Designing Time – Circadian Dreams

Dr Helga Schmid is a London-based design researcher and experience and communication designer. Helga is one of the Design Museum's Designer In Residence 2018. Her project explores the nature of temporality in relation to today's society.

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. His main field of research is the point of conjuncture between metaphysics, cultural production and politics. His latest book, Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality, was published by Bloomsbury in 2018.

Ceglarek – half of the duo C&D, a member of audio visual collective Modulartelevision, co-founder and curator of Katowice Sound Department. In his solo project he creates various improvised sound structures, the main theme of which are synthetic natural phenomena, primal rhythms and time shifts. In his sound workshop he uses a modular synthesizer and dub techniques.

Tereza Červeňová holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. She is a Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2017 Alumnus and recipient of the John Kobal New Work Award 2015 and D&AD Yellow Pencil 2014. Červeňová attempts to blur the line between her personal and commissioned work as the centre of both occupies the genre of portraiture. Her work is held in the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection.

The Demystification Committee studies the intensities of late capitalism, with an ongoing focus on the relationship between sovereignty and capital, and on the friction between networks and power structures. Established in 2016, the Demystification Committee is chaired from London, UK and Berlin, DE.

Ronnie Deelen is a versatile artist who works with Image and Sound. He is a tutor at the Royal College of Art in the IED sound design pathway. Analog synthesis grew to be his main focus when working with sound. He creates soundscapes and rhythmic experiments using a modular synthesizer.

Claudia Dutson trained in architecture, and teaches experimental design at the Royal College of Art. Her research into the architecture of Silicon Valley interrogates the spatial tactics of management through case studies of the Facebook, Apple and Google campuses. Her work is published in Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies Economies Technologies, and the Journal E.R.O.S. Issue 7, The Interior.

Matthew Fuller is the author of a number of books including 'How to Sleep, the art, biology and culture of unconsciousness', (Bloomsbury). He is Professor of Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London

Frances Holliss is an architect and emeritus reader in architecture at London Metropolitan University. An expert in the architecture of home-based work, she is published widely and speaks internationally on the subject. Also interested in the impact of policy and regulatory frameworks on design for home-based work, she recently co-authored an OECD Policy Brief for Home-based Business (2019).

Francisco Ibáñez is trained in architecture and works in urban regeneration and photography. He combines these fields through research on urban development and the evolution of architecture. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions in London and Santiago.

Laura Lorenzi is a dance artist and graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2015. Her artistic practice is rooted in the exploration of partnering techniques such as, Contact Improvisation and Argentine Tango; as well as solo practices which draw from Deborah Hay’s and Gaga technique. She has worked with Glyndebourne Opera House, Quang Kien Van, Companie MF, and Natisclazi DT.

Designing Time:
This performance questions the extent to which we are able to listen to our bodies, investigating ways to give space and time to the processes that are constantly happening inside us. Using improvisation as a paradigm for circadian rhythm, I am interested in building a time that moves with bodily desires in fits and starts.

Debra J. Skene, PhD, is Professor of Neuroendocrinology and Section Lead for Chronobiology at the University of Surrey, UK. She has over 25 years of research experience studying the human circadian timing system in health and disease. Her research has focussed on the characterization and treatment of circadian rhythm sleep/wake disorders as experienced by blind people, shift workers, transmeridian air travellers and older people.

Trained in architecture, Mále is a London-based artist and spatial designer, working at Storeystudio and as Visiting Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic practice is situated on the contemporary mediations between the virtual and material dimensions of space. Her work explores large scale material surfaces as a medium to alternative narratives and worlds.

Find out more about the innovative projects that this year's Designers in Residence are working on using the theme of dwelling.