ALTERNATIVE EXPERIENCES
- Design is not just things. We experience the world around us in a myriad of forms, and design should be responsive to this, exploiting this fact to communicate ideas.  By providing firsthand experiences, in the form of workshops, interactive installations and events, these projects aim to engage people in a ‘hands-on’ approach, bringing design to life, and as such combining a wide range of skills, ideas and opinions from all involved.

DIGITAL TOPOLOGY
- Knowingly or otherwise, we are immersed in a Digital Topology.  We are surrounded by digital objects and electronics, and these have become an intrinsic, inescapable part of contemporary life at all levels.  The projects in this category consider the current and future development of this landscape, and how digital technology can be used in a social, cultural and local way.  Merging digital and non-digital elements, I aim to create subtle and creative alternatives for this technology, questioning (and breaking) the rules of the current digital paradigm.

FANTASTICAL
- These projects challenge the concept of what is (im)possible. Asking what we really know about reality, these designs are fantastical in their nature, but never frivolous or parodies. Taking design beyond its traditional role, I intend to show how it can be used to not only clarify, but to distort. Such speculative design can excite and stimulate, feeding our need for discovery and our imagination. The products in this category take us beyond our hopes for the future, making tangible our dreams of today.

About

Graduating from the Dundee Product Design course, Patrick Stevenson-Keating works from his Shoreditch based studio on exploratory design, at the edge of todays society.  Much of his work deals with modern scientific or technological ideas and ideals, and how the use of design can communicate, exploit or challenge these.  Creating pieces which communicate or illustrate cutting edge ideas to the public, using design to make tangible the intangible.

In addition to his own studio practice, Stevenson-Keating is an associate at international design firm Superflux, and works for Cambridge based printed electronics company Novalia. 

The work is oriented both for the commercial market, and for research. Examples of current and past projects can be seen in the projects section.
A full CV is available on request.

EXPERIENCE
I am an associate at the design consultancy SuperFlux, but also divide my time between the printed electronics company, Novalia, in Cambridge, and my personal/free-lance commissions in my studio in Shoreditch, London.  Working in an interdisciplinary team is a feature of all aspects of my practice.

SuperFlux work closely with clients and collaborators on projects that acknowledge the reality of our rapidly changing times, designing with and for uncertainty, instead of resisting it.

Particularly interested in the ways emerging technologies interface with the environment and everyday life, and with proven experience in design, strategy and foresight, Superflux is in a unique position to explore the implications of these new interactions.

In Novalia I am joined by physicists, software and hardware engineers and print technicians to develop the new paradigm of printed electronics.  Using traditional print processes, we are creating ways to print electoronic components, changing how we both think about, and interact with all forms of digital devices.

In my recent studio work I have been commisioned by international designers and companies such as Fabrica, Elio Caccavale, Designersblock, Guerrilla Science, PLART (The Museum of Plastics in Naples), Dundee University, Dundee Contempory Arts, Mozilla and Super/Collider.

EDUCATION
BSC PRODUCT DESIGN (First Class HONS) – Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design University of Dundee 2007-2011
A2 LEVELS – Physics, Technology & Design and Business Studies. (all Grade A 2007)
AS LEVELS – Physics, Technology & Design, Business Studies and Biology. (all Grade A 2006)
GCSE – 9 GCSEs at grades A – A* including A grade Maths and A* English. (2005)

AWARDS
TED Fellow Finalist 2012
New Designers Designersblock Award for “Outstanding Creativity and Original Thought” – 2011
Northern Design Competition: Product Design Category Winner – 2010
Open: Output Top 50 Projects for “Tea Machines” – 2010
“Picturing Dundee” Photography Competition Finalist with Distinction – 2009
Best in Year – 2007