MairiClaire Maj MacDonald
Maj has taught across European institutions and most recently was a tutor at Royal College of Art. They regularly guest lecture and design learning experiences in undergraduate and postgraduate contexts, and have extensive experience developing curriculum, facilitating creative workshops, and mentoring emerging designers and researchers.
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Whether teaching, co-designing, or creating spaces to think and feel together, STUDIO MAJMAJ invites collaborators to get critical, stay playful, and design beyond the functional. Let’s move together in spaces where thinking happens through making, and where play and absurdity are taken (kind of) seriously.
STUDIO MAJMAJ is the independent practice of MairiClaire (Maj) MacDonald, an post-disciplinary designer, visual artist and educator working at the intersection of play theory, (non)gendering in design, and critical pedagogy. Rooted the playfully absurd and borderline bizarre, their practice explores design as an act of disruption, play as a form of research, and care as a strategy for socially sustainable change.
“Refusing neat categories, my practice operates at the messy intersections of design, play and sensory ethnography. My focus is on questioning norms, unpicking knowledge, and prototyping change. My expanded practice doesn’t sit neatly on a shelf. It spills into workshops, lectures, public space and policy. Into playrooms, protest, and pedagogy. It trades in imagination as currency, and trades out the tired scripts of what design is ‘supposed’ to be. Here, making is messy, research is embodied, and futures are multiple. Care is not a buzzword, but a blueprint”
– Maj
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SERVICES
STUDIO MAJMAJ offers freelance services in:
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Guest lecturing and curriculum development across art and design education
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Workshop design and facilitation for creative organisations, cultural institutions, and communities
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Design & artistic research with a focus on care, play, and inclusive futures
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Creative consultancy and strategic support for socially-engaged design projects
Each project is approached with openness, genuine care, and a touch of mischief. I invite people to engage in ethical risk taking and create alternatives that appreciate the textures of lived human and nonhuman experiences.
