I joined the university in 2021 after teaching Product Design at several other universities, primarily in CAD, digital design tools, digital fabrication/CAM, and digital rendering, but also design practice, theory and philosophy through design projects.
Since joining the university I have developed expertise in generative AI tools for design practice and interactive augmented reality and broadened my teaching experience to include spatial/interior/environmental design, user interaction and experience design, and graphic design.
I have expertise in a variety of design skills (parametric modelling, surfacing, polygonal and sub-divisional modelling, sub-divisional NURBS, computer graphics, image and video rendering, interactive augmented reality, generative AI, and others) which I enjoy sharing with students, colleagues, and other educators alike.
Primarily undertaking research into how generative AI will change industrial design practice and industrial design pedagogy through case studies.
My other research interests include computational design and mass customisation, design for humanitarian development, and design philosophy (particularly ethics and aesthetics).
I teach on several modules at undergraduate and master's level, primarily in the ideation, exploration, development, and visual communication of design ideas through sketching, generative AI, model making, and CAD tools including SubD NURBS, as well as the visual communication of final design proposals through image and video renders, augmented and virtual reality, technical drawings, and prototypes.
I lead several modules which cover leadership of the teaching of advanced CAD, digital visualisation, and generative AI practice and philosophy through 'The Ethics and Aesthetics of Generative AI in Design Practice' module I deliver in the second year."
I'm a leader in the evolution of industrial design practice and education in response to the emergence of generative AI; delivering lectures on teaching generative AI tools to other universities including the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Winchester School of Art, being interviewed for magazines such as DEVELOP3D, delivering webinars to the Design and Technology Association, and being interviewed for several undergraduate and master's essays and thesis on the subject.