About
Designer, researcher, organiser and educator based in London. I’m a founding member of Common Knowledge, a not-for-profit worker cooperative that uses design and technology to help social movements build power. I’m interested in how design can be used to faciltate people to organise, build support structures, and imagine post-capitalist futures.
I’m on the board of workers.coop, a UK-wide federation of worker cooperatives. As part of collectives like Designers + Cultural Workers and Evening Class, I’ve contributed to building support structures for precarious workers. Through my teaching practice, I support design students to reflect on how and why they work, exploring diverse economic strategies and feminist methods of organising.
I’ve worked as a graphic and interactive designer in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Australia. I’ve held teaching positions at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Central St Martins, London College of Communication and Design Lusófona Lisboa, and have given talks and workshops at institutions like the University of Cambridge, Kingston School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design.
Contact
Current and upcoming
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Materials Festival
Pelican House, London, UK
Previously
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Lecture, FORM
University of Greenwich, London, UK -
Panel, Digital Ecosystems – A Common Practice
Stadtgalerie Bern, CH -
Panel, The Future of the Knowledge Commons
Who Owns Free Knowledge? Conference, Berlin, DE -
Workshop, Mapping Livelihoods
HSLU Master Eco-Social Design, Lucerne, CH -
Lecture
UWE Bristol Graphic Design, Bristol, UK -
Seminar, Transformative Work as Livelihood
MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT -
Conversation, Gardening as a Design Method
Robida Magazine / Mold Magazine
with LinYee Yuan and Linsey Rendell -
Workshop, Liberatory Technology for Movement-Building
New Organising Conference, Nottingham, UK
with Geeks for Social Change -
A Cooperative Conversation
post-office, Amsterdam, NL
with Georgia Kareola, Bryan Wolff and Paprika Xu -
Lecture, Models and Methods
Kingston School of Art, London, UK -
Course, Design, Non Design
Design Lusófona Lisboa, PT
with Eva Gonçalves -
Seminar, Transformative Work as Livelihood
MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT -
Participant, Mobilizing Hearts and Minds course
The ReImagining Value Action Lab -
Conversation, Radio Robida
Topolò, IT
with How Melnyczuk -
Practice Retreat, Community Economies in Action
Rovereto, IT -
Lecture, The Designer as…
Faculdade Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, PT -
Workshops, Community-Led Design Practices
BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK -
Talk, Politics of Design
SuperHi -
Symposium, The Forest Multiple
University of Cambridge, UK -
Conversation, Good Times Bad Times
Rotterdam, NL -
Discussion, Means of Organisation
The New Centre -
Lecture, Building Collective Sovereignty
Weizenbaum Conference, Berlin, DE -
Workshops, UnFound Accelerator 2022
UK -
Lecture, Worker Cooperatives
BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK -
Conversation, Design & Politics
Rhode Island School of Design, US -
Interview, Caps Lock
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Article, How to Run a Design Sprint
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Workshops, UnFound Accelerator 2021
UK -
Panel discussion, What Next?
Central Saint Martins, London, UK -
Lecture, Core 2 Interaction Studio
Parsons, New York, US -
Interview, General Intellect Unit
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Workshop, The Reciprocal Studio, MA Graphic Media Design
London College of Communication, UK
with Sonia Turcotte -
Associate Lecturer, BA User Experience Design
London College of Communication, UK -
Panel discussion, The World Transformed
London, UK -
Discussion, (How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbors)) (in neoliberal times)?
as part of UVW-DCW -
Talk, Designing the Future
Space4, London, UK -
Teach-out, Designers & Cultural Workers need a union, too
LCC picket line, London, UK
as part of UVW-DCW -
Workshop, Internet Health Report
London College of Communication, UK -
Evening Class
London, UK -
Associate Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication Design
Central Saint Martins, London, UK -
Talk, Dissenting Ephemera
MayDay Rooms, London, UK -
Talk, Design's Agency
HBK Braunschweig, DE -
Interview, Digital Tools for Self-Organised Change
Nebula -
Workshop, Building Alternatives
Hurra Hurra festival, Halle, DE
as part of Evening Class -
Residency, La Foresta
Rovereto, IT -
Residency, Casa Sasso
Vairano, CH -
Future Corp
London, UK -
Workshop, Internet Health Report
Ravensbourne University, London, UK -
Interview, Perpetual Beta & Post-Capitalist Desires
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, US
as part of Evening Class -
Interview, Creative Lives in Progress
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Vandejong
Amsterdam, NL -
LUST
The Hague, NL -
MDes, Design Futures
Queensland College of Art, AU
Recent work
- Pelican House
- Solidarity Knows No Borders
- Platform
- In Deep Water
- Smart Forests Atlas
- Safe as Houses
- Gallery Climate Coalition
- The Architecture Lobby
- Border Forensics
- Future Natures
- After Progress
- Airsift
- Game Worker Solidarity Project
- Transform Your Work
- Claim the Future
- Progressive International
- StopWatch
- La Foresta local network