I work at the junction between heritage, landscape and sensory methods. I look to developing collaborative and cross-disciplinary projects within other academic institutions and industry. Currently, I am working through a visiting fellowship in creative entrepreneurship.
I was an assistant professor of design focusing on innovation practices and digital design and a research associate at the Glasgow School of Art. I have completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh studying cultural geography where my work explored the regional development of the historic lead mining landscape of the southern Peak District in central England. I studied historic preservation at Columbia University and architecture at Cornell University. Along to my academic career, I was an architectural and heritage practitioner with over eight years of experience in design and heritage in New York City and Yosemite National Park. Supervisors: Dan Swanton and Nina Morris Address: Galashiels, Scotland, United Kingdom
Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 2022
The Grand Coulee Dam light show is an audio-visual spectacle unique to the
Bureau of Reclamation ... more The Grand Coulee Dam light show is an audio-visual spectacle unique to the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Federal government. Its life began as a display of abstract-coloured lights illuminating the falling waters of the dam’s spillways. Its production spans more than 60 years of inspiring people on the history, construction, and wonder that is the Grand Coulee Dam, yet the light show or Colorama development and meaning are more than just a collection of light and music. This paper presents a historic entanglement of one of the longest running lightshow displays in the United States. Using performative and assemblage theories it argues how the light show moves from the ‘technological sublime’ (Nye 1994) towards a multiplicity of agencies of light, water, sound, and the concrete of the dam enabling an electric atmosphere. Using historical accounts of the show, imagery and design specifications, the paper explores the interplay of these agencies and the ‘power’ that is exchanged. In a time where industrial heritage is celebrated for its technical acumen and national connection, the light show provides key perspectives into new theoretical avenues of illumination and hydro assemblages.
A short-guided walk and experimental fieldwork exercise to explore relationships between geograph... more A short-guided walk and experimental fieldwork exercise to explore relationships between geography and design practice in the creative visual investigation of landscape. Using an accessible mile section of the River Taff as a case study, we will test image-led approaches as tools for the discovery and communication of place. We are interested in walking-drawing as a knowledge-seeking/making process, impacting and informing broader geographic research. In particular, the workshop will focus on the development of experimental approaches to image-making by merging methods from disciplinary fields and exploring relationships between scientific and experiential modes of measurement, using the psychogeographic derive or drift as the approach. Moving through the different zones of the river will reveal shifting geographies, stories and land uses. Using collective drawing, we ask participants to choose objects and materials to respond to ideas of navigation, mapping, scale, distance and vie...
This report explores the provenance of the pilot research programme Archipelago 136 of the Instit... more This report explores the provenance of the pilot research programme Archipelago 136 of the Institute of Design Innovation. Covering a three year period, this report looks at the initial relationships developed through the Ionad Hiort Project, followed by the evolving research projects of Island Bearings, Songlines, and Digital Makers. It looks at the strategic outcomes in encouraging creative capabilities within the island communities and laying out a landscape of development for the region.
The Peak District is known for is bucolic rolling hills and moorlands filled with hillwalkers and... more The Peak District is known for is bucolic rolling hills and moorlands filled with hillwalkers and picturesque villages. Yet, within and underneath this landscape lies a unique and little known landscape of mines, quarries, and other occluded spaces. This article tries to recover these hidden places through a series of narrative explorations within the mines and other extractive industrial spaces are present in the Peak landscape. In turn, it allows for a haunted and absent landscape to come forward. Thereby encouraging an alternative point of view towards understanding this region and encouraging the multiple ways that this landscape is presented.
This workshop offers a guided walk and documentary fieldwork exercise in response to the cultural... more This workshop offers a guided walk and documentary fieldwork exercise in response to the cultural, political and socio economic landscape of the River Shannon, through expanded drawing methods. Moving between the two host venues of Limerick School of Art and Design and the University of Limerick via the river, we will explore, and extend, drawing approaches as tools for the discovery and communication of place in design practice. The workshop focuses on the development of experimental approaches to drawing by merging methods from disciplinary fields and exploring relationships between scientific and experiential modes of measurement. Using the psychogeographic drift as the approach, we interpret drawing as a knowledge-seeking process, putting forward Serra’s Verb List as a practical and discursive starting point to consider the function of drawing beyond its traditional status of artefact, asking: How do we draw in, on, with, or through the landscape? How can the processes and outpu...
Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mut... more Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mutual value, allowing the design aspect of production to sit between customer and creator (Prahalad and Ramaswamy 2004). A major step-change enabling such a process is the ability to link consumer design inspiration with pattern creation software linked to manufacturing equipment. One aspect of supporting such a process includes enabling customers to understand different forms of design inspiration that are amenable to the application of computer-based production, and fashioning tractable methods to collect and manipulate such " design inspiration ". Here we describe research in progress exploring the use of " data-driven designs " that challenge the existing visual bias of textile design, using the Scottish context as an example; and offer up a process by which these explorations can transformed towards a customer-creator model: transforming bioacoustics data recorded from the soundscape into woven, knitted or printed textiles.
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2020
Crumbling smokestacks, shuttered furnaces, and abandoned quarries are all striking representation... more Crumbling smokestacks, shuttered furnaces, and abandoned quarries are all striking representations of deindustrialization. These and other images construct a discourse whose ideological undertones, far from confining them to the realm of symbolic nostalgia, have profound effects on contemporary societies. In 2015, within the European Labor History Network (ELHN), a working group on historical cultures of labor under conditions of deindustrialization (working group) began to critically study and reflect on this nascent theme. It grew from a small group of researchers to a network of academics across Europe and beyond. Though the study of deindustrialization is not new, contemporary work offers insights into the continuing struggle over the meaning of classical industrial work and its loss, revealing unresolved social, cultural, and political tensions. Yet, existing representations of deindustrialization have been criticized as “smokestack nostalgia.” In order to chart how we understand contemporary industrial decay in our political, cultural, and economic climate, the working group explores representations and more-than representations of loss and regeneration in deindustrialized regions, primarily in Europe but widening to include a growing global network.
Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 2019
Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mut... more Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mutual value, allowing the design aspect of production to sit between customer and creator. A major step-change enabling such a process is the ability to link consumer design inspiration with pattern creation software linked to manufacturing equipment. One aspect of supporting such a process includes fashioning tractable methods to collect and manipulate “design inspiration” that a customer can input into and that are amenable to the application of computer-based production. Here we describe research in progress exploring the use of “data-driven designs” that challenge the existing visual bias of textile design, using the Scottish context as an example; and offer up a process by which these explorations can transformed towards a customer-creator model: transforming bioacoustics data recorded from the soundscape into woven, knitted or printed/embroidered textiles.
The idealised image of the Outer Hebrides includes wind swept beaches, isolated peat covered moor... more The idealised image of the Outer Hebrides includes wind swept beaches, isolated peat covered moors, and craggy mountain cliff tops abounding with wildlife. These images are reproduced in countless tourist postcards and websites to entice visitors to visit, explore, and of course spend their money on the islands. At the same these images create a certain ‘expectation’ of the islands that not only promote a particular ‘way of seeing’ (Berger 1972) the landscape, but perpetuate the dominant narrative of the ‘wild’ wind-swept islands. This visual project challenges these notions of ‘nature’, wilderness and folk heritage by accepting alternative and ‘minor histories’ (Benjamin 1974) of the landscapes. In a subversive nod to the travel postcard, this paper explores contemporary issues of island life and landscape, through unconventional illustrations of island postcards by its residents and the author These postcards are themed around contemporary Hebridean issues, including: isolation, community, landscape, and family. The project contemplates an innovative approach to the illustration, as ethnographer and critical tourist. Therefore, looking at the fragmentary constellation (Gilloch 2002) of images made about the islands that challenges the notion of a ‘wild’ romantic island place, and offering insight into how identity, place and heritage are developed within the region.
This paper aims to explore ways to enable designers, researchers and practitioners to share, disc... more This paper aims to explore ways to enable designers, researchers and practitioners to share, discover and critique alternative and creative evaluation techniques. It draws on case examples of piloted enlightened evaluation approaches derived from a partnership between the Glasgow School of Art and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, a regional development agency with a remit of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Due to the complex initiatives, collaborations and partnerships involved in such a process, measurement frameworks that more appropriately support understanding and learning than traditional approaches have been being piloted. Despite a demand for more flexible techniques, there is a significant gap in understanding and knowledge regarding the most effective approaches, techniques and tools for enlightened evaluation.
