Unconference 2024 Museum Data

A lightning talk from Codebar Unconference 2024 discussing the importance and potential for museum open data

Zine making as research methodology (public)

Presentation for Arts x Science meetup 19th May

AfroFuturism as Praxis

Sotheby's 2023

Museums and Design Justice

A talk given 03/05/2023 at the Museum Tech conference hosted by the Museums Association

Inclusive user testing: a quick guide

A day long workshop with students from Ravensbourne college introducing critical design approaches for inclusive practice.

Introductory user centred design: methods and approaches

A a quick introduction to the user centred design process, from identifying key user problems and ideation, to prototyping and user testing. By the end of this talk you will get an understanding of tools and approaches for doing rapid user research, incorporating the best aspects of design thinking methods for making impactful digital products.

Designing experiences (Design Ventura)

Holistic design for interesting times

How can we ensure that we are designing holistically, with all the challenges we must be mindful of, from tackling embedded bias in our products to offsetting negative environmental impact. This presentation will look at two design paradigms and how they can impact our design practice to keep us accountable and inclusive.

Are we even designing?

Front End North 2020

Mapping a collective futurity

Talk for New Adventures Conference 2020

Seeking the Black Maker

Service Design for Heritage workshop

Outline for 'Collaborative ideation' and 'Mapping data' workshops, September 2019

From the woman who walked to the Gilded canopy

A talk given at the Applied Comics Network, Newcastle University, 2019

Considering futurities beyond the anthropocene through decolonising narratives of natural history collections

Of countermemories and recursive futurities

Presentation for Stir London Launch on 14th November

Imperative Conditionals; Black speculative thought and the co-designed futurity

BCU Seminar November, 2018

In the shadows of hateful glass

For Building with Bias event

Imperative Conditionals

V&A June 2018

It was never about learning to code (for notes)

Presentation for Birmingham Design Festival

Hey you, do you even design?

JSConfEU 2018

Designing for a Black Futurity

UAL Symposium on Speculative Design and Indigenous Futurisms

Designing for the Job in a Noisy World

Bulgaria Web Summit 2018

Co creating UX for interesting times

UXCamp Brighton 2018

Dino Jam

Wilberforce panel talk

A short talk on design and pervasive computing given at Brave New World: Reimagined, the 2018 Wilberforce Society annual conference

Making bots

Decolonising bots conference and hackathon 26th-27th October 2017

From the past to the future

Brighton Digital Festival presentation

Dude, do you even design?

Hackference 2017

The Power of the Jam

A presentation about a design jam and what I learned.

STEM-workshop-slide

Talking Languages

A very brief, initial introduction to Computer languages for the Midlands Ada's List meet up in January.

Web as Narrative Space

Presentation originally given at Creative Meet. Here I discuss how we can shape the web as a space for narratives, helping us make sense of a near infinite data source.

Take a Closer Look

A brief presentation about our product idea developed for Global Sustainability Jam.

The Outsider's Gaze

Using afrofuturism to examine the black experience of society and technology

SubjectOrchestra

Inspired by Intersectionality