I am a practice-based researcher with a background in architecture and jewellery. My research spans across craft, design methods and HCI and my methods of working are rooted in participatory design and material experimentation.
Tide Connection: A piece of Art Digital Jewellery
Media curation to support Ongoingness
The Ethical Roadmap
Dialogical Sketching: A form of autoethography
Book Illustrations to support St.Oswald Hospice
Exploring the Private IoT through Found Physical Interactions
Sketched-collages: Capturing lived experiences
Making Objects as Emotional Responses
Knittistruments: Exploring creativity in knitting
Hide & Seek piece: Working with thermochomic inks
Let it Go piece: Forms explorations
Art Digital Jewellery: Practitioners' Perspectives
Making Microfilms for Digital Jewellery
Logo designs
Microcosmos – a piece of digital jewellery for the plane
My Personal North – Prototype for a piece digital jewellery
Togetherness:Anthos and Chronos brooches
Exploring ideas for digital jewellery on a train
Silversmithing Techniques
Topoi – a piece of digital jewellery
Travelling with the Sea – A piece of digital jewellery
Design Probes for the Airplane
Lunar Poles: An interactive lamp
Using the format of magazines to documenting Research Through Design
Explorations and Thoughts
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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.