When
Where
Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, London W8 6AG,
External
Join designer Thomas Thwaites in conversation with April Barrett, Design Researcher in Residence.
This talk brings together Thomas Thwaites, the designer behind the iconic Toaster Project and GoatMan, and April Barrett, one of this year's Design Researcher in Residence at the Design Museum, for an in-depth conversation on technological infrastructures and their small tech alternatives. The talk builds on April’s work as part of Solar, this year’s residency programme hosted by Future Observatory.
Event timings
18:00 Solar display open to visitors
19:00 Talk begins
19:30 Q&A
19:45 Talk ends
April Barrett is a Canadian design anthropologist based in Edinburgh. She recently graduated from the Design for Change MA programme at the University of Edinburgh with distinction and the Edinburgh College of Art’s Andrew Grant Postgraduate Scholarship. As a Design Researcher in Residence, April brings her ethnographic methods to the design and digital culture space and has a particular interest in alternatives to Big Tech.Freya Spencer-Wood is a designer, educator and researcher. Thomas Thwaites is a designer exploring the psychological and social impacts of technology. As a researcher, he shows his process through live performance-lectures, books, moving image and in exhibitions. His first book, The 'Toaster Project', captures his attempt to make an electric toaster from scratch, and his second book, 'GoatMan', is about his project to take a holiday from being human by becoming a goat.
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