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Dr

Alexandra Antonopoulou

Senior Lecturer BA Illustration and Visual Media

London College of Communication

  • Senior Lecturer BA Illustration and Visual Media
    London College of Communication
  • 07892767122 (Work)

BIO

Alexandra Antonopoulou is a UK based designer and a Course Leader at the University of the Arts London. Alexandra has also taught design, story-making and immersive environments modules at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. Her work engages with wider discourses on art and design pedagogy, myths and fairytales, interdisciplinary collaboration, and science communication. Her artistic practice has been showcased in various galleries including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern Gallery and the London Design Museum. Her research examines child-play as well as story-making, performance and design as tools for criticality and everyday invention. Alexandra Antonopoulou holds a Ph.D. in Design from Goldsmiths.



PhD Supervision and Research includes the themes below:

DESIGN EDUCATION (across levels) - transformative design pedagogy (designerly ways of learning, design play, creativity and the curriculum, tacit learning in design education, design as a way of thinking, Internationalisation and the Curriculum)

STORY-MAKING, FICTION, SPECULATION AND DESIGN; Design and literature (Design fictions, speculative design, designing for utopias, design and performance)

DESIGN AND IDENTITY FORMATION (design authorship, Design identity and the construction of the self, drawing and the self)

PARTICIPATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION METHODS (power dynamics and participatory design, interdisciplinary collaboration, science communication and working with science)

DESIGN METHODS , IDEATION, PRACTICE BASED RESEARCH METHODS

MATERIALITY, IMMERSION AND THE DIGITAL
(immersive environments and performance, archiving the digital, tactility and craftmanship)



DESIGN ETHICS, SOCIAL DESIGN, DESIGN CITIZENSHIP

UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON STAFF RESEARCH PROFILES GROUPS MEMBERSHIP

  1. Comics Research Hub
    Research Group

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Course Leader: Certificate in Higher Education; Preparation for Design, Media and Screen
    University of the Arts London, International and Progression, United Kingdom1 Jun 2018 - present
  • Senior Lecturer 0.5
    University of Greenwich, Creative Professions and Digital Arts, United Kingdom1 Jan 2011 - 1 Jan 2018
  • Lecturer B in Design
    Goldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom2009 - 2018
  • Visiting tutor
    Royal College of Art, School of Communication, MA Digital Direction, London, United Kingdom2017 - 2018
  • Course Leader
    University of the Arts London, Preparation for MA, London, United Kingdom2009 - 2018
  • Associate Lecturer
    University of the Arts London, PGCert in Art Design and Communication, MA Academic Practice, London, United Kingdom2017 - 2018
  • Associate Researcher
    Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom2007 - 2008
  • Associate Lecturer
    University of the Arts London, CCW, London, United Kingdom2008 - 2018

DEGREES

  • PhD in Design
    Goldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom2016
  • MA in Academic Practice
    University of the Arts Lomdon, United Kingdom
  • PG Cert in the Management of Learning & Teaching in HE
    Goldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom2014
  • MA in Graphic Design Communication
    University of the Arts London, London, United Kingdom2007
  • BA in Graphic Design
    Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Athens, Greece2005

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Greek, Modern (1453-)
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • French
    Can read and write

STAFF/STUDENT

  • Staff