Mr Ben Durack

Biography	Ben is Course Leader for Product, Ceramics & Jewellery at Gray’s School of Art. The course delivers a multi-disciplinary design and craft programme that brings together traditional materials and processes, with new technologies and practice. With over 10 years industry experience as a Product Designer and Product Design Engineer, Ben’s practice blurs the lines between disciplines with experience delivering on commercial projects from inception through to production across a range of industries including: healthcare, homeware, start-ups, design for disability. Ben is co-founder of Origin Plastics Ltd, established in 2019 to redefine plastic waste through local micro-circularity, impacting on plastic waste through vertically integrated production and behaviour change.
Research Interests	The Circular Economy De-centralised Design & Production Additive Manufacture and Digital Design Human Centred Design Democratising Digital Fabrication

Biography

Ben is Course Leader for Product, Ceramics & Jewellery at Gray’s School of Art. The course delivers a multi-disciplinary design and craft programme that brings together traditional materials and processes, with new technologies and practice.

With over 10 years industry experience as a Product Designer and Product Design Engineer, Ben’s practice blurs the lines between disciplines with experience delivering on commercial projects from inception through to production across a range of industries including: healthcare, homeware, start-ups, design for disability.

Ben is co-founder of Origin Plastics Ltd, established in 2019 to redefine plastic waste through local micro-circularity, impacting on plastic waste through vertically integrated production and behaviour change.

Research Interests

The Circular Economy
De-centralised Design & Production
Additive Manufacture and Digital Design
Human Centred Design
Democratising Digital Fabrication