about
Jessica is a freelance designer, researcher, rapporteur and futures strategist.
After graduating from Design Interactions at the RCA last summer Jessica
has been developing her practice working for various companies as a freelance
designer including SeymourPowellForesight and Appleyards crisis management.
She is currently a freelance designer/researcher for Sense Worldwide and
a weblog rapporteur for the “designing
safe living” research programme at the Institute for Advanced
Studies, Lancaster University.
She originally studied 3DDesign at Manchester Metropolitan University then
worked for various design studios including a stint at being a Critical
Studies teacher at Liverpool Hope University. She recently completed the
MA Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art, London under
the tutelage of Professor Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, and Nina Pope.
During her course at the RCA, she worked with Michael Burton for FORESIGHT,
a government think-tank based at the Government Office for Science, (formerly
DTI) on a project dealing with
the future of obesity. This went on to inform her final year project
where she designed The FATE Institute, a future forecasting
institute based on a body of research entitled
“The future of self-knowledge” dealing with the cross pollination
of corporate forecasting, ancient divination and predictive gene testing.
2008 Designer / Researcher, SENSE
WORLDWIDE, London
Currently a member of the design research team designing ethnography stimuli
& innovation strategy tools for a number of major corporate clients
including BBC Worldwide, Nike and Converse.
2008 Design Consultant, APPLEYARDS
UNCERTAINTY MANAGEMENT
Design consultant for the development of future applications for decision-support
systems..
2007 Rapporteur, IAS, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY.
Currently running the blog for the research programme entitled:
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living. Opportunity to bring
critical design thinking and critical social science thinkers together for
experimental workshops and discussions.
2007 Design Researcher / Intern,
SEYMOURPOWELLFORESIGHT, London
Member of the design strategy team working on a variety of brand
forecasting and desing ethnography projects for a number of major corporate
clients including NOKIA.
2006 Designer/ Consultant, FORESIGHT think
tank, Government Office of Science, London.
Worked collaboratively with Michael Burton to visualise far future implications
for their Tackling Obesities horizon
scanning project.
2004 Critical Studies Lecturer,
Foundation Art & Design, LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY
Developing and delivering contextual studies lecture series, seminars
and workshops.
2003 Desk Researcher & Art worker,
FRED ALDOUS LTD, Art & Craft supplier, Manchester
2002 Studio worker, MAKE LTD, product& exhibition
design company, London
Design researcher with a multi disciplinary design and build team.
2001 Mould maker’s assistant,
MACKINNON & SAUNDERS puppet makers, Manchester
Worked as model and mouldmaker for various children’s characters
in animation series including Bob the Builder
2008 Collaborative experimental workshop
with RCA graduates and social scientists as part of the Designing Safe Living
research programme at Lancaster University.
2008 Future Strategist for a 5-day workshop
discovering future applications for Decision Support Software.(DSS)
2007 Weblog rapporteur for New Sciences of Protection:
Designing Safe living research programme at Lancaster University
2007 Exhibited future scenarios work at the FORESIGHT Tackling Obesities launch at the RSA, London
2007 Exhibited in The Great Exhibition,
RCA Graduate Show
2007 RCA Society+ Thames & Hudson Prize
Runner Up
2007 Coordinated the publication of the Design
Interactions Yearbook 2007
2007 Shortlisted for the Design
For Our Futureselves Award 2007 as part of RCA Helen Hamlyn inclusive
student design programme.
2007 Exhibited at the Design Interactions
work-in-progress show at the Royal College of Art.
2006 Published article in AI & Society Springer
Journal entitled "Wearables as relationship tools”
2006 Speaker and exhibitor
at Wearable Futures conference, University of Wales. Presented paper entitled
" Wearables as relationship tools”
2005 New Designers graduate show at Islington,
London
2002 Three month study exchange at Blaker
Design School, Norway
1996 Expedition Team Member to Zimbabwe with 10 other
classmates. We raised funds and organised our own itinerary,worked in orphanage,
went trekking and white water rafting.
Co-creation workshop designer, facilitator, stimulus designer
Experience with Video Ethnography + other design research capturing processes
Final Cut Pro, Premiere, After Effects, Rhino, 3DStudio Max, Adobe Suite,
Flash basic, HTML.
Modelmaking, physical prototyping, proficient with various casting materials
Programming and Web Development
HTML/XHTML
Video, Graphics and Print
Final Cut Pro, Premiere, After Effects, Rhino, 3DStudio Max, Adobe Suite,
Flash basic
Modelmaking, physical prototyping
