Giles Lane

Giles Lane FRSA is an artist, designer and researcher. He founded and co-directs non-profit creative studio Proboscis since 1994. His work focuses on storymaking, strategic design, social engagement and co-creative participation. Giles has been a Research Associate of the Human Centred Computing group at University of Oxford; the Crucible Network at University of Cambridge; the Extreme Citizen Science group at UCL; Pervasive Computing Group at Birkbeck UoL; and Media@LSE at the London School of Economics. He was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art (1998-2002) and a Visiting Tutor in Design at Goldsmiths UoL (2007-10). In 2019 he co-founded the Manifest Data Lab at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, where he is now a Visiting Research Fellow.