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Christine Kingsley

Lecturer - Design Studies

 
BIOGRAPHY
INTERESTS
OUTPUTS
TEACHING

 
BIOGRAPHY

Christine Kingsley was one of the first research residents in the School of Design and progressed to become a staff researcher in 1998. She instigated and collaborated in an NHS funded research project titled, ‘Expression’ with Speech and Language therapists Laorag Hunter and Lynsey Paterson, and Brain Injury Centre Artist Chris Kelly. The project aimed to investigate the benefits of visual communication in a medical context. By using design research methods and structured workshops that combined social interaction, visualisation and narrative to establish alternative communication structures for adults with aphasia-a communication impairment acquired after brain injury. Her interests lie in enabling people to develop their visual communication and to articulate this in various visual forms. Group working, knowledge sharing and understanding individual and group visualisation are key developments in her research practice. An inveterate communicator, her design research feeds and is fed by her design practice. She has had illustrative work published with Cannongate, the Glasgow Herald, Homes and Gardens and pioneered a programme of public workshops for the Museum of Transport, Glasgow Museums and Galleries. Her work has been exhibited in Britain, France and America and has twice been selected for inclusion to the Association Of Illustrators Best of British Illustration annuals.

OUTPUTS
Expression