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To contact Ian: e-mail: ilambert@collegeforcreativestudies.edu instagram: @ianlambertdesign linkedin: http://lnkd.in/bGWUqt

Ian has published papers on numerous topics, including design pedagogy, drawing, design for the developing world, ocean plastic, material practice, and making as thinking. His work on Yves Klein was presented at Drawing Conversations 2: Body, Space, Object, Coventry (8 Dec, 2017).

Having lived and worked in Edinburgh, Scotland, for almost 20 years, he relocated to Detroit, Michigan, in 2019. He is developing a project with urban lumber, and continuing his work with ocean plastic with the Detroit River Coalition.

Ian’s PhD thesis explored making-as-thinking through a material and theoretical inquiry into aluminium sand casting. Situated at the intersection of design and craft, i.e. maker-led product design, it gives a detailed account of making in terms of what making is, rather than how to make. The increased capability to work industrial objects with more easily accessed and distributed resources – such as maker-spaces – has led to a re-evaluation of making as a form of empowerment and a vehicle for critical reflection on our relationship with objects of consumerism. The research drew on sources from anthropology, philosophy and sociology, as well as craft and design theory and practice, and, in parallel with a creative practice inquiry, discussed making-asknowledge, and non-textual modes of articulating it.

A copy of the thesis can be accessed here URI http://hdl.handle.net/1842/35956