Overview
Edward is a design researcher, educator, and creative technologist whose work explores the intersections of computational drawing, authorship, and eco-social critique. His practice-led research uses custom-built drawing systems, such as the terraPen, to investigate how machines act as collaborators, mediators, and co-performers in creative processes. By combining critical making, digital fabrication, and sensing technologies, Edward generates new insights into how authorship, agency, and labour are redistributed through human–machine collaboration.
His teaching is rooted in interdisciplinary and participatory approaches, with a focus on critical making, modelmaking, and experimental fabrication methods. He lectures across BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design at Arts University Bournemouth, supporting students in developing innovative, socially and environmentally meaningful design design projects.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- MA Computational Arts (Goldsmiths University)
Teaching Qualification
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Teaching
I teach across BA (Hons) Interior Architecture and Design at Arts University Bournemouth, where I bring together speculative design, computational practice, and participatory approaches. My teaching practice is rooted in critical making — encouraging students to explore complex ideas through hands-on experimentation, digital fabrication, and mixed-media approaches.
I have extensive experience working with Level 6 final year students, supporting them in developing rigorous design strategies and experimental methods to articulate their graduate projects. My focus on modelmaking and scale fabrication is combined with new approaches to materiality, digital workflows, and interdisciplinary practice.
Beyond teaching, I am a member of Academic Board and the AI User Group, contributing to the strategic development of curriculum and the integration of emerging technologies across the university.
Research
Research Interests and Projects
Computational drawing, authorship, and eco-social critique
Edward explores how pen plotters and generative systems reshape ideas of authorship and creative labour. His work investigates what automation hides or reveals, how ownership and artistic “aura” shift when machines take part, and what the environmental footprint of machine-led drawing means for ethics and sustainability.
Practice-based research and critical making
At the heart of Edward’s research is making. Using a custom-built drawing system (terraPen), he treats the act of plotting as a way to ask questions: each build, experiment, or sensor input becomes a “probe” that surfaces new insights about agency, mediation, and intention. For Edward, making is not only the outcome but also the method of research.
Machines as collaborators
Edward approaches machines not as passive tools but as collaborators and co-performers. Drawing on posthuman and postphenomenological theory, he examines how technologies such as pen plotters actively shape creative outcomes—translating code, gesture, and material resistance into decisions that are shared between human and machine.
Professional Engagement
Edward’s scholarly activity bridges teaching, research, and public engagement. He has secured ERDF funding to develop a custom pen plotter and curate the symposium Drawing from Machines, which showcased eminent plotter artists and expanded dialogue around computational drawing. He has collaborated with Activate Performing Arts on pop-up interactive exhibitions for festivals, combining creative technologies with participatory approaches. His teaching practice is grounded in critical making, interdisciplinary fabrication, and experimental design, and he contributes to wider academic and professional communities through roles on Academic Board and the AI User Group at Arts University Bournemouth.
Memberships
Advance HE Membership
- Fellow (FHEA)