BACKGROUND(s)

                  Adela Glyn-Davies,  MDes, PGCertHE, FRSA, FHEA
 

Adela is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and designer specialising in systems, complexity and interactions.  Her work is process responsive  and challenges the applicability and adaptability of the following mediums: traditional and digital graphics and illustration, experimental video, audio-visual interactive code, projection mapping, data mapping, product (tangible and intangible) as well as site installation.

Her work explores systems through their imbalances and mismatches in the context of inclusivity and long-term relatability, towards methodological innovation in Design for Sustainable Development.

Adela holds a Master of Design degree from the University of Derby, having previously studied at the University for Arts and Industrial Design Linz. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, contributing to implementations of Social Design and Systems Thinking into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in higher education.

Alongside engaging in her visual practice, Adela is currently the Head of Warwick Design Studies, where she serves as Associate Professor in System and Design Innovation at the University of Warwick. She is also doctoral researcher in Systemic Design and Complexity at the University of Leeds, as well as a longstanding collaborator and designer a the Systems Innovation Hub London and the RSA's Good Work Guild.

Practice and research areas: Life-centred Design, Design Complexity, Design for Sustainable Development, Systems Thinking and Systemic Design, Social Design and Design Activism, Inclusive Design, Design for Health, Wellbeing and Belonging, Speculative Design, Graphic Transliteration, Data Design, Cartography and Data Mapping, UX and Product Design, Design Pedagogy.