Crazy Hare-Brained Schemes
Crazy Hare-Brained Schemes is my work-in-progress space.
Its aim is to capture and document my projects, practice and research, as a way to keep track and move away from the hundreds of to-do lists scribbled in countless notebooks, on all manner of decorative paper napkins and the back of receipts.
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CHBS #11: The Foundations Project
Today, my collaborator the sociologist Dr Katherine Appleford and I sat down and drafted the content for the website for our new research project exploring the history and legacy of British Art and Design Clubs, which we are calling The…
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CHBS #10: Paperweight Radio
Here, an outline of an old project but one which fundamentally changed my practice as a writer, as an academic and as a lecturer. [If you want to skip the description of the project and move directly to the audio…
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CHBS #9: The Coral Notes
Sometime, last year, I turned my attention to coral. It began through the meeting of three moments, one personal and two professional. The first moment was learning that coral is used as a substitute for human bone in orthopaedic and…
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CHBS #8: The Drowned Book
In 1913, Ludwig Wittgenstein constructed his wooden hut on a steep rock face over Eidsvatnet Lake in the Luster municipality of Vestland, Norway. It was whilst living in this perched precariously home that the philosopher first began to conceive of…
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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…
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CHBS #6: A Basket Theory of Practice
Last week, at the invitation of my former supervisor Professor Marquard Smith, I presented my work on critical materialities to the Vilnius Academy of Arts doctoral candidates in Fine Art. In deciding what to present, I took the opportunity to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…