Hi, I’m Laura
I am the Course Leader for the MA Communicating Complexity at Central Saint Martins (UAL) — a brand new online postgraduate course that brings together people from design and non-design backgrounds to experiment with the role of communication in response to social and global challenges.
I also work as an Associate Researcher for the Centre for Circular Design where I think about the visual communication of complex processes (you may be noticing a theme).
I’m interested in asking questions. Particularly about visualisation, complexity, data, education and knowledge. This page is a collection of questions explored, developed and still in progress with myself and others.
(Prefer a visual version of this list? You can find it here)
questions in progress
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questions in progress 〰️
Can we make a system see itself using feminist approaches to data?
design + education + research
a conference session
What are the pedagogical patterns of the workshop in Graphic Design?
Design + education + research
with Abbie Vickress and Joel Gethin Lewis
What have we learned about the future lifecycle of polyester?
Design + research
article with Rosie Hornbuckle and Kate Goldsworthy
new questions
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What role can visual prototyping methods play in the research process?
design + education + research
Research Paper with Cathryn Hall and Veronika Kapsali
Can you develop assessment and feedback literacies through data drawing?
design + Education + Research
A conference session at the International AHE Conference 2023
What visual research methods are needed to innovate on circularity?
design + education + Research
A paper with Kate Goldsworthy and Sanne Visser
other questions
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other questions 〰️
How do we develop collaborative, cross disciplinary design education?
design + education + Research
A conference session at CHEAD Annual Conference (2023)
Can we translate bio-inspired design principles into typography?
Design + education + research
Curriculum design KE project with Bio-INsipired textiles
What design mindsets did Rand and DeBretteville represent?
design + education + writing
Can we translate a bio-inspired design framework into a visual system?
Design + education + research
Curriculum design KE project with Bio-INsipired textiles
What’s needed to make synthetics truly circular?
design + Research
data visualisations and infographics with the Centre for Circular Design for BFTT (2022)
Can we use diagramming to encourage critical engagement in Higher Education?
design + education
A conference session with Adam Ramejkis at LCCT (2022)
What’s the actual difference between Graphic Design courses at UAL?
design + education
Can we engage with archives in ways that promote intercultural understanding?
design + education
A conference session with Adam Ramejkis at ARLIS/UK & Ireland Conference (2021)
What might alternative visual languages of circularity look like?
design + education
A curriculum project with the centre for circulAr design (2020)
How do we visualise research on the alternatives for COVID-19 PPE?
design + research
Data visualisation and Infographics for Innovate UK, Sustainable Innovation Fund (2020)
What did that data we collected on canons actually show us?
design + education + research
How might engage with archives differently?
design + education
A curriculum project with Adam Ramejkis in The Ethical Record, 125 (2). pp. 12-16 (2020)
How can we make the issues of disciplinary canons more visible?
design + education
A curriculum project at Chelsea College of Arts (2020)
What do you mean when you say the university printers are racist?
design + education + writing
Are workshops like strategies or processes?
design + education + writing
How do we unpack and disrupt the simplicity of visual language in academia?
design + education
A conference workshop with Abbie Vickress at Graphic Design Educators Network (2019)
How did Florence Nightingale help me with my assessment strategy?
design + education + writing
Do we need to stop talking about the design process?
design + education + writing
What’s a desire line in education? and how can we follow them?
design + education + writing
How do you design workshops that model thinking through making?
design + education + writing
Can we co-create more inclusive (visual) spaces in design education?
design + education
A conference workshop at Graphic Design Educators Network conference
Who are the ‘great white sharks’ of graphic design?
design + education + writing
In what ways is my design teaching influenced by my dance teaching?
design + education + writing
What does a visual analysis of reading lists reveal about the discipline?
design + education + research
data visualisation and analysis at chelsea college of arts (2018)
What are the alternatives to the dissertation in Graphic Design?
design + education
What can creative research methods tell us about gentrification in Forest Gate?
design + research
Masters Research at kingston school of art (2017)
How can we use open data to discuss local gentrification?
design + research
co-designed Data-driven Publication (2017)
What would a subjective map of Spitalfields tell us?
design + research
A three day Participatory mapping workshop with HannaH McNally at London Design Festival (2017)
How can we connect with others through personal data visualisation?
design + research
A mapping workshop at conversation club at rabbits road institute (2016)
What can mapping local knowledge tell us about how people experience London?
design + research
A puBlic participatory mapping workshop at London Transport Museum (2016)
How can data inspire conversation about designing autonomous neighbourhoods?
design + research
A data driven architecture and planning workshop with Sahra Hersi (2016)
How do you build community through creativity?
design + research
A community cinema club with Sophie Rigg at rabbits road insTitute (2016-17)
Can the ‘Knowledge of London’ be visualised?