Dr Alexandra Antonopoulou

Biography

Alexandra Antonopoulou is a UK based designer and a Course Leader at the University of the Arts London. Alexandra has also taught design, story-making and immersive environments modules at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. Her work engages with wider discourses on art and design pedagogy, myths and fairytales, interdisciplinary collaboration, and science communication. Her artistic practice has been showcased in various galleries including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern Gallery and the London Design Museum. Her research examines child-play as well as story-making, performance and design as tools for criticality and everyday invention. Alexandra Antonopoulou holds a Ph.D. in Design from Goldsmiths.



PhD Supervision and Research includes the themes below:

DESIGN EDUCATION (across levels) - transformative design pedagogy (designerly ways of learning, design play, creativity and the curriculum, tacit learning in design education, design as a way of thinking, Internationalisation and the Curriculum)

STORY-MAKING, FICTION, SPECULATION AND DESIGN; Design and literature (Design fictions, speculative design, designing for utopias, design and performance)

DESIGN AND IDENTITY FORMATION (design authorship, Design identity and the construction of the self, drawing and the self)

PARTICIPATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION METHODS (power dynamics and participatory design, interdisciplinary collaboration, science communication and working with science)

DESIGN METHODS , IDEATION, PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH METHODS

MATERIALITY, IMMERSION AND THE DIGITAL
(immersive environments and performance, archiving the digital, tactility and craftmanship)



DESIGN ETHICS, SOCIAL DESIGN, DESIGN CITIZENSHIP