Multidisciplinary Innovation
Ideas That Get Made, Not Just Designed
Some communication challenges don’t fit neatly into a single discipline or a single medium. These projects drew on visual design, physical making, spatial thinking and close collaboration with researchers and curators — and required finding forms that matched the complexity of the ideas they were communicating.
The work here spans exhibition narrative and spatial design, animation, embroidery and wearable science communication, and interactive public engagement materials. What connects them is an approach that asks not just “how should this look?” but “how should people encounter this?”
Daphnia Detectives animation. Created for the Daphnia Detectives citizen science project at the University of Birmingham, communicating environmental research to public audiences. Tap or rollover to start animation.
Daphnia magna Embroidery. Embroidered design created and applied to garments to showcase Daphnia magna and their role in helping us understand environmental pollution. Worn at public engagement events to prompt conversation about environmental research — an example of science communication that works through curiosity and making rather than conventional display.
Let’s work together
If you’re working on a project that needs an unusual approach, or one that doesn’t fit neatly into a standard brief, I’d be glad to hear about it.
CHANTAL JACKSON 