explorations
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.
Fuck I am Moving
On 24, February 2018 | By Nantia Koulidou
“Fuck I am Moving” is a poster that reflects my feelings of moving from Denmark to the UK in 2014. It shows a part of moving box, which represents my moving process from the one place to another.
Interview with a pilot
On 12, April 2016 | By Nantia Koulidou
As part of my PhD work on home, belonging and transitions between two countries of home, I had the chance to interview one of my friends who is working as a pilot for one of the biggest airlines. The interview opens up themes related to personal experiences of transition between home and a destination from the perspective on a pilot. What is his experience of being on the move? Where does he find comfort in this life of constant mobility?