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Yemi Awosile

Lecturer in Design

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

Lecturer in Design and Technology

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

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Edward Bagenal

Lecturer in Design, Programme Lead International Foundation Certificate in Design

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.

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Tuur van Balen

Reader in Design

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

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Stuart Bannocks

Senior Lecturer, Programme Lead BA Design

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

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Ruth Beale

Associate Lecturer

Ruth Beale is an artist whose socially engaged practice seeks to trouble societal structures, reframe knowledge hierarchies and advocate for collective approaches.

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Teresa Cos

Associate Lecturer

Teresa is a visual artist and musician based in London. Indebted forever to rhythmanalysis and depth psychology, their audiovisual works, performances and scores map and disrupt culturally fabricated notions of time, identity, memory, and desire.

Duncan Fairfax

Head of School

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

Roberto Feo

Professor of Design

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

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Rebecca Glyn-Blanco

Lecturer

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

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Sean Hall

Lecturer in Design

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

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Arjun Harrison Mann

Lecturer in Design

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

Alice Hellard

Lecturer in Design & Technology Education, Programme Lead PGCE Design & Technology

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Sahra Hersi

Lecturer in Design

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.

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Joanne Wardrop

Lecturer in Design

Joanne's work centres around collaborative methods of exploring complex histories and narratives told by women.

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Tobie Kerridge

Senior Lecturer in Design, Associate Head of School Research and Knowledge Exchange

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

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Carolyn Kirschner

Lecturer in Design

Carolyn is a designer and researcher whose work explores complex relationships between humans, ecologies, and machines.

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Vero Liu

Lecturer in Design

Vero is a designer, researcher, editor and writer. Her design practice examines critical gender theory.

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Jimmy Loizeau

Professor of Design, Programme Lead MA Design: Expanded Practice

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Charlie Manthorp

Lecturer of Design and Making

Charlie's diverse practice explores community, participation and the supernatural, often through ceramics.

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Tom Marriott

Lecturer

Tom is a designer and social researcher who uses design to understand the implications of technology

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Katherine May

Lecturer in Design

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

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Tess McKenzie

Lecturer in Design

Tess’ practice pursues a sculptural or filmic understanding of collage, informed by theatrical design and choreography

Timothy Miller

Lecturer in Design

Timothy explores how design is understood and practised, and how it can be used to investigate and reconfigure social, cultural, and technical realities.

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Nicholas Mortimer

Senior Lecturer in Design

Nicholas’s practice explores how reality, its representation and performance can be designed or deployed.

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Soomi Park

Lecturer in Design

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

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Sarah Pennington

Senior Lecturer, Associate Head of School Education and Student Experience

Sarah's research explores the implications care and feminist technoscience for speculative design research.

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Nella Piatek

Associate Lecturer

Nella Piatek is a critical designer, researcher, academic and cyberwitch challenging the evolution of the human in conjunction with digital technology, by paying attention to the socio-political and eco-economic implications and values that this entanglement conjures.

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Laura Potter

Senior Lecturer in Design, Associate Head of School Education and Student Experience

Laura's work relates to craft: the joy and pain of making things by hand, using deliberate and considered methods.

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Corinne Quin

Lecturer in Design

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

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Drew Richards

Associate Lecturer

Drew is a game designer and maker, his work encompasses commercial tabletop games as well as gamification for public engagement through workshops and events.

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Harry Richardson

Lecturer in Design

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.

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Bethany Rigby

Lecturer in Design

Bethany is a designer and writer. Her practice explores land use in extra terrestrial contexts.

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Naama Schendar

Lecturer in Design

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.

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Annelore Schneider

Lecturer

Annelore (collectif_fact) explores how narrative can expand our relationship with space, images and objects.

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Rose Sinclair MBE

Reader in Design Education

My research looks at how technologies play a part in the aesthetics of the practice of crafting and making. I have a pas

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Cindy Strobach

Lecturer in Design and Making

Cindy is a designer and maker. Her work invites people to explore science and the natural world in their own context.

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Mathilda Tham

Lecturer in Design

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

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Mike Thompson

Lecturer in Design

Mike's work delves into the intricacies of material participation.

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Mike Waller

Professor of Design and Innovation, Programme Lead MA Designing Education

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

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Professor Matt Ward

Professor of Design, Head of Subject

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

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Professor Alex Wilkie

Professor of Design and Societies, School of Design PGR Lead

Alex Wilkie explores more-than-human futures through the intersection of design and science and technology studies.

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