thefutureishere

Well – fame by association ish – I appear to be a (small) part of the winning team working on the MA Fine Art, Open College of the Arts (OCA). The team, nominated by students has won the best teaching team (arts and humanities) at the Prospects Postgraduate Awards beating well....everybody! Especially the shortlisted - School of Architecture/Landscape Architecture Team, Birmingham City University and the Fine Arts Team, University for the Creative Arts Canterbury. Working in the future is very exciting – the technology sometimes is a little fuzzy/cluttered but in general it brings order and discipline to the creative thinking. Looking forward to the show in Sheffield.

An image of my work with Naomi Mcintosh features on the blog for parallel practices at the crafts council - it looks good http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/craft-and-healthcare/  

squeezefoldbendandexpand

success - I’ve got through the initial application, a day of meetings/presentation, ‘interview’, the short-listing and the joint application to have the opportunity to work with the Crafts Council on a project titled - PARALLEL PRACTICES - http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/parallel-practices/

It’s a really interesting collaboration I am about to work with Thrishantha Nanayakkara http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nms/depts/informatics/people/atoz/nanayakkarat.aspx who works at The Centre for Robotics Research, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences at Kings in London and Naomi Mcintosh who creates body related Jewellery and Jewellery related objects - http://www.naomimcintosh.com/. It’s going to be a great journey of discovery for us all. The project we have created is called Squeeze Fold Bend and Expand - Structural Memory in Deformable Objects. We want to extend current soft robotics through model making, challenging and expanding our practices by exploring ways of controlling movement and articulation of objects in order to build new structures whose functionality and manipulation will be framed and enriched by knowledge of soft robotics – phew!!!