Ethnography of Contemporary Pottery Making
Craft researcher and LDoc student Giorgio Salani, University of the Arts London, received a funding award from the AHRC’s Student Development Fund (SDF) towards a period of work experience at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. Giorgio is conducting...
Design Research & Practice Through Collaboration in the Material Science Laboratory
LDoc PhD student Miriam Ribul, Textiles Environment Design, University of the Arts London, received a funding award from the AHRC’s Student Development Fund (SDF) towards a design residency in the material science laboratory at SP Technical Research Institute of...
Sonic Accessibility: Towards a Creative Understanding of Sound and Social Inclusion
In March 2016, Cambridge University hosted Design Engineering Management – a conference delivered by the Inclusive Design Research Centre at Tongji University, China and Cambridge Engineering Design Centre. The conference featured LDoc funded PhD student...
Dr Jo-Anne Bichard
Jo-Anne is a design anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, based at the Royal College of Art. She oversees the academic funded research at the centre. Her research has predominately focused on how users experience the built...
Designing for Services: Past Moments & Possible Futures
Dr Lucy Kimbell of the Innovation Insights Hub, UAL, gave the summer LDoc Keynote at UAL's London College of Fashion in central London on 10 May 2016. Watch the keynote here or on vimeo. Lucy Kimbell is Director, Innovation Insights Hub, University of...
Design Research in the Real World
A video of the talk is available here. Dr Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer of the Design Innovation Research Centre at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) gave the spring LDoc Keynote Lecture to an audience of postgraduate design students, academics and...
Will Renel
Will’s practice as an artist and designer emerges at the junctions between sound, interaction and social inclusion research. Will has worked with numerous academic, arts and charity organisations across the UK, is the co-founder of interactive performance company Loki...
Sonic Inclusion: charting the sonically inclusive principles of creative urban environments through the ‘auraldiversity’ paradigm
Sonic Inclusion: charting the sonically inclusive principles of creative urban environments through the ‘auraldiversity’ paradigm Historically, sound and human hearing have received little attention in the design of urban spaces and places, particularly...
Design Ethnography Workshop
At the beginning of November 2015, LDoc Cohort 2 students participated in a three-day workshop held at Chelsea College of Art and Design. During the first day of the workshop, students were introduced to the area of Design Ethnography by Dr Jo-Anne Bichard. After...
A Design Ethnographer in an Innovation Nation: The Scottish Approach to Government
Dr Cat Macauley, Head of User Research & Engagement at the Scottish Government, gave the LDoc Keynote at RCA Kensington on 4 November. Watch the keynote here on Vimeo. Cat Macaulay is a design ethnographer and Head of User Research and Engagement at...
Growing Wearable Technology
Growing Wearable Technology: Can Collaborative Fashion, Art, Science and Technology (FAST) Practice be Read and Understood as Metamodernism and Biodesign? Can the new wave of wearable technology companies with an environmental conscience; artists and...
Jack Champ
Jack Champ is a designer, researcher and photographer based in Brighton. He studied architecture at undergraduate and then at masters level at Brighton University, gaining experience in designing for marginalised groups. During his final thesis project he worked...