PROUD - ImaginationLancaster

PROUD is a €4.8 million euro, 3 year project funded by the EU INTERREG programme. It stands for People, Researchers and Organisations Using Design for Co-Creation and Innovation.

Lead in the UK by Dr. Leon Cruickshank, this project uses new co-design processes as a knowledge exchange mechanism. These will be used to address regional issues with partners across Northern Europe including Paris, Eindhoven, Lancaster, Essen and Helsinki.

In the UK, working with academic, business and social communities Imagination and Lancaster’s Storey Institute will create a new co-design space in the heart of the city with advanced rapid prototyping facilities and imagination space in the university. The new techniques and approaches we develop will be shared with our partners looking at their own regional challenges (e.g. social housing, new business models or urban regeneration).

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Helping the Public Sector be more creative an experts’ workshop at Dutch Design Week

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After using the zoners in their original form at a few public events, Helen Ryan, Public Realm Development Manager from Lancaster City Council found that some extra features would be useful

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Imagination is looking for someone interested in exploiting the potential of social media to share information and promote collaboration as part of a new project called Leapfrog. This 3 year £1.25million AHRC project will explore how we can help more people be more creative and collaborative with a focus on the public sector

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A workshop for the European Union sponsored Design Days event

Proud Beyond the Castle at Synergize 2014

With presentations from Charles Leadbetter and Liz Sanders preceding our presentation we could not have asked for a better platform for us to talk about the Proud Beyond the Castle project and how this relates to the wider Synergize conference

Engaging With Design, a Confessional

We were invited to deliver a workshop hosted by the Creativity Team within the Scottish Government, who are responsible for organisational development, leadership and learning. The workshop aimed to explore the value design can bring to public sector activities

Beyond the Castle secures Heritage Lottery Funding

Lancashire County Council received the news they’d been waiting for in securing £59,000 for the Heritage Lottery ‘Our Heritage’ Fund (HLF) for an 18 month programme of learning and engagement activities for the fascinating site explored in the PROUD co-design challenge ‘Beyond the Castle’

International Masterclass: Communities and Co-Design

Working with a group of highly experienced co-designers, group leaders and facilitators, this high level masterclass in Eindhoven explored the nature of excellent group working and facilitation

International Masterclass: Co-Design For Public Services

How should public sector workers approach co-design to get the maximum benefit? In collaboration with Lancaster City Council Imagination delivered a masterclass to senior public sector workers in Luxembourg

Generations of Co-Design

Contrasting perspectives on Co-Design from the industrial heartlands of Germany to the vibrant new landscape of Cape Town, World Design Capital

Design for Societal Challenges. PROUD Forum at the Red Dot Design Museum in Essen, 8th May 2014

In the final year of PROUD, our Essen partner the Red Dot Design Museum is hosting the PROUD forum. This international forum aims to explore how design as a discipline reacts to social change, presenting the new tools, methods and thought processes used, and together assess their potential in terms of their productive and social value

Co-Design Futures

Exploring the values and implications of co-design approaches at the PROUD Forum

“Think about co-design every 15 minutes!”

It was a well timed opportunity to participate in PROUD FORUM in Germany

Design can change the world

(but it needs to work with others disciplines!)

PROUD Knowledge Exchange Manifesto

The PROUD team were keenly aware that our contribution to the CX enabled us to engage with some of the leading international experts in creative knowledge exchange

PROUD Zoners in Use

Working with Groups

Making it Fun, Effective and Collaborative

Wanted: Co-Design Mentors, Designers and Illustrators

The PROUD Project at ImaginationLancaster is developing FaceMooc, a 5 week online course for design professionals that wish to develop and share expertise in co-design. To support this we are seeking several professionals to create co-design course content, illustrate a unique digital certificate and mentor participants

Tools for Creative Consultation Dissemination Events

The UK PROUD team were aware that through the project so far we have developed a number of highly transferable and useful knowledge exchange tools

Co-Design: Fundamental Issues and Guidelines for Designers: Beyond the Castle Case Study

Grand Co-Design Cafe in Eindhoven – A Great Experience

Lancaster University and Lancaster City Council: A Day at the Grand Co-Design Café

Lancaster University and Lancaster City Council present their Co-Design of Consultation Tools project at high profile gathering of co-design masters in Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week

