Centre.Press

Sophie Beard is a designer, researcher, and educator. She studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins, and Communication Design at the Royal College of Art and holds a PhD from the University of the Arts, London. She is Deputy Head of the School of Design and teaches on the MA Design programme at the University of Greenwich. She is the Project Lead for Centre Press and is on the steering committee for the New Centre for Spatial and Digital Ecologies. 

Sophie's research interests lie in the terrain of Vernacular Photography and the methodological approach of The Archive and Act of Collecting. She is interested in exploring new methodologies, and opportunities for participatory and collective design. She is co-founder of Collectarium (with Allyson Waller, University of Brighton) a publishing platform that creates design activities to engage audiences into new ways of seeing. 

External Links

Website collectarium.co.uk
Instagram @collect_arium

Collective Projects