2015
Invited Keynote speaker for Innovation Strand: SNAG, Boston, USA. Talk: ‘Slipping Things Sideways, Finding New Crossing Points’
RCA, London. Information Experience, Design Department
Arnolfini Gallery, Edge and Shore discussion, chaired by Iain Biggs
From the Coolest Corner: Re: Public Jewellery. Commissioned by Norwegian Crafts, Munich, Germany
Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh, Edge and Shore discussion, chaired by Roanne Dods
2014
Whitechapel Gallery, London for Artquest: Crafting Practices
KHIO, Oslo, Norway
Art Jewelry Forum: Central St Martins College
University of Hertfordshire
2013
Haystack School of Craft, USA
Craft Study Centre: for Setting the Scene Exhibition
Norwegian Crafts Council: Carft and Social Change Toynbee Hall, London
Chelsea College of Art, MA programme,
Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow
2012
10 Things I learnt about slow design , Design Wales
2011
Jerwood Foundation in Conversation with Choreographer Siobhan Davies
The Slow Summit, University of the Arts, London. July 2011
Museum of Science and Technology, Seattle, USA
Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin
St Lucas, Antwerp Marking Place: collecting, curating, sifting ideas.
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2010
Chelsea College of Art
Strelka, Moscow: The Diversity of One Design Practice
Middlesex University
Slow and the digital. Crafts Council
Intelligent Trouble at CAA
Camberwell College
Edinburgh College
Sheffield, UK
Craft Rally London with Artquest.
Stroud International Textiles
http://www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk/conference.html
Saatchi Gallery London
Metropolitan Works, London
http://www.metropolitanworks.org/events/event_listings/detail/168/
2009
Taking Time…curation project with Craftspace
Central St Martins/Camberwell College HYP 3 Research Group, London
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank
Craft Northern Ireland
2008
Contemporary Craft Practice – Plymouth College of Art and Design
Practice and Reflection, ALIAS, Devon, UK
Artist talk: velvet da Vinci, USA
2007
Pushing Boundaries Symposium – Guest Critic Staffordshire University
Process Works, The Women’s Library, London and University of Herts
2006
Carry the Can, The Brewery, London
‘The Poetics of Making’, South West Arts, Commissioned by Paul Harper, ALIAS
2005
‘Talking about Talking’, South West Guilds. Dartington Hall. Commissioned by ALIAS.
‘Navigating the London Art Scene’ Whitechapel Art Gallery Commissioned by Artquest
Helen Carnac 