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Working from home or working in the office, what is safer?
New research looking at the health impact and air quality of working from home vs working in the office
New research about the indoor air quality performance of net-zero buildings in Latin America
Indoor Air Quality Assessment of Latin America’s First Passivhaus Home
Thermal comfort assessment of the first residential Passivhaus in Latin America
New peer-reviewed journal publication in the Journal of Building Engineering
The Value of a Co-Design Visualization Approach: Enhancing the Understanding of Local Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
New paper published online in The Design Journal
Creating Spaces for Collaboration in Community Co-design
New paper published in The International Journal of Arts & Design Education (iJADE)
Making it better together: a framework for improving creative engagement tools
New paper published in the CoDesign journal
Context-Aware Wearables – The last thing we need is a pandemic of stray cats
New paper published for alt.chi | CHI 2021
Must All Things Pass? Designing for the Afterlife of (Internet of) Things
Paper published in The State of Responsible IoT 2020: From Good Things to Good Systems
Using design fiction to think about food, data, AI and ethics
The good, the bad and the ugly of virtual conferencing:
experiences from the DRS2020 conference
Seafood AGE workshop with Active Minds at Blackpool Carers
The Times They are A-Changin: Design Research for a World in Flux
Planning, Designing and Facilitating Online Events with Zoom and Microsoft Teams
Design for pandemics: a database
Stranger than Design Fiction? NHSx and NHS Connect
What happens when a design fiction becomes a design reality?
Design Futures through Design Fiction
Research vsit to EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art de Barcelona.
Local Trade-Local Wealth prototype testing with ESTA
Local Trade is a Catalyst launch pad to create a system which records trading patterns within the local trading economy of Lancaster.
ImaginationLancaster presents innovative international urban health research at
the International Symposium on Urban Health and Wellbeing in the Asia-Pacific Region!
My two weeks at ImaginationLancaster
Two weeks flies by when you’re wading through a variety of literature on innovation, design, participation and every combination therein.
Co-design success
Funding Accelerator: Why Be Involved?
Project partners presentation and design considerations
One-to-one interviews with health professionals
Funding Accelerator – A Bid Writer’s Experience
Funding Accelerator – A Retrospective
Putting the FUN into Funding
Funding Accelerator – Bid Writing Retreat: Day Two
Funding Accelerator – Bid Writing Retreat: Day One
Funding Accelerator – Fifth Bid Writing Workshop
Funding Accelerator: Our fourth bid writing workshop
Living Room of the Future
Funding Accelerator: Our third bid writing workshop
Funding Accelerator: Our second bid writing workshop
Co-design for Health and Wealth: Bid Writing Workshops FAQ
Co-design for Health and Wealth: Masters in Design Management Project Workshop
Introduction to the Funding Accelerator : Co-design for Health and Wealth
Design Fiction and the Internet of Things
Our research using Design Fiction to consider futures for the Internet of Things is featured by IOTUK
House of Commons meeting on the Internet of Things and the Evolution of Smart Technologies
Pete Rai, Cisco, Mark Prisk MP and Rachel Cooper OBE, meet to explore the potential of connectivity posed by the continued growth of the Internet of Things...
One Voice to Rule them All
As part of our project on House Training the Internet of Things which contributes to the acceptability and adoption stream of PETRAS we have been consideri...
Exploring Capturing & Translating Member Engagement with Lancashire Care Trust Governors
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust provides health and wellbeing services such as health visiting, sexual health, and dentistry across Lancashire at over...
Tools Help School Pupils to Imagine University Life
Members of the Leapfrog team recently supported and ran workshops with pupils from local schools, Heysham High and Stepping Stones, a pupil referral primar...
Revisiting the Young Designers to tell them about their Amazing Tools
It’s been just over a year since Leapfrog has visited Child Action Northwest to spend time with the young co-designers we worked with for the Working with...
Derbyshire Matrix Tools Launched to 150 People
The Derbyshire Matrix tool was officially launched on Monday 6th February to 150 social workers, clinicians, police and fire offices, housing and environm...
Dr. Lawrence Boakye: G Up partner introduction
Efosa Osamudiamen: G Up project partner
G UP: Ghanaian specific design and innovation models
Working with manufacturing and high-tech company partners to co-design new, locally tailored innovation, design and training
Creative Process Workshop
Sarah Campbell from the V&A Museum joins the Leapfrog team to develop tools to help understand the creative process
How can emergent technologies help with our fight against dementia?
As emergent technologies and the UK government’s dementia policy mix and shape our futures what are the potential consequences and implications for people ...
Design students progress low carbon solutions in China
Leapfrog Young People’s Co-Design Residential
Dee Hennessy blogs about the recent two-day Leapfrog young people's co-design residential
A Leapfrog Co-Design Taster Session for Young People
Dee Hennessy writes about the co-design taster session she facilitated for a group of young people as part of the Leapfrog Project
ProtoPolicy Video Journey
Liveable Cities built environment audits begin in Lancaster
Researchers are collecting data on the condition of built environment features within different neighbourhoods
Guardian article about the value of design fiction in creating debate by asking what if questions
receives a lot of attention and comments from readers
Open innovation: Working Together
Guest Blog: Making Spaces for Democracy
Digital Installations in Hawkshead Church
The first ‘Ting’, democratic engagement and the danger of benevolent paternalism
Watch Out Design, Europe is Coming
Additive Manufacturing Workshop
Last month, the IDEAS for Impact project delivered a workshop that brought together people from all faculties of the university sharing interests and exper...
Is Apple’s iWatch the answer to a healthier and fitter lifestyle?
A video of the journey of Active Parks
2nd Active Parks Workshop Outcome
A shared vision and lots of great prototype activity ideas
Exploring ‘Services in the City’ – Design Jam No.2
PROUD Zoners in Use
Developing environmental sustainability strategies, the Double Diamond method of LCA and design thinking: a case study from aged care
Helsinki Masterclass: Engendering Empathy in Design Procurement
In collaboration with Jussi Sorsimo, Culminatum Innovation
Mobile Augmented Reality in the Cloud
Radical Design for Sustainability: Professor Stuart Walker at TEDx Brum
Radical Design for Sustainability: Professor Stuart Walker at TEDx Brum
Maximising Impact of EPSRC: Workshop for 60 academic and industry participants
Calling All Masters Of Co-Design a ‘reverse masterclass’ in Eindhoven
Co-Design Master class
Designing Knowledge Exchange – Lecture and Workshop in Dundee
PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings
PROUD ‘Beyond the Castle’ Interactive Co-Design Exhibition Launch
City Park Strategic Workshop
PROUD – Urban Culture in Helsinki
Will.i.am and Knowledge Exchange Toolkits
Playing with the Proud Identity
Region27 Co-Design for Public Policy
Design and Meaning
Design and Meaning
The Data Dimension at FutureEverything 2011
New User-Led Design Processes for Digital Fabrication
Looking at rapid manufacturing and 3D printing this conference presentation explores the issues fro the design profession and draws comparisons with the as...
Innovation vs. Design
There are many people, even colleagues who talk about innovation without any relationship to design at all (literary examples of this include the 600 page ...
High-Tempo Innovation
Like an elastic band, I keep returning to issues around innovation. I am in the process of writing a large bid (with many other academics) about the Digita...
Walking The Highwire – New Modes Of Interaction Between Academic Design Research and Business Engagement In UK
Attached here is a slideshow of a presentation I gave at the very excellent (but quite niche) FISCAR: Activity Theory and Design conference in Helsinki 201...