Sunday 22 January 2012

Special invited speakers

Paul Micklethwaite PhD


Sustainable Design, discussion about 3 major problem for the world nation.
Oil dependency
Deforestation
Global warming

Perhaps this is what we should shift to the"blue economy" (source from youtube)








Ian Noble

Narrative storytelling, the importance of edit a story in short but effectively.
A few of what Ian Noble show us, the good example on narrative in film.

The Touch of Evil – Orson Welles, Dir. 1958
Lord of War – Andrew Niccol, Dir. 2005
Se7en- Carl Cooper, Dir. 1995 (Titles by Kyle Cooper)
The Wire – Except from Episode 4 – Clement Virgo, Dir. 2002
Bambi meets Godzilla – Marv Newland, Dir. 1969
The narrative forwards & backwards
The Powers of Ten- Charles and Ray Eames, 1977
The map and mapping process
The Shining – 1980

Breaded escalope


Presented by 2 ex-Kingston MA P+S graduates (Martin Schnabi & Sachsa Mikel), and with the 3rd partner (Micheal Tatschi)

An inspiring talk about how to grasp things we wanted within our reach and without involving third party.By making and creating things from themselves and also importance of documentary the works, as it will be the importance of the story narrative of the product it self.


Richard Morrison



Richard Morrison, designer of film title sequences. In his talks, he share his life experience and how we should gain idea and how we should take control our future and be open to anything. Also some he share some of his famous work title sequence, such as Sweeny Todd.

Simon Hasan


Product designer Simon Hasan (1973) , presented his talk with his journey of process of his product, an inspiration between crafted skill and mass production.

Philippa Wagner



Philippa Wagner Consultancy is a creative consultancy researching, collating and future forecasting, delivering a range of services from trend forecasting, future thinking concept developments and presentations as well as workshops in the area of colour, materials and innovation.

Below is some of the product created :



Hair Glasses” – Studio Swine – Hairs used for glasses




Molded fashion bacteria



Nelly Ben Hayoun



Nelly Ben Hayoun recently graduated from the Royal College of Arts, Design Interactions MA. She try to explores alternative realities and possible futures as a more narrative and engaging way of doing design.From a textile design and fine art background, she has worked and done performances in Paris, Tokyo, Dublin and London. As we discuss this from of design were importance for keep generating ideas for the future.

Example of her works :




The Soyuz Chair - a chair with a rocket launch experience