Interior Design, Design, urban interiors, spatial memory, representations of place, vacancy and adaptive reuse
Patrick Macklin is Deputy Head of the School of Design (Acting); Reader in Interior Design, Head of Department and Programme Leader for the Masters in the subject, which he established at GSA in 2011.
He co-founded Lapland, a confederation of designers and artists working with the multiple and edition. Lapland exhibited at The British Council, Edinburgh; The Lighthouse, Centre for Architecture, Design and The City, Glasgow; Tramway, Glasgow; Made in Glasgow, Brussels; and Primavera del Disseñy, Barcelona.
From 1998–2009 he was an Associate Artist, and designer for the award winning theatre company Suspect Culture, responsible for the companies design, from brand to costume, exhibited archive and, occasionally, sets. Much of this material featured in the publication ‘The Suspect Culture Bmore...
Patrick Macklin is Deputy Head of the School of Design (Acting); Reader in Interior Design, Head of Department and Programme Leader for the Masters in the subject, which he established at GSA in 2011.
He co-founded Lapland, a confederation of designers and artists working with the multiple and edition. Lapland exhibited at The British Council, Edinburgh; The Lighthouse, Centre for Architecture, Design and The City, Glasgow; Tramway, Glasgow; Made in Glasgow, Brussels; and Primavera del Disseñy, Barcelona.
From 1998–2009 he was an Associate Artist, and designer for the award winning theatre company Suspect Culture, responsible for the companies design, from brand to costume, exhibited archive and, occasionally, sets. Much of this material featured in the publication ‘The Suspect Culture Book’, published by Oberon in 2013.
In 2003 he established the design studio Frozen River working mainly with clients in the arts and the public sector. Frozen River has shown work in Glasgow, CCA; Belfast, Queens University (DRHA 2009); St Étienne International Design Biennial (2010); Praxis & Poetics at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle (2013).
He has lectured in Singapore and Beijing, and contributed to academic panels in the UK, the Gulf and South Asia. Conference, symposium and webinar contributions include 'Heima' at ISSTC, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire; Praxis & Poetics at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle (2013); 'Flat Share' at DesignEd Asia 'Spirit of Place in Design Education', Hong Kong Poly U (2015); ‘Memory Laundrette’ at Interior Provocations, Ryerson School of Interior Design (RSID) and Pratt Institute (2021) and ‘Interior Archipelago’ at Interiors in the era of COVID-19, Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC), Kingston University.
His research Interests are the urban interior and how city spaces are represented in form and content as spectacular cultural phenomena.
Supervisory interests are primarily focused on the nature, quality and value of the urban interior and in particular through diverse means of representation.
