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.uk2015–17
MA Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London
2012–15
BA (Hons) Graphic Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London
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
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
‘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
‘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
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
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
2025
‘Deaths by Welfare Project, Healing Justice London’, Shared Digital Guides
2024
‘Imperfect Index: Nothing About Us Without Us’, Imperfect Index, Bristol
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