Carolyn Bowe
PhD Researcher

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Biography

Carolyn’s work explores how design can challenge established ways of seeing, understanding and relating to the world, with a particular interest in human-nature relations. Working across art, design, communication and technology, her practice uses defamiliarisation, speculative thinking and designed experiences to make the familiar strange, expose overlooked relationships and invite new perspectives.

An early interest in emerging technologies expanded her practice beyond traditional design outputs into interactive, immersive and participatory experiences. Central to her work is the translation of complex information, systems and ideas into tangible forms that provoke curiosity, noticing and reflection. Combining analogue and digital approaches, her work takes shape through installations, data physicalisation, augmented reality, speculative artefacts and provotypes, developed for public spaces, research settings, workshops and learning environments.

Alongside her research and creative practice, Carolyn lectures in design theory and practice, working across academic, research and commercial contexts. She serves as an external examiner for design degree programmes at the University of Sunderland, including international provision in Hong Kong and Athens.