Arjun H-M
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Arjun Harrison-Mann is a designer, activist and lecturer whose practice foregrounds the Social Model of Disability as a design provocation and seeks to Rehearse Accessible Futures. He is a former co-founder and co-director of graphic
and interaction design studio, Studio Hyte (2013–24), one third of Access Power Visibility collective, a member of the activist group Disabled People Against Cuts, and a Lecturer in Design at Goldsmiths University of London. His work has been featured by the Victoria & Albert Museum, Design Indaba, Seoul Museum of Art, Serpentine Galleries, The World Transformed, Stanley Picker Gallery, Transmediale, Furtherfield Gallery, It’s Nice That, Imperfect Index, Rehearsing Freedoms, Liberty Festival, Watershed, the UK Parliament and more. 

Email: arjun.harrison-mann@network.rca.ac.uk
Instagram: @arjun_harrisonmann

QUALIFICATIONS

2015–17
MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2012–15
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2020–Now
Lecturer in Design: Department of Design, Goldsmiths

2020–Now
Co-Founder: Access Power Visibility (APV), London

2024
Advisory Board Member: Design & Disability Exhibition (2025), Victoria & Albert Museum

2018–2024
Co-Director / Co-Founder: Studio Hyte Ltd, London

2018–2020
Visiting Lecturer: Department of Design, Goldsmiths

2020–2021
Visiting Lecturer / Digital Producer: BA Performance Arts, The Royal School of Speech and Drama, London

2019
Designer: Unit 9, London

2017–22
Visiting Lecturer: MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2017
Visiting Lecturer: BA Graphic Design, Kingston University, London

2017
Visiting Lecturer: BA Graphic Branding and Identity, London College of Communication, UAL, London

2017
Visiting Practitioner: Paju Typographic Institute (PaTI), South Korea

2017
Workshop Facilitator: Kyoto Design Lab, Japan

2016–17
Designer: Unit 9, London

2015–17
Arduino Technician: Royal College of Art, London

2014
Design Intern: Firebelly Design, Chicago IL

2012–15
Student Ambassador, Widening Participation: Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

 

TALKS

2025
‘Design & Disability Panel Discussion’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2025
‘Methods of Contextualising’, MA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2024
‘Practice is (Still) Critical: Radical Accessibility’, MA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2023
‘Encountering Archives’, Goldsmiths University of London, London

2023
‘Rehearsing Accessible Futures’, Rehearsing Freedoms Festival, Block 336, London

2023
‘On Intersectional Design’, Imperfect Index, Watershed, Bristol

2022
‘Power Tool’, Liberty Festival, The Albany, London

2022
‘Access, Inclusion & Decarbonisation’,Stanley Picker Gallery, London

2022
‘Proxy Protest & Perspectives on Visibility’, Design Without, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2022
‘Access, Power, Visibility’, DPM+ Conference, Royal College of Art, London

2022
‘Radical Accessibility’, Glocal Concerns, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2022
‘Studio Hyte: Access, Low Carbon and Experimental Practice’, MA Graphic Branding and Identity, London College of Communication, UAL, London

2022
‘Studio Hyte to Radical Accessibility’, BA Graphic Communication, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2021
‘Proxy Politics: Making and Unmaking Perspectives on Access’, Knowlewest Media, Bristol

2021
‘Design Education: How to evolve design education for a NEB’, Bauhaus of the Seas Conference, New European Bauhaus

2021
‘Choose Your Access Settings’, Forma, London

2021
‘Reimagine the relationship between power and presence’, Design Without, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2021
‘Democratise Protest Mediums’, DPM, Royal College of Art, London

2021
‘The Aesthetics of Accessibility’, MA Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London

2021
‘Proxy, Protest, Access’, BA Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London

2021
‘Design Subversion’, MA Design Communication, Ravensbourne University, London

2021
‘Future Stories: Studio Hyte to Radical Accessibility’, BA Graphic Communication, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2020
‘Disability inclusion in political activity – Covid and beyond’, The World Transformed, Brighton

2020
‘Online Talk: Access, Power & Visibility’, NN Contemporary Art, Northampton

2020
‘Lunchtime Talk: Control Shift: Rethinking our Relationships with Technology | Watershed’, Watershed, Bristol

2020
‘Do something good for free’, Design Without, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2020
‘Designing Access to Protest’, BA Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, London

2020
‘Future Stories: Studio Hyte to Radical Accessibility’, BA Graphic Communication, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2020
‘Dialogic Design in Post-Visual Communication’, SNAP Design Academy X RCA

