Join Dr Amanda Jarvis from the University of Edinburgh and the ASCUS team for a discussion round that meets with selected art-science duos to dive into cross-disciplinary Design and Chemistry collaborations. We will explore their creative outputs and gain insights on their collaborative journey to guide what has already been achieved and what conversations still need to be had to help us be the best designers we can be in all disciplines.
The panel will be chaired by Emily Candela, a researcher focusing on relationships between design, science, a sound practitioner, curator and senior tutor in Communication Design at the Royal College of Art, UK.
We are excited to have the creative duo John Hardy and Adam Blaney from Lancaster University on board who will share of their collaborative endeavours into the potential of Chemistry in Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Teaching.
They will be joined by Rasa Weber, PhD candidate and design researcher from Matters of Activity, sharing of her collaboration with UK based Chemist Richard Blackburn and the Leeds spin off Keracol within the design studio Blond and Bieber.
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Online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88351305713
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Please note that this event will be recorded to be made available to wider audiences after the event.
Design and Science Speakers
Dr Amanda Jarvis is the lead of the Jarvis Group at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests revolve around the application of biological architecture to the design of transition-metal catalysts, to develop highly selective catalysts for ‘unnatural’ reactions such as direct C-H amination. Amanda is fascinated by the opportunities that artificial metalloenzymes offer in terms of enhancing selectivity and reactivity of reactions, whilst also offering routes towards more sustainable chemistry. Amanda is the lead of ‘Molecular Architectures: towards cross-disciplinary design in Chemistry’ – a programme of art-science interactive creative exchange events co-developed by ASCUS Art & Science, which aims to provide time and space for chemists, artists and designers to share the approaches, concepts and language used during the design process and to learn from other disciplines.
Dr Emily Candela, is a historian of design and science, working across writing, sound, and curating. She produced the Atomic Radio podcast, was awarded the 2021 Design Writing Prize by the Design History Society, and has published in journals including the journal of visual culture and Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. Emily received her PhD in the History of Design and History of Science from the Royal College of Art and the Science Museum, undertaken through an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award. She is Senior Tutor in the School of Communication at the Royal College of Art, where she leads the Communication Design Pathway of the MRes programme.
Dr John Hardy is a Senior Lecturer in Materials Chemistry at Lancaster University. John is an interdisciplinary researcher with experience in chemistry, materials science, pharmacy and biomedical engineering. He develops materials that interact with electricity, light and magnetism for a variety of technical applications (e.g. transient electronics) and medical applications. He is particularly interested in bioelectronics (e.g. biodegradable conducting polymers, 3D printable conducting polymers) and biophotonics for tissue engineering and neuromodulation.
Adam Blaney is a lecturer in Responsive Architecture at Lancaster University. His research focuses on developing digital design and fabrication processes to create physically responsive, adaptive and self-healing objects and architectural structures. Additionally, based on principles from these prototypes, Adam develops speculative visions of materially adaptive architectures and cities.
Rasa Weber is a designer exploring the narrative and choreographic potential of materials and processes. Her design concepts are driven by a strong narrative approach and critical ecological thinking. She regularly teaches at international universities and is currently a research associate at ZhdK and pre-doctoral researcher at “Matters of Activity”, Cluster of Excellence. She works across the disciplines of material research, architecture, product design & film. In her practice-based PhD ‘Growing Matter’, she investigates new material processes of built habitats within more-than-human marine environments, as a way to both practice and question architecture today.