Justin Marshall

community centred design, creative digital design & production, Digital Craft, participatory design tools

Dr Justin Marshall is Associate Professor of Digital Craft at University College Falmouth. He is a practicing maker and researcher with a diverse training in range of visual art and design disciplines, culminating in a PhD focused on the significance of digital tools in craft practice completed in 2000.<br /> <br /> For over ten years his research has been investigating the integration of digital design and production technologies into both art and craft practices. Alongside a personal practice focused on the new aesthetic possibilities that the use of digital tools hold, he is interested in how the digital manufacturing revolution, aligned with web 2.0 capabilities, can enable &lsquo;user&rsquo; participation in a design process to create individualized products and rekindle people&rsquo;s urge to &lsquo;make&rsquo;, so creating the possibility to refigure the relationship between consumers and producers.

Justin is a member of the Autonomatic research group 

Sept-nov 2011

‘Momentum’, UK exhibition of digital craft, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff. invited to exhibit. Included catalogue with authored text.
ISBN 98-0-9566868-1-7

Sept 2011

‘Bespoke’ at the V&A, as part of London Design Festival, 17-25th Sept. Lead editor
of associated publication.

March 2011

Atkinson, P, Marshall, J, Unver, E & Dean, LT (2011) I Did it My Way: User engagement in Post Industrial Manufacturing, Proceedings of SIM2011: Sustainable Intelligent Manufacturing, Leiria pp 679-687, IST Press,  ISBN 978-989-8481-03-0

March 2011

Autonomatic group show, ‘Exempla’, international crafts faire, Munich, Germany. Invited to exhibit.

Sept 2010

Marshall, J, Rogers, J, Shorter, M, ‘Parallel Lines: how design and craft find a convergence through a pragmatic approach to digital design’. 7th ICDHS conference, Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences, Brussels, Belgium.

Sept 2010 - ongoing

‘LabCraft’, Crafts Council UK touring exhibition focused on digital craft. Invited to exhibit.

June 2010 - May 2011

‘Fabrication Laboratory’, DHUB Design Museum, Barcelona. International exhibition of design works produced with the aid of rapid prototyping technologies. 5 items from Automake project selected. Invited to exhibit. Work now included in permanent collection.

May 2010 – April 2011

‘Inside Out’, launched at ‘Object’: Australian centre for craft and design, Melbourne, International touring exhibition. This exhibition is the outcome of an exchange programme between universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. Includes catalogue with authored essay. ISBN 9781857214093. www.arttech.com.au/insideout/index.html

Oct 2009

Automake, generative design work exhibited at, ‘Know How', an internationally selected exhibition associated with the fifth Tallinn applied art triennial, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallin, Estonia. Included catalogue but with no ISBN

Sept 2009

Bunnell, K, Marshall,J,  ‘Developments in post-industrial manufacturing systems and the implications for craft and sustainability’, Making Futures: the crafts in the context of emerging global sustainability agendas’, Plymouth College of Art & Design, 'Making Futures' Vol.1.ISSN 2042-1664. makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/journalvol1/papers.php

Sept 2008

Treasury of Digital Form, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany. Internationally selected exhibition of craft and design works produced with the aid of digital technologies.

July 2008

Atkinson, P, Unver, E, Marshall, J, Dean, L (2008) Post Industrial Manufacturing Systems: The undisciplined nature of generative design, Undisciplined, Design Research Society Conference, Sheffield Hallam University,

June 2008

Marshall, J, Unver, E, Atkinson , Automake Physics: Random Craft Production, joint paper presented by Unver at, Cad '08 conference, Caribe Royle Resort and Convention Centre, Orlando, Florida. US

May 2008

Automake & FutureFactories, (two person show), exhibition of generative design work, Hub National Centre for Craft & Design, Sleaford, Lincs. Included catalogue, ISBN 978-0-9548015-7-1

Dec 2007

Marshall, J, Unver, E, Atkinson , P, Automake joint paper presented by Marshall at 10th Generative Arts Conference, Milan Italy

July 2007

Marshall, J, Coded Ornament: Digital Decorative Plasterwork, New Craft-Future Voices' international craft conference, Dundee University, 2007, published proceedings; ‘New Craft- Future Voices', Dundee University, pp105-121, ISBN 1 899837 55 8.  Also published in Design Journal (see below)

Marshall, J, Coded Ornament: Digital Decorative Plasterwork, The Design Journal, ‘pp 4-21, Vol 10, Issue 2, ISSN 1460-6925

June 2006

Coded Ornament; (solo show) exhibition of ornamental plasterwork produced in collaboration with Hayles & Howe, Paintworks, Bristol, including documentary DVD.

Sept 2006

Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders, internationally selected exhibition of new work employing digital technologies which explores the boundaries between sculpture, design and architecture, Medial Lab, Lancaster. Included catalogue, ISBN 978-0-652-

Justin is currently Director of Studies for three PhD students:

Isabelle Risner,   The Integration of Digital Technologies in Designer-Maker Practice: A Study of Access, Attitudes and Implications.
Tavs Jorgensen, The development and application of digitally enabled Reconfigurable Tooling in new models of design and production.
Daniel Metcalfe,  The role of design in promoting biodiversity in the anthroposphere, specifically through the design of concrete surface 
                            patterns intended to be colonized by intertidal species.