Research

Silvia is a current research student at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and is working towards a practice-based PhD entitled Designing Narrative Product Interactions, investigating the way narrative elements from film can inform the design of non-digital objects from the point of view of physical interactions. Up to date information on the project is here silvia.myblog.arts.ac.uk

Past research work focused on emotional design, in particular investigating the role of surprise in eliciting product emotions. This resulted in the Ta-Da Series which won an honourable mention in the ID Magazine annual student review 2006. To view an archived site on the project go to www.ta-da.co.uk

She has presented papers at Design and Emotion conferences in Hong Kong (2008) and Sweden (2006) as well as at the DeSForM conference at Northumbria University (2008). She wrote a chapter included the book Design & Emotion Moves (2008), published by Cambridge Scholars Press and edited by Pieter Desmet, Jeroen Van Erp and MariAnne Karlsson

Teaching

Silvia is Course Director on BA(Hons) Graphic Product Innovation at London College of Communication and an Associate Lecturer on BA (Hons) Communication, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins. She has taught at several universities and colleges in the USA and the UK.

Education

MA Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins (2005), BFA Furniture Design, Rhode Island School of Design (2001). Currently studying for a PhD at Central Saint Martins

Location

London UK

Disciplines

• Architecture and Design

Affiliation

University of the Arts London

Website

http://www.nimblecritters.co.uk/silvia.html