Do you see a Future Career in Design Research? - MA Workshop
TFRC delivered a workshop on 7th of July, 2009 at Central Saint Martins Innovation Centre for UAL- MA students/graduates. The students were given the opportunity to gain first-hand experience from PhD students associated to the Unit that are currently engaged in practice-based research projects. Speakers included Kate Goldsworthy, Aurélie Mossé, Jane Scott, Jennifer Baille, Kathy Schicker and Kerri Wallace. The event and programme, co-organized by Jo Heeley, included an introduction to Research and Funding by Jane Harris, Director of TFRC. It was followed by the speakers who shared their experiences of writing bids via the unit as well as the stages of doing a practice based PhD. The workshop endend with an open forum, giving the audience the opportunity to engage and gain insight to consider their own future careers in research. Clementine Debos, current student of the MA Textiles Futures course at CSM commented on the day - ' The workshop was great, very informative complete and above all it had great speakers, which really conveyed their passion. This was inspiring to see and feel. This workshop has more than ever strengthened my desire to pursue a career in design research. I would recommend it and most definitely attend other events like this in the future.' |
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Kathy Schicker - Woven Light Woven light is focused on researching the use of light reactive and light emitting materials to explore light, colour, structure and pattern in exterior and interior spaces. This project is a development from my research while studying on the MA Textile Futures into light emitting (phosphorescent) and light reactive (photochromic) fibres. The ... Kerri Wallace - Motion Response AHRC Application: Practice-led and Applied Route (2009-10) Kerri is textile designer engaged with research and development in my approach. During her MA in Design for Textile Futures, she developed the use of printing textiles with thermo chromic inks, exploring the potential for wearable displays in performance apparel. She ... Aurélie Mossé - Energy-harvested and self-actuated textiles Aurelié is currently undertaking a PhD in Tectonic Textiles at the Centre for IT and Architecture (CITA), at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Textile Futures Research Group, London. She trained as a textile designer in ESAA Duperré, Paris, and has a BA in surface, material and ... Jane Scott - Transformable Textiles for Knitted Architecture Jane works as a Teaching Fellow within the School of Design at the University of Leeds. With the support of the university she is undertaking a doctoral research project part time within TFRG to establish her own research practice within an internationally recognised, specialist research centre. She is based at Central St Martins School of ... Jennifer Ballie - Considerate Clothing Jennifer has a BDes in Textile Design and a Masters of Design with distinction from Duncan of Jordanstone, College of Art & Design, Dundee University. Her masters focused on design theory, thinking and practice and explored how digital media might reduce our consumption of throwaway fashion. During her Masters she was succesful for a PhD ... Kate Goldsworthy - ReSurfaced Kate's first degree was a BDes in Printed Textile Design from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (1996), followed by MA Textile Futures at Central St Martins (2000). She worked for 5 years as a freelance designer in commercial print studios and for Line, a textile consultancy specialising in product development, trend analysis ... |
