Hello! I’m Senior Lecturer in Design Research in the School of Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and I also serve as the journal’s Web and Book Reviews Editor. Teaching in the new Culture+Context design degree programme offers an incredible opportunity to develop connections between the social sciences, industrial and new media design—building on my background in anthropology and archaeology, as well as my PhD research into the design of urban computing and locative media. I’m generally interested in relations between material, spatial and cultural practices, and my current research critically investigates new technologies in terms of embodied practice and material culture. You can learn more about my research at the Design Culture Laboratory and I’m just getting started on a new project, Counting Sheep: Using RFID to Explore NZ Wool Industries. You can find my research blog, as well as links to my academic papers, presentations and classes at purse lip square jaw.
Hi! In my official capacity I’m Henry Marshall Tory Chair and Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. My research career focus has been urban cultural studies. By focusing on shopping malls, markets, theme parks, tourist attractions, and other embodied sites, my research seeks insights into the implications that spatialization, the metropolis and architecture have for personal identity and sociability, pleasure and taste, the cultures of public institutions, cities, and for ‘knowledge’ and ‘innovation’ societies. I co-founded the Space and Culture journal in 1995, and my books include The Virtual (2003), Lefebvre: Love and Struggle (1999) and Places on the Margin (1992).
Hello! I’m currently a SSHRC/Killam Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Department of Art & Design interdisciplinary program at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. My dissertation examines creativity and innovation by considering painting as a site where the invisible is made visible as a consequence of actual and virtual, material and immaterial factors. My publications and conference presentations have focused on pressing contemporary issues within technology and society, art and culture, theories of mobility, speed and space-time compression. In my free time I’m a practicing artist and keen traveler.
Hi! I’m Dutch but work and live in the UK at Nottingham Trent University, where I am a professor of media analysis and Head of the Centre for Research in Culture and Communication. I’ve also been with Space and Culture from the beginning, and currently serve as the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. My research interests are diverse and include fields such as risk, epidemiology, apocalypse, religion, airports, mobility, media, technology, sexuality, embodiment and networks. I’m the author of Risk and Technological Culture and my latest book is Media Technology: Critical Perspectives.