Dr. Christian Nold is an academic researcher, designer and artist inventing and analysing new models and technologies for collective representation. He is a Lecturer in Design at The Open University. In the last decades he created large-scale public art and design projects such as the widely acclaimed ‘Bio Mapping’, ‘Emotion Mapping’ and ‘Bijlmer Euro’ that have been staged with thousands of participants across sixteen countries. He has been a Research Fellow at the Social Design Institute (UAL) and the Extreme Citizen Science group (UCL) where he coordinated and evaluated the H2020 ‘Doing It Together Science’ project. He has written numerous books and journal papers including the widely cited ‘Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self’.
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PhD - Device Studies of Participatory Sensing: Ontological Politics and Design Interventions (No Corrections), UCL, London
Participatory Design & Science and Technology Studies analysis of user-driven environmental pollution sensing. Supervisors: Professor Haklay (UCL) and Professor Gabrys (Goldsmiths). Available Online
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Design Design Group, The Open University
Developing the first BDes Design course for the Open University. Research and scholarship on pluriversal design.
Research Fellow Social Design Institute, University of the Arts London
Researching how social design relates to systems theories. Development of digital social science methods that integrate participatory design.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Extreme Citizen Science Group, UCL, London
Project coordinator and evaluation/ethnography of the ‘Doing It Together Science’ EU H2020 project - 11 international partners engaging 4 million EU citizens via 715 public citizen science events. and ‘EU.Citizen-Science’ H2020 project.
Co-developed and co-taught MSc module GEOGG154 ‘Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing’ as face-to-face and online lectures.
Research Associate Extreme Citizen Science Group, UCL, London
Researching Citizen Science and public engagement as part of the ‘EveryAware’ EU FP7 project.
Founder & Creative Director Softhook Design, London
Directing an interdisciplinary team to create large-scale public art projects around the world.
University Teacher The Bartlett, UCL, London
Content development and delivery of the ‘Electronics Clinic’ on physical computing and interactive programming for architects via tutoring and lectures.
Part-Time Lecturer London South Bank University
Development, delivery and assessment of an undergraduate module on new media history from early photography to digital media.
Part-Time Lecturer IDAT, University of Plymouth
Development, delivery and assessment of two undergraduate modules on interactive programming (MEDA 121) and new media theory and practice (MEDA 125).
Visiting Lecturer
Lectures and workshops at MIT, Yale, Stanford, Royal College of Art, Westminster, UCL, Warwick, Goldsmiths, TU Delft, Aalborg, Middlesex, Edinburgh, Turku, Nottingham, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Plymouth, Birmingham, Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Leiria, 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 visualise ‘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 Geneva Biopsy, HES-SO Geneva, Geneva, CH
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
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