Seminar

Using Sound as a Design Tool and Expressive Medium in Unexpected Contexts

Professor Julia Cassim, Kyoto Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology will deliver a seminar on 'Using Sound as a Design Tool and Expressive Medium in Unexpected Contexts'.

As part of the Sound Theme, Professor Julia Cassim BA (Hons), MPhil, FRCA, FRSA, Professor, Kyoto Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology will be hosted by Dr Hua Dong (Design and Creative Arts) and will take part in the first Sound Summit. Professor Cassim will be delivering a seminar on ‘Using Sound as a Design Tool and Expressive Medium in Unexpected Contexts' as part of the IAS Sound Theme. The seminar will look at how sound is used in a range of ways by designers and those working with disability to achieve quite different purposes. 

Professor Cassim studied fine art in the UK and Japan and is an international authority on inclusive design and Fellow of the Royal College of Art. As arts columnist of The Japan Times from 1984-99, she curated and designed award-winning exhibitions for audiences with visual impairments founding a non-profit organisation to increasing cognitive and physical access to museum collections.

In 2000, she joined the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art and initiated the pioneering and influential Challenge Workshops programme. This brought professional designers with disabled and older people in an inclusive co-design process that produced innovative mainstream design solutions and was the subject of an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2010.
 
In May 2014, she became Professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, charged with setting up KYOTO Design Lab, as a centre for interdisciplinary design and innovation. Two D-Lab Lab projects she directed bringing together science and design won a Dutch Design Award in 2016 while another won the Best Idea award at the 2019 Copenhagen Fashion Film Festival. Julia was included in Design Week’s Hot 50 list of people who had most influenced the design world in 2010.

Contact and booking details

Name
Janine Bates
Telephone number
01509 222451
Email address
j.bates@lboro.ac.uk
Cost
Free
Booking required?
Yes
Booking information
Please register to attend this event by contacting Janine Bates.