St. Martin's College, Lancaster Campus, Bowerham Road, Lancaster. Thursday 28 September, 1 – 5pm.
This was an opportunity to hear a selection of practitioners participating in the Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders exhibition talk about their work and discuss how digital technologies have enabled a convergence of disciplines, creative practice and production techniques.
Dr Paul Rodgers is Reader in the School of Creative Industries at Napier University, Edinburgh. Before this, he was employed at the University of Cambridge’s Engineering Design Centre as a post doctoral Research Fellow. Rodgers is the author of Inspiring Designers (Black Dog Publishers, London, 2004) a major new book on the “iconic influences” of successful designers throughout the world. Dr Rodgers has published more than 90 book chapters, International journal and conference papers.
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Tavs Jørgensen’s projects merge traditional methods in furniture making, ceramics and foundry work with new technologies such as rapid prototyping, digitising and motion capture. The aesthetics of his work reflect the construction process used to make them. Jørgensen is currently Research Fellow in 3D Digital Production at the Autonomatic Research Cluster, University College Falmouth, where he is exploring new interfaces between human gesture and CAD/CAM.
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Aoife Ludlow is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and works as Research Assistant at Interface: Research in Art, Technologies and Design.
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Justin Marshall’s practice spans sculpture, installation and design. Much of his recent work has been ceramic or plaster based, combining traditional skills with new technologies. Marshall is currently Research Fellow in 3D digital production at University College, Falmouth. His most recent exhibition was at Das Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany, and in 2005 he was awarded an Autonomatic research grant to work with Hayles & Howe decorative plaster company to develop new processes and work.
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In 2002 Lionel T. Dean was appointed Designer in Residence at Huddersfield University and began working on FutureFactories, a digital manufacturing concept for the mass individualisation of products. FutureFactories has had exhibitions in London and Milan. Previously Dean worked as an automotive designer for Pininfarina in Italy, before launching his own consultancy business.
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Human Beans create provocative concepts. They make fictional products by hacking commercial culture and design new services by working with real people. Their work is disseminated through spam, media, shop shelves and exhibitions. Human Beans is a collaboration between advertising creative and designer Mickael Charbonnel and design strategist Chris Vanstone. Their work was recently included in the HearWear exhibition at the V&A, London and Safe: Design Takes On Risk at MoMA, New York.
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After the presentations there was time for questions and comments.
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