Tobie Kerridge

Tobie has worked as a design researcher since 2003, with the Interaction Research Studio and as a Helen Hamlyn Research Associate. He is committed to taking a collaborative and speculative approach to design, and in providing empirical and critical accounts of that practice. His research projects have been supported by Philips Design, Intel and France Telecom, and funded by UK and EU funding councils. Previously Tobie has lectured at the Royal College of Art, Central St. Martins, and the Industrial Design faculty at Technical University Eindhoven. He led two EPSRC funded public engagement projects, collaborating with Nikki Stott and Ian Thompson at the Maxillofacial unit at Kings College London to deliver a project called Biojewellery, and took a two-year visiting researcher role with the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College to support the Material Beliefs project. His designs have been exhibited internationally, including shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Design Triennial in Beijing.

Tobie’s PhD thesis provided an empirical analysis of Material Beliefs, where speculative design and public engagement with science and technology become mixed up, and he is able to supervise PhD students dealing with complimentary topics.

Publications and research outputs

Design

Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2018. Design: Energy Babble.

Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Phillips, Robert and Wilkie, Alex. 2011. The Photostroller.

Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Cameron, David; Wilkie, Alex and Phillips, Robert. 2010. The Photostroller (Overview).

Show/Exhibition

Kerridge, Tobie; Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca and Matsuda, Naho. 2022. Milton Village Hall Spring Energy Fete. In: "Milton Village Hall Spring Energy Fete", Portsmouth, United Kingdom, 2 April 2022.

Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew and Boucher, Andy. 2016. Energy Babble. In: "Climactic: Post Normal Design", Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States, Nov - Dec 2016.

Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew; Wilkie, Alex; Gabrys, Jennifer and Boucher, Andy. 2015. Experimental Thinking / Design Practices. In: "Experimental Thinking / Design Practices", Griffith University Art Gallery, Australia.

Book

Boucher, Andy; Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike; Ovalle, Liliana; Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew and Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Energy Babble. Mattering Press. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0

Conference or Workshop Item

Andrews, Jorella G.; Wakeford, Nina; Kerridge, Tobie and Cameron, Jane. 2023. 'Cross-Departmental Textiles Workshop'. In: Cross Departmental Textiles Workshop. Constance Howard Gallery, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 8 March 2023.

Kerridge, Tobie and Hartley, John. 2019. 'Redesigning Stewardship'. In: Redesigning Stewardship. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 16 September 2019.

Kerridge, Tobie. 2016. 'Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement'. In: DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking. Brighton, United Kingdom 27-30 June 2016.

Article

Kerridge, Tobie. 2017. Turning People into Workbooks. Interactions, 24(6), pp. 6-7. ISSN 1072-5520

Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2015. Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups. Proceedings of CHI 2015, pp. 1115-1124.

Gaver, William; Wright, Peter; Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Blythe, Mark; Jarvis, Nadine; Cameron, David; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex and Phillips, Robert. 2011. The Photostroller: supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world. pp. 1757-2222.

Book Section

Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Sound Design. In: Andy Boucher; William Gaver; Tobie Kerridge; Mike Michael; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie, eds. Energy Babble. Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 56-60. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0

Wilkie, Alex. 2018. Studios, Problems, Publics. In: Andy Boucher; William Gaver; Tobie Kerridge; Mike Michael; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie, eds. Energy Babble. Manchester: Mattering Press, pp. 90-96. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0

Edited Book

Kerridge, Tobie and Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca, eds. 2023. NON-AQUIND. London: Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 9781915983510

Pennington, Sarah and Kerridge, Tobie, eds. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Book). London: Goldsmiths, University of London.

Film/Video

Kerridge, Tobie and Caddick, James. 2022. Stop Aquind - Eastney and Milton Allotments.

Printed Ephemera

Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Cameron, David; Jarvis, Nadine; Gabrys, Jennifer; Gaver, William; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike and Wilkie, Alex. 2010. Sustainability, Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-designing Communities and Practice.

Wilkie, Alex; Kerridge, Tobie; Michael, Mike; Gaver, William; Wakeford, Nina and Jungnickel, Kat. 2010. Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science - conference delegate hand-out.

Professional Activity

Andersen, Kristina; Auger, James; Kerridge, Tobie and Kettley, Sarah. 2017. Research Through Design 2017 - conference panelist and review committee member.

Kerridge, Tobie. 2016. Empirical Speculation - US Invited Talks.

Project

Kerridge, Tobie; Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca and Matsuda, Naho. 3 March 2022 - 1 December 2023 NON-AQUIND.

Kerridge, Tobie and Pennington, Sarah. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Project).

Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2018. Project: Energy and Co-Designing Communities (Energy Babble).

Thesis

Kerridge, Tobie. 2015. Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London