Curiculum Vitae

Stories are the way we grasp information and integrate it within the context of our lives. In a world where science is progressing at an exponential pace, my practice of design aims to craft subtle and engaging scenarios at the intersection between science and society. Using a wide variety of media from three dimensional models to illustrations and video, and by collaborating with other disciplines, scientific and artistic, I aim to encourage the public to question and re-assess their relationships to science and technology.
David holds a BA in graphic design from the Royal Academy in the Hague, the Netherlands, and an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, United Kingdom.


• Current

Independent Designer/Researcher

Research Associate
Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, London
Studiolab, Artscience lab network
European Union, Seventh Framework Programme

Consulting Researcher
Programming, Principles and Tools group, with Byron Cook (Computer Science), Jasmin Fisher (Systems Biology) and Alex Taylor (Soci-Digital Systems group)
Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK


• Education

2008 - 2010: MA Design Interactions (Distinction)
Royal College of Art, London, UK

2003 - 2006: BA Graphic & Typographic design (Cum Laude)
Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague, Netherlands


• Exhibitions & Talks

2012

Transnatural - The State of Autonomy
07.09 to 07.10 2012
NEMO Science Museum, Amsterdam

Ignite Dublin #9 (talk)
22nd June, Science Gallery, Dublin

Hack the City
22nd June - 8th September
Science Gallery, Dublin

Electric Bookshop (talk)
4th apr. Inspace
Edinburgh Science Festival

ESRC Genomics Network (talk)
Seminar Series STS in Synthetic Biology
23rd Mar. Lancaster University

2011

ACM Multimedia
Nov 28 - Dec 1 2011
Scottsdale Arizona

What If... (exhibition & talk)
28th sept. - 17th oct. International Design Triennale
National Museum of China, Beijing, China

Tweak! Modding disciplines through inventive tools (talk)
23rd sept. UC Davis, CA, USA

Glitch Fiction
12th - 18th sept. Paris Design Week
Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France

Becoming Transnatural
4th mar. - 1 apr. De Verdieping/Trouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2010

Alter-Nature: We Can
curated by Karen Verschooren
21st nov. 2010 - 13th mar. 2011, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium

Biennale Internationale du Design
exhibition: Demain c'est Aujourd'hui, curated by Claire Fayolle
20th nov. - 5th dec. St. Etienne, France

Innovation Greenhouse
London Design Festival at the V&A
18–26th sept., V&A Museum, London, UK

4S Conference (talk)
Society for Social Studies of Science annual meeting
24-29th aug., Komaba Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan
(on sponsorship from Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK)

What If...
curated by Dunne & Raby
30th july - 25th oct., Wellcome Trust windows, London, UK

TestLab, the Invisible City
8th july, V2 Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Impact!
Commissioned by the EPSRC and Design Interactions
16-21st march, Royal College of Art, London, UK


• Teaching

Exclusive Power Club
Workshop with post-grad design students.
With Nelly Ben Hayoun and Nicolas Myers
21st to 26th May 2012
Ecole Estienne, Paris
Workshop Website

Visiting Tutor, Crooked Little Engines
4 week project, led with Sascha Pohflepp
Design Interactions department, mar. 2012
Royal College of Art, London

Guest Critic
Unknown Fields Division
AA School of Architecture, London

Visiting Tutor, Synthetic Stories
4 week project, led with Sascha Pohflepp
Design Interactions department, mar. 2011
Royal College of Art, London

Guest Critic
BA Architecture Space & Objects, feb. 2011
Central St. Martins, University of the Arts, London

Creative Sessions & Human Practices Panel
Imperial College IGem team, Summer 2010


• Publications

Kerb 19 Journal
Dept Architecture + Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Utopia Forever
Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, Germany

REFF (Roma Europa Fake Factory) remix the world, reinvent reality
FakePress, Rome, Italy