Crazy Hare-Brained Scheme
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CHBS #7: Every Day I (Covid Returns)
When we returned to work after the first Covid-19 lockdown in the Department of Design at Goldsmiths, where I was the Programme Lead for the BA Design, my colleague Corinne Quin installed a photo booth in our building’s lobby, and at her instigation, staff and students all sat for portraits. I remember running into my…
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CHBS #5: Cleaning Up The Slime
During the pandemic, I was one of a group of women from the Department of Design at Goldsmiths who formed the Domestic Monsters, a collective to explore questions and discourses of the domestic through practice. In those strange times, I remember our online meetings and then in-person and socially distanced meetings being incredibly hopeful, almost…
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CHBS #4: I Want Design For President
Last year, I was asked to write something for the End of Year Show catalogue, for the School of Design at University of Greenwich, as part of my role as Academic Portfolio Lead for Design. It was my first show at Greenwich, and I was keenly aware of the writing needing to be a statement…
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CHBS #3: No More I Love You’s
Here, the opening speech of a lecture series programmed and delivered in opening months of 2024 in the School of Design at University of Greenwich, inspired by Annie Lennox’s 1995 song, where I first hit upon a term for a sensibility I was searching for and trying to capture in my research and practice: Neon…
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CHBS #2: The 1957 Festival of Women
In the summer of 2023, on a bright and brilliant day, I decided to down tools, pull myself away from work emails and take a road trip. My car was in for service and a family member had lent me their sportscar. I decided to take her for a spin, remembering an antiques market at…
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CHBS #1: This Blog
Many moons ago, an old friend, who had heard me say “I’ve got an idea” far too often in far too short a time, suggested — somewhat cynically — that I should buy the domain name Crazy Hare-Brained Schemes