Adriana Eysler
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Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies Graphic Comms Programme
College
London College of Communication
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Adriana Eysler is a Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies for courses across the Design School at London College of Communication.Adriana is a co-convenor of the Design Activism Research Hub at LCC, which is concerned with the visual and material culture practices and artefacts of social movements and other formations of resistance and agitation.
She researches precarious and unpaid labour in the arts and creative industries, as well as more cooperative, ethical alternative modes of working, organising/unionising creative workers (ao with Precarious Workers Brigade).
She is a member of the Design Justice Network. In 2007, she completed a PgCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at University of the Arts London and joined the Higher Education Academy as a Fellow. In 2005, she graduated in MA Design Futures from Goldsmiths College, University of London; in 2003, she gained her BA in Graphic and Media Design from London College of Communication. She has been teaching at LCC since 2006, and has also taught at Ravensbourne University London and HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design FHNW (Basel, Switzerland) among others.
Her research interests are
Labour conditions in the cultural sector/creative industries, cooperativization and commoning, social movement culture, ethics and politics of design.