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My formative teaching in higher education took place at Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London, where I joined the pioneering MA Textile Futures (later MA Material Futures) programme between 2008 and 2011. The course was internationally recognised for uniting craft, science, and design to explore sustainable and speculative futures of material culture. Within this environment, I introduced code and physical computing to students from non-technical backgrounds, developing workshops in Arduino, sensors, and interactive prototyping. My teaching encouraged them to treat technology as a material for creative expression—combining digital and tactile methods to produce responsive textiles, kinetic surfaces, and intelligent artefacts. This experience deeply shaped my pedagogical approach, grounded in openness, collaboration, and the belief that technology should expand, not constrain, design practice.
Example of Student Work: Celine Marcq Inconspicuous Matter (2008) a material research project that aims to develop responsive materials for future ambient displays, which would make it possible to visualise electrical energy flows.
From 2008 to 2010, I also taught on the MA Industrial Design programme at Central Saint Martins, helping students apply interactive technologies within spatial and architectural contexts. My teaching invited them to move beyond product design toward systems and environments that sense and respond to human behaviour. Through seminars and prototyping workshops, students developed installations and interventions that blurred the boundaries between object, space, and interaction—situating their work critically within the broader social and experiential dimensions of contemporary design.
Example of Student Work: Bruno Taylor’s Playful Spaces (2008) was a study into different ways of bringing play back into public space using existing furniture and architectural elements that afford playful moments for all.
