Ventura Lambrate 2015
In April this year convivial travelled to Milan to exhibit the Generative Scarves project at Ventura LAP. We had a lovely time showcasing our scarves and were very excited by the great feedback. Please see some images of the stand below. Stand design and fabrication by David Bennett Photos and Film by Zoe Opal East Thanks to Kashika Ashley Cooper and Zoe Opal East for the great support in set up, take down and especially invigilating during the
Craft Industrialism 2015
Craft Industrialism 2015 - Curated by Studio Aikieu In March 2015 convivial project showed the Generative Scarves project during Craft Industrialism at Lambert's Yard in Leeds. An exhibition that seeks to bridge the gap between the maker and the public. A carefully curated public space was created to reveal the process of craftsmanship and showcase the maker’s creative process. Interactive ‘factories’ were featured in the space, to enable public participation in the making process. Photographer: Peter ...
Intel: Inside The Blue
I had the pleasure to work on a project for Intel through Unit9. We worked together with Noise in New York. Find below an excerpt from Unit9's project page: 'The world is filled with waves that are not visible to the human eye, including technological waves such as WiFi, 4G and LTE. Signal Fish, giant flying fish that seeks out WiFi waves and then visualizes this data using light and movement. It communicates wirelessly to a Brain Coral base station via the XBee module. The Intel Galileo, an Arduino-certified prototyping board, ...
Big Data 2014
23 Jan - 13 Feb 2014 Carole Collet kindly invited me to show the Thought Harvester and the Plasmorph at her recent initiative Big Data: Designing with the Materials of Life at the Lethaby Gallery. Below a bit of info from the UAL website: The exhibition is curated in two parallel formats. A static design exhibition which will present biologically-driven design narratives, including work from Ann-Kristin Abel, William Bondin, Natsai Chieza, Rob Kesseler, Amy Congdon, Ruairi Glynn and Ollie Palmer A live design-science ...
Digital Futures – V&A 2014
vectors was invited by Irini Papadimitriou, V&A Digital Programmes Manager, to speak at the Digital Futures event at the V&A.The event will take place Tuesday, 21 January, 14.00-17.00 at the Digital Studio, Sackler Centre. Below a bit more information from their website: Digital Futures is an open studio showcase for students and researchers from digital media / computational / interactive arts & digital design courses. The programme offers participants opportunities to show and discuss their work with fellow artists, technologists and ...
Design Beyond Making 2013
I have recently co-founded vectors, a design initiative by Miriam Ribul and myself that launched in 2013. A vector is a pollinator, a biotic agent carrying and dispersing new thinking to an alternate system. In this context we organise events and invite fellow designers to share their ideas and to nurture collaboration between different disciplines. Our first exhibition Design Beyond Making was an excursion into resource discovery, material development, and process innovation. It took place with kind support from the Protein Gallery at 18 ...
En Vie / Alive 2013
'The Plasmorph' is being shown in the living room of 'ALIVE: NEW DESIGN FRONTIERS', a groundbreaking exhibiton taking place in Paris. 26 april - 1 september 2013, Espace Fondation EDF, Paris 'A quiet revolution is happening. A new breed of designers has begun to reshape our world by re-orchestrating our relationship to nature. Imagine a world where biological fabrication replaces traditional manufacture, plants that grow products, and bacteria genetically re-programmed to 'Biofacture' new materials, artefacts, energy or ...
Design and Emotion 2012
I have been invited to show 'New Human: Embodiment of the Unconscious Mind' during the 8th International Conference on Design and Emotion which was held at CSM Kings Cross campus from the 11th - 14th September 2012. This was a great opportunity for me and 9 other designers to showcase our work within a great program of influential speakers and leaders from industry and academia including fashion designer Hussein
Birmingham Interiors 2012
Our collective POSTextiles exhibited at Birmingham Interiors 2012 with Designersblock. NEC Birmingham, 22.01.2012 - 25.01.2012 "Experimenting with the boundaries of a material is a practice that comes as second nature to the designers of POSTextiles. Exploring the capabilites and using unexpected properties of materials is integral to our design processess, using it as a means to explore research but most importantly to communicate ideas. Showcased at Interiors UK is a selection of material samples selected from our portfolio’s, ...
Ventura Berlin – Qubique 2011
POSTextiles exhibited at Qubique with Ventura Berlin Qubique, Tempelhof Airport, BERLIN, 26.10.2011 - 29.10.2011 POSTextiles presented outside of the UK for the first time and had some really good feedback and many interesting encounters.
