Vision for the Unequal World

Anthrotopography: Mapping the impact of art

John Sabraw

College of Fine Arts,
Ohio University, USA.

9 December 2022

Artist John Sabraw was born in Lakenheath, England. An activist and environmentalist, Sabraw’s paintings, drawings and collaborative installations are produced in an eco-conscious manner, and he continually works toward a fully sustainable practice. He collaborates with scientists on many projects, and one of his current collaborations involves creating paint and paintings from iron oxide extracted in the process of remediating polluted streams.

Sabraw’s art is in numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, the Elmhurst Museum in Illinois, Emprise Bank, Bank of America, and Accenture Corp.

Sabraw is a Professor of Art at Ohio University where he chairs the Painting + Drawing program, and Board Advisor at Scribble Art Workshop in New York. He has most recently been featured in TED, Smithsonian, New Scientist, London, and Great big Stories.

Design for Society: Advocating Human Centred Design for Social Contexts

Aneesha Sharma

Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India.

9 December 2022

Aneesha Sharma is an Associate Professor at Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. Prior to this, she headed the Information Design Department at National Institute of Design (NID), India. Aneesha studied Applied Arts from J.J. Institute of Applied Arts, and completed her Masters in Visual Communication and Doctorate from IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay.

Aneesha’s design practice encompasses more than two decades of professional experience working with prestigious national and international clients in the area of User Experience Design (UX/UI), Strategic Branding & Visual Design, Service & Systems design and Information Design & Data Visualization.

Aneesha’s scholarly research lies in the nexus of Creativity, Aesthetics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Phenomenology in Art and Design. She has published in the areas of First-person Artistic Experience, Self-transformative creative experiences (A-ha experiences), Self and Agency in creative Art making.

To Choose to Love - and How: Health Action Training, agency and mutual resilience in person-centered care

Matt Jennings

Co-Founder, Health Action Training

9 December 2022

Dr Matt Jennings has been Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Drama at Edge Hill University, Northumbria University and Ulster University. Performing professionally since 1987, Matt has worked as an actor, director, writer, musician and arts facilitator in Australia, Ireland, the UK, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Morocco. Originally from Sydney, he moved to Northern Ireland in 2001. In 2010, Matt completed a PhD on community drama and conflict transformation in Northern Ireland since 1998. He has also provided communication and resilience training for health professionals and is co-founder of the Health Action Training Company.

Matt has been co-convenor of the Applied and Social Theatre working group of the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA, UK) from 2016 to 2019; co-curator of the International Community Arts Festival (ICAF, Netherlands) in 2017 and 2020; and is an associate member of the Indra Congress, an international network for youth arts and conflict transformation.

Agents of Change: Five Case Studies in Public Art and Architecture

Dietrich Neumann

Department of the History of Art and Architecture,
Brown University, USA.

10 December 2022

Dietrich Neumann is a professor for the history of Modern Architecture and Urbanism and Director of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage at Brown University. He was trained as an architect in Munich, Germany and at the Architectural Association in London and received his PhD from Munich University. His publications have dealt with the history of skyscrapers, movie set design, architectural illumination, building materials and with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

For several years he chaired the Public Art Committee at Brown University. He has held fellowships at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, at the American Academies in Berlin and Rome and won the Founder’s and Philip Johnson Awards from the Society of Architectural Historians, where he served as president 2008-2010 and was named a fellow in 2018. He was the first Vincent Scully Visiting Professor at Yale University and is a member of the Committee on Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art.

Civic Practice

Jan Kattein

The Bartlett School of Architecture,
Faculty of the Built Environment,
University College London, UK.

10 December 2022

Jan set up Jan Kattein Architects in 2004 with an ambition to turn design into an open and collaborative process that empowers communities. His research has established the methodology that characterises the studio's work today. His contribution transcends disciplinary boundaries and includes writing, speaking, architecture, design, urbanism and theatre.

He studied at the Bartlett, where he was awarded a Distinction for his PG Diploma and a Commendation for his Masters. His PhD was twice nominated for a RIBA research Award. Jan’s book, The Architecture Chronicle: Diary of an Architectural Practice was published by Ashgate in 2014. Jan teaches and lectures in the UK and internationally. He is also lecturer in Architecture and Engagement at UCL.

Today, Jan Kattein Architects is recognized internationally as one of the leading participatory design practices with award-winning projects that are celebrated for their spatial- and civic accomplishments.