Speakers

Bernadette Deddens is a designer and educator, with 20 years of experience in the field of design. She is Course Leader of BA (Hons) Fashion Jewellery at London College of Fashion and co-founder of the research-based design practice Study O Portable. The practice makes objects that focus on the relationship between designed objects and the cultural landscape, exploring the transitional nature of ideas and objects. The work often catalogues disparate notions about objects to propose new potential for the mundane and ordinary. Through both teaching and making, she explores the interconnectedness of ideas contained within objects and their cultural context.