Research
“Being embodied is never a private affair but is always already mediated… with other human and nonhuman bodies.” (Weiss 1999)
My research responds to a growing shift in experience design towards approaches that work explicitly with bodies. Yet embodiment is often treated as individual or abstract, rather than as something negotiated between bodies and situated in practice. Drawing on feminist post-phenomenology — particularly Sara Ahmed and Gail Weiss — I develop encounters as a strong concept in design: a way of understanding embodiment as relational and intercorporeal, constituted in, through, and alongside multiple bodies. This is not embodiment as metaphor. It is embodiment as method, as site, and as the generative condition of design practice.
PhD Thesis
Goldsmiths, UoL
2016-2026
Practice-based
Bodies (In)form: Reconceptualising Embodied Design as Encounters
A practice-based PhD developed across ten years at Goldsmiths, University of London. The thesis develops encounters as a strong concept for design — drawing on practice conducted in theatre studios and climbing gyms, with performer trainers and , route setters. The research sits within a feminist post-phenomenological tradition reconceptualising design activities as intercorporeal design encounters.
PhD Thesis
Goldsmiths, UoL
2016-2026
Practice-based
Bodies (In)form: Reconceptualising Embodied Design as Encounters
A practice-based PhD developed across ten years at Goldsmiths, University of London. The thesis develops encounters as a strong concept for design — drawing on practice conducted in theatre studios and climbing gyms, with performer trainers and , route setters. The research sits within a feminist post-phenomenological tradition reconceptualising design activities as intercorporeal design encounters.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Performer Training
Embodied Design
Stepping
Stepping: With Theatre Practitioners
One to two sentences — the core inquiry of this project in plain language. What question it asked, who it was with, what it found.
RESEARCH PROJECT
Routesetting
Embodied Design
Indoor Climbing
Climbing: With Indoor Route Setters
One to two sentences — the core inquiry of this project in plain language. What question it asked, who it was with, what it found.
