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Ziggurat
13–15 July 2011
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
MRes IE students made the Well Gallery into a giant, interactive infoviz on one side, in which visitors placed a box according to how informed they felt v. how much time they spend in front of a screen. On the other side of the gallery were smaller visualisations of students’ own data related to their major projects.
Because we're researchers as well as designers, we tracked all movement in the gallery with a webcam and Kinect camera. We also held a Study Day with guest speakers and student presentations and activities; details here. Further details here, video data here. Photos by Daria Filatova, more here.
Seeing Voices: Inside BT Archives
2 –11 March 2011
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
Look closely. Carefully nestled away and stacked high upon shelves, 150 years of history rustles and whispers, waiting to be discovered. Seeing Voices: Inside BT Archives explored the archives that lay behind the company's vault-like door in High Holborn, London.
Seeing Voices suggested that a telephone is more than an everyday object that connects us; the icon represents a vast social history of exchange. By unraveling histories through archival material, students of MA Design Writing Criticism at the London College of Communication, led by IE Co-Director Prof. Teal Triggs, captured historical moments from the boxes of BT. These snippets presented everyday stories where the meaning and impact of telephony is not only visible, but also enchanting.
Though each story was distinct, the multi-media exhibition connected the seven student projects through shared social dialogues about telecommunications: a campaign's power; a wire's beauty; the face of advertising; the origin of etiquette; the lost exhibition; the intimacy of long-distance; the fairies in your phone.
By going back to original source material, we find authenticity and raw stories to tell. We learn that narratives lie in every archive and every object. They can speak to us, and we can listen.
Seeing Voices was a finalist in the 2011 Core 77 awards. Read more about the competition here. See more photos of the exhibition here
Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design
An international conference defining graphic design for the future
9–11 July 2008
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
Exhibition
15 November 2008 – 15 February
2009
Melbourne Museum
Melbourne, Australia
This was the second in a series of international conferences which explored ways in which we might define graphic design for the future.
The event took the form of a series of conversation clusters (Design Writing/Criticism; Interdisciplinarity; Practice and Methods; New Critical Thinking; Responsive Curricula; and Changing the Real World). Our keynote speakers — Terry Irwin (University of Dundee), Chris Downs (live | work) and Professor Richard Buchanan (then at Carneige Mellon University) provided the prompts for discussions.
Participants were asked to actively engage in workshops which examined graphic design in relationship to these themes. The results of this three-day event have prompted further conversations to take place in participant's professional practices, academic institutions and in publication. The conference was a collaboration between the research unit for Information Environments, University of the Arts London, UK and the Design Research Institute, RMIT Melbourne, Australia.
Accompanying the conference was New Views 2: Conversations in Graphic Design, an exhibition of 40 posters on the future of the profession. Another 60 images, combine to create the visual conversation that is the digital exhibition.
Space and Learning environments:
A view to the future
We were commissioned by the University of the Arts London to help prompt discussions related to the future innovation of space and learning environments. Workshops were held in order to share and generate new ways of thinking about the spaces in which learning and teaching takes place. These activities and interviews with graphic design students formed Space to Learn developed in conjunction with the following colleagues:
Cinematographer:
Roy Cornwall, London College of Communication
Sound:
Sam Nightingale, Freelance sound recordist,
Organic Sounds and Alumnus,
London College of Communication.
Editing:
Adrian Thompson, Final Year student,
BA Film & Video, London College of Communication
Interviewer:
Professor Teal Triggs, co-Director, Information Environments, University of the Arts London.
The film was shown at the Triangle Gallery, Chelsea College of Art and Design and accompanied Space to Think: Our Teaching, Learning and Making Spaces in the 21st Century a conference held at the University of the Arts London, July 2008.
i.e. staff from across the University came together in a 'blue-sky' workshop to explore the future of learning spaces for the discipline of graphic design. These workshops coupled with student-based activities and feedback interviews held at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London College of Communication and Camberwell College of Arts, were the basis of a documentary film on learning spaces.
i.e. members have a long-standing interest in pedagogical practice and were pleased to curate the University of the Arts London exhibition Space and Learning Environments: A view to the future? which accompanied the highly successful conference Our Teaching, Learning and Making Spaces in the 21st Century (2008).
15 November 2008 – 15 February 2009
Melbourne Museum
Melbourne, Australia
