Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad draws on design anthropology and aesthetics to develop methodologies that actively engage users and stakeholders within design processes.
Hashemi-Nezhad is an award-winning designer, researcher and educator with a focus on co-design and social design. He has worked with the public sector, local authorities, museums, cultural and educational institutions to foster collaborative culture and develop intuitive tools and methodologies that proactively engage end-users and stakeholders in design processes when addressing complex and open-ended problems.
Hashemi-Nezhad is the tutor of design innovation courses at the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts two years running, RCA X OPPO research associate and lecturer on the Design Products programme. He has exhibited and conducted workshops both in the UK and internationally, including with the Serpentine Galleries, London; Liverpool Biennial; Shanghai Biennale; Tokyo Design Week, MACBA, Barcelona and LCCA, Riga.
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Research interests
Participatory Design Methodologies
Research funding
Unbox Image Gallery, AHRC collaborative research grant, 2015
Hyson Green Workshop Units, Arts Council England, 2015
Near Now, Arts Council England & Innovate UK, 2015
The Urban Craftsmen, Artists’ International Development Fund, Arts Council England, 2014
Mapping Mapusa Market, AHRC collaborative research grant, 2013
Seamless (Sarai, Delhi), Asialink research grant, 2012
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
The City Questions, Nottingham Contemporary, 2016
Trans—Design, Shanghai Biennial, 2016
Hyson Green Workshops, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2016
Soleil Jaune, La Poste HQ, Paris, 2015'
Lecture - 'Craft Thinking', Osaka Municipal College of Design, Japan, 2015
Artist’s Talk - Serpentine Gallery, London, 2014
Stand by, Milan Salone del Mobile, Milan, 2014
Camden Highline, London Design Festival, 2014
Survival Kit, LCCA, Riga, 2013
Possibility Forum, Serpentine Gallery, 2013
Futurist Library, Liverpool Biennial, 2013
UnBox Festival Delhi, British Council, AHRC, 2013
Grand Domestic Revolution Casco, The Showroom Gallery, 2012
Zootopia, London Design Festival, Festival of Architecture, London, 2012
Communal Knowledge, The Showroom Gallery, 2012
On the Edgware Road, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2012
Seamless, India Art Sumit, Delhi, 2012
In Other Words, Sarai, Delhi, 2012
Opaque/Platform, Design Tide, Tokyo, 2011
Speak Out, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2011
Anatomy of a Street, London Festival of Architecture, London, 2010
Orderly Conduct, Format Photography Festival, Derby, 2010
Auto-Progettazione Revisited, Architecture Association, London, 2009
External collaborations
- Westminster Council
- Nottingham City Homes
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Tokyo City Office
- Sutton Council
- University of the Arts, London
- Serpentine Galleries
- Nottingham Contemporary