Upcoming co-creation workshops & guided walks in Kilburn, London
We are looking for participants who are familiar with Kilburn area. Get away from your normal routine and come along to have lunch and share your stories a...
An MoU For Our Futures
Memorandum of Understanding signed between Lancaster University and Lancaster City Council
Good Place Innovators
Transforming communities through placed-based inter-connectivity between enterprise and design
Conservation of Climate Change Endangered Cultural Furniture Industry Heritage in Damietta, Egypt
Scan the QR code to find out more about efforts to protect the craft furniture industry of Damietta in Egypt in light of environmental and structural chang...
Conversations with Imagination
we have a new podcast, come check it out
Located Making film
Located Making focuses on purposeful goods whose design, production and use are strongly related to the heritage, culture or geography of place. In this sh...
P-PITEE Project Roundup
Growing together: Public engagement and guerrilla gardening events
Creative West End Christmas Market and Guerrilla gardening in strategic places in the West End Morecambe
What on Earth is the internet?
Making the intangible consequences of data choices tangible
Invitation to The University of Twente
Connecting Research with Entrepreneurship Ecosystems.
A partnership is forged between ImaginationLancaster and Stanbic Bank’s Accelerate in Botswana.
Growing together project: Third workshop – 31/10/21
Reflections from the fieldwork activities
Micro-garden regular meet up 13/10/21 & 28/10/21
Two Funded PhD Studentships available
Reducing health inequalities through embedding community participation and co-production in public health systems
Designing for health
Working with international design researchers to improve health and healthcare in Latin America
Opening for Business Soon!
The Repair Shop 2049: Exploring the Role of Physical-Digital Technologies in Shaping Future Local Sustainable Repair Ecosystems
ImaginationLancaster and the Latin American Passivhaus Institute sign a Memorandum of Understanding
Second workshop: exploring ‘thriving’ in plants, gardens, and in people
Reflections from the fieldwork activities
Micro-garden regular meet up 22/09/21
Micro-garden regular meet-up 08/09/21
Experiencing AI: more-than-human
Future Mundane @ Liverpool World Museum
Growing together project: First workshop
Reflections from the fieldwork activities
Lancaster and Sunway Universities appoint Imagination’s Emmaneul Tsekleves as the new co-director of the Future Cities Research Institute
Invitation as a guest editor for ‘Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality’
ImaginationLancaster interdisciplinary researcher invited as guest editor
LatamHaus workshop program
Workshop invitation
Hunting with Imagination
P-PITEE Launch
Developing policies and tools for transparent, ethical and secure IoT
Making Life Better by Design
Professor Nick Dunn appointed as an Ambassador to the Design Council
Design for Policy workshops for ECRs, design researchers and policymakers
Policy and Population
Strategy and Research Plans for 2021
Flourish
ImaginationLancaster Design Summit Series 2021
Mapping feasibility with stakeholders on Miro: a new prototype research method for Seafood AGE
Imagination Films Premiere
The launch of a series of new short films which capture the essence of the spirit of Imagination
Mobilise! 2 project starts
World Economic Forum Highlight Imagination research on Sustainable Internet of Things
WEF State of Connected World 2020 Edition
The productive city as a generator of wealth
UK IEG Committee
Invitation as co-opted ordinary committee member
Health Innovation Campus & ImaginationLancaster – Design for COVID19 Signage
Installation of COVID 19 & Data Collection Commences
Seoul International Design Forum 2020 – COVID19 Design Response
Design For Social Resilience Post COVID - November 6th 2020 - Seoul
Health Innovation Campus – Design Team Development for Signage Installation
Work begins on Iterations of the Algorithm Generated Signage Guidance
Open Source COVID19 Signage Pack
Signage Pack available for download
Dark Skies Protector
Official custodian of night skies for future generations
Re-shaping the Historic City: Project update
The Memory of the city
Under Construction
Building a caravan of the future during a pandemic
Video of DRS2020 Presentation now available
of paper on the Challenges & Opportunities in Applying Design Research in the Global South
Designing Legible AI
DRS2020 Conversation session draws challenges and opportunities for design research on Global Health in light of COVID-19
Designing research ecosystems at DRS2020
The Percent Evaluation method at DRS2020
Exploring ‘living materials’ with adaptive behaviours
AHRC Design Challenges of the Future 2020
Final Reports
Future in Lockdown
Mixed Reality Lab Update from Tom Lodge
Project in a Box
Generative Social Distancing Lab – Media Coverage
Media coverage from the region and beyond
On Site – Generative Social Distancing Lab @ Storey
On Site and Collecting Data
Our Virtual Picnic June 2020
Adventures in Design Research
Reflection on DisCO pilot studies
AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship
Generative Social Distancing – Design Team Development
Testing plastic sheet PPE alternative to rigid transparent acrylic for social distancing implementation @ The Storey, Lancaster
Participation Invitation – Chatty Factories Study
Partner funding success
Funding success for one of our partners
Dr Joseph Lindley Awarded Future Leaders Fellowship
Socio-Technical Design Research for 21st Century Technologies
Loading the Future Mundane …
Initial experts meeting for Experiencing the future mundane project
Creative tools freely available to engage research participants in WASH and AMR research
Rebuilding the World | ENSAP-Bx
A two-day workshop on Participatory Architecture & Co-design
Exploring Innovation Ecosystems in Botswana
Visualising innovation networks in Africa
Researching AI Legibility through Design
Using icon design to explore the issues around widespread adoption of AI
Beyond Imagination Project
Local Trade-Local Wealth NFC cards
Local Trade – Local Wealth NFC cards.
