About
Digby Usher is an interaction designer and biodesigner with interdisciplinary research and practice based methods; oriented towards biodesign and community co-design.
His projects involve material exploration and prototyping through play as a means of democratic enquiry. Focusing on the interplay between imaginative futuring and sociopolitical design.
Using critical and creative thinking he aims to design innovative biocompatible services tailored to the needs of communities and ecosystems.
Academic
Positions
MA Service Design - Design Futures
Associate Lecturer03.23 - cont. London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
MA Innovation Management - Service Innovation
Associate Lecturer09.23 - cont. Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
BA Interaction Design Arts
Associate Lecturer02.23 - cont. London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
MA Service Design
Graduate Lecturer + Design Researcher01.22 -08.22 London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Residencies
Scientist In Residence:
Mattering Life
Scientist in Residence Programme 2024
Tokyo Institute of Technology x University of the Arts London
Seminars +
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Nature as a Co-designer: Embracing Nature as a Collaborative Partner for a Circular Future
Talk - Service Futures Pannelist 2023 - Watch here.
Back to Design Futures: Service Futures Lab
Talk - Service Futures Pannelist 2023 - Watch here.
M.K. Čiurlionis: Between Worlds - Dulwich Picture Gallery
Interactive Installation 2022
Cartographic Power and the Middle East
Talk - Design School Dissertation Symposium 2022,
University of the Arts London
Don’t Touch - London College of Communication
Exhibition 2022 - Design School Degree Show
Talk - Service Futures Pannelist 2023 - Watch here.
Back to Design Futures: Service Futures Lab
Talk - Service Futures Pannelist 2023 - Watch here.
Education
MA Biodesign
09.22 - cont.Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Antimicrobial Resistance in the Food Chain
11.23 - 01.24University of Nottingham
BA Interaction Design Arts
09.17 - 07.22London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Foundation Art + Design
09.17 - 07.18Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Arabic Modules 1-2
09.16 -07.20Citylit, London