Karen-Ann Dicken
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Lecturer
Karen-Ann Dicken is a jewellery designer and lecturer in Art and Design and Contemporary Art Practice at Inverness UHI. She is currently completing her PhD from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. Her thesis focuses on craft makers who utilise digital technologies to create physical tooling for hand craft. The notion of agency is key within this work and is used to analyse forms of actions as a comparison between handcraft and the digital.
Karen-Ann has presented conference papers across the UK as well as internationally in the US and Kenya.
Research interests:
- Combining digital manufacturing techniques with traditional handcraft
- Ethical Making in jewellery design
- Agency Mapping as a tool for analysing actions and effects
Publications:
- Yothers, W. and Cappellieri, A. (2021). Digital meets handmade : jewelry design, manufacture, and art in the twenty-first century : proceedings of the International Symposium, May 15th-16th-17th 2018, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY. Albany: State University of New York Press.