Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Manuela Barz

extension: 5198

e-mail: m.barz@londonmet.ac.uk

web: www.mb-ff-dd-b-l.com

end-of-year exhibition: http://www.dassmedia.net/

Lecturer in Digital Culture
Organiser of the End-of-Year exhibition for UG/PG Digital Media and Media students 

Teaching:

Practice-led Digital Media modules

Research interests:

  • Understanding and studying user groups
  • Women and technology
  • Learning networks
  • Interrelations of physical and virtual space
  • Creativity and creative development

I have been working as digital designer for several years in the areas of web, video, and 2D/3D design.

I am currently undertaking studies for a PhD 'Creative space – Creating Space: Extending the ‘Third’ Space With New Media Technology to Reach Incarcerated Women'. The research takes place in a women's prison and aims to establish a framework for technology-led learning appropriate for women offenders. The research concentrates on the different spatial qualities within the prison context, social interactions and creative individual development.

Conference papers:

Creative space – Creating Space: Extending the ‘Third’ Space With New Media Technology to Reach Incarcerated Women, 12th EPEA Conference, Cyprus, November 2009

Creative space – Creating Space: Digital literacy in a women's prison, 'Reading and Writing in Prison', Edinburgh, June 2010

Consultancy:

Urban aesthetics and urban experience, Project leader: Prof. Gillian Rose (Open University) and Dr Monica Degen (Brunel University), available under: http://www.urban-experience.net/

Sensory maps of two urban spaces: http://www.urban-experience.net/miltonKeynes/sensoryMK.html, http://www.urban-experience.net/bedford/sensoryBedford.html

Exhibitions:

  • Memory B10 - Exploring childhood memories  (2006), Digital Soup, Truman Brewery, London (Interactive installation)
  • Romantic fruits and the love affair of a banana (2000) Le frosch, Frankfurt/Oder; (2001) Berlin (Photography)
  • Industrial Ruins (1999) Le Frosch, Frankfurt/Oder (Photography)
  • Sun, sea and a little bit of war – Bosnia, Kroatia, Slowenia after the war (1997) Europe University, Frankfurt/Oder; (1998) TU Dresden, Dresden (Photography)

Qualifications:

  • PGCert in Higher Education
  • MA Computer Art, London
  • MA Architecture in Dresden, Germany