Dr. Christian Nold is an artist, designer and academic researcher building participatory technologies for collective representation. In the last decades he created innovative large-scale public art projects such as the widely acclaimed ‘Bio Mapping’ and ‘Emotion Mapping’ that have been staged with thousands of participants across sixteen countries. He developed experimental currencies: ‘Bijlmer Euro’ in Holland and the ‘Suomenlinna Kuula’ in Finland. He has written ‘Mobile Vulgus’, ‘Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self’, ‘The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World’ and ‘Autopsy of an Island Currency’. He has given keynotes and public lectures across the world and been a teacher at Plymouth University, South Bank University and The Bartlett. Currently, he is a Research Fellow in the Social Design Institute at the University of the Arts London.
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PhD - Device Studies of Participatory Sensing: Ontological Politics and Design Interventions (No Corrections), UCL, London
Ethnography & design interventions into practices of environmental pollution sensing. Supervisors: Professor Haklay (UCL) and Professor Gabrys (Goldsmiths).https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1569340
Research Fellow Social Design Institute, University of the Arts London, London
Research into social design such as design & prison and design & systems as well as knowledge exchange.
Postdoctoral Research Associate UCL, London
Researching Citizen Science for the ‘EU.Citizen-Science’ H2020 project. https://eu-citizen.science
Postdoctoral Research Associate UCL, London
Project coordinator and ethnography of the ‘Doing It Together Science’ EU H2020 project - 11 international partners engaging 4 million EU citizens via 715 public citizen science events.
Taught M.Sc module GEOGG154 ‘Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing’ via face-to-face lectures as well as online videos and exercises for students.
Research Associate UCL, London
Researcher for the ‘EveryAware’ EU FP7 project on environmental sensing in Citizen Science.
Founder & Creative Director Softhook Design, London
Directing an interdisciplinary team to create large-scale international art projects such as Bio Mapping, Bijlmer Euro, Sensing the Future of Hedehusen.
University Teacher The Bartlett - UCL, London
Leading the ‘Electronics Clinic’ offering physical computing and interactive programming for architects via tutoring and lectures
Part-Time Lecturer South Bank University, London
Undergraduate teaching and assessment of a new media history module I developed (from photography to digital media).
Part-Time Lecturer IDAT - Plymouth University, UK
Undergraduate teaching of the interactive programming (MEDA 121) and new media theory and practice (MEDA 125).
Visiting Lecturer
Keynotes, lecturer and workshops at MIT, Yale, Stanford, Royal College of Art, Westminster University, UCL, Goldsmiths, TU Delft, Aalborg, KaosPilots, Middlesex, Edinburgh, Turku, Nottingham, Birmingham, John Moore and Kingston University.
2018 - 2019 DoomsDay Blockchain, Collusion, Cambridge
Artistic research exploring blockchain insertions. https://ddbc.io
2014 - 2016 Hubbub, Wellcome Trust, London
Citizen monitoring network to materialise the impact of Heathrow airport.
2011 - 2014 Money Lab, Pixelache, Helsinki, Finland
Three-year experimental local currency for a Finnish fortress island.
2010 - 2011 Rennes Emotion Map, Les Bouillants, Rennes, France
2010 Control Maps, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Arnheim & Enschede, Holland
Participatory mapping project to visulise ‘control’ in three Dutch cities.
2009 - 2010 The Bijlmer Euro, Imagine IC, Amsterdam, Holland
15-month experimental RFID parasite local currency that supports local identity
2009 - 2010 Sensory Journeys, Sustrans, Bristol, UK
Participatory mapping with three schools to trace children travel experience.
2009 Sensing the Future of Hedehusene, Copenhagen International Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Town-scale air & noise pollution monitoring network with real-time citizen voting.
2009 BioTagging Manchester, Futuresonic, Manchester, UK
Citizen Science collaboration with Natural History Museum and Meteorological Office.
2009 Bethlehem Biopsy, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, USA
Participatory mapping involving hundred residents and local government to create urban visualisation.
2008 Complexity Maps, World Design Capital, Turin, Italy
Summer school visualising heroin trade networks with 30 international design students.
2008 Strange Weather, Studio for Urban Projects, Berkeley Art Museum, USA
Winner of the Eyebeam EcoViz competition.
2008 Emotional Tourism?, Santiago de Compostela Council, Spain
2007 Networked Identity, BBC Blast, Serpentine Gallery & Science Museum, London
2007 Bio Mapping, Hayward Gallery Projects, Brixton & Clapham, London
2006 - 2007 Bio Mapping, Wellcome Trust Sciart R&D Grant, London
2008 The Brentford Biopsy, Watermans Gallery, London
2008 Emotion Map East Paris, Arslonga Gallery, Paris, France
2007 - 2008 Creative Mapping, Iniva, London
2007 Stockport Emotion Map, Stockport Council & Lendlease, Stockport, UK
2007 San Francisco Emotion Map, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
2006 - 2007 Mapping Fulham, Fulham NDC, London
2005 - 2006 Greenwich Emotion Map, Independent Photography, London
CNN, New Scientist, BBC World Service, BBC, Discovery Channel, Slashdot, Art Forum, Guardian, The Observer, Art Monthly, Digicult, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Mute Magazine, Sleazenation, Telepolis, British Council, Sud Deutsche Zeitung, Chinese FHM, Dagbladet, Denver Post, Fast Company, Fibreculture, Furtherfield, LA Times, Liberation, Metro, Salt Lake Tribune, Time Out, USA Today, World Changing, Core77, We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Fast Company, Wonderland, Tank Magazine