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Keir Williams is the Course Leader for BA (Hons) Service Design at London College of Communication. He is an accomplished participatory educator, designer, and creative technologist. His research and practice focus on the design and function of digital technologies in supporting advocacy, play, and education.
Keir has a track record of delivering innovative and engaging teaching programs in the UK and abroad. He has written and directed undergraduate and postgraduate programmes including Digital Media BSc (UK/HK), Childhood Studies with Innovation MSc (UoB) and taught units that include Design Futures, Client-Led Briefs, Design and Systems Thinking, Physical Computing for Creative Practice, and Fine Art Digital Practice.
Keirs' participatory research approach focuses on supporting underrepresented communities to explore complex structural issues that shape their lives through design and creative practices. His EPRSC funded MSc and PhD research (QMUL) focused on participatory design methods for developing creative technologies within a UK Special Educational Needs school. Recent engaged research includes working with former prisoners to found start-ups, recording life stories with looked after children, developing networks for female empowerment with entrepreneurs in Nigeria, exploring laundry habits with van dwellers in Bristol, and conducting design research with recently arrived refugees in the Norwegian Arctic. Currently, he is supervising two PhD students focusing on inclusive forms of venture capital and financial resilience.
His creative practise is extensive, spanning across digital sound, creative coding, print making, machine learning and AI, service design, and digital media production with a focus on performance, inclusion, and play. He has a MA in Fine Art (BCU) and an MSc in Media and Arts Technologies (QMUL). He has produced creative and commercial projects for renowned clients such as TATE, Glastonbury Festival, PS1, ICA, Pixel Artworks, Red Bull F1, We the Curious, and touretteshero.
Before joining LCC, Keir was a founding member of the Centre for Innovation at the University of Bristol, where he taught since its first cohort in 2017. The Centre offered transdisciplinary entrepreneurship programmes for students from 14 disciplines to work together over four years, emphasising challenge-based, collaborative learning to deliver innovative solutions to real-world challenges.
Keir is a fellow of the FHEA and a founding member of the artist collective Live Art Digital, the live art duo chris+keir, and reggae collective Jam Jah Sound. Keir is always interested in working with new partners across disciplines and contexts.
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