Alison Thomson

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Design

  Programme

  MA Design Interactions, 2010

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• [email protected]
  07846 598417
  http://www.somehowrelated.co.uk

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• As a society we have an impoverished concept of illness, which fails to help us understand the experience of being ill. The project proposes a new medical facility where design can be used as a language to discuss issues of living with illness, the future development of scientific research and a new take on medical care.

  I have designed a toolbox of methods using performance, alternative workshops and filmmaking. These have been designed to engage patients, scientists and clinicians to contribute to an alternative healthcare proposal, which incorporates design thinking and speculation. Can design thinking propose alternative ways of understanding and treating people living with disease?

  Collaborators: Neuroimmunology Group at Barts and The London NHS Trust.

• Degrees

• BSc, Interactive Media Design (First Class), University of Dundee, 2008

• Experience

• Film maker and producer, Red Barn Studios, Kitsune Records and Vivienne Westwood, London, 2009 to present

• Exhibitions

• Blood, Swear & Fears, 65/67 Broadwick Street, London, 2010; Launch me, Royal College of Art, London, 2009; Trans Local Motion, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, 2008

• Awards

• Honorable Mention, Public Innovation, Shanghai Biennale, 2008