Department Member, School of Art and Media, Faculty of Arts
University of Wales, Newport, Newport School of Art, Media and Design
Senior Lecturer BA Interactive Media & MA Design
Thesis Title: Cultural Hegemony in Design
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About
Taslima Begum is an independent doctoral researcher at the Transtechnology Research Centre at the University of Plymouth. She recently held the position of Senior Lecturer teaching on the BA (Hons) Interactive Media and MA Design by Practice programmes at the Newport School of Art, Media & Design.
Teaching:
Taslima's inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary teaching focuses around Design and Technology both Practice and Theory and Cultural studies. It also spans Interaction design process, Audio-Visual-augmented environments, Interface Design, Cultural and Postcolonial theory in relation to technology, Website Design, 3d Animation, Games Design, Professional practice: E-portfolios, Design Documentation Methods, and Research Skills. She also teaches software proficiency in a wide variety of programs.
Research Interests:
Initiated in 2004, Taslima is currently pursuing her primary research focus – a Postcolonial investigation into the cultural construction of design solutions in high-end technological products - as a topic of doctoral research. The research considers if and how products and systems produced in the West embody culturally hegemonic assumptions. By reinterpreting technological formations in light of research emerging from post-colonial studies, she is attempting to understand how product design relies particularly upon western hegemonic aesthetic and deep cultural archetypes.
Qualifications:
PGC HE - Pending 2010
PhD Design and Cultural Studies: Submission date - 2011
MA New Media & Technology (Distinction): 2008
BA (Hons) Design Futures: 2003
Nat Dip Information Technology: 1999
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