Hello
My name is Iman Moradi
I am a designer and planner.
I have worked as a Senior Lecturer / Admissions Tutor
in the Digital Media Design Subject area at
the University of Huddersfield, School of Art,
Design and Architecture for
the past four years.
My areas of research
Glitch Aesthetics (since 2003)
Socio Digital Systems in Libraries (since 2005)
Games in the Academic Library (in 2006)
Human Computation and browser based games (since 2007)
Areas of practice
Teaching / Pastoral support for students of Digital Media Design.
Web Programming (PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS/Actionscript 1.0 + 2.0).
Design Consultancy for small businesses and community projects.
Interface Design for web and mobile devices.
Writing / Design / Documentation.
Qualifications
PG Cert. in Higher Education Practice. 2008
MA Smart Design, Distinction. 2005
BA (hons) Multimedia Design, First Class. 2004
Selection of Design Work
foldups.co.uk 2009
industrialnorth.co.uk 2009
littlenorthernbooks.co.uk 2008
merrydale.org.uk 2007-2008
unrealart.co.uk
pylon.tv 2006
digitalresearchunit.org [Archived] 2004 - 2007
toyresearch.org 2006
alisonmealey.com 2006
greenstreams.org.uk 2005
Glitch
As an academic, I've been known
for my research on the visual Glitch.
Which culminated in a book called
Designing Imperfection.
Glitchbrowser was a work I did for
New Langton Arts, with my
collaborators Dimitre Lima
and Ant Scott .
Neuromirror is an art installation
from my undergraduate years.Glitch PhD
Im currently undertaking my PhD
in this area under the supervision of
Dr Mathew Adkins.
This is my public PhD blog
PhD Blog
PhD Site
Libraries
The changing landscape of physical Libraries
really interests me. I'm fortunate enough
to have a good friend, Dave Pattern
a rockstar in the Library world.
Dave illuminated and ellucidated
the mystique surrounding libraries
for my MA project 2005.In the Summer of 2008,
we got together again to explore
Visualising some of the data,
This is an ongoing project
leading directly into
my teaching.
Research Events
2007 - Collaborator
Visualizar'07. Advanced Visualisation Workshop
Medialab Prado, Madrid.
Collaborator on HumanFlows
with Miguel Cabanzo and Nathan Yau.
This work is proudly featured in the book Dataflow.
2006 - Participant
International Symposium
on Intelligent Environments -
Guest of Microsoft Research
Homerton College, Cambridge.
2005 - Presenting Project
International Forum
'Less is more -
Simple Computing
in an Age of Complexity',
Cambridge.
See me here too
I share a blog with friends.
I enjoy Photography (flickr)
I bookmark at del.icio.us/organised
I bookmark images socially at fffffound
I also do a bit of blogging at organised.tumblr.com
Little known fact #1
My geek credential is that I once co-wrote a paper
on the LCARS (Star Trek Interface) being
used for contextual programming.Little known fact #2
My name is natively prounounced (ē-mŭn)
in the Persian Language or (ĕ-man) in yorkshire.
I dont really mind which pronounciation you use,
I frequently mispronounce it myself.Little known fact #3
I keep an astronomy blog