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Career Insight: Exploring Interdisciplinary Design
Join the V&A Youth Collective as they discuss conventional and unconventional careers and practices in the design sector.
This event will bring together interdisciplinary designers to discuss the flexibility of a career path in design. The panel will explore education pathways, transferring design skills to a variety of sectors and disciplines and what it means to be an interdisciplinary designer and creative.
Joining us for the panel discussion will be
Sana Tabassum, Multidisciplinary Designer and Creative Director of :scale
James Mack, Multidisciplinary Creative
Studio Syn_, an Interdisciplinary Architecture and Interior Design Practice
After a panel discussion there will be an opportunity to connect with other attendees and discuss design careers with the speakers.
Sana Tabassum, Multidisciplinary Designer and Creative Director of :scale
James Mack, Multidisciplinary Creative
Studio Syn_, an Interdisciplinary Architecture and Interior Design Practice
After a panel discussion there will be an opportunity to connect with other attendees and discuss design careers with the speakers.
This event is hosted and co-produced by the V&A Youth Collective.
The panel talk will be live streamed to online audiences from the V&A Museum. Book a ticket on this page to join the event live at the museum, or sign up here to watch the conversation online.
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Sana Tabassum is a multidisciplinary designer and creative director of :scale, a platform and community designed to support students and graduates in the built environment. Her digital content focuses on healthy productivity and wellbeing as a pillar of creative work as well as telling stories about everyday spaces through a cultural lens.
Whilst documenting her journey in an unconventional career, Sana also works as an Architectural Designer and has developed a range of brand identity packages, content strategies, publications and digital productions. Alongside this, Sana runs an outreach programme called Open Studio, connecting job-seeking graduates with London practices to bridge the gap and offer feedback, support and networking opportunities.
James Mack is a multidisciplinary creative working in roles that range from Direction to Digital Fashion Design and Interactive arts to Creative Direction. He works primarily in the fashion and music sector having worked with clients including Selfridges, Adidas, Litany, Charli Cohen, Banoffee, Lazy Oaf & H&Mx Anamika Khanna. James’s work tells the everyday through fantastical lenses combining real & digital image. Using the artificial to enhance human emotive experiences.
Studio Syn_ was established in London in 2018 by Ursula Dimitriou and Dejan Mrdja. We work across three disciplines: artistic research, architecture and education, which enable us to open up new realms of perception, maintain critical thought and action, and ensure that our practice is situated and immersive. In our design practice we investigate the urban commons, public spaces, alternative dwelling methods, regenerative materials.
In our artistic research we investigate space by using a range of media, such as drawing, painting, performance, video, sculpture and installation, always emphasising on materiality. We are interested to deliver intense, immersive experiences for users, audience and participants alike. We regularly collaborate with professionals from other disciplines – music, linguistics, fashion, media and architecture. In our teaching we focus on art methodologies, collaborative and site-specific practices, and on imagining future architectures for societies based on principles of social empowerment and radical empathy.
Studio Syn_ was established in London in 2018 by Ursula Dimitriou and Dejan Mrdja. We work across three disciplines: artistic research, architecture and education, which enable us to open up new realms of perception, maintain critical thought and action, and ensure that our practice is situated and immersive. In our design practice we investigate the urban commons, public spaces, alternative dwelling methods, regenerative materials.
In our artistic research we investigate space by using a range of media, such as drawing, painting, performance, video, sculpture and installation, always emphasising on materiality. We are interested to deliver intense, immersive experiences for users, audience and participants alike. We regularly collaborate with professionals from other disciplines – music, linguistics, fashion, media and architecture. In our teaching we focus on art methodologies, collaborative and site-specific practices, and on imagining future architectures for societies based on principles of social empowerment and radical empathy.
