Pennington, Sarah and Boehner, Kirsten. 2011. The Temperature Tape.

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).

Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Gaver, William; Jarvis, Nadine; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah and Wilkie, Alex. 2007. Plane Tracker.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Pennington, Sarah; Law, Andy and Bowers, John. 2006. The Video Window (Overview).

Boucher, Andy; Gaver, William; Law, Andy; Bowers, John; Pennington, Sarah and Walker, Brendan. 2004. The History Tablecloth (Overview).

Boucher, Andy; Gaver, William; Pennington, Sarah; Walker, Brendan and Bowers, John. 2003. The Drift Table (Overview).

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Pennington, Sarah and Walker, Brendan. 2003. The Key Table (Overview).

Show/Exhibition

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Pike, James; Beitra, Robin and Ovalle, Liliana. 2017. Datacatcher: At The New Observatory Exhibition, FACT. In: "The New Observatory", Foundation for Art and Creative, Technology (FACT), United Kingdom, 19 June - 1 October 2017.

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.

Boucher, Andy; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Hauenstein, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine; Ovalle, Liliana and Pennington, Sarah. 2015. Datacatcher: Digital Design Weekend, V&A Museum. In: "Digital Design Weekend", V&A Museum, London, United Kingdom, 26 - 27 Sept 2015.

Boucher, Andy; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Hauenstein, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine; Ovalle, Liliana and Pennington, Sarah. 2015. The Prayer Companion. In: "Big Bang Data", Somerset House, London, United Kingdom, 3 Dec 2015 - 20 Mar 2016.

Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Pennington, Sarah and Boucher, Andy. 2012. THE SOCIAL INSURGENTS. In: "THE SOCIAL INSURGENTS", Deptford Town Hall, United Kingdom, 14 - 19 SEPTEMBER 2012.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Bowers, John; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah and Boehner, Kirsten. 2012. The Prayer Companion & Indoor Weather Stations. In: "Life Online", National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom, Nov 2012 - May 2013.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Pennington, Sarah; Walker, Brendan; Bowers, John and Law, Andy. 2009. Drift Table. In: "Drift Table at Cultures of Change", Arts Santa Monica, Spain, 10 December - 28 February 2010.

Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Gaver, William; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah and Walker, Brendan. 2005. The History Tablecloth. In: "Touch Me", Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 16 June - 29 August 2005.

Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Gaver, William; Pennington, Sarah and Walker, Brendan. 2005. The Drift Table. In: "A Picture of Britain", Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom, 15 June–4 September 2005.

Book

Beaver, Jacob; Boucher, Andy and Pennington, Sarah. 2007. The Curious Home. London: Goldmiths University of London. ISBN 1904158811

Conference or Workshop Item

Wilkie, Alex and Pennington, Sarah. 2023. 'Poster for Design for more-than-human futures: Towards post-anthropocentric worlding'. In: Design for more-than-human futures: Towards post-anthropocentric worlding. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 18 October 2023.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Pike, James; Beitra, Robin and Ovalle, Liliana. 2015. 'Datacatcher: Radical New Cross Walking Tour'. In: Radical New Cross. New Cross, United Kingdom.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Cameron, David; Pennington, Sarah and Ovalle, Liliana. 2015. 'Data Tour'. In: Research Through Design 2015. Cambridge, United Kingdom 25-27 March 2015.

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.

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.

Gaver, William; Bowers, John; Boucher, Andy; Law, Andy; Pennington, Sarah and Villar, Nicholas. 2006. 'The History Tablecloth: Illuminating Domestic Activity'. In: DIS 2006. State College, Pennsylvania, United States.

Gaver, William; Bowers, John; Boucher, Andy; Gellerson, Hans; Pennington, Sarah; Schmidt, Albrecht; Steed, Anthony; Villar, Nicholas and Walker, Brendan. 2004. 'The drift table: designing for ludic engagement'. In: CHI 2004: Connect. Vienna, Austria.

Article

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Pike, James; Beitra, Robin and Ovalle, Liliana. 2016. The Datacatcher: Batch Deployment and Documentation of 130 Location-Aware, Mobile Devices That Put Sociopolitically-Relevant Big Data in People's Hands: Polyphonic Interpretation at Scale. pp. 1597-1607.

Gaver, William; Bowers, John; Boucher, Andy; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine and Pennington, Sarah. 2013. Indoor Weather Stations: Investigating a Ludic Approach to Environmental HCI Through Batch Prototyping. CHI 2013 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 3451-3460.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Pennington, Sarah and Walker, Brendan. 2004. Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty. Interactions - Funology, 11(5), pp. 53-56. ISSN 1072-5520

Edited Book

Pennington, Sarah and Kerridge, Tobie, eds. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Book). London: Goldsmiths, University of London.

Film/Video

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Pike, James; Beitra, Robin and Ovalle, Liliana. 2017. Datacatcher Vimeo Channel.

Project

Kerridge, Tobie and Pennington, Sarah. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Project).

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Hauenstein, Mark; Pennington, Sarah; Bowers, John; Pike, James; Beitra, Robin and Ovalle, Liliana. 2017. Project: Datacatcher.

Thesis

Pennington, Sarah. 2022. Care-politics in design: Towards an inventive feminist research practice. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London