Performing Objects Studio is a ‘Playful Engineering’ studio run by Industrial Designer Harvey Bewley.
I design and build objects, installations and prototypes that blend aesthetics and storytelling with a playful use of engineering and materiality.
When possible I prefer to work hands-on, both in my own workshop and alongside a close network of talented craftspeople, fabricators and technologists.
(MA) 2014-16
An Individual Study Plan in Design
Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts, and Design, Stockholm
(BA) 2007-11
Industrial Design and Technology
Loughborough University, UK
External Lecturer
(2018 - Present)
IT University of Copenhagen, IxD lab
Industrial Designer and Product Engineering Consultant (2009-14)EG Technology, Cambridge UK
(specialising in product design and medical design and engineering)
RESIDENCIES
Circus without Circus
(2021 -2023 )
an interdisciplinary residency programme for artists
Designer in Residence
(Aug 2018)
Cambridge University, UK
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
PUBLICATIONS
Smörgåsbord for Physical Computing
Boer, L. & Bewley, H., TEI (Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Conference) 2021
Gut Tracking as Cultivation
Boer, L.,Bewley, H.,Jenkins, T.,Homewood, S.,Almeida, T. & Vallgårda, A, DIS (Designing Interactive Systems Conference) 2020
Designing for Fertility as a Shared and Domestic Experience
Homewood, S., Bewley, H. & Boer, L, DIS (Designing Interactive Systems Conference) 2019
How was it made? - Social Robotic Donuts
Boer, L. & Bewley, H., Interactions Magazine, April ‘19
Social Robotic Donuts
Boer, L. & Bewley, H., Interactions Magazine, March ‘19
Provoking Performing Objects – Expanding the Design Space for Soft Robotics
H. Bewley & A. Vallgårda
DIS (Designing Interactive Systems Conference) 2019, Edinburgh
Designing Blo-nut : Design Principles, Choreography and Otherness of an Expressive Social Robot
H. Bewley, & L. Boer.
(Designing Interactive Systems Conference) 2018, Hong Kong
Reconfiguring the Appearance and Expression of Social Robots by Acknowledging their Otherness
L. Boer & H. Bewley.
(Designing Interactive Systems Conference) 2018, Hong Kong
EXHIBITIONS AND TALKS
Future Talks, 2018
Guest Speaker on ‘Soft Social Robots’
IDA, Copenhagen
Open Lecture, 2018
Guest Speaker on ‘Soft Social Robots’
CIID, Copenhagen
Politics of the Machines Conference, 2018
’Expanding our Design Language for Machine Expression’
Aalborg University , Copenhagen
Click Festival, 2018
’Ubiquitous Futures Exhibition Your New Pet Blo-Nut’
CATCH, Helsingør
Copenhagen Stage Festival 2018
’I Made A Social Robot Shaped like a Donut’
Sort/Hvid Theatre
MUSE workshop Series 2017, Guest Speaker
Medical Museion, Copenhagen
Masters Vårutställning, 2016
Elastic Interactions of the Third Machine Age
Konstfack, Stockholm