Who's who

PhD, MA Ceramics, BA Fine Art

Sustainable Design Research Centre
Autonomatic, 3D digital production research group

Keywords: craft, design, tangible design, family/community centred design

Research interests

• The creative use of digital design and production technologies.
• The new possibilities opened up by digital making, marketing and selling tools for the craft sector and other creative production micro businesses.
• Post industrial manufacturing systems and the development of new models of digitally enabled practice.
• The role of digital craftsmanship in multi disciplinary collaborative projects.

Research outputs

• 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 - Marshall, J , Bunnell, B, 2009, Developments in post industrial manufacturing systems and the implications for craft and sustainability, presented at Making Futures: the crafts in the context of emerging global sustainability agendas, Plymouth College of Art & Design. Published online, 'Making Futures' Vol.1.ISSN 2042-1664.
• 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

Selected earlier outputs

• 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 journal: 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- 

Forthcoming outputs

• Marshall, J, ‘Developments in post industrial manufacturing systems and its implications for independent Jewellery makers', Submitted to Association; Contemporary Jewellery conference ‘Crossings - a convergence of ideas, materials and technologies', West Dean College, July 2010. (accepted)
• Marshall, J, Rogers, J, Wallace, J, Parallel Lines: how design, craft and computer science find a convergence through a pragmatic approach to digital design. Submitted to The seventh ICDHS conference, Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences, to be held in Brussels, Belgium, September 2010. (accepted)
• At least one other national and international conference paper abstract to be submitted this year in association with Bespoke project, details TBC
• Six pieces of work from Automake project to be exhibited at Fab Expo at the DHUB Design Museum in Barcelona: www.dhub-bcn.cat, 6 May to 12 Dec, 2010.
• Inclusion of work in Inside Out, international touring exhibition. This exhibition is the outcome of an exchange programme between art school centres and artist groups in the United Kingdom and Australia and will be launched simultaneously in both countries in mid 2010. Collaborative partners in UK: UCF, Manchester Metroplitan and DeMontfort. Opening in Australia in June and touring UK institutions after possible launch at RCA in September. Details at: www.arttech.com.au/insideout

Supervision of research degrees

I am Director of Studies for Isabelle Risner, The Integration of Digital Technologies in Designer-Maker Practice: A Study of Access, Attitudes and Implications.

Related websites and links

• www.autonomatic.org.uk
• www.automake.co.uk
• www.bespokeproject.org