Dave is a spatial research practitioner working across art, design, interiors, architecture, landscape and public art, with experience in commercial architectural design practice, studio-based academia and artistic research methodologies. Dave’s research practice is contextualised by feminist ‘worlding’, with a focus on the overlapping technological and infrastructural conditions - from language and cartography to machine sensing and digital platforms - through which we spatially engage with and are structured by the world.

Recent and ongoing research themes include;

The Mediated Interior - This research is contextualised by the postdigital condition of the contemporary interior across a range of settings and encounters. Current practice-based investigations deploy tools of machinic visioning, such as photogrammetry, to propose strategies of counter-mapping to resist the regimes of surveillance capitalism the contemporary interior is subjected to.

Critical Infrastructuralism - This ongoing research seeks to develop a critical definition for infrastructure, with a particular attention towards tools and methodologies that reveal the collision of local with planetary scale encounters which underpin the structures of the everyday.

The Future (of) Monuments - This research interrogates the spatial and temporal conditions of the category of the monument under the discourse of the Anthropocene, interfacing with contexts including landscapes of land reclamation, the 'geology of media' and the 'techno-sphere', decoloniality and post-conflict narratives, and speculative futurisms.

Dave leads the Image/Imaging/Interior research cluster which to explores new crossdisplinary practices and frameworks of knowledge-making through which to interrogate the interior, its image, and its imaging. The contemporary interior, its design and fabrication, is a 3-dimensional space that is increasingly smeared across and embedded upon the 2-dimensional screen. In the digital image-based society, a range of technological platforms collapse space and reconfigure the interior as a mediated artefact circulated in a multitude of overlapping and colliding virtual and actual 2d/3d conditions. The Image/Imaging/Interior research cluster proposes timely and urgent investigations to explore how virtual and physical spaces, and their design and fabrication, directly engage and inform each other, to present arrangements at the interstice of 2d and 3d, image and actual.

Dave convenes the Worlding Matters reading group, a cross-GSA platform that focuses on Feminist New Materialism philosophies in the context of the creative disciplines. Broadly sited under the umbrella of ‘worlding’, these modes of thinking and being embrace posthumanism, object orientated ontology, speculative realism, agential realism, accelerationism, geophilosophy, xeno-feminism and much more.

Dave has designed and leads the Worlding Fictions & Fictional Worlds postgraduate elective module, a program to allow students to draw upon a variety of fictional contexts, including speculative worlds, scenarios, and narratives. A distinct critical function of worlding as a framework is its capacity to the interrogate the co-constitutive conditions of nature and culture, thinking and being, and engage with ‘radical otherness’ to challenge and potentially unravel conventions of power and inequality that exist in our everyday lived experience.

Dave has exhibited nationally and internationally in Spain, Sweden, Germany and China and presented research on international platforms including the 56th Venice Biennale, dOCUMENTA(13) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.