The existing challenges to non-profit heritage organisations are increasing in these volatile and... more The existing challenges to non-profit heritage organisations are increasing in these volatile and austere climates. Particularly, existing organisational and strategic mission developments are needed to enable more resilient organisations. This paper explores the relationship between Ionad Hiort and the Glasgow School of Art's Institute of Design Innovation (INDI) as a six-month case study for understanding how design innovation can build creative capabilities within this unique partnership. In this case, the " building " of a new type of heritage centre on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. It focuses on the concept of innovation in approaching complex situations as an alternative to existing means of problem solving. Through a series of workshops and engaging informal sessions a new strategy was built, which focused the group's potential. The outcome being a new way to build confidence within communities and build new relationships, enabling new creative capabilities within a rural island community.
The southern Peak District, like many rural regions of the United Kingdom proclaim a particular ‘... more The southern Peak District, like many rural regions of the United Kingdom proclaim a particular ‘way of seeing’ the landscape. It reinforces this romantic spectacle through contemporary heritage practices. Within the spectacle lay a series of fragments and pieces that resist any type of categorisation. This paper proposes a way to encounter these fragments of the landscape through a constellation of its making and unmaking. It is explored in the subversive practises, unwanted pieces and local narratives, that showcase an ‘alternate telling’ of the landscape and its heritage. Therefore, allowing the landscape to sit in tension with its Romantic spectacle and simultaneously performing a new type of heritage.
The historic lead mines of the southern Peak District embody the labour and efforts of miners gon... more The historic lead mines of the southern Peak District embody the labour and efforts of miners gone, as well as, reflect the industrial past of the region. In my research, I have come to explore these underground places. In the darkness of the underground, light provides not only the ability to see, but also offers comfort. This paper focuses on the creation and execution of a temporary five-day light art installation, named Miners’ Lamp, on the southern moors of the Peak District National Park. Inspired by my subterranean explorations and immersive research, the Miners’ Lamp engages the local community and encourages a reconsideration of the ‘hidden’ labour landscapes on the moor. The installation works with the ideas of darkness, light, memory, and the underground showcasing the practice of geography and art in a rural setting and speaking to the politics of preservation through a different aesthetic.
The story of St. Kilda, an island in the North Atlantic, is not only a story of the disastrous na... more The story of St. Kilda, an island in the North Atlantic, is not only a story of the disastrous nature of human abandonment and environmental entanglements, but is also a global story of how heritage and tourism can be creatively approached. Dually inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, St. Kilda is an example of a remote site whose significance has grown ever since it has been devoid of permanent human habitation. Today, that same remoteness is what attracts thousands of visitors to the island and the Outer Hebrides, Scotland; however, the sensitive nature of the site proves difficult for physical visitation and tourism Intrinsic to heritage tourism is the valorisation of the past, or more accurately a curated version of a particular period in the past, which whilst providing a financial model in the short term is not necessarily in the long term interests of the local community at large. Custodianship offers an alternative vision to heritage tourism where the future rather than the past is foregrounded and present ownership acknowledges the obligations to those generations to come. This project explores the remote storytelling possibilities that can come about the idea of 'heritage from afar' and custodianship. In this sense, it is not necessary to physically visit a place to understand the significance of a place. This project thus focuses on how 'remote-access' preservation can be a driver in the development of Ionad Hiort or St. Kilda Centre on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues, 2023
Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in shaping futures and our economies, yet the challenges of s... more Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in shaping futures and our economies, yet the challenges of sustainability and technology ask a crucial question: how do we nurture new qualities of entrepreneurship that bridge environmental and societal wellbeing - renewing it as a ‘change agent’ ready for uncertain contexts? This ongoing research proposes using the design studio as a unique inclusive learning space. We see the studio as a pedagogic framework, where we can begin to explore ‘new practices’, applying them within prototypes of ‘Seasonal Schools’ for sustainable economics students and faculty across four higher education institutions in Europe and South East Asia. We experiment with integrating studio design methodologies with entrepreneurial pedagogies developing insights into how design can nurture qualities that embrace complexity and ambiguity. The aim being that design becomes a pedagogic catalyst within entrepreneurship learning, renewing the role of entrepreneurs towards agents of holistic collaborative change.
Comparative American Studies An International Journal, 2022
The Grand Coulee Dam light show is an audio-visual spectacle unique to the
Bureau of Reclamation ... more The Grand Coulee Dam light show is an audio-visual spectacle unique to the Bureau of Reclamation and the US Federal government. Its life began as a display of abstract-coloured lights illuminating the falling waters of the dam’s spillways. Its production spans more than 60 years of inspiring people on the history, construction, and wonder that is the Grand Coulee Dam, yet the light show or Colorama development and meaning are more than just a collection of light and music. This paper presents a historic entanglement of one of the longest running lightshow displays in the United States. Using performative and assemblage theories it argues how the light show moves from the ‘technological sublime’ (Nye 1994) towards a multiplicity of agencies of light, water, sound, and the concrete of the dam enabling an electric atmosphere. Using historical accounts of the show, imagery and design specifications, the paper explores the interplay of these agencies and the ‘power’ that is exchanged. In a time where industrial heritage is celebrated for its technical acumen and national connection, the light show provides key perspectives into new theoretical avenues of illumination and hydro assemblages.
