Organisers

Kiersten Hay is a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh, with a background in Communication Design. Her design-research praxis focuses on using community-based participatory design and co-design approaches within complex design contexts to co-create meaningful artefacts, tools, and services alongside others.

Nantia Koulidou is a Design Researcher and Lecturer intrigued to combine studio jewellery practices and digital technologies in poetic ways. Her work contributes to jewellery and HCI field by offering new interpretations of digital jewellery through theory and practice; and to design research by enriching the role of creative practice to offer methodologies that are rooted in craft, empathy and dialogue. Currently, she is the Course Leader for the BA Jewellery, Materials and Design at Sheffield Hallam University.

Thomas (Tommy) Dylan is a Vice Chancellor Research Fellow in the interdisciplinary CoCreate studio at Northumbria University. His design-led research involves creating and iterating physical-digital things with and for people in various social contexts. In past projects he has worked with people living with dementia in care, and children playing outside in their local neighbourhoods. Currently Tommy is in the early stages of a project exploring how digital media and physical-digital interaction might provide child-centred and accessible ways for adoptive families to tell stories and communicate early life.

Henry Collingham is a Product Designer and an Innovation Fellow in design and creative technology in Northumbria University's School of Design. His design-research practice focuses on fostering citizenship through acts of creativity, principally working alongside people living with dementia.