Material Activism: A practice-led enquiry into the role of design in the development of materials and its impact on their cyclability
This area of investigation has developed from a funding award I was granted: a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). This award enabled a design residency at Chalmers University of Technology and SP...
Visualising Lost Stories in Transient Landscapes
This practice-based research explores challenges in documenting physically shifting landscapes and considers audience engagement with lost sites in the 21st Century. Positioning contemporary illustration practice alongside, and in relationship to, humanity...
Using Data Visualisation to Explore Digitised Cultural Collections
Olivia’s research explores how interactive timelines can be used to make sense of cultural data (digitised museum, library and archive collections). Cultural institutions have become swamped by digital data. Digitising the objects, images and texts in their...
Design and social innovation: a critical analysis exploring the encounter between these two different organisational cultures
Starting from the acknowledgment of design as a socially constructed practice (Whitely 1993), which is understood and applied differently by participants, in different design contexts, I will investigate the role, the meaning and the impact of design when...
Dr Paul Micklethwaite
Dr Paul Micklethwaite is course director of MA Sustainable Design at Kingston University. His primary interests are in the impact of the sustainability (social and ecological) agenda on the theory and practice of design, and emerging modes of design practice such as...
Prof. Stephen Boyd Davis
Professor Stephen Boyd Davis leads staff research activities in the School of Design at the Royal College of Art. Originally a textile designer, Stephen has for many years been involved in the creative use of digital technologies, most recently in locative media where...
Prof. Jane Harris
Jane Harris is Professor of Digital Design and Innovation and Associate Dean of Research, LCF, UAL Her doctoral study (2000), established novel approaches to digital imaging design and creative computing disciplines, informed by an established textile and...
Designer Facilitator: The body as a meeting place for advancing collaborations between design and reconstructive surgical fields
Design Facilitator: The Body as a meeting place and materials as a medium for enhancing communication between breast reconstruction patients and surgeons. The landscape of design is becoming increasingly complex as it shifts towards applications within...
‘Developing an understanding of our personal research journey’
[slideshow_deploy id='793'] Lucy Russell on the June 2015 student led workshop ‘Together as a group we created an outline of what was wanted or needed to share our PhD research experiences and issues. The LDoc workshop day would also become a clear...
‘An exploratory & inspirational day’
LDoc students enjoyed a one day part-facilitated workshop, designed by the cohort of six students themselves to be 'an exploratory and inspirational day: to develop our ideas and to share our experiences and issues, with the aim to use outcomes directly for the...
Microsoft Research (MSR)
With eleven labs worldwide and more than 1,000 scientists and engineers working across multiple research areas, Microsoft Research (MSR) is one of the largest corporate research organisations in the world. While much of the work looks at both the computer and...
Design Council
The Design Council champions great design. As the UK Government’s advisor on design, we set the benchmark for promoting design nationwide. Our research and campaigns aim to show just how much intelligent, creative design can achieve. Established by Winston...