Hello,
My name is Iman Moradi.
I'm a designer and author,
I used to be a design lecturer.
Currently I'm the Creative Director
of Running in the Halls
A Digital Media Agency
in Yorkshire, England.
I'm contactable on iman@organised.info
Mini-statement
I research things, love to design and strategise.
Occasionally, I even make stuff!Longer Statement
My practice explores the interplay of technology,
visual culture, games, information and experience design.
Its quite broad and covers most of the things I do.
I think a lot, talk a lot, read, collaborate, write, sketch, annotate and use my
ability to research to come up with well considered design solutions.
I create new things that interest me and the people I work for.
My Work Experience so far
(Interaction design workshop / teaching)Senior Lecturer in Multimedia Design
Between 2005 - 2009 I worked as a full time
Lecturer at the University of Huddersfield,
School of Art, Design and Architecture.
I taught award winning students, and
experienced the highs and lows
of being an academic firsthand.
(wearing anaglyph glasees for a presentation)
My teaching ranged from teaching programming
to students from artistic / creative backgrounds,
to running a final year studio and
playing with technology.
(experimenting with decades old technology)
I documented my first year of teaching, as part of a professional
teaching qualification, as it was an officially accredited course,
I'm also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
I was elected as Teaching & Learning representative,
for the School of Art and Design.
Although the life of an academic isn't massively glamourous,
I did go to a few key conferences and workshops,
I interviewed almost all the intake of students for over 3 years,
and got to work with the most hardworking people I know.
As an academic my areas of research were
Glitch Aesthetics (started 2003)
Socio-digital Systems in Libraries (started 2005)
Games in the Academic Library (started 2006)
Human Computation and browser based games (est 2007)Oh, I wrote a book too!
(was years in the making, but now on bookshelves)
As an academic and researcher
I'm known for my research on the visual Glitch .When you've been researching something for a while,
You end up with nice collections of things.
That's what the book is about and it features
some key essays and interviews.
I initiated Designing Imperfection
with my good friend Ant Scott and
I subsequently enlisted the talents
of design legends Joe Gilmore
and Christopher Murphy.
You can buy Designing Imperfection
from Amazon (US) and directly from
the Publisher Mark Batty Publisher (NY) and
places like borders, Tate Gallery and Magma.
Or you can read about how it came to be ,
in a probing interview by Greg J Smith.
Qualifications (recent bits of paper that I worked hard for)
PG Cert. in Higher Education Practice. 2008
MA Smart Design, Distinction. 2005
BA (hons) Multimedia Design, First Class. 2004
Retired Projects
Glitchbrowser was a work I did for
New Langton Arts, with my
collaborators Dimitre Lima
and Ant Scott .
It has now been retired.Neuromirror is an art installation
from my undergraduate years.
Glitch PhD
I was undertaking my PhD
in this area under the supervision
of Dr Mathew Adkins, as a member
of staff. This was my public PhD Blog / PhD Site
I may continue part time pursuant
to factors which I can't
disclose.
Notable Research related happeningsSpeaker at the following
Mashed Libraries - 'Games Serendipity and Libraries' Huddersfield 2009
Creative Clusters Summer School. 'An overview of practice' Huddersfield 2009
We love Technology Huddersfield. 2008
Evolution Festival - 'The Glitch Aesthetics of Persian Carpets'. Leeds 2009 .
[DA]N - Dean Clough - 'Glitch Aesthetics'. Halifax 2005
As 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.
FACT Liverpool ITEM project technical collaborator.
collaborated with Alison Mealey on her UnrealArt Project.
As participant - 2006
International Symposium
on Intelligent Environments -
Guest of Microsoft Research
Homerton College, Cambridge.Presenting project - 2005
International Forum
'Less is more -
Simple Computing
in an Age of Complexity',
Cambridge.Active Interest - 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.
This work was all about micro
interventions in libraries,
to spark social
interaction.In the Summer of 2008,
we got together again to explore
Visualising some of the data,
Students explored this
in my classes.
Small Selection of Design work (This is mainly web stuff I did)
foldups.co.uk 2009
industrialnorth.co.uk 2009
littlenorthernbooks.co.uk 2008
merrydale.org.uk 2007-2008
unrealart.co.uk 2005
pylon.tv 2006
digitalresearchunit.org [Archived] 2004 - 2007
toyresearch.org 2006
I also keep an eye on the moon and particularly
enjoy a spot of astronomy with milk and biscuits.
Find me here too
I enjoy Photography (flickr)
I bookmark at del.icio.us/organised
I bookmark images socially at fffffound
I also do a bit of media blogging at organised.tumblr.com & rith.co.uk
I transmit words on Twitter .
