Dr. Paul D. Found is Senior Lecturer on, and Year 3 leader for, the undergraduate 3D Design courses at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. He also teaches on the MA Product Design course. His research is focused on the use of mobile technologies, particularly smartphones, as an aid to form-finding, shape generation, and 3D sketching, using sensor data. The focus is on the use of embedded sensors and 3D printing to allow "anytime, anywhere" design to take place. Currently, he is exploring the application of this idea in the field of digitally fabricated, location-specific ceramics.
He has presented research at conferences such as IASDR 2015: INTERPLAY, Brisbane, Cumulus 2016 Nottingham: In This Place, IDCF 2020 International Conference on Digital Fabrication, Taiwan, and (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): A Conference on Design, Culture and Technology – Past, Present, and Future, Canterbury, 2022. His research has also been published in the journals Leonardo and Iterations: Design Research & Practice Review.