Duncan Fairfax

Duncan Fairfax is the current Head of Department in Design. He is also an international research associate of the recently established design consultancy and think tank, “The Studio at the Edge of the World,” started by renowned design philosopher and sustainability theorist Professor Tony Fry. His principle areas of research and teaching cover the discourses of contemporary ecology, sustainability, environmental ethics, system and service design, innovation, leadership, and change management. His most recent work is focused on the development of a new, more ethically appropriate and responsible, understanding of the nature of the “praxis” of design, as it can be derived from contemporary sociological theories of practice, extended and embodied, or enactive theories of mind within contemporary neuroscience, and ontological theories of design.

Publications and research outputs

Design

Rosenberg, Terry E.; Waller, Michael; Fairfax, Duncan; Weatherhead, Andrew; Rogers, Peter and Bagenal, Edward. 2010. i-Soapbox.

Rosenberg, Terry E.; Waller, Michael; Fairfax, Duncan; Weatherhead, Andrew and Rogers, Peter. 2009. News Telescope.

Rosenberg, Terry E.; Waller, Michael; Fairfax, Duncan; Weatherhead, Andrew; Rogers, Peter and Bagenal, Edward. 2009. i-Legend.

Show/Exhibition

Jungnickel, Kat; Fairfax, Duncan; Ballie, Jen and Wilkie, Alex. 2015. The Dewey Organ Project. In: "Imagination Festival", Govanhill Baths, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4-6 September 2015.

Waller, Michael; Rosenberg, Terry E. and Fairfax, Duncan. 2010. Mediatising public space and mediating practice: exhibition and research symposium. In: "Mediatising public space and mediating practices", Goldsmiths, United Kingdom, 27/11/2010 to 2/12/2010.

Conference or Workshop Item

Jungnickel, Katrina; Fairfax, Duncan; Ballie, Jen and Wilkie, Alex. 2015. 'AHRC ProtoPublics Project Presentation - "The Dewey Organ"'. In: AHRC ProtoPublics Research Projects Presentation. AHRC Design Symposium, United Kingdom 25/09/2015.

Waller, Michael and Fairfax, Duncan. 2010. 'Keynote Speaker: International Convergence Symposium on Design and Engineering, Kyung Hee University S.Korea'. In: International Convergence Symposium on Design and Engineering. kyung Hee University, Korea, Republic of 30 August 2010.

Rosenberg, Terry E. and Fairfax, Duncan. 2007. 'Designing Critically'. In: Design and Social Science research seminar series. Goldsmiths, United Kingdom.

Article

Fairfax, Duncan and Rosenberg, Terry E.. 2012. Considering the hérisson (hedgehog/porcupine): Writing-designing the context essay. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 5(3), pp. 343-364. ISSN 1753-5190

Fairfax, Duncan and Waller, Michael. 2010. Conference Review of the Cltad 5th International Conference Challenging the Curriculum: Exploring the Disciplinary Boundaries in Art, Design and Media. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 3(1), p. 79. ISSN 1753-1590

Waller, Michael and Fairfax, Duncan. 2010. Conference Review of the Cltad 5th International Conference Challenging the Curriculum: Exploring the Disciplinary Boundaries in Art, Design and Media. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 3(2), pp. 87-88. ISSN 1753-1590

Book Section

Waller, Michael; Rosenberg, Terry E.; Weatherhead, Andrew; Rogers, Peter; Bagenal, Edward and Fairfax, Duncan. 2010. Cultures of change: social atoms and electronic lives. News telescope. In: Gennaro Ascione; Cinta Massip and Josep Perello, eds. Cultures of change: social atoms and electronic lives. Barcelona: Actar and Arts Santa Monica, pp. 82-85. ISBN 978-84-92861-14-9

Edited Journal

Rosenberg, Terry E. and Fairfax, Duncan, eds. 2008. Material thinking Vol. 1 no 2, Studies in material thinking, 1(2).

Professional Activity

Nocek, Adam; Pisters, Patricia and Fairfax, Duncan. 2017. GeoMedia Research Network - Position Paper. "Negentropic Apparatus: Stiegler and the Possibilities of Algorithmic Resistance".

Fry, Tony and Fairfax, Duncan. 2017. Studio at the Edge of the World - Inaugural Research Workshop "Seeing Unsettlement".

Waller, Michael and Fairfax, Duncan. 2017. Creative Business Innovation Workshops for SMEs in London.