London life slowly starts taking its new shape, although it still goes by many titles. Critical design, service design, design research, interaction design, descriptions vary and so does the job. I'm currently combining freelance work with initiating my own projects and collaborations. As a freelancer, I work on service design, interaction design and other design projects. It feels as if I'm applying my way of working and thinking at the RCA to the things I was doing before. It's nice to work on real stuff and I can't wait to dive into a bigger project somewhere.
The self initiated work comes with more freedom to explore the themes and directions that I'm curious and passionate about. There's some little and very enjoyable collaborations with the synthetic biology department at Imperial College, there's a secret project that's incredible good fun and I recently returned from Stavanger, where I participated in a biotech art workshop with Oron Catts and Jens Hauser. The workshop has been an amazing experience; getting hands on with some of the technologies I've been researching and speculating about, reflecting on my projects from a different perspective, overall offering plenty starting points for new work ...