Invited Talks

  • Designing the Metaverse. Ipsos’s What’s Next In UX podcast series: Episode 2 (Jan 23, 2023)

  • Shaping a More Intentional Virtual Future: Design Thinking for Immersive Experiences. Design Thinking conference, Austin (Sept 27, 2022)

  • Breaking the Code: Algorithms that Work for All. Stylus Decoded Future Summit, NYC (Oct 18, 2019)

  • Looking for Humanity in AI. Technonomy, NYC (May 14, 2019) 

  • Digital Tools to Explore Beyond Average Ideas. Royal Society of the Arts, London (2019) 

  • Beyond Average, Arts and Science Salon, NYC (Oct 2018) 

  • Designing the Future Designer’s Toolbox. Reaktor Breakpoint conference, Helsinki (May 24, 2018)

  • Computing Creativity: Designing tools across disciplines. Reaktor Breakpoint conference, Helsinki (May 23, 2018)

  • Digitally Enabled Creativity. Design Museum at Hubweek, Boston (Oct 2017)

  • Digitally Enabled Creativity. IYRS School of Technology and Trades, Newport (July 22, 2017)

  • Humans, Machines and the Future of Industrial Design. SXSW Interactive conference, Austin (Mar 10, 2017)

Exhibitions

Design Daydreams, IDEO FutureFest (2018)

What if this could be something else? Building on a project originally conceived in the Acadia 2017 Design Tools of the Future hackathon, Design Daydreams projects digital ghosts on top of the world and objects around you, bringing many computationally-augmented design fiction worlds to life using just your phone or tablet. Elevating the post-it note into a more magical daydream for collaging concepts together and creating new ideas.

Reconceivers, metaLAB + friends openLAB (2018)

An installation and demonstration of a collection of tools to provoke new interpretations of concepts and objects and inspire creative design ideas (featuring the EmotiveModeler and early prototypes of Design Daydreams)

Birds of a Feather, MIT Media Lab Links Conference (2013)

While traditional ornithological representations show the complexity of connections between the genus, these guides do not represent the rich, multi-sensorial physicality of birds' songs and colours. Inspired by this rich ornithological data, Birds of a Feather reunites the conventional Birds of Paradise family tree with the dynamic sounds and colours of the birds in an immersive audio-visual experience. Colors sampled from the plumage of the birds matched to auditory elements in their songs bring to life a representation system that is not only capable of creating a holistic understanding of how ornithological data is structured, but also an opportunity to explore hidden phenomena in the natural world. Created with Floor van de Velde.

aireForm, MIT Media Lab Other Festival Fashion Show (2013)

aireForm is a pneumatically actuated shape-changing garment inspired by the various silhouettes that enhance the human form in women’s fashion. Created together with Ryuma Niiyama, Xiao Xiao and Jennifer Jacobs, it was shown at the fashion show as part of the MIT Media Lab Other Festival (April 2013)

Drink/Make/Feast, MIT Media Lab Other Festival (2013)

Drink/Make/Feast was a creative immersive eating experience that formed one of the Acts in the Other Feast, an immersive, multi-sensory experience in four acts held as part of the MIT Media Lab Other Festival (April 2013). Each act explored a different theme of eating, from mysterious to playful to communal. Drink, Make, Feast was the first act where diners were encouraged to tangibly participate in the design of their eating experience, specifically their utensils. The centerpieces of the table was a modified 'Christmas cracker' which, when torn open, revealed the materials diners could use to construct their own cutlery - a variety of popsicle sticks, toothpicks, and rubber bands - and create a new eating experience through how they interacted with their food.

Hangu, Bath Fringe Festival (2010)

Building from its humble roots as a guerilla intervention to bring an uplifting element of nature to an unremarkable tunnel in Vauxhall (London), Hangu created an aviary of over 200 paper origami birds flying through The Octagon exhibition venue.

Spectate, Royal Collage of Art Show (2009)

Spectate was exhibited at the Industrial Design Engineering graduating show at the Royal College of Art as a culmination of a 5 month long masters project.

Replenish, Royal Collage of Art Sustain Exhibition (2009)

Replenish was exhibited at the Industrial Design Engineering interim show at the Royal College of Art as a culmination of a 5 month long group project. It was also included in the Sustain exhibition; a collection of student work which considered a greater level of environmental concern and addressed sustainable issues