Alan Blackwell was recently appointed to a Readership in Interdisciplinary Design at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, having prior qualifications in professional engineering, computing and experimental psychology. He has 12 years experience of designing industrial systems, electronic and software products. He has taught design courses and supervised postgraduate design research students in Computing, Architecture, Psychology, Languages, Music and Engineering.

He is a fellow of Darwin College, and a director of Living East, the cultural consortium for the East of England. He is founder and co-director since 2000 of Crucible, the Cambridge University network for research in interdisciplinary design. Crucible works to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration of technologists with researchers in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AH&SS), and has created or facilitated over 50 projects in this area.

Website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/afb21/

Email: Alan.Blackwell AT cl.cam.ac.uk