Check out the Liveable Cities video archive!
As a result of a 3-day Communication Symposium held in March 2017 in Lancaster, Liveable Cities has produced a series of informative videos.
Living Room of the Future at Tate Modern
A new version of the Living Room of the Future (LRofTF) was presented at Tate Modern on the 8th and 9th of February as part of the PETRAS living in the Int...
ImaginationLancaster and Sunway University have been awarded an international grant
to empower local communities and Government in Malaysia in addressing social issues in ageing
Funding Accelerator: Updates Dec 2018
Design PhD students to coordinate International Workshop Sessions at ADIM 2019 conference
Funding Accelerator: Take Up Space Success
ImaginAging represented in the recent Social Innovation Live Asia
on October 8-9, 2018 at ImpactHub Kuala Lumpur
Workshop at Petrosains explores interface between science and society
Cleaning & hygiene practices survey in Ghana completed
ImagingAging at a Making and Doing Session at the Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney
Living Room of the Future at V&A
We will be presenting a new version of the AHRC funded research project Objects of Immersion in the form of the Living Room of the Future with BBC R&D as p...
One-to-one interviews and co-design workshops
with persons aged 50+ living in single occupancy homes
Power, protest and place in Delhi, India
Lancaster University headed to Dehli to facilitate a workshop on contentious spaces
Successful urban obesity workshops in Malaysia
ReTHINK: Policy Identification Workshop
with Government and NGO stakeholders at Sunway University
Developing speculative concepts with experts and policy makers
Better Cities Through Participatory Design
workshop in Malaysia
Speculative Design Workshops identify themes for future research on health ageing
and speculative design concepts
ImaginAging work to be presented in Sydney
at the 4S - TRANSnational Science and Technology Studies conference
Presenting speculative design at Future Earth Early Career Researchers Futures Workshop
at the British Academy produced innovative future scenarios
New team tools co-designed with libraries
Tool sharing with Cilip: The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Reporting on Patient Experience at Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Leapfrog is working closely with Rebecca Addey, a Paediatric Patient Experience Officer at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and her colleagues as part of the Ri...
Imagination went to play in CeMoRe Away Day
The convergences of Cemore's interest on playful methods with the design ethos of Imagination were too many to let pass an opportunity for meaningful conve...
TEDx talk on designing our cities to be playful is now available online
The TEDx talk on the role of playfulness in promoting playful behaviours is now part of the TEDx database
TEDx Talk on the role of playfulness in promoting healthier behaviours
proved a great success inspiring many
Co-designing research with people with Parkinson’s
Featured on Parkinson's UK website
Workshop on AMR and domestic hygiene practices in Ghana
helps develop AHRC proposal
PhD Studentships related to Design for the Internet of Things
Presentations at Alzheimer Europe Conference
attract a lot of attention
Best Paper Award for Cooper and Boyko
Rachel Cooper and Christopher Boyko received the Best Paper Award 2016 in Urban Design and Planning journal
Dementia Futures workshop at Age UK Blackburn
paves the way for new design fictions
What If? workshop at Age UK HQ
exploring dementia futures using design fictions
Presentation on design fictions for digital healthcare receives attention at eHealth conference
Lancaster University students have scooped first prize at the final of the national Santander Big Ideas competition
Workshop to Design Storytelling Machines
New ways of telling stories
Leapfrog Young Designers Celebration Event
Since October last year, Leapfrog has been working with a group of young people to co-design tools to make sure adults in authority hear their voices
Design Fiction: The Movie
New EPSRC Project illustrating Imagination Research in Design Fiction
Exploring the value of creative engagement and consultation
Leapfrog presented at a workshop led by the Public Collaboration Lab – an AHRC funded research partnership between London Borough of Camden and University ...
