Hello! I'm Mark, a designer and PhD student at Nottingham University's Horizon, and Mixed Reality Lab. I’m also a co-founder of LAB, a Nottingham based collective for open, collaborative creative practice.
Previously I studied on the MA Design – Critical Practice course at Goldsmiths, and have worked for a number of design studios in a variety of roles from hand-making bespoke products to web usability. More recently I worked with Microsoft Research on the Technology Heirlooms project.
It's fair to say I'm interested in memory - most of my work focuses on how emerging and future technologies might mediate our perceptions of the world, our experiences within it, and our encounters with the artefacts of personal memory. At Superflux, I am excited to be able to get my hands dirty working on a cool product prototype, while also having the opportunity to work on two lab projects which critically explore the societal implications of cutting edge scientific and technological research. Working with them is a great opportunity to get to grips with the process of designing outcomes that respond to contemporary concerns in valuable ways. It's going to be fun!
Hello I’m Zahra! I am about to enter my final year as BA Design student at Goldsmiths. If it wasn't for my bad mathematics and chemistry, I might have very well found myself in a different field than Design and secretly wished I were born a gifted physicist. This clearly never happened. Instead I study Design. My main reason for entering the BA Design program than any other specific design education was because of its multi-disciplinary, concept and change-driven structure.
I am doing my summer internship at Superflux because I am hoping to learn from, and contribute to their method of overlapping the worlds of science and design with the future. I enjoy making, and by working on their client projects, I hope to develop my craft better. Hopefully I will also learn to work under short deadlines and find new opportunity spaces for design.
On the other hand, their current lab projects respond to intensive research in high end technologies and scientific developments that are yet to be ethically and socially translated, applied and integrated. These are extreme times to be living in, and I think they feel the same way.
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