Designer / Thinker / Futures Consultant/ Researcher / Blogger
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Designer / Researcher at Sense Worldwide
- Past
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- Digital Persona Consulting at Peter Town Ideas
- Embedded reporter/tutor at Royal College of Art
- Visiting speaker/workshop participant at Futurelab: Innovation in Education
- Rapporteur at Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University
- Freelance Design Researcher at Seymourpowell
- Designer at Foresight Government Office for Science
- Art and Design Critical Studies Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University
- Education
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- Royal College of Art
- The Manchester Metropolitan University
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Jessica Charlesworth’s Experience
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Designer / Researcher
Sense Worldwide
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Currently a member of the design research team using design ethnography & strategy tools for a number of major corporate clients.
Sense Worldwide is a global research and innovation consultancy specialising in understanding people and the emotional relationships they form with products, services and brands. Building on a tradition of qualitative research, Sense go beyond segmentation, ‘the numbers’ and technical specifications to reveal the values, attitudes and behaviours that influence people's decisions. -
Digital Persona Consulting
Peter Town Ideas
(Design industry)
June 2009 — June 2009 (1 month)
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Embedded reporter/tutor
Royal College of Art
(Educational Institution; Design industry)
November 2008 — January 2009 (3 months)
Working alongside Matt Jones, Onkar Kular and Tony Dunne, my duties included attending talks and tutorials in order to populate the Tribal Futures research blog that was used as a shared communication channel between all students of the MA course and members of the Vodafone UX team in London and Dusseldorf.
The 4 week project asked the students to consider the implications the emergent changes in communications technology will have on group behaviour. To identify or create a group and propose design interventions to support, subvert and celebrate tribal connections.
Check out the students great responses: http://beta.interaction.rca.ac.uk/ft/ -
Visiting speaker/workshop participant
Futurelab: Innovation in Education
(Think Tanks industry)
December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)
In December, Michael Burton and I were invited by FutureLab to a one day event as part of their long term futures programme; Beyond Current Horizons. This research programme looks at the future of education, beyond 2025, in the context of social and technological change and investigating its implications for education.
We presented some of our current and past work to highlight ways of discussing futures that would provoke ideas to help other people to think about the future more critically. Our Foresight Tackling Obesities project work was also presented illustrating one way to synthesise science opinion and hypothesis into thought provoking scenarios. -
Rapporteur
Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University
(Research industry)
October 2007 — July 2008 (10 months)
I am the rapporteur / Blog Administrator for the recent research programme at the institute in Lancaster University. The programme is entitled "New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living" and involved a number of workshops over the year including a knowledge share with the MA Design Interactions course at the Royal College of Art .
Please visit http://safeliving.wordpress.com for more info. -
Freelance Design Researcher
Seymourpowell
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)
July 2007 — February 2008 (8 months)
Member of the design strategy team within the Foresight department. Working on a variety of brand forecasting and design ethnography projects for a number of major corporate clients including NOKIA.
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Designer
Foresight Government Office for Science
(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Think Tanks industry)
July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)
Focusing in particular on a project entitled Tackling Obesities,: Future Choices my colleague and I were asked to interpret, visualise and communicate various implications outlined in a number of scientific studies that described the number of factors that are influencing the rise in obesity in the UK. The project was launched recently at the RSA .
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Art and Design Critical Studies Lecturer
Liverpool Hope University
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Design industry)
September 2004 — June 2005 (10 months)
Jessica Charlesworth’s Education
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Royal College of Art
MA , Design Interactions , 2005 — 2007
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The Manchester Metropolitan University
BA , Three Dimensional Design , 1999 — 2002
