Aidan Taylor
Associate Tutor in Computer Embedded Design
Cardiff School of Art & Design
- MA
Overview
Aidan Taylor is Lecturer andResearcherat Cardiff Metropolitan University. He is a designer maker with industrial experience in small signal electronic design for professional audio and has a broad creative practice involving participatory making. Aidan is one of the founders of Newport Makerspace / Creudy Casnewydd and has been researching and participating in the “Maker Movement” for over a decade. He is currently studying for PhD, investigating the social value of making and repair communities in areas experiencing social deprivation in Wales.
Aidan is Technical Director of HUG by LAUGH which is a university spin-out company founded as a result of impactful design research led by Professor Cathy Treadaway. HUG by LAUGH is the design team that created HUG, an award-winning sensory textile device that was developed for people living with advanced dementia and funded by the AHRC, Welsh Government SMART Expertise and the Alzheimer Society Accelerator Programme. There are currently thousands of HUGs being used in care and home settings throughout the UK.
Aidan is a member of the CARIAD research group at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He lectures in Cardiff School of Art and Design, and leads modules in embedded design and repair.