contact details
email: j.pengelly@rgu.ac.uk
tel: 00 44 (0)1224 263657
web site:
http://www.newtopologies.org
http://www.productscotland.com
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Dr JON PENGELLY
Biographical Statement
Jon Pengelly's first degree was in Fine Art Printmaking (West Surrey College of Art and Design, 1986) followed by an MA from the Royal College of Art, London (1989). He completed a practice led PhD at Gray's in 1997 - 'Environmentally Sensitive Printmaking: a framework for safe practice'. From 1998 to 2002 Jon was a Research Fellow initially pursuing digital printmaking then three-dimensional computer-aided design and manufacture. This experience then fed into both BDes and BA Programmes in the School through a lecturing post (2002-04). Jon's current role is Subject Leader for BDes Product Design. He is a Board Member of Computers in Art & Design Education (CADE) and The European Academy of Design Steering Committee for 2009 conference (to be hosted by Gray’s). Jon has published in Co Design Journal, presented refereed papers at ‘Engineering & Product Design Education’ conferences, participated in an AHRC funded symposium – ‘Creativity and Cognition: Creative Process & Artefact’, and has exhibited in ‘Digital Responses’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Personal Statement
My research interests focus on designers’ increasing ability and willingness to negotiate working across previously held disciplinary domains, to actively bridge the space or interstices between specialist design domains, even architecture and art, in order to more purposefully challenge the critical and cultural boundaries. As information, objects and spatial processing technologies begin to converge through the shared language of binary bits, a quantum shift has been facilitated by increasingly accessible 3D imaging, 3D modelling and 3D printing technologies, affording new creative opportunities for designers to actively engage in creative play with the physical, material and metaphysical nature of the objects that surrounded us and upon which we rely.
My current research is in collaboration with colleagues from other Product Design courses in Scotland with one successful AHRC Network Grant, 2007 – Product Scotland Network. Product Scotland’s mission is to initiate and support communication by practitioners and academics in Product Design and to advance public understanding of the significant shifts taking place in the product design sector and in the wider culture. Product Scotland is hosting a series of workshops expressly concerned with developing the theme: Future Body, Future Food, Future City.
Teaching and learning interests currently concern the growing importance of the creative industries and an increasingly divergent manufacturing base within the UK towards developing a the Product Design course at Gray’s to be better able to equip students with both the critical design and industrial product design experiences necessary to operate in this divergent, evolving, creative and fast moving sector.
My RAE research outputs contribute to the Challenging Making thematic.
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