Gordon Hush客座教授

Appointed member Data and Open innovation, Glasgow City Council’s working group  2021 - Present

Doctoral Supervision

Primary Supervisor on Transformative Schooling: designing preferable futures for rural education in Scotland, which explores design practice as a tool for co-creating educational innovation in non-metropolitan areas. Service design
- On-going

Primary Supervisor on Interaction in Mental Health, exploring the technological mediation of relationships capable of supporting mental well-being. Design and Technology

• On-going

Director of Studies (PhD) – Shanghai Academy of Fine Art, China,
Design and the Philosophy of Technology, Paola Vargas
On-going

Supervisor onEnjoy your meal: design tools and strategies for defining and improving the post-stroke mealtime experience, which explores the role of ‘experience design’ in designing for hospital convalescents. Service Design
- Pass, no corrections.

Supervisor on Psycho-geography re-described? A practice led inquiry into the dialectogram, which uses the practice of Illustration to explore the historical emergence of social, economic and cultural forms of contemporary experience. Communication Design
- Pass, minor corrections

Doctoral Examinations
Matt Rodda, The Man Without Labour: Is Artistic Labour Itself a Phantasm?, A Fine Art exploration of artistic labour within contemporary capitalist society as seen through the lens of philosophy.

Cara Broadley, Outlining the Gap: visualising participatory design research methods (November 2013)

Gemma Wheeler, An investigation of the relevance and integration of contemporary design approaches into spinal cord injury rehabilitation, March, 2017

Bin Gao, Collaborative Service Innovations in SMEs: From a Knowledge Perspective, (June, 2017), University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School

Doctoral Pre-Examiner – Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Sara Lindner, Innovation practices

External Examination
MA Design, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, 2009-10
BA Product Design, Lasalle College of the Arts, 2010-2013
MA/MSc/MEng Innovations, University of Bristol, 2016-2020

Committee Chair, IASDR 2021 [Social] Design Modes Hong Kong
Board Member, Master of European Design Network – GSA representative
Royal Society for Arts & Manufactures (RSA): Tutor Stakeholder (2008-12)
Scientific Committee member 2007 & 2011 - Design for Pleasurable Products & Interfaces Conference (DPPI)
Scientific Committee member, 2011 – Nordic Design Research Conference: Making Design Matter to Industry
GSA Representative on Design Council Multi-Disciplinary Design Education Network (2008-10).

I also review journal articles and manuscripts for a variety of academic journals and publishers usually at the intersection of sociology, design practice and theories of innovation.

MA Design Futures, University of Brighton 2013
MA International Design Enterprise, University of Lincoln, 2013
MA Global Innovation Design (GID), The Royal College of Art, 2014
MA Global Innovation Design (GID), Progress Review, The Royal College of Art, 2015

Project Lead on European Design University proposal being submitted to European Union Commission: a 9 partner, €5 million consortium of European Design and Innovation Schools proposing future model of design education.

2016- Creative Futures Partnership – exploring how design practice can re-invigorate rural economy and culture. £10 million project with Highlands & Islands Enterprise
2015 – Present, “Teaching Lab” – contemporary design pedagogies and social context

2012-2015, TEDDI2: APAtSCHE – Aging Population Attitudes to Sensor Controlled Home Energy. EPSRC funded

2006 Member of the AHRC/EPSRC-funded research cluster: Ideal States: a joint knowledge and operating framework for design & Medical practices: Designing for the 21st Century. Published as Ideal States: Engaging Patients in Healthcare Pathways Through Design Methodologies, by Prof. Alastair S Macdonald

2005/06 Member of the AHRC/ESRC-funded research cluster: Designing and consuming: exploring ideas of objects, practices and processes

Fast Forward: design practice & education in the near future (Organising Chair)
A 7 School international symposium held March 2014 in GSA’s School of Design, organised and Chaired by Gordon Hush.

(2021) Innovative Crossover – International Design Conference invited keynote,
 National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
(2019) Design as Social Practice: innovation as human activity, invited Master Lecture as part of the HKDI Inspire international lecture series, Hong Kong Design Institute
(2019) Making Thought Material: Digital Sociology workshop, Hong Kong Design Institute
(2018) Design Innovations for Transforming Society, invited symposium presentation, Köln International School of Design (KISD), Germany
(2017) Citizenship, Service Design and Contemporary Society: an unholy trinity?, Köln International School of Design (KISD), Invited Lecture
(2016) Utopian, Molecular and Sociological Social Design, Koskinen, I., & Hush, G. 2016 Apr 28. International Journal of Design [Online] 10:1. Available: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/2414
(2015) The Object of Social Design, keynote presentation, Taipei City Design Congress
(2013) – An “expert interview” on the teaching of Service Design in Heapy, J. (ed.), Service Design: Design for New Challenges, Ashgate: London
2011 – Design in Mind: digital devices and contemporary culture, ISEA conference, Sabanci University, Istanbul
2011 – What Designers Do – forms, futures and intelligence, invited presentation seminar at Konstfack University, Stockholm.
2011 – Europe & Design in Changing Global Context, European Design & Entrepreneurship Conference, Konstfack University, Stockholm
2009 – Designing Services, Investigating Speckled Interactions: identities, technologies, relationships, University of Edinburgh, 8th Workshop in Speckled Computing
2008 – Service Design & Touchpoints, invited workshop at Cologne International School of Design (KISD), Germany.
2007 – The (Im)Possibility of Pleasure: re-thinking design, sociology and the ‘user,’ UIAH (Aalto), Helsinki, Finland
2007 –Designing in the Fourth Dimension: design as an indicator of social change, paper to the British Sociological Conference, London. Theme of Social Connections: Identities, Technologies, Relationships

The social, political and economic context within which manufactured artefacts (objects, services and interactions) are incorporated into and experienced as components of daily life. The role of design research as a tool for contemporary design practice, the use of theoretical positions to explore the design of artefacts, services and experiences. This includes the teaching of ethnographic techniques within studio practice, the relation of contemporary design practice to the capitalist division of labour in modern society expressed as both product and consumption, and the ethics of issue-led design practices (including participatory design/co-creation).

In addition to ethnography, I teach service design, design theory, and an introduction to social theory for designers. Previously I have taught design history, the use of critical theory as a tool for designers, theories of technology and co-taught a documentary film-making course.

In addition to doctoral supervisions, selection committees and examinations I oversee 7 Masters programmes (PGT) and am currently developing an eighth. I teach service design, theory as design tool and a course in issue-led design. I contribute courses and seminars to a series of Masters programmes at G.S.A. including Design Innovation & Citizenship. I regularly deliver Courses, workshops and lectures in Europe and Asia.