Jenny Gristock

design and textile art

“One of the ironies of the twenty-first century is that the demands of computer literacy and the importance of context-related skills and knowledge are heralding a second age of craft, at the very time that contributions to the management literature speak of the decline of so-called ‘manual’ work.”

Gristock (2001:1)

publications

The Seizure-Alert Cane: Patent application GB201413617D0 2014

projects

Team Helpilepsy, UCB Brussels (2015)

awards

Winner, Hack Epilepsy (2015) at UCB Brussels with Team Helpilepsy

“This system of technology [design, manufacture, etc] is immersed in, interacts with, affects and is affected by larger cultural ambience; its complexity and the much greater complexity of the surrounding social, political, symbolic, and cultural sets of systems suggest that any reductionist ‘scientific’ approach will face difficulties”.

Kingery 1988: 160