Alaistair Steele

Current Role/s
Tutor, BA Interior Design, London College of Communication; Tutor, Spatial Design, Central Saint Martins
Academic qualifications
MA Architecture, Royal College of Art
PG Cert in Teaching and Learning, University of the Arts, London
BA Arts & Design: Spatial, Central Saint Martins

Teaching Experience
Alaistair has been teaching Spatial Design at UAL since 2003. He specialises in teaching students with a wide range of family backgrounds from all over the world and has taught students as young as 13 and graduates with many years of industry experience on a range of FE, HE and part-time courses. He is particularly interested in dynamically linking design education with practice and works with leading edge companies such as Ideo and 6A Architects on one-off educational projects.

Industrial Experience
Freelance projects: 2005-2008 Masterplanning and Urbanism, Adams and Sutherland, London; 2001-03 Researcher, Channel 4 Websites, London; 1996-99 Layout, curation and marketing, Toklat Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Other work & small projects: Sinodun Architects,General Public Agency, Sothebys, Demarco European Art Foundation

Research Interests
Inhabitation and appropriation of built form; phenomenological readings of space and place; urban fabric as medium; mediated space.

Publications & Exhibitions
• 2010: Drawing on Windows/Design Matters: Engaging Young People with the Built Environment, Co-author with Andrew Sides, CSM, Published in November by Central Saint Martins / UAL
• ‘Fulham: Past, Present, Future’ Workshop & Pop-up Exhibition, Dawes Rd / North End Road, Fulham
• 2007:‘Cad Dreaming’: CSM funded research project investigating the potential uses of cad-induced dreams in software innovation
• Joint 1st Prize Concrete Association Innovative Design Award,
• Joint 2nd Place International Concrete Design Competition ‘Plasti-OPACITY’, Talent Zone, 100% East, London
• 2005 with Adams and Sutherland ‘Civilising Spaces: Improving London’s Public Realm’, New London Architecture, Building Centre;
• 2003 Royal Society for the Arts RDI Summer School 2003 Graduate
• 2004 Transmediale 04: Fly Utopia’, International Media Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
• 2002 ‘Ashtray Amnesty’, Event and Installation collaboration project with Cancer Research UK, Charing Cross Road Window Gallery, London;
• ‘BAAD Move 3′, University of East London, installation and exhibition accompanying conference
• 2001 John Goodchild’, Lethaby Gallery, London, 2001; ‘Foot’, Elizbal Design College, Barcelona, Spain, 2001