For those of you that missed Brendan’s talk, we captured it [on poor quality video]:

Design Means… Brendan Walker from Matt Ward on Vimeo.

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Vicarious: performance, psychophysiological monitoring and broadcast technologies to thrill an audience

25th January 2010

4 – 6 pm

Room137a, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths

Brendan Walker is “the world’s only Thrill Engineer”. He originally trained as a military aeronautical engineer, before researching and teaching in Interaction Design at the RCA. Brendan now runs Aerial – a design practice specialising in the creation of tailored emotional experience, with clients such as The Science Museum, Merlin Entertainment, and Disneyland. Brendan is a visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham.

All ‘Design Means…’ lectures are open to the public.

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SIX SPEAKING CHAIRS, OBJECTS FOR GRANDPEOPLE AND THE MUSEUM OF LOST INTERACTIONS

7th December 2009

4 – 6 pm

Room137a, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths

Graham Pullin is an interaction designer who spent 10 years at IDEO which included leading Social Mobiles with Crispin Jones and running a studio.
He moved to Dundee to pursue research into communication aids for people who cannot speak, has published the book ‘Design Meets Disability’ and
leads the Interactive Media Design course there.

All ‘Design Means…’ lectures are open to the public.

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IN SEARCH OF INSPIRATION

9th november 2009

4 – 6 pm

Room137a, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths

Dominic Wilcox is an artist, designer, inventor and thinkeruper who works within the territory of the ‘everyday’. Everyday objects, environments, buildings, human interaction, no area of normality is out of reach. His work, which is usually layered with an ultra dry wit, places a spotlight on the banal, always adding a new, alternative perspective on things we take for granted. [Words by Matt Ward]

All ‘Design Means…’ lectures are open to the public.

Design Means... is a lecture series devised by BA programme leader Matt Ward and Professor Bill Gaver from the Design Department. Every other week or so, a designer is invited in to talk about their practice. The breadth of the speakers is deliberately vast to demonstrate the scale of thinkers within the design industry. Amongst others, in 2008 the series showcased the likes of Onkar Kular, Rory Hamilton from LiveWork, Anne Galloway, Nick Foster and Jack Schulze.

The lectures are open to all and are free of charge.

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4pm in room 137a Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.

MATERIALISING AND DEMATERIALISING A WEB OF DATA

26 October 2009

4 – 6 pm

Russell was born in Derby, enjoyed an uneventful childhood, did college, all that. 
After failing as a popstar and a joke writer he ended up in advertising and tried to 
do ‘interactive marketing’ way before anyone was interested. Ended up at Wieden + 
Kennedy working on clients like Microsoft, Nike and Honda. Then he went to work for 
Nike as Global Consumer Planning Director. He went freelance in 2006 and works with 
shadowy organisations like the Open Intelligence Agency and the Really Interesting 
Group. He also writes ‘eggbaconchipsandbeans’ occasionally organises ‘Interesting’ 
conferences, plays with things like speechification, dawdlr and slowpoke and does 
columns for Campaign magazine and Wired UK. If asked what he actually does all day, 
he’ll normally mutter something about ‘post-digital’.

[Words by Matt Ward]

THINKING: OBJECTS

12 October 2009

Tim Parsons kicked of the first in the series of Design Means lectures this year which coincided with the launch of his new book:

Image via www.timparsons.info

You can purchase your copy of his book from Amazon.