
Education
I have worked extensively for museums and charities teaching design projects and craft sessions. These educational workshops has been a key part of my work for several years and I am working on developing a methodology that allows people to reflect on intangible issues though the making of objects.
Themes include:
- Design education workshops getting both young and old people prototyping and solving problems by working with their hands. My aim is that, in seeing making and design as a form of activism, we can encouraging people to take ownership of the problems around them and, through this, to take ownership of our collective future.
- Through teaching repair skills and creative projects in which participants make things from waste. I hope to raise awareness of the valuable resources still embodied within "waste" products they would otherwise throw away to encourage more circular ways of thinking.
- I also teach craft, woodworking and electronics classes for local charities and organisations embracing the broader social impacts of working with our hands.
Previous Work
Running design workshops for young people across Scotland as part of the Scottish Design Relay for V&A Dundee
Facilitating workshops for Fixperts using their learning program to help young people imagine solutions to everyday problems
From the blog...
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We Built a Wooden Boat in Five Days!
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Facilitating with Fixperts
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Galgael Woodworking – V&A Dundee Scottish Design Relay Glasgow
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A Papermill Inspired Installation – V&A Dundee Scottish Design Relay
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Designing Shetland Knitwear – V&A Dundee Scottish Design Relay
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An App to Promote Tourism in Caithness – V&A Dundee Scottish Design Relay
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A New Take on Orkney Furniture – V&A Dundee Scottish Design Relay
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A Manifesto for Design at Galgael
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The Polar Bear Alarm – V&A Dundee Scottish Design Relay Dundee
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Thoughts on Making in India – Self Sufficient Systems
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Thoughts on Making in India – Real Ownership of Objects
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Designing a Kit for Co-Design with Older Adults