Lecturer of Interior Design and Stage One Convenor
Daniel is the Stage One Convenor for BA (Hons) Interior Architecture, BA (Hons) Interior Design, and BA (Hons) Interior Decoration and Styling, the three courses of the Design Programme Spatial Design Cluster. He is also the Unit Lead for the Stage Two unit ‘Design for Equity 02’ and the Link Tutor for the Creative Foundations suite of interdisciplinary units at ICI, Xiamen China.
Bio
Daniel graduated from BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design in 2009, and from MA Fine Art in 2015 and has been working in design education since 2016.
As part of his practice, he has created installations from domestic donations, swapped railroad ballast for the memories and objects in people’s pockets, invited the public to a house-warming party in a gallery, made inflatable architecture in a memorial garden and handed out 500 make-your-own-kaleidoscope kits in 2 days. He has had exhibitions of drawings, installations and sculptural structures, worked collaboratively to devise performative sound machines and walked for miles to understand the environmental conditions between the towns along the East Kent coast.
Daniel is actively involved in design education and educational outreach, having worked with different schools and universities, local organisations and within different community groups to devise a variety of engagement activities. Working with UCA Outreach, he is also an Arts Award Adviser which has allowed him to work with many students to achieve their National Trinity Arts Award qualifications.
Research statement
Interested in notions of Becoming and Assemblage, Daniel’s practice models new spatial possibilities through acts of walking, archiving, mapping and making, using these processes to explore and understand present-day urban and rural environments and the communities that inhabit them.