Category: Cross Years

User Experience Context Earlier this month, i got to be a part of a workshop at CSM, as part of our ‘signup workshops’. The one i chose for this unit was about an introduction to user experience. The workshop was led by Daniela Barbeira, who is a designer at transport for London (tfl). She is…

Indexing archives On our second studio brief on Societies, we learnt about indices and indexing. We did the activity in groups of 2 to 3. We worked with a previously chosen archive from the Bishopsgate archive. My chosen document was a publication called ‘The Lavender Letter’, it used to be a publication around the themes…

Quilt and sew I would like to highlight this activity we did on our second cross-years studio, with Cai, and had a great learning experience in the process. Cai showed us their quilts, which are absolutely beautiful and crafted with a lot of work. In this studio, we worked together in a group and made…

Cross years session 1 Clappabet For our first cross years with Rebecca and Cai, we were given a brief about ‘Alphabets as infrastructure’ which is exactly as it sounds. The day was divided into discussions about writing systems, how they work to create meaning, and how the alphabet is influenced by visual, cultural, and material…