Rachel Jacobs is an award winning artist, researcher, educator and workshop facilitator, consultant and interactive designer.

Rachel currently works as a practicing artist and is an Associate Researcher at Horizon Digital Economy, University of Nottingham. She has toured nationally and internationally and publishes and presents regularly in academic and non-academic contexts. She co-founded the artist-led collective Active Ingredient in 1996 and the commercial games company Mudlark Production Company in 2007. Rachel co-produced a series of British-Brazilian projects in collaboration with Mobilefest and artist/curator Silvia Leal between 2007-2017, travelling regularly to Brazil to work with schools, artists, botanists and in the Mata Atlantica. She completed a Doctorate in Computer Science in 2014 and was a Research Fellow at Horizon Digital Economy 2017-2018, Visiting Research Fellow at the Manifest Data Lab, Central St Martins UAL between 2020-2022 and an Associate Lecturer in Information Systems Design at Birkbeck College in 2023. 

Her current artworks include leading the 30 year arts/research project ‘Future Machine & When the Future Comes‘, and ‘The Cabinet of Curious Places‘ a container of stories of change from five curious places across England. She is currently in the process of setting up the The Commons Residency Project in Finsbury Park, an arts, ecology and music residency in the park.

Rachel also facilitates workshops that help us imagine positive futures in response to climate and environmental change, in universities, schools and community groups. She will be starting a new series of public workshops ‘Creating the Future‘ in Finsbury Park, in October 2024.