Tobie Kerridge
Tobie is committed to taking a collaborative and speculative approach to design.
Staff details
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
- Design: Energy Babble Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie; Wilkie, Alex; Boucher, Andy; Ovalle, Liliana and Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew. 2018. Design: Energy Babble.
- The Photostroller Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Cameron, David; Gaver, William; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Phillips, Robert and Wilkie, Alex. 2011. The Photostroller.
- The Photostroller (Overview) Gaver, William; Boucher, Andy; Bowers, John; Jarvis, Nadine; Kerridge, Tobie; Cameron, David; Wilkie, Alex and Phillips, Robert. 2010. The Photostroller (Overview).
Show/Exhibition
- Milton Village Hall Spring Energy Fete 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.
- Energy Babble 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.
- Experimental Thinking / Design Practices 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
- Energy Babble 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
- Cross-Departmental Textiles Workshop 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.
- Redesigning Stewardship Kerridge, Tobie and Hartley, John. 2019. 'Redesigning Stewardship'. In: Redesigning Stewardship. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 16 September 2019.
- Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement 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
- Turning People into Workbooks Kerridge, Tobie. 2017. Turning People into Workbooks. Interactions, 24(6), pp. 6-7. ISSN 1072-5520
- Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups 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.
- The Photostroller: supporting diverse care home residents in engaging with the world 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
- Studios, Problems, Publics 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
- Sound Design 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
Edited Book
- NON-AQUIND Kerridge, Tobie and Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca, eds. 2023. NON-AQUIND. London: Goldsmiths, University of London. ISBN 9781915983510
- Take Me To Your River (Book) Pennington, Sarah and Kerridge, Tobie, eds. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Book). London: Goldsmiths, University of London.
Film/Video
- Stop Aquind - Eastney and Milton Allotments Kerridge, Tobie and Caddick, James. 2022. Stop Aquind - Eastney and Milton Allotments.
Printed Ephemera
- Sustainability, Invention and Energy Demand Reduction: Co-designing Communities and Practice 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.
- Making and Opening: Entangling Design and Social Science - conference delegate hand-out 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
- Research Through Design 2017 - conference panelist and review committee member Andersen, Kristina; Auger, James; Kerridge, Tobie and Kettley, Sarah. 2017. Research Through Design 2017 - conference panelist and review committee member.
- Empirical Speculation - US Invited Talks Kerridge, Tobie. 2016. Empirical Speculation - US Invited Talks.
Project
- NON-AQUIND Kerridge, Tobie; Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca and Matsuda, Naho. 3 March 2022 - 1 December 2023 NON-AQUIND.
- Take Me To Your River (Project) Kerridge, Tobie and Pennington, Sarah. 2023. Take Me To Your River (Project).
- Project: Energy and Co-Designing Communities (Energy Babble) 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
- Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement Kerridge, Tobie. 2015. Designing Debate: The Entanglement of Speculative Design and Upstream Engagement. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London
