Ninela Ivanova
Ninela Ivanova is an interdisciplinary designer and researcher who specialises in working co-creatively with people to educate and inspire audiences towards innovation, collaboration, and new futures on a personal, professional, and global scale. Ninela holds a...
Creative Leadership
Creative Leadership is central to innovation in the 21st Century and a growing area of research enquiry at The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) and for the RCA. The research is led by Rama Gheerawo, HHCD Director, who has brought together creative methods from...
Exploring the potential of convivial technologies and local stakeholder empowerment in different circular- speed fashion business models
The research is part of a new decentralized vision of the territories and takes part in the construction of new socio- technical models of circular economy, which seek to increase the environmental efficiency of processes, optimize the use of accessible resources and...
Keynote 12: Comfort Zones (Adam Drazin)
Comfort Zones - the challenges for design researchers using methodological frameworks from other disciplines Watch the recorded lecture Tuesday 29th May, 6.30pm Clattern Lecture Theatre, Kingston University Penrhyn Road Campus Reserve a place...
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad
Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad is a design practitioner, researcher and educator based in London. His studio practice produces work spanning the domestic and public realm, from neighbourhood plans and spaces to recipes, games, images and objects. Hashemi-Nezhad holds a...
Becoming Strangers: Defamiliarisation as Critical Research Method in Participatory Design
[slideshow_deploy id='2175'] The complex societal challenges of mass-urbanisation, ageing-population, migration and housing are just a few that exert pressure on the physical and social fabric of the built environment. Yet despite claims...
Experience of Machine Learning and Deep Learning
In Designerly Ways of Knowing, Nigel Cross states that there are things to know, ways of knowing them, and ways of finding out about them that are specific to the design area. The past few months I have followed Cross’ mantra while learning Machine Learning and...
Material Semantic Explorations
Materials form us and constitute the world around us, they carry in them an inherent symbolic and emotional expression. This semantic expression of a material is largely influenced by the social, geographical and the cultural context of the user. To find this out is...
First week at Cooper Hewitt Design Museum Smithsonian Fellowship, New York City
This was an exciting week as it marks the beginning of a Smithsonian Fellowship at Cooper Hewitt, the flagship US museum for historical and contemporary design. Cooper Hewitt has digitised its entire collection, more than 200,000 design objects, and I will be spending...
Training Needs Analysis
Please can all LDoc students complete the 2018/19 training needs analysis document: https://goo.gl/forms/iPGewpXsPj3rYsI73
Funding Extensions
Doctoral students funded by the AHRC through LDoc can apply to extend their funding beyond the normal 3 year full time period for placements, work experience, and skills development. Students may receive an extension at any time during their award as a result of an...
Keynote 10 Recording & Presentation
On 23rd November Professor Lorraine Gamman and Professor Adam Thorpe lead our tenth keynote lecture investigating what participatory design can contribute to participatory democracy. If you weren't able to attend, you can view the recording, and download the...