World-class design research and knowledge exchange

An emerging generation of design researchers

Cross-institution specialist design research training and knowledge exchange

Process, material, making, manufacture and theoretical practices

LDoc Students’ Manifesto

LDoc Students’ Manifesto

         The LDoc Manifesto, created by our first cohort of LDoc students, was presented as four posters at the 'Research Practices in Art & Design' PhD Exhibition, which ran from 15–19 June in the Platform Gallery, Knights Park, Kingston University.

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Designing Out Crime Association

Designing Out Crime Association

Formed in 1999, DOCA has focused on promoting safer communities and reducing anti-social behaviour by improving the quality of life through the concept, application, sharing and practice of designing out crime and its principles. Crime Prevention Through Environmental...

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The Victoria & Albert Museum

The Victoria & Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is the world's leading museum of art and design. It was established after the 1851 Great Exhibition with the radical, utilitarian and entrepreneurial aim of educating and inspiring the public. The Museum holds many of the UK's...

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Our Partners

Our Partners

The LDoc programme benefits from links with our industry partners, which include key institutions and business organisations.  This offers our students unparalleled opportunities for research, knowledge exchange and public engagement with the creative economy and...

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Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd

Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd

                    1 & 2.  1984 World’s first creation of visible 3D light forms at the EdF laboratories France (Jean-Louis Lhermitte, François Bastien and Ian Ritchie) 3. 1994-2002 Molecular 'doping' of Na glass to limit crack propagation (with Prof Greaves,...

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Sense

Sense

Sense is a charity that offers services and support to people who have combined visual and hearing impairment. We aspire to a society that offers high quality accessible design across a wide range of contexts including fashion, products and architecture....

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Design for Growth and Prosperity

Design for Growth and Prosperity

Professor Rachel Cooper of Lancaster University gave the third LDoc Keynote Lecture to an audience of postgraduate design students, academics and practitioners. The lecture took place on 18 June 2015 at the Royal College of Art, London.   Watch the video here.  ...

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Design Ethnography Workshop

Design Ethnography Workshop

  LDoc Students took an active part in a three day workshop at RCA and environs in Nov 2014, exploring Design Ethnography  with Dr Jo-Anne Bichard,  Senior Research Fellow, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, RCA; Dr Paul  Micklethwaite, Senior Reseach Fellow, Design...

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Geoff Grandfield

Geoff Grandfield

Associate Professor Geoff Grandfield is Course Director for BA Illustration Animation at Kingston University in parallel with being an award-winning illustrator who has worked with major international clients since 1987. After graduating from Royal College of Art his...

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