Research practice

I have always had an intense passion for jewellery and an interest in combining jewellery practices with digital technology. I am very lucky to turn my passion into my career. My design research practice explores and reconsiders digital jewellery as objects that combines art jewellery practices and digital technology in personally meaningful ways. Following a Research through Design approach, I create links between autobiographical experiences and craft methodologies to design novel examples of digital jewellery. See the main page to read about my work.

I am currently developing a Digital Jewellery Starter Kit in collaboration with Luis Carvalho and Tanya Fish. I am also interested in creating a research network of jewellers working in the field of wearable technology, wearable health technology and art digital jewellery. Please get in touch if want to get involved on my email: n.koulidou@shu.ac.uk

CV

I am design researcher with background in architecture, jewellery and co-design. I joined Sheffield Hallam University as a lecturer in BA Jewellery, Materials and Design in April 2020 and I became a member of the Digital Materiality Lab research team in SHU led by Prof. Daniela Petrelli. In September 2021, I was appointed the new Course Leader for the BA Jewellery Materials and Design.

Previously (2019-2020), I was employed as a Senior Research Associate at Northumbria University on the project Enabling Ongoingness: Content Creation & Consumption in the New Digital Age, a 3 years EPSRC funded project led by Prof. Jayne Wallace. The project aimed to enable people in early stages of dementia, in bereavement, end-of-life to create content that will intersect dynamically with that created by their loved ones in future years when they are unable to tell them how we feel about them ourselves. Find more about the project here.

In 2019, I awarded my PhD for my thesis “A practice-led inquiry into the nature of digital jewellery: Craft explorations and Dialogical Enagegements with people”. My thesis explores how wearable technology and jewellery practices open new ways of connectivity between people in the context of living in-between two places of home. Understanding how people feel and experience a situation is an important part of my design research practice. Find more about my PhD here.

Prior to my doctoral studies (2012-14), I completed a MSc degree in IT Product Design (SDU, Denmark) with design experiments in musical knitting, wearable probes and I have a previous training in architecture (2004-2011, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) and silversmithing (2011-2012, mokume).

Read my CV here

I enjoy travelling, hiking and having conversations with people from all over the world.

Contact Details

Email: kkoulidou[et]gmail.com

Twitter: @nantiakoulidou