I am design researcher and lecturer in the field of digital jewellery. I work across design, craft and technology and my methods of working are rooted in participatory design and material experimentation.
Explorations and Thoughts
In the search of the Found: My faschination with found objects
On 9, March 2020 By Nantia Koulidou
Found objects fascinates me and the search in itself intrigues me. Found objects have their starting point and they become “hybrid artifacts” merging their existing narratives with my practice as a design researcher and jeweller in the field of interaction design and HCI research. They seek to tell stories about their history, their materiality and the specificity of the place where they were found. We just need to pay attention!
Space/Craft. An Eye into Stephen Bottomley's Praxis. Exhibition Review by Nantia Koulidou
On 17, November 2019 By Nantia Koulidou
The Space/Craft exhibition is the journey of Stephen Bottomley’s praxis presented as a timeline of his experiences with different places, materials, techniques and textures. Traces of his craft practice offer numerous answers on how he copes with changes in space and time by questioning the connection between what is familiar and rather traditional and what is unknown or rather new.
Life Drawing Class
On 17, May 2018 By Nantia Koulidou
2018 at the Mushroom studios, Newcastle
I attended life drawing class to better understand human proportions, get inspired by a new area and a new activity and relax my mind from my phd by doing something physical.