A short-guided walk and experimental fieldwork exercise to explore relationships between geograph... more A short-guided walk and experimental fieldwork exercise to explore relationships between geography and design practice in the creative visual investigation of landscape. Using an accessible mile section of the River Taff as a case study, we will test image-led approaches as tools for the discovery and communication of place. We are interested in walking-drawing as a knowledge-seeking/making process, impacting and informing broader geographic research. In particular, the workshop will focus on the development of experimental approaches to image-making by merging methods from disciplinary fields and exploring relationships between scientific and experiential modes of measurement, using the psychogeographic derive or drift as the approach. Moving through the different zones of the river will reveal shifting geographies, stories and land uses. Using collective drawing, we ask participants to choose objects and materials to respond to ideas of navigation, mapping, scale, distance and vie...
This report explores the provenance of the pilot research programme Archipelago 136 of the Instit... more This report explores the provenance of the pilot research programme Archipelago 136 of the Institute of Design Innovation. Covering a three year period, this report looks at the initial relationships developed through the Ionad Hiort Project, followed by the evolving research projects of Island Bearings, Songlines, and Digital Makers. It looks at the strategic outcomes in encouraging creative capabilities within the island communities and laying out a landscape of development for the region.
The Peak District is known for is bucolic rolling hills and moorlands filled with hillwalkers and... more The Peak District is known for is bucolic rolling hills and moorlands filled with hillwalkers and picturesque villages. Yet, within and underneath this landscape lies a unique and little known landscape of mines, quarries, and other occluded spaces. This article tries to recover these hidden places through a series of narrative explorations within the mines and other extractive industrial spaces are present in the Peak landscape. In turn, it allows for a haunted and absent landscape to come forward. Thereby encouraging an alternative point of view towards understanding this region and encouraging the multiple ways that this landscape is presented.
This workshop offers a guided walk and documentary fieldwork exercise in response to the cultural... more This workshop offers a guided walk and documentary fieldwork exercise in response to the cultural, political and socio economic landscape of the River Shannon, through expanded drawing methods. Moving between the two host venues of Limerick School of Art and Design and the University of Limerick via the river, we will explore, and extend, drawing approaches as tools for the discovery and communication of place in design practice. The workshop focuses on the development of experimental approaches to drawing by merging methods from disciplinary fields and exploring relationships between scientific and experiential modes of measurement. Using the psychogeographic drift as the approach, we interpret drawing as a knowledge-seeking process, putting forward Serra’s Verb List as a practical and discursive starting point to consider the function of drawing beyond its traditional status of artefact, asking: How do we draw in, on, with, or through the landscape? How can the processes and outpu...
Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mut... more Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mutual value, allowing the design aspect of production to sit between customer and creator (Prahalad and Ramaswamy 2004). A major step-change enabling such a process is the ability to link consumer design inspiration with pattern creation software linked to manufacturing equipment. One aspect of supporting such a process includes enabling customers to understand different forms of design inspiration that are amenable to the application of computer-based production, and fashioning tractable methods to collect and manipulate such " design inspiration ". Here we describe research in progress exploring the use of " data-driven designs " that challenge the existing visual bias of textile design, using the Scottish context as an example; and offer up a process by which these explorations can transformed towards a customer-creator model: transforming bioacoustics data recorded from the soundscape into woven, knitted or printed textiles.
International Labor and Working-Class History, 2020
Crumbling smokestacks, shuttered furnaces, and abandoned quarries are all striking representation... more Crumbling smokestacks, shuttered furnaces, and abandoned quarries are all striking representations of deindustrialization. These and other images construct a discourse whose ideological undertones, far from confining them to the realm of symbolic nostalgia, have profound effects on contemporary societies. In 2015, within the European Labor History Network (ELHN), a working group on historical cultures of labor under conditions of deindustrialization (working group) began to critically study and reflect on this nascent theme. It grew from a small group of researchers to a network of academics across Europe and beyond. Though the study of deindustrialization is not new, contemporary work offers insights into the continuing struggle over the meaning of classical industrial work and its loss, revealing unresolved social, cultural, and political tensions. Yet, existing representations of deindustrialization have been criticized as “smokestack nostalgia.” In order to chart how we understand contemporary industrial decay in our political, cultural, and economic climate, the working group explores representations and more-than representations of loss and regeneration in deindustrialized regions, primarily in Europe but widening to include a growing global network.
Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 2019
Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mut... more Co-creation describes a process of bringing customer and creator together to produce items of mutual value, allowing the design aspect of production to sit between customer and creator. A major step-change enabling such a process is the ability to link consumer design inspiration with pattern creation software linked to manufacturing equipment. One aspect of supporting such a process includes fashioning tractable methods to collect and manipulate “design inspiration” that a customer can input into and that are amenable to the application of computer-based production. Here we describe research in progress exploring the use of “data-driven designs” that challenge the existing visual bias of textile design, using the Scottish context as an example; and offer up a process by which these explorations can transformed towards a customer-creator model: transforming bioacoustics data recorded from the soundscape into woven, knitted or printed/embroidered textiles.
The idealised image of the Outer Hebrides includes wind swept beaches, isolated peat covered moor... more The idealised image of the Outer Hebrides includes wind swept beaches, isolated peat covered moors, and craggy mountain cliff tops abounding with wildlife. These images are reproduced in countless tourist postcards and websites to entice visitors to visit, explore, and of course spend their money on the islands. At the same these images create a certain ‘expectation’ of the islands that not only promote a particular ‘way of seeing’ (Berger 1972) the landscape, but perpetuate the dominant narrative of the ‘wild’ wind-swept islands. This visual project challenges these notions of ‘nature’, wilderness and folk heritage by accepting alternative and ‘minor histories’ (Benjamin 1974) of the landscapes. In a subversive nod to the travel postcard, this paper explores contemporary issues of island life and landscape, through unconventional illustrations of island postcards by its residents and the author These postcards are themed around contemporary Hebridean issues, including: isolation, community, landscape, and family. The project contemplates an innovative approach to the illustration, as ethnographer and critical tourist. Therefore, looking at the fragmentary constellation (Gilloch 2002) of images made about the islands that challenges the notion of a ‘wild’ romantic island place, and offering insight into how identity, place and heritage are developed within the region.
This paper aims to explore ways to enable designers, researchers and practitioners to share, disc... more This paper aims to explore ways to enable designers, researchers and practitioners to share, discover and critique alternative and creative evaluation techniques. It draws on case examples of piloted enlightened evaluation approaches derived from a partnership between the Glasgow School of Art and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, a regional development agency with a remit of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Due to the complex initiatives, collaborations and partnerships involved in such a process, measurement frameworks that more appropriately support understanding and learning than traditional approaches have been being piloted. Despite a demand for more flexible techniques, there is a significant gap in understanding and knowledge regarding the most effective approaches, techniques and tools for enlightened evaluation.
The existing challenges to non-profit heritage organisations are increasing in these volatile and... more The existing challenges to non-profit heritage organisations are increasing in these volatile and austere climates. Particularly, existing organisational and strategic mission developments are needed to enable more resilient organisations. This paper explores the relationship between Ionad Hiort and the Glasgow School of Art's Institute of Design Innovation (INDI) as a six-month case study for understanding how design innovation can build creative capabilities within this unique partnership. In this case, the " building " of a new type of heritage centre on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. It focuses on the concept of innovation in approaching complex situations as an alternative to existing means of problem solving. Through a series of workshops and engaging informal sessions a new strategy was built, which focused the group's potential. The outcome being a new way to build confidence within communities and build new relationships, enabling new creative capabilities within a rural island community.
The southern Peak District, like many rural regions of the United Kingdom proclaim a particular ‘... more The southern Peak District, like many rural regions of the United Kingdom proclaim a particular ‘way of seeing’ the landscape. It reinforces this romantic spectacle through contemporary heritage practices. Within the spectacle lay a series of fragments and pieces that resist any type of categorisation. This paper proposes a way to encounter these fragments of the landscape through a constellation of its making and unmaking. It is explored in the subversive practises, unwanted pieces and local narratives, that showcase an ‘alternate telling’ of the landscape and its heritage. Therefore, allowing the landscape to sit in tension with its Romantic spectacle and simultaneously performing a new type of heritage.
