Interior Design, Design, city and interior, interiority, representations of place and space, sound and space, spatial memory, pop-up
Patrick Macklin is Head of Department for Interior Design and Programme Leader (PL) for the Masters in the subject – which he established at GSA in 2011. He is also PL for the undergraduate programme in both Glasgow and Singapore.
Alongside his academic career Patrick is a design practitioner and consultant.
In 1996 he co-founded Lapland, a confederation of designers and artists working with the multiple and edition. Lapland has 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 brand, print, online presence, costummore...
Patrick Macklin is Head of Department for Interior Design and Programme Leader (PL) for the Masters in the subject – which he established at GSA in 2011. He is also PL for the undergraduate programme in both Glasgow and Singapore.
Alongside his academic career Patrick is a design practitioner and consultant.
In 1996 he co-founded Lapland, a confederation of designers and artists working with the multiple and edition. Lapland has 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 brand, print, online presence, costume and set, much of which was included 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 – Digital Resources in the Humanities & Arts (DRHA 2009); St Étienne International Design Biennial (2010); Praxis and Poetics at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle (2013).
He has had work featured and referenced in iD, Blueprint, The Guardian, The Herald, The Scotsman, The List, NME and ‘How Glasgow Stole the Idea of Contemporary Art’, Daat Press 2013. He has lectured in Singapore and Beijing and presented at international conference including 'Heima' at The third annual Irish Sound, Science and Technology Convocation (ISSTC), Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire and at Praxis and Poetics at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts, Newcastle (2013); and 'Flat Share' at DesignEd Asia 'Spirit of Place in Design Education' at Hong Kong Poly U.
His research Interests include cross-disciplinary practice; the multiple/edition, digital and analogue edges and interfaces; globalised neighborhoods; invisible design with emphasis on the supportive and descriptive potential of sound as a representational tool.
Supervisory interests are primarily focused on the nature, quality and value of the interior in an urban context, encompassing materiality and place-making; sound relative to interiority; hauntology and the built environment; design over distance; temporary occupation of commercial city space as manifest in the pop-up shop and equivalent guerrilla commerce; the significance of the industrial ruin; combined analogue and digital methods of representing space; and the role and impact of technology in spatial articulation and navigation, with a particular emphasis on nascent areas – for the subject – including coding, data-mining and augmented reality.
