Nancy Jim About Me
I am a freelance web / user experience designer with twenty years of experience in the creative and digital software industry. Having gained a Bachelors degree in Design Futures 18 years ago, I recently returned to academia and completed a Masters in Art & Design in 2017, once again around the subject of Design Futures, at Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, which I undertook on a part-time basis in the hopes of new opportunities that match and relate to my core principles and ethos.
Opportunities
The end of the Masters seems very much the beginnings of further studies. I wish to take my research further into practice work, exploring ways of creating engaging social spaces, to awaken the senses and interact around the physical and metaphysical following Eastern philosophy.
Engaging living spaces was something I touched upon in the final year of my degree, where I explored the breakdown of walls or barriers with the use of interactivity, organic form and projections of light and image. Exploring this further into outside spaces, I believe it is relevant to my current research and even more relevant today in a connective but disconnected society.
Engaging living spaces was something I touched upon in the final year of my degree, where I explored the breakdown of walls or barriers with the use of interactivity, organic form and projections of light and image. Exploring this further into outside spaces, I believe it is relevant to my current research and even more relevant today in a connective but disconnected society.
Projects
Through interactive arts and installations, I would like to explore spaces that embrace the senses and the metaphysical, adding a magic and wonderment to our surroundings through design activism, following Lanier’s calls for a digital spiritual humanism or Stiegler’s spiritual ecology.
This could also be extended into community projects as a political act for social transformation, whereupon it influences and increases interest in art, design and innovation. The Roald Dahl celebrations in Cardiff last year proves how popular and positive the Arts can be and is a much needed necessity within society to retain balance.
This could also be extended into community projects as a political act for social transformation, whereupon it influences and increases interest in art, design and innovation. The Roald Dahl celebrations in Cardiff last year proves how popular and positive the Arts can be and is a much needed necessity within society to retain balance.
Teaching
From my research I understand the high importance of Arts and Design to culture, community and wellbeing. I would love the opportunity to teach redirected design practice within the university environment and inspire others in innovation and creative practice whilst sharing the knowledge I have gained. I have been learning to speak Mandarin over the last year and will extend my studies in this to increase such opportunities in teaching.
Publishing the Book
In the short-term, I aim to add to the illustrations in my book and initially self-publish. This means creating a website specifically to launch the book and add interest and thought with corresponding future writings and posts, with the possibility of creating viral messages by leaving extracts of the book in glass bottles or as origami pieces trailing along a red thread amongst nature.
I also plan to submit the book to potential contacts, including politicians and community leaders to whom I have distant ties to. I believe that the neglected Arts requires further funding rather than the current spending cuts, and I hope that my attempts can bring into fruition further conversations and possible opportunities around community based Art & Design projects.
