Ronnie is a passionate educator with over 10 years of experience in higher education. His interest in education was born from a love of DIY synth electronics, the difficulties faced with self-learning, and the drive to share his knowledge. Community building is an essential aspect of his practice as an educator. He provides his groups with a safe space where anything can be said, thought, and done — this is at the centre of his approach. He allows students to feel safe to experiment and be creative in whatever way feels right to them.

With a broad range of practical experience in many fields — including sound, interaction, sculpture, electronics, coding, animation, video, and illustration — he is able to relate to a wide range of practitioners and projects. For Ronnie, it is important that his students enjoy the experience of learning. His focus is not on the final destination, but on what happens along the way.

His longest and most significant experience in higher education has been, and still is, within the Information Experience Design program at the Royal College of Art. He has been responsible for designing his own elective focused on sound, performance, experimentation, and experimental research methods. He has conducted exams, assessments, and application reviews, as well as worked on the curation and production of final shows and exhibitions at the V&A. He also set up a platform for experimental sound that later became the independent collective and label White Noise. While his main focus has been sound, Ronnie has successfully led students to their degrees through a broad range of projects related to his own artistic practice.

At LCC, Ronnie worked in Graphic and Media Design, where he ran two Sound Labs he designed himself. Within the program, he worked for around three years, collaborating on a variety of briefs ranging from animation to social design and experimental design. The most memorable and impactful of these was the System Hacker project, which he co-led with Tim Hutchinson, resulting in highly experimental approaches, beautiful processes, and significant shifts in students’ thinking and workflows. He currently lectures occasionally in the MAUX program, where he runs various workshops.