Dr Rosie Hornbuckle

Biography

Dr Rosie Hornbuckle is a researcher and educator focusing on interdisciplinary communication for alternative scenarios of future design practice. Rosie’s current work is concerned with the role of design and communication practices in enabling the development and adoption of alternative, sustainable, solutions, for example in the adoption of material technologies that are less resource-intensive or technologies which open up new possibilities in healthcare development. These challenges are systemic, and therefore Rosie's research seeks to define and apply new methods for supporting the complex collaborations necessary for transition.

New technologies are interesting when they have the potential to change or disrupt the status quo, towards better lived experiences, and balanced natural eco-systems. Technologies are also interesting because they traverse between disciplinary silos; from science, to production, to use, to post-use, to secondary processes… in this space multi-disciplinary or multi-stakeholder understanding is essential. Methods of enabling communication, reconciling differences in culture and language, translating concepts, and mobilizing knowledge in order to foster mutual understanding is what defines Rosie’s research practice and evolving expertise.

Rosie is currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Complex Design Collaborations at University of the Arts London, working within the Centre for Circular Design (CCD) at Chelsea College of Arts and The Service Futures Lab at London College of Communication.