Dr Cathy Gale
Contact
- Email: c.gale@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Design
- Department: Department of Graphic Design
About
Dr.Cathy Gale (MA: RCA / SFHEA) Course Leader MA Communication Design: Graphic Design is a research-led educator and graphic artist specializing in critical and performative approaches to design as a social praxis defined by speculative play and the politics of public life. In a research-led approach through design pedagogy she subverts conventional design tools to operate as counter-cultural political devices in unconventional contexts. The recent focus of her research has been on collective systems, dialogic design and non-tribal community identities. She leads the Open Art School Collective (OASC) and the Alternative Art School (AAS) in a shift towards social agency rather than isolated precarity in contemporary culture. The Disco Dissent collective forms a transformative extension of the AAS in which creative dissent and enterprise meet as innovative modes of practice in the third places of social life. Dr.Gale is a PhD supervisor, external examiner (Chelsea College of Art & Design, UAL; Arts University Bournemouth), and Professor of Ludic Heterotopias at The Free University of Seething Wells.
Academic responsibilities
Course Leader
Qualifications
- PhD (Brighton University)
- MA Graphic Design and Art Direction (Royal College of Art, London)
- BA (Hons) Graphic Design (Newcastle Polytechnic)