Staff

Georgina Follett
OBE, MDes RCA, FCSD, FRSA

Deputy Principal for Knowledge Exchange in the Creative Arts

Tel: +44 (1382) 385202
Email: g.l.p.follett@dundee.ac.uk
Level 2, Queen Mother Building
University of Dundee

Biography

Principal Investigator on (AHRC funded) Past, Present Future Craft Practice 2005-2010, the research conducted was to evidentially support craft practice as a sister discipline to other visual practices, and ensure its longevity in the lexicon of art and design. PPFCP worked collaboratively across the UK and Internationally to ensure that craft practices were explored and recognised as a discipline with a distinct set of attributes, primarily an individual vision developed over a lifetime journey of practice.

Principal Investigator and Director, AHRC awarded Knowledge Exchange hub ‘Design in Action’, £4,099,000 in partnership with the Scottish Colleges of Art and Design, Universities of St Andrews and Abertay and over 30 agencies and industrial partners, who have committed an additional £1,700,000 in cash and in kind to the work of the hub. The launch date is June 2012.

DiA will use design as a strategy for bringing new thinking into companies to help them maximize their resources and deliver for their customers, products, processes, services, experiences and systems built to answer tomorrow’s issues.

DiA will inform the development of the V&A at Dundee project, with the aim of delivering a series of workshops and tools in support of the creative industries and design professionals to build their capacity and capability into companies that have at their heart a model of sustained innovation.

Personal research is concerned with developing the methods for practice-based research where the voice of the practitioner is paramount, visual thinking and visualization of thought are a means to developing innovation in practice.

A Crafts Practitioner of over 40 years experience in the field of enameling (Plique a Jour) it is vital that practice is articulated via a language that gives access to the practice of design that is understood by wider audiences and through this opens the opportunity for design to be viewed as a common element in innovation.

PhD Supervision

First Supervisor:

Fanke Peng 'Visual Thinking-Beyond Craft Making: Identifying and verifying a visual analysis Model (VAM) for Craft Practice' June 2010

Liz Donald (AHRC funded) 'Mind the Gaps! An Advanced practice model for the understanding of the fine craft practice' June 2012

Sara Keith (AHRC funded) 'Silver as Dye: The Organic Idiom of Shibori and Electrodeposition' 2010

 2^nd Supervisor:

Saskia Coulson (ESRC case award sponsor V&A at Dundee) 'Residences as an economic tool' 2011-2014

Sarah Cox (ESRC funded case award sponsor V&A at Dundee) 'Knowledge Exchange and the innovation agenda' 2011-2013

Research Projects

• PI: Past, Present, Future Craft Practice: An examination of craft as an intellectual activity

• PI/Director: KE Hub, Design in Action, innovation and economic development using design as a strategy for economic growth and development