2019
‘More than Ramps’, The World Transformed, Brighton

2019
‘Reimagine the Relationship Between Power and Presence’, Design Without, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2019
‘Future Stories: Studio Hyte to Radical Accessibility’, BA Graphic Communication, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2019
‘Radical Accessibility’, A Good Night Out, London

2019
‘Thangs: Studio Hyte’, It’s Nice That, London

2018
‘Dialogue vs Communication’, Design Without, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London

2018
‘Future Stories: Studio Hyte to Radical Accessibility’, BA Graphic Communication, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, London

2017
‘Dialogue, Design & Activism’, Design Indaba Conference, South Africa

2017
‘Considering Distribution’, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea

2017
‘Graphic Persuasion’, Crowd Talks, London

2016
‘Communication vs Dialogue’, D&I Debates, BA Graphic Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2016
‘#Written’ARC20, London

RESIDENCIES & EXHIBITIONS

2025
‘Design & Disability’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2023–24
‘Infrequant:Frequancies’, LU Arts, Loughborough University, Loughborough

2023
‘Rehearsing Freedoms: Deaths by Welfare Project’, Block 336, London

2021–22
‘Perspectives On Visibility’, Transmediale Almanac, Berlin

2022
‘Residents’, Goldsmiths CCA Gallery, London

2022
‘Perspectives on Visibility: Outside Inside’, The Royal College of Psychiatrists Conference, London

2021
‘APV Collective: Perspectives On Visibility’, South Kiosk Gallery, London

2021
‘Peer to Peer: UK/HK’, Eaton HK, Hong Kong (Online)

2021
‘Perspectives on Visibility: Outside Inside’, Brighton Fringe, Brighton

2020
‘Perspectives on Visibility’, Control Shift Residency, Bristol (Online)

2020
‘Bodies Economic Value (BEV)’, Playtime, London Art Fair, London

2019
‘Power Tool: Hito Steyerl: Actual Reality OS’, Serpentine Gallery, London

2019
‘Not Relevant’, Shape Open Retrospective, London

2018
‘Public Toilet’, Playbour, Furtherfield Gallery, London

2018
‘Not Relevant’, Shape Open: Collective Influence, London

2017
‘Tanikawa’s Living Room’, 331 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2016
‘Ridley Road Records’, Doomed Gallery, London

 

AWARDS

2020
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant, Funding, Arts Council England, Studio Hyte

2019
Creative Enterprise Award, Award & Funding, University of the Arts London, Studio Hyte

2017
Critical Engagement with a Social Issue Award, MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art

2017
Postgraduate Support Scheme, Scholarship, Royal College of Art & HEFCE

2017
Type Directors Club Award, Communication Design, Firebelly Design

2016
STA 100, Society of Typographic Arts, Firebelly Design

2015
Lord and Lady Stevenson Award, University of the Arts London

PUBLICATIONS, FEATURES & PROJECT MENTIONS

2025
‘Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design – How to Protest’, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2025
‘Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design – How to Build a Network’, Interview with Mary Slattery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2025
‘Deaths by Welfare Project, Healing Justice London’, Shared Digital Guides

2024
‘Imperfect Index: Nothing About Us Without Us’, Imperfect Index, Bristol

2023
‘Disabled people are trying to tell us how benefits system is killing them. It’s time we listened’, Big Issue, China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

Nov 2022
‘Deaths by Welfare Project’ mention, UK Parliament by MP Debbie Abrahams – China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

July 2022
‘Deaths by Welfare Project’ mention, UK Parliament by MP Debbie Abrahams – China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

2022
‘Exclusive: Secret inquiry launched into deaths of 140 disability claimants under Boris Johnson’, The Sunday Mirror, China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

2022
‘Death By Welfare’, The Mirror, China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

2022
‘The Department for Work and Pensions: Deaths, cover-up, and a toxic 30-year legacy’, Disability News Service, China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

2022
‘Deaths by Welfare Project’, Gal-Dem, Sanah Ahsan, China Mills of Healing Justice London, John Pring of Disability New Service and APV

2022
‘Access Power Visibility’, Bijustsu Techno Magazine, Japan

2022
‘Public by Proxy’, Immerse.News

2021
‘5 Questions on Collaboration, Politics and Design’, Royal College of Art: RCA Stories

2019
‘Radical education and political activism design history: Studio Hyte presents its Bookshelf’, It’s Nice That

2018
‘Studio Hyte’s identity for iiii Magazine examines the characteristics of type, code and interaction on the web’, It’s Nice That

2017
‘Studio Hyte’s identity for DAOWO uses automated processes to create ambiguous visuals’, It’s Nice That