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Alaistair Steele is a designer, researcher and educator. He is the Acting Course Leader of MA User Experience Design at London College of Communication. Alaistair’s teaching, research and commercial work explores new approaches to living with technology in cities. It focuses on incorporating the everyday and the overlooked in strategies for making cities fairer, more useful and more fun.
Since 2003 Alaistair has combined teaching with his own design and research. He is particularly interested in linking design education with practice. He has initiated numerous dynamic outward-facing projects that engage with place, local communities and technology. Project partners include IDEO, Brixton Pound, Moley Robotics, Chelsea Physic Garden, V&A and R/GA. He is a guest critic and adviser at UAL, including at Central Saint Martins, and externally, including at Kingston University and the University of East London.
Alaistair’s practice led PhD thesis is about the UK’s evolving ATM network and it’s potential as a site for strategic social innovation. He has presented research internationally at DRS, Transmediale, and Urban IxD. He co-authored Drawing on Windows: Engaging Young People with the Built Environment, and Central Saint Martins Foundation: Key lessons in art and design: Key Lessons in Fashion, Fine Art, Graphic and Three-Dimensional Design. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theatre, and an MA in Architecture from the Royal College of Art. His PhD was hosted at Central Saint Martins. Originally trained in theatre, then as an architect, Alaistair has worked on experiential and spatial design projects with private and publicly-funded clients including the General London Assembly’s Architecture and Urbanism Unit, and Adams and Sutherland Architects.
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