________Jason Bruges |Jason Bruges Studio
Born on 15th September 1972, Jason Bruges is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in London. Jason’s work blends architecture with interaction design and uses a high-tech, mixed media palette to explore spectacle, time-based interventions and dynamic spatial experiences. He is passionate about creating site-specific pieces that engage people with their environments.Jason Bruges trained as an architect at Oxford Brookes University and the Bartlett School of Architecture, (UCL). He worked with Foster + Partners for three years before moving to Imagination to become a Senior Interaction Designer.
In 2002 Jason set up his own practice and now works with a talented team of people to develop and deliver interactive projects worldwide. The studio comprises of an experienced team of architects, engineers, industrial designers and computational designers as well as specialists in electronics, programming and project management.
________Dr Bettina Nissen |Design Informatics
Bettina Nissen is a Lecturer in Interaction Design and researcher in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. With a background in product and interaction design, digital fabrication and data physicalisation, her practice-based research focuses on engaging audiences with complex technological concepts and data through tangible means and makings.
Bettina completed her AHRC-funded PhD in Human Computer Interaction at Newcastle University in 2018 and has recently worked on a series of RCUK-funded research projects spanning topics of trust and consent in pervasive environments (part of EPSRC-funded PACTMAN) and the future of value(s) (part of ESRC-funded collaboration After Money with the Royal Bank of Scotland and New Economics Foundation). Bettina is currently working with the People’s Bank of Govanhill and artist Ailie Rutherford in Glasgow to explore feminist economic approaches to cryptocurrencies through craft and knitting.
________Dorothea Kalogianni |PhD Candidate in Architecture, ESALA, ECA, University of Edinburgh
Dorothea Kalogianni is a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture of the University of Edinburgh, where she has also been a tutor. She examines the notion of threshold in space and architecture through a series of projects and art installations that employ digital media and sound. She received her graduate diploma in architecture from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and has completed the MSc in Adaptive Architecture and Computation at the Bartlett School of Architecture of the University College of London. She has been an AHRC funded student (tuition fees for year 2 and 3). She has tutored at the MSc in Design and Digital Media and the MSc in Design Informatics.
________Dr Patricia Erskine |Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Dr Patricia Erskine is the Director of Culture & Community at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Head of Stakeholder Relations & Policy Officer at the College Office- CAHSS.
She has recently developed the College’s Public Engagement Strategy. She manages several of the University’s collaborative relationships with Edinburgh’s major festivals and cultural organisations, including co-ordination of the University’s digital arts programme. She supports a number of engagement projects in the College, typically those involving multiple Schools and external partners. She is a member of the IASH management group, with a particular interest in supporting its public humanities work. Over the last ten years, Patricia has worked in a number of engagement roles in the University.
________Martin Hawksey |Edinburgh Futures Institute
Martin Hawksey is the Learning Design and Technology Lead at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
His role is to bring creative flair and pedagogical and technical expertise to developing the digital environment to support the advanced fusion learning model within EFI. He is helping support EFI’s distinctive undergraduate and postgraduate taught portfolio. As part of this his role is to provide a professional project management function to support these activities, working with EFI leadership, and with key colleagues in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and in Information Services Group.
________Mike Boyd |uCreate
Mi
ke Boyd is a member and manager of the University’s award-winning uCreate Studio , a maker space project at the University of Edinburgh.
An architecture graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, Mike started out as a freelance consultant specialising in 3D. His fascination with digital manufacture made the uCreate Studio at Edinburgh the ideal environment for his skills to thrive.
His busy schedule is filled with offering advice to students, academics and teaching staff on how to use the free technologies in the studio, delivering workshops, making introductions to departments for collaboration opportunities, and supporting the team in helping build the digital and technological skills of the University community.
________Adam McFall |Bennetts Associates
Adam is an Architectural Assistant MA (Hons) MArch and joined the Edinburgh studio in 2017. He has worked exclusively on the Edinburgh Futures Institute at Quartermile. Through this project he has learned more about the process of treating and adapting a historic building. Adam explored this theme during his masters through a project in which an existing historic city block was incorporated into a new art college complex in Bodø, Norway. He has a keen interest in technology, graphic design and travel. In 2015, Adam won the T. Bowhill Gibson scholarship and travelled to Vancouver to study the urban effects of ‘Vancouverism’. His research was disseminated and presented as part of the annual Edinburgh University architecture society (EUSAS) lecture series at the University of Edinburgh. As graphics coordinator for EUSAS, Adam led its rebrand in 2016, giving the student body a bold new graphic identity.