The historic lead mines of the southern Peak District embody the labour and efforts of miners gon... more The historic lead mines of the southern Peak District embody the labour and efforts of miners gone, as well as, reflect the industrial past of the region. In my research, I have come to explore these underground places. In the darkness of the underground, light provides not only the ability to see, but also offers comfort. This paper focuses on the creation and execution of a temporary five-day light art installation, named Miners’ Lamp, on the southern moors of the Peak District National Park. Inspired by my subterranean explorations and immersive research, the Miners’ Lamp engages the local community and encourages a reconsideration of the ‘hidden’ labour landscapes on the moor. The installation works with the ideas of darkness, light, memory, and the underground showcasing the practice of geography and art in a rural setting and speaking to the politics of preservation through a different aesthetic.
The story of St. Kilda, an island in the North Atlantic, is not only a story of the disastrous na... more The story of St. Kilda, an island in the North Atlantic, is not only a story of the disastrous nature of human abandonment and environmental entanglements, but is also a global story of how heritage and tourism can be creatively approached. Dually inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, St. Kilda is an example of a remote site whose significance has grown ever since it has been devoid of permanent human habitation. Today, that same remoteness is what attracts thousands of visitors to the island and the Outer Hebrides, Scotland; however, the sensitive nature of the site proves difficult for physical visitation and tourism Intrinsic to heritage tourism is the valorisation of the past, or more accurately a curated version of a particular period in the past, which whilst providing a financial model in the short term is not necessarily in the long term interests of the local community at large. Custodianship offers an alternative vision to heritage tourism where the future rather than the past is foregrounded and present ownership acknowledges the obligations to those generations to come. This project explores the remote storytelling possibilities that can come about the idea of 'heritage from afar' and custodianship. In this sense, it is not necessary to physically visit a place to understand the significance of a place. This project thus focuses on how 'remote-access' preservation can be a driver in the development of Ionad Hiort or St. Kilda Centre on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
Designing Interventions to Address Complex Societal Issues, 2023
Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in shaping futures and our economies, yet the challenges of s... more Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in shaping futures and our economies, yet the challenges of sustainability and technology ask a crucial question: how do we nurture new qualities of entrepreneurship that bridge environmental and societal wellbeing - renewing it as a ‘change agent’ ready for uncertain contexts? This ongoing research proposes using the design studio as a unique inclusive learning space. We see the studio as a pedagogic framework, where we can begin to explore ‘new practices’, applying them within prototypes of ‘Seasonal Schools’ for sustainable economics students and faculty across four higher education institutions in Europe and South East Asia. We experiment with integrating studio design methodologies with entrepreneurial pedagogies developing insights into how design can nurture qualities that embrace complexity and ambiguity. The aim being that design becomes a pedagogic catalyst within entrepreneurship learning, renewing the role of entrepreneurs towards agents of holistic collaborative change.
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Bureau of Reclamation and the US Federal government. Its life began as a
display of abstract-coloured lights illuminating the falling waters of the dam’s
spillways. Its production spans more than 60 years of inspiring people on the
history, construction, and wonder that is the Grand Coulee Dam, yet the light
show or Colorama development and meaning are more than just a collection of light and music. This paper presents a historic entanglement of one of the longest running lightshow displays in the United States. Using performative and assemblage theories it argues how the light show moves from the ‘technological sublime’ (Nye 1994) towards a multiplicity of agencies of light, water, sound, and the concrete of the dam enabling an electric atmosphere. Using historical accounts of the show, imagery and design specifications, the paper explores the interplay of these agencies and the ‘power’ that is exchanged. In a time where industrial heritage is celebrated for its technical acumen and national connection, the light show provides key perspectives into new theoretical avenues of illumination and hydro assemblages.
Bureau of Reclamation and the US Federal government. Its life began as a
display of abstract-coloured lights illuminating the falling waters of the dam’s
spillways. Its production spans more than 60 years of inspiring people on the
history, construction, and wonder that is the Grand Coulee Dam, yet the light
show or Colorama development and meaning are more than just a collection of light and music. This paper presents a historic entanglement of one of the longest running lightshow displays in the United States. Using performative and assemblage theories it argues how the light show moves from the ‘technological sublime’ (Nye 1994) towards a multiplicity of agencies of light, water, sound, and the concrete of the dam enabling an electric atmosphere. Using historical accounts of the show, imagery and design specifications, the paper explores the interplay of these agencies and the ‘power’ that is exchanged. In a time where industrial heritage is celebrated for its technical acumen and national connection, the light show provides key perspectives into new theoretical avenues of illumination and hydro assemblages.