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FOLLOW ME IN THE WOODS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
https://twitter.com/Sousourel
https://www.instagram.com/sousourel/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandraantonopoulou/

 
EXHIBITIONS  and TALKS

Selected talks
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/normal-0-false-false-false-en-gb-ja-x.html

London Design Museum
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/praga.html

Victoria and Albert Museum
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/blog-post_30.html


DESIGN PEDAGOGY 

Higher and further education programmes
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/researcher-designer-and-educator.html

Programmes for children
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2008/06/ancient-greek-monsters.html
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/workshops-on-storymaking-as-heuristic.html


RESEARCH

Complete list of Papers and Publications


Design Story-making and play through adult child partnerships (PhD)
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/workshops-on-storymaking-as-heuristic.html

Curating one-self. A liberal act of self development
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/curating-one-self-liberal-act-of-self.html

The interactive dream hacker: Crowdscoursing the dream imaginary
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-interactive-dreamhacker.html
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/blog-post.html

Phi-books: Neighbourhoods of participation and Collaboration
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-phi-books-project.html

Cultural Probes: Interaction Research studio
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/designing-cultural-probes-for.html

The family Cookbook- Newcastle Culture Lab
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/interactive-books-and-shared-authorship.html

How to make cinema without film
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/how-to-make-cinema-without-film.html

The Beauties and the Beasts Book
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/blog-post_30.html


DESIGN PRACTICE

Illustration
Children products:
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https://www.instagram.com/sousourel/



Animation
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/my-children-books.html

Creating for the sake of it
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/these-are-my-life-stories-my-true-love.html
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/poetry-of-everyday-life.html

When I take photos
https://www.flickr.com/photos/93300882@N08/

Graphics
http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/graphic-design.html

http://onceuponalex.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/blog-post_25.html

Curating one-Self: A liberal act of self-development

Reflecting on the intimate link between the creator ‘s identity and his/her creations this paper moves away from curating sole material objects. It instead analyses methods of curating as a process that is conductive to creative identity development. Curating in this sense happens in multiple levels and for diverse reasons.

In this context I refer to cases in which artists and designers have been positioned as curators of their own work and analyse how this had impacted on their perception of themselves as artists/Designers/ human beings. I also analyse how in a meta-level the curated human forces (e.g. selected groups of people creating collectively) and their creations had been considered as a solid ‘artwork’ that its curation and exhibition challenges notions of Design, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and freedom.

The methods and materials are heavily based on spontaneity of play. Allowing the participants to be lost in the flow of playful creation (role play, stories, performance) this paper discusses how the final ‘artwork’ is people-stories and object-memories that narrate the development of one’s creative self.

images from: PhD thesis, Besides the Screen Conference workshop - Brasil 2015,  Creative Identity and Innovative thinking Course

Automatic drawing, writing and making as well as conversations with personified objects enabled students to surrender in moments of serendipity, become lost and develop greater clarity and criticality about themselves and their socially mediated, political, creative practice.