Tutor
Design Interactions Programme
School of Design
interaction@rca.ac.uk
The main focus of James’s research is the design methodology behind the creation of ‘Speculative Futures and Alternative Presents’. This is intended to question and inform both contemporary and near-future technological application.
James Auger has a BA in Product Design from Glasgow School of Art and an MA in Design Products from the Royal College of Art. Between 2002 and 2005 he was employed as a research associate at Media Lab Europe, where the main focus of his research was a design-based investigation into technology-mediated human interaction. He then worked at the Issey Miyake Design Studio in Tokyo as guest designer. Since 2005 he has been teaching and continuing his research in the Design Interactions programme at the RCA.
James is also a partner in the Speculative Design practice Auger-Loizeau, whose projects have been published and exhibited internationally, including MoMA, New York; 21_21, Tokyo; The Science Museum, London and the Ars Electronica festival, Linz, and are part of the permanent collection at MoMA. In 2003 James was awarded the Köln Klopfer International Designer of the Year by the students of KISD in Germany.
James Auger is an external examiner at Edinburgh College of Design, visiting professor at HEAD, Geneva and on the judging panel of IF Design awards.
James Auger's recent exhibitions include: St Etienne Design Biennale 2010, St Etienne, France; Freakshow, Helmrinderknecht Gallery, Berlin, November 2010–January 2011; Lift 10, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2010; Action, Design Over Time, MoMA, NY, February 2010; Experimenta 09, Lisbon, September 2009; Freeze! 2009, NTMoFA, Taiwan, July 2009; Nowhere/Now/Here, Laboral, Spain, October 2008; Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, NY, February 2008.
He has participated in the following conferences: Swiss Design Network Conference: Design Fictions (Keynote), Basel, Switzerland, October 2010; DAP Conference (Keynote), Seoul, South Korea, October 2010; EASST Conference, Trento, Italy, September 2010.