Alexandra will present her ongoing PhD research which explores how designers and children can work as partners to create and test out fictional scenarios through play, and how this story-making process can be translated into a heuristic method for design. The term story-making in this study refers to both cognitive modelling (the thinking up of stories) and physical modeling (the making and acting out of these stories). The exploration concentrates on ways in which children can be given voice as designers-moralizers transforming the design process into a learning experience.
Alexandra sees her role as the one of co-researcher, a learner-designer and learner-researcher, leaving space for children to have power over the research and the design process.
Alexandra Antonopoulou is a designer and PhD candidate in Goldsmiths Design Department. She has widely worked in the area of story-making as learning and designing method, researching in particular the educational-social-participative role of design. Her research involves workshops with designers and children, in schools museums, universities and digital tools for interactive story-making.
She is also a the Course Leader for the Orientation to MA course-University of the Arts as and a visiting lecturer in Southampton Solent and Goldsmiths University.
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