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Jason Cleverly

Profession
BA Product and Furniture Design Course Leader
College
Chelsea College of Arts
Person Type
Staff
Jason Cleverly

Biography

Jason Cleverly develops and designs situational, interpretive craft works for museums and art galleries.

Designed to create collaboration and participation, these artefacts enhance visitor experiences. Working across a range of materials and embedded technologies, this practice explores a personal preoccupation with interaction and affordance. His PhD thesis is a critical evaluation of this design practice: The Artist-designer: Situating Creative Interaction and Interpretation in the Museum, 2018.

Publications include:

  • Design and museum interpretation: Contemporary characteristics and practice. Chapter for Design Objects and the Museum. Bloomsbury.
  • Playing with words: Creativity and interaction in museums and galleries. Patel M. Heath, C. Luff P. Cleverly J. The Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship.
  • Designing collaboration: Evoking Dr Johnson through craft and interdisciplinarity. Shear T. Cleverly J. Collaboration through Craft).
  • Revealing surprise: The local ecology and the transposition of action. Cleverly, J, Heath, C, vom Lehn, D and Luff, P. Emotion and Social Interaction, Oxford University Press.
  • Crafting participation: designing ecologies, configuring experience. D.Von  Lehn, J. Cleverly, C. Heath, P. Luff. Journal of Visual Communication.
  • Crafting participation: Interaction with and around aesthetic, tangible artefacts. D. vom Lehn, J. Cleverly, C. Heath, P. Luff.

Practice and installations include:

  • The Enlightened Eye: Mineral viewer Interactive for Liskeard Museum, 2014 Work table and Escritoire: for House of Words exhibition Dr Johnson’s house London, 2009.
  • Lineamentum: Interactive drawing Machinefor Royal Cornwall Museum Truro, 2007.
  • Fly press and Stamp: Interactive for Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Hockley Birmingham with John Grayson, 2006.
  • The perceptive Engine Site specific commission For the Potteries Museum Hanley. Stoke on Trent, 2004, The Universal Curator.
  • The Hunt Museum. Limerick Ireland.  Interactive installation, 2003.
  • Ghost Ship, S.O.F.A. Chicago, U.S.A. for The Crafts Council and S.H.A.P.E. 2001.

Links

jasoncleverly.com

BA Product and Furniture Design

Chelsea College of Arts

Contact

Telephone

+44 (0)20 7514 7751

Address

Chelsea College of Arts
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU