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Location
London, UK
Specialisms
Somatic and Embodied Design,
Intercorporeality, Feminist HCI,
UX, Product Design
Dr Scott Robinson

Design research,
exploring encounters
between people, things
and technology.

Stepping: With Theatre Practitioners

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Climbing: With Routesetters

Climbing: With Routesetters

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In Search of the Blue Danube

In Search of the Blue Danube

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My Research

I collaborate with embodied practitioners from diverse disciplines and use our embodied encounters as generative sites for design research.

My research is all about encounters as a strong concept for embodied and somatic design. My aspiration is that reconceptualising design activities as encounters, will help researchers extend and reflect on their own body-based practices by framing embodiment as relational and intercorporeal.

Practice-as-research    Embodied design    Somatic practice    Product design    Experience design    UX    Theatre    Performance    Sound    Walking-as-research    Routesetting    Climbing   
Embodied Design

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Embodied Design (as) Encounters: Intersecting Practice and Theory with Route Setting for Indoor Climbing (TBC)

This forthcoming book chapter develops material from chapter four of my PhD, Bodies(in)Form, and follows my contribution to the Designing for Bodies conference.

Bodies (In)form: Reconceptualising Embodied Design as Encounters (2026)

This practice-based PhD responds to a growing shift in experience design towards approaches that engage bodies—both designers’ and participants’—as central to design practice. Drawing on feminist post-phenomenology, particularly the work of Gail Weiss and Sara Ahmed, the research proposes encounters as a strong concept that articulates embodiment as relational, intercorporeal, and situated.

Design (as) Encounters (2025)

This paper presents early findings from my practice-based PhD, Bodies (in)Form, which investigates routesetting as an under-researched embodied practice.

Designing Performer Training: Digital Encounters with Things and People (2019)

This article, which appeared in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Volume 10, Issue 2 (2019), investigates how digital technologies can be used to enhance the relational aspects of performer training.

Research
June 3, 2016

Stepping: With Theatre Practitioners

This research project formed the third chapter of my doctoral thesis, where I collaborate with Dr Göze Saner, to design new approaches to performer…

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Research
March 7, 2024

Climbing: With Routesetters

This research project formed the fourth chapter of my doctoral thesis where I conduct a first-person study of the embodied practice of routesetting to…

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Research
October 21, 2015

In Search of the Blue Danube

“When I was aged around 7 years old, every morning at school we would enter morning assembly to some preselected recording playing on an…

  • Institution

    Goldsmith, UoL

  • Role

    PhD Candidate

  • Activities

    Walking drift, Photography, Creative writing

  • Tags

    Thesis, Walking

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