Carlotta Allum
Carlotta Allum is a practitioner, researcher and director and founder of the arts charity Stretch that works with prisoners and vulnerable groups in society. Her research is with the Design Against Crime Research Centre and Socially Responsive Design Hub who invited...
Communicating Change
Presencing Institute (PI), based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre for Organisational Learning, is an action research organisation focussed on systems change challenges using participative and awareness-based methods. A core method developed...
How can digital stories made by prisoners lead to their personal transformation?
Digital storytelling is a practice I have been facilitating for seven years with prisoners through my charity STRETCH. Encouraging people to tell their story, to re-biographise their lives creatively using the arts and making as starting points, gives people...
Fostering learner agency
I recently attended 3 days of training at Huntington Research Schools on 'Metacognition and Self-regulated learning', based on the new guidance report published by the Education Endowment Foundation. The training was very effective in developing my...
Symbiotic relationships in environments of change
The technical expertise related to the research has a steep learning curve and most of the relevant academic papers come from the field of Computer Science. Other publications from different areas of research have emerged but a significant number of these publications...
Design Facilitator
In Sept 2018 I attended the Design4Health conference at Lab4Living – Sheffield Hallam University. This conference has been running for the last 8 years – its aim being to explore ‘how design practice and processes meet the challenges of health and wellbeing in the...
Visualising the Royal Photographic Society Collection
This post was first published on the V&A blog in Aug 2018 and later on oliviavane.co.uk My PhD topic is designing timeline visualisations that offer new ways to explore cultural data. As cultural institutions like the V&A digitise their physical...
Design Research and Industry
Design, Research & Industry We would like to invite you to the 15th LDoc Keynote event with Richard Banks. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception to which all are welcome. Drawing on over a decade...
Designing Circular User Behaviours (DCUB)
Designing Circular Users Behaviours (DCUB) is a research project that explores the potential of experiential design in activating Circular Economy frameworks and policies (technical systems), in order to enable consumer goods brands to create products, services and...
Konstantinos Chalaris
Konstantinos is an educator, design researcher and practitioner, bridging academic research and industry practice with a particular interest in sustainable design. Konstantinos has been practising architecture and design since his graduation from the Royal...
LDoc at the London Design Festival
Design Research Evolution was an exhibition and events programme at London Design Festival 2018 organised by Doctoral Design researchers from University of the Arts London, Kingston University and Royal College of Art. From smart materials to skateboarding, and...
Another Land
(Image: Jane Madsen, Running at the Edge) 5 April – 29 June 2019 Private View 4 April 2019 6.30pm – 8.30pm Kingston Museum Wheatfield Way Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2PS Another Land is an exhibition and events programme, devised and produced by...