PROUD Transnational Masterclass on Creative Facilitation

As preparation for the Knowledge Exchange Conference at Lancaster University in September, the PROUD project arranged for our keynote speaker for the conference Marc Tassoul (TU Delft) event to run a masterclass on creative facilitation on the day before the conference

PROUD Design Innovation Hubs Research Visit to Belgium

Three Design Management students elected to work with the PROUD project to design a Modular Business Plan for Design Innovation Hubs for their final Masters thesis. The outcomes of their research will benefit PROUD partners who have invested in the creation of Design Innovation Hubs for their region and are seeking ways to make the hubs financially sustainable in the long term

Laser Cutting Masterclass

Laser cutters are extremely useful pieces of equipment and we use the PROUD laser cutter at least a few times a week. There is a danger though that they are used in only a basic way just to cut things

PROUD Partner Meeting in Luxembourg

Disaster struck on arrival at Brussels airport when we were informed there was a baggage handler strike and that we should not reply on getting our luggage until the end of the week. After an epic journey by rail and an emergency shopping trip to a mall to buy some essentials we settled down to the partner meeting which was held at Technoport, a newly regenerated area which includes new university buildings and space for business and a FabLab, all set within in a now defunct steelworks landscape

Calling All Masters Of Co-Design a ‘reverse masterclass’ in Eindhoven

Co-Design Master class

A day of ideas – Designing tools for creative public consultation

Attracting people to public consultation events and convincing people their input can make a real difference are challenges Helen Ryan regularly faces in her role as Public Realm Officer for Lancaster City Council

Designing Knowledge Exchange – Lecture and Workshop in Dundee

Creative Co-Design Tools – Excellent Student project

MA Design Management student makes significant new contribution to the design of knowledge exchange and consultation tools

Beyond the Castle – Imagining the Future

PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings

PROUD ‘Beyond the Castle’ Interactive Co-Design Exhibition Launch

The Fundamentals of Co-Design: A PROUD Master Class

When the UK contingent of PROUD suggested we deliver a master class on Co-Design we knew we were in for an interesting developmental journey

Lets Do it together: Co-Design Practices

Dutch design week is fast becoming one of the highlights of the global design calendar highlights

Proud and Future Morecambe

A new approach to open to all citizen-led innovation, a hectic Saturday morning in Morecambe

City Park Strategic Workshop

Beyond the Castle

The new design team for the City Park co-design challenge came together for the first time this week and renamed the co-design project to 'Beyond the Castle'

PROUD – Urban Culture in Helsinki

PROUD Partner Meeting in Helsinki World Design Capital 2012

The World Design Capital designation is a unique city promotion project that celebrates the accomplishments of cities that have used design as a tool to reinvent themselves and improve social, cultural and economic life

As one of the leading thinks in the field, Peter lead a workshop with PhD students on the nature, restrictions and future of Open Design

PROUD launch Lancaster Co-design Challenge

The PROUD project officially launched in the UK on Tuesday 8th May at ImaginationLab. Over 100 people from business, academic, government and local communities came to hear how co-design is being used to solve complex societal challenges in Lancashire and across Northern Europe

PROUD launches at ImaginationLab on the 8th May

We are pleased to announce an open invitation to the launch of the PROUD project at ImaginationLab on the 8th May. Keynote speaker is Stéphane Vincent, founder of the French innovation lab La 27e Région, a laboratory for the co-design of public policy

The PROUD Sensitising Event ‘City Park’ Workshop at The Storey

An event at the Storey Creative Industries Centre to turn project consultation in the start of a co-design process. Here people started to design the intervention process for the next 6 months

PROUD and Co-Design for Local Councillors

Proud sensitising event with the elected members of Lancaster City Council

PROUD seeks Designers and Creatives

Lancaster University is seeking to procure a pool of designers to work closely with the PROUD project team to develop innovative co-design interventions to address local co-design challenges, broadly looking at place, product and service design

Proud Master Classes Taking shape

The Master Class work package that Lancaster are leading as part of the Proud project took a big step forward recently with structures, techniques and topics fixed at a meeting in Eindhoven hosted by Capital D with Designregion Kortrijk from Belgium also in attendance

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