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Post-doctoral Researcher

 

Research Interests

sensory design / sensory experiences
multi sensory environment
new materiality / surface design
design for health and wellbeing
vision and visual perception / visual ambiguities
digital media / digital display technologies and its application for surface design
light, colour and image within architecture and spatial design
interdisciplinary processes 

 

Introduction

Anke Jakob is an academic and design practitioner who’s research and work is informed by her experience as surface and textile designer working with digital media and engaging in interdisciplinary projects concerned with the design for environments.

Anke’s research interests focus on exploring fields of design related to sensory and spatial experiences employing light, material/textiles and digital media. Her work investigates the development of a new materiality which is defined through the experimental use of projected imagery on surfaces and environments - fusing the physical and the digital, the real and the virtual. The impact of this synthesis on the experience and perception of space and the sensory stimulation created is central to Anke's research.

Based on her prior explorations, Anke has currently been extending her investigations into the health and wellbeing sector including the special sensory needs of people with dementia and other cognitive impairments. Collaborating with experts from health care and occupational therapy, the particular focus is on investigating the concept and design of Multi Sensory Environments and their current and possible future use within dementia care.

Anke practised as textile and surface designer in the textile printing industry and commercial textile design studios in Germany and UK for many years before embarking on academic and research activities. From 2002 to 2008 she taught as a visiting lecturer at Bath School of Art & Design within the Department of Fashion and Textiles. In 2007, Anke was awarded a PhD for her practice-centred research project ‘Blurring the boundaries between the real and the virtual’ at Bath Spa University. She has been holding the position of a post-doctoral researcher at Kingston University.

Parallel to her academic engagements, Anke co-directed the architecture and design practice leit-werk ltd based in London for 9 years until 2010. Besides managerial and business related responsibilities she developed research and design ideas concerning the application of material, ornament/pattern, colour, and digital media in the built environment.