Neal Haslem (rmit melbourne)
Printing machines print. Ideas might be transferred as spores on the wind. What comes back? What remains? What evolves? Printing machines; cast iron, gears and oil, one hundred years old, engineered to print, coming alive through human power; move, carry, replicate… distort. Intentionally activated multiples, extending the act of speech; logos, words, texts, textuality, textural, intertextual, intertextuality. Mycelia might create awareness, of reaching out, of changing, of interacting with difference, generatively. Communication design can suggest implacable logic and resolute intentionality, creating the fixed, making a point. Communication design might be fluid, responsive, unfixed, processual, contested, at play, discursive, distributed. Alive?
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Neal Haslem
Neal is a communication designer, design educator and a practice-led researcher into and through communication design. He has a background in design studios across a wide range of media. He commenced his Masters by Research with RMIT in 2004 and following this his PhD, completed in 2010. From 2014-2018 Neal was Program Manager of the Bachelor program, from 2018-2022 he was Associate Dean, Communication Design. Neal’s research lies in the intersection of design practice and the community and the intersubjective action with which design reveals and actualises possible futures.
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