Staff in the Department of Design

Yemi Awosile

Yemi’s work is informed by cultural insights expressed primarily through textiles and printed matter. The broader scope of her practice bridges design and visual arts through social interventions.

Edward Bagenal

Edward's research is broadly focused on investigating the nature of the curation of authority through its manifestations in material culture and the democratisation of access to governance and agency in civic systems.

Tuur van Balen

Tuur’s practice explores processes of production as cultural, social and political practices.

Stuart Bannocks

Stuart's work is currently focused on zines, self-publishing practices, and comics as vehicles for exploring and interrogating architecture and design.

Ruth Beale

Ruth Beale is an artist whose socially engaged practice seeks to trouble societal structures, reframe knowledge hierarchies and advocate for collective approaches.

Teresa Cos

Teresa is a visual artist and musician based in London. Indebted forever to rhythmanalysis and depth psychology, their audiovisual works, performances and scores map and disrupt culturally fabricated notions of time, identity, memory, and desire.

Rebecca Glyn-Blanco

Rebecca's work is concerned with migration and its systems, displacement of people and their representation in material and visual culture.

Sean Hall

Sean researches the ways designed objects have normalising conditions of production and categories of consumption.

Arjun Harrison Mann

Arjun is a London-based designer, activist and advocate for dialogue, whose practice proposes the role of dialogical design in Post-Visual Communication.

Sahra Hersi

Sahra Hersi is an artist and spatial designer, and she describes her work as “caring about people, places, art & architecture, in that order”. Her work is public and ranges in scales from zines, workshops, public realm interventions and buildings.

Ruby Hoette

Ruby is a designer/researcher exploring fashion in context. Her work unpicks and reconfigures relationships between garment and system, theory and practice.

Tobie Kerridge

Tobie is committed to taking a collaborative and speculative approach to design.

Carolyn Kirschner

Carolyn is a designer and researcher whose work explores complex relationships between humans, ecologies, and machines.

Vero Liu

Vero is a designer, researcher, editor and writer. Her design practice examines critical gender theory.

Jimmy Loizeau

Dash Macdonald

Dash is an artist and educator who works collaboratively, exploring the process of making as a mode of politic

Charlie Manthorp

Charlie's diverse practice explores community, participation and the supernatural, often through ceramics.

Tom Marriott

Tom is a designer and social researcher who uses design to understand the implications of technology

Naho Matsuda

Naho has interests in social engagement and interactive experiences, using performance, objects and installation.

Katherine May

Katherine works as a designer/researcher, examining the life of textile materials through research and making.

Tess McKenzie

Tess’ practice pursues a sculptural or filmic understanding of collage, informed by theatrical design and choreography

Nicholas Mortimer

Nicholas’s practice explores how reality, its representation and performance can be designed or deployed.

Soomi Park

Soomi’s work discusses the complex relationship between emerging technologies and human desires.

Sarah Pennington

Sarah's research explores the implications care and feminist technoscience for speculative design research.

Nella Piatek

Nella Piatek is a critical designer, researcher and cyberwitch studying the evolution of the human in conjunction with digital technology.

Laura Potter

Laura’s specialist background is in craft, particularly concerning the theory and practice of contemporary jewellery.

Corinne Quin

Corinne's work explores how narrative, images and materiality are involved in the production of space.

Drew Richards

Drew is a game designer and maker, his work encompasses commercial tabletop games as well as gamification for public engagement through workshops and events.

Harry Richardson

Harry Richardson is a partner at Committee, a design office and art studio based in south-east London that has, over the last twenty years, created work of many kinds for clients and cultural institutions around the world.

Bethany Rigby

Dom Robson

Pete Rogers

Pete’s interests are in physical computing, mapping-geolocation, crowd theory and participative sensing.

Naama Schendar

Naama Schendar is a performer, director and filmmaker. Her work explores how narrative, speculation and the body are involved in the construction of socio-political norms.

Annelore Schneider

Annelore (collectif_fact) explores how narrative can expand our relationship with space, images and objects.

Rose Sinclair MBE

My research looks at how technologies play a part in the aesthetics of the practice of crafting and making. I have a pas

Cindy Strobach

Cindy is a designer and maker. Her work invites people to explore science and the natural world in their own context.

Mathilda Tham

Mathilda’s work sits in a positive, creative and activist space between design, futures studies and sustainability.

Mike Thompson

Mike's work delves into the intricacies of material participation.

Mike Waller

Mike's research continues to develop design innovation research through Goldsmiths Prospecting and Innovation Studio (Pi Studio).

Professor Matt Ward

Matt’s research spans a wide range of interests from speculative design to radical pedagogy

Joanne Wardrop

Professor Alex Wilkie

Alex Wilkie explores more-than-human futures through the intersection of design and science and technology studies.

Rain Wu

Rain is an artist and architect working on the intersections of food, ecology, cartography and politics.