Juthamas Tangsantikul

Current job

I am currently teaching design, mainly communication design to undergraduate students. This include studio practice as well as theory and research (undergraduate level). Additionally, I am a part of Human-factor teaching team and responsible for socio-cultural area. Last year, my colleage and I started a new college-wided course called Design and Everyday Life. The aim of this course is to introduce to non-design students what design is and how it is related to them in their everyday life. The idea was inspired by a very informal lecture Prof Paddy Scannell gave to us, the PhD students at  CCIS,  when I was there. It is great, there's so much more to be done to fine tune the course but I love it. The department is also planning to open a new MA programme in two years time and I am one of the working members.

Apart from teaching, I represent the department on the School's Academic Board. I am also the school's co-ordinator of students' advisors. My current research project is Made in Japan: A socio-cultural history of Japanese Electronic Rice Cooker in Japan, funded by the Sumitomo Foundation.

Conferences

Invited Speaker Understanding Thai Women’s Experience of  Online Social Communication. Presentation presented at Thailand Animation and Multimedia (TAM) 2006, 14 January 2006, Queen Sirikit Convention Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

(with Nigel Power)
Made in Japan: A socio-cultural history of Japanese Rice Cooker in Thailand. Paper presented at the International Design Congress (IDC), 1-4 November 2005 .Yunlin, Taiwan

(with Nigel Power)
Trends in a Hurry. Paper presented at the International Design Congress (IDC), 1-4 November 2005, Yunlin, Taiwan

A Socio-cultural Biography of Rice Cooker:  A case study of Japanese rice cooker in Thailand. Paper presented at 8^th Sarasart: Architecture and Design Conference, 20-21 October 2005, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand (with Nigel Power)

Trendscapes: A note on socio-cultural trends research and design innovation. Paper presented at the 1^st National Symposium on Research, Development, Innovation, Design, 14 November 2004 Bangkok, Thailand

The Aesthetics of Online Chatting. Paper Presented at 7^th Sarasart: Architecture and Design Conference, October 2004,  Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Understanding Thai women’s experience of online social interaction, paper presented at Media, Culture and Society Conference 2002, London, United Kingdom

(with Nigel Power)
Reflections on Integration, Conference Paper presented at 5^th Asian Design Conference, 11^th-13^th October 2001, Seoul, Korea

Thai women and the Internet, invited presentation at the conference Media usage in everyday life, Turku, Finland