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Barbara Mueller is a designer, researcher and educator interested in participatory and socially engaged practices.
She deploys performative and feminist approaches and methods to make rationalist frameworks of research more inclusive for alternative modes of knowing and the practitioners and researchers who learn through these.
Barbara supports students’ development of critical design practice where she explores socially engaged practices and practice as research methods.
Currently, she is undertaking a PhD at the University of Brighton that aims to develop new insights into the relationship of tacit and rational knowledge within and through performance art and design. Within her performative design practice, she creates environments and props to explore alternative and embodied knowledges with her participants.
Barbara is an active member of the University of Brighton’s Performance and Communities Centre of Research Excellence and regularly contributes to its research culture.
As a researcher for the Royal College of Art, she builds on her expertise to identify tacit and performative modes in science communication as part of an ongoing knowledge exchange project between the Royal College of Art (RCA) and King’s College’s James Black Centre for Cardiovascular Biology.
Prior to taking on the role as Course Leader of the Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design, she has taught on the MA Visual Communication at the RCA and on the BA Graphic Design Communication at Chelsea College of Arts.
Her research practice produces outputs including knowledge exchange projects, conference talks, journal articles, toolkits, and workshops.
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+44 (0)20 7514 7751