CV
mark@markmakedo.co.uk
Education
MA Design – Critical Practice
Goldsmiths College
09.2006 – 09.2007.
BA (hons) Three Dimensional Design
2:1
University of Portsmouth.
2002 – 2005.
Current Activity
- University of Nottingham - Ph.D. candidate.
I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at Nottingham University’s Horizon Digital Economy Research Hub, and Mixed Reality Lab where I am conducting practice lead research into the affects of digital technologies on personal memory and recollection.
- Institute for Boundary Interactions - Co-founder / Collaborator.
Emerging from our previous work on the LAB project, The Institute for Boundary Interactions [IBI] is an interdisciplinary research collective that uses science, technology, art and design to explore the complex connections between people, places and things.
The Institute are currently conducting a project called Urban Immune Systems Research, commissioned by the Broadway Media Centre’s initiative; Making Future Work.
- Superflux – Associate / Interaction Designer.
I continue be involved in the development of projects that I worked on during the previous internship, and am a team member on project LiloRann. Activities include design, prototyping and hardware development.
- Active Ingredient – Interaction Designer.
I am currently working with Active Ingredient to produce a climate data driven drawing machine as part of their project A Conversation Between Trees.
Previously
- Superflux - Design Intern.
I worked with Superflux on a variety of projects from research into ecosystem degradation in India, to hardware hacking and prototyping physical interfaces.
07.2010 – 10.2010
- Microsoft Research Cambridge – Interaction Design Consultant.
After the PhotoBox project was chosen to be the subject of a long term field research study, I joined the Socio-Digital Systems team as a design consultant. During this time I lead the development of the prototypes and consulted on the system that would finally be deployed with our volunteers.
Part of this time was also spent working on new projects within the Technology Heirlooms research theme.
20.04.2009 – 17.06.2009.
- Microsoft Research Cambridge – Interaction Design Intern
Interaction design internship at the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge working within the Computer Mediated Living group as part of the Socio-Digital Systems team.
I worked on a self-initiated project, Technology Heirlooms: Excavating Digital Archives, involving research and analysis of domestic archiving practices in order to develop products and systems that enable new and more meaningful ways of excavating and persisting digital archives.
12.01.2009 – 03.04.2009.
- Etre – User Experience Design Intern
During this internship I wrote a report detailing practical and actionable interaction and user experience design recommendations for the eCommerce checkout process. Writing the report involved analysing user testing and eye tracking research conducted by Etre, existing best practices. I was also able to assist in user testing sessions.
14.07.2008 -28.11.2008
- Paul Cocksedge Studio – Intern & Part Time
I was part of the Light as Air project team, from the early stages through to the show installation. This involved the development and manufacture of limited edition lighting sculptures, and exhibition set up. I was also involved in the manufacture and development of various products and exhibitions, including Private View, an installation at the Milan Furniture Fair 2007, and a limited edition black styrene lamp shade for Materialism at Gallery Fumi for the 2008 London design Festival.
2005 – 2008.
Featured In
- The future of Looking Back (Microsoft Press, 2011), by Richard Banks
Remembr, the Digital Slide Viewer and Photobox are featured in a new book by Richard Banks of Microsoft Research on the subject of Technology Heirlooms.
There’s an interview with Richard about the book here.
Exhibition
- Tracing Mobility: Cartography and Migration in Networked Space
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
23.11.2011 – 12.12.2011
Camera Explora was part of this group exhibition featuring about 20 works from an international group of artists on the theme of cartography and migration in networked space.
- LAB : Sideshow Residency
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
27.11.2010 – 17.12.2010.
LAB were invited take up residency at Surface Gallery for four weeks, transforming their Project Space into a temporary cultural laboratory. Inviting a number of Artists, Scientists and specialists from a variety of backgrounds as well as members of the public, to work in the Laboratory.
- Tracing Mobility: Territorial Play
Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, UK.
14 – 16.05.2010.
Camera Explora was exhibited as part installation and part live participation activity for Radiator ‘s Tracing Mobility programme.
- Anomalies:
No. 1 The Piazza, Covent Garden.
23 -30.09.2007
Photographic Memories at the Goldsmiths MA Design – Critical Practice exhibition during the London Design Festival 2007, and in association with Casa Decor.
Publications
- Ideation Decks: A Card Based Design Ideation Tool.
Golembewski, M. Selby, M. (2010) Ideation Decks: A Card Based Design Ideation Tool. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on the Design of Interactive Systems (DIS 2010).
Skills and Methods
- Freehand Sketching and Drawing
- Storyboarding / process flows / mapping
- Adobe CS
- Object Oriented Programming: Processing & Java.
- Arduino
- Electronics, hardware hacking & prototyping
- CAD: Solidworks / Rhino
- Rapid prototyping: 3D printing / laser cutting
- Hand Prototyping : woods / metals / plastics / electronics
- Writing: reports / papers / presentation / proposals.
- Research analysis, field trials, user studies.
- Photography & Film
- Html & CSS
Interests
- My main interest is music. Aside from listening to it almost constantly I play several instruments and am in a band who regularly play live and record. Aside from that I love reading when I can, and drawing if I can. I also dabble in photography along with the occasional bit of football, cycling and rock climbing.