Sharing Tools to Engage Young People with over 50 Engagement Professionals
Leapfrog held a large, interactive tool sharing event at Lancaster University to close the Major Project 'Working with Young People' and share the tools th...
Leapfrog Summer School, 4 – 8th July 2016 | Call for Participation
The Leapfrog Team invite Early Career Researchers (ECR) from across the Arts and Humanities to participate in a Summer School from the 4th– 8th July 2016...
New tools for engaging with young people
Young Designers become Young Newspaper Editors
Since we designed tools with a group of eleven young people in November last year, Laura has been putting together a newspaper that contains the tools and ...
Imagine Iriss
Leapfrog Co-Designers See the Finished Tools for the First Time
Invited talk at the U3A Learn, Laugh, Live event
about the importance of play in later life
New Leapfrog Tools Shared with Local Charities
This morning Leapfrog Research Associate, Laura visited a small group of charity volunteers at their offices in Lancaster to share with them inform...
Tips on Non Tokenistic Youth Engagement
A critical part of Leapfrog’s first major research project is the phase where we will facilitate a co-design process with young people aged 13-17. To prepa...
Integrating Research into the Co-Design Process
A Research Dimensions plan for the research that will take place throughout the Working with Young People major project for Leapfrog has been produced
Open Innovation Platform Case Studies
Six open innovation platform case studies have been written for the OpTex project, which cover Fab Labs, Facemooc, LEGO Ideas, MIT Media Lab, .Net Gadgetee...
Urban Design for Promoting Community Public Health
Paper presented at the 11th Design & Health World Congress
ProtoPolicy Design Fictions presented at Westminster
The event marked the lunch of the ProtoPolicy Design Fictions
New TimeTape tool for Planning
The TimeTape tools are rolls of paper tape printed with different divisions of time, including a working day and a working week to help groups plan activit...
Seeking applicants for Senior Research Associate position on the Liveable Cities project
Interested in making cities more liveable? Have a background in urban design, architecture or design management? This job might be for you!
V&A Keynote talk on Playful Design in Healthcare
receives a lot of attention during the Sackler conference on Art, Design and New Technology for Health
New tools available on the Collaboration and Impact Toolbox
The IDEAS for Impact project recently added two new free downloadable tools to the Collaboration and Impact Toolbox website
Interesting design micro-fictions emerge from our 1st co-design workshop
with a group of older people and Age UK Lancashire
Using Open Innovation to Develop Inexpensive, Sustainable Fast Fashion and Other Possibilities with the OpTex project
The OpTex project started in earnest recently with a scoping workshop held in the fabulous INNVENTIA laboratories in Stockholm. In this project Imagination...
Survey Innovation Practices
Official launch of our survey – Collaboration with Innovate UK
Keynote by Dorothy Mackenzie
Envisioning the Circular Economy: the role of design in focusing on future opportunities
Keynote by Sara Parkin OBE
Sustainability Literacy in Life and Design
Working With Young People: Universal Challenges?
There seems to be an emerging case that some challenges of engaging with young people are universal, across all types of engagement, from one-to-one workin...
Tracking Inspiration at the V&A
Following the 'Fostering Creativity' workshop for the V&A Museum, IDEAS for Impact has produced a tool for tracking the team's inspiration
We are Recruiting: Collaborative Web App Developer
Farewell to Fusion
Imagination says goodbye to the hugely successful Fusion project
We are recruiting!
Service Design for Innovation (SDIN) is now seeking 9 outstanding Early Stage Researchers (ESR)
Helping Early Career Academics Write Bids
IDEAS for Impact Contributes to OED's Proposal Writing Day
Co-designing musical instruments
reveals insights on user participation
Digital Tools at the AHRC 4-hubs Event
Sharing and debating policy challenges for the AHRC, UK Universities and the UK Government using collaborative digital tools
Speculative Game Design
Last week I gave a talk to the Computer Arts Society that presented a design manifesto for using games as speculative designs through which players might ...
Mobile Game Player Testing
As part of a research project based in Imagination we have been working on a game called COLD SUN and we are now seeking people to play the game over the ...
Voting for the design theme to work with
and the winner is: Other Bother
PROUD Zoners Re-Visited
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 s...
Co-designing the perfect garden
in a most playful way
IDEAS for Impact Tools are part of Democratic Renewal in Scotland
The IDEAS for Impact project developed and delivered a workshop on democratic renewal for the Scottish Government this month
A playful workshop for ageing playfully
with our senior co-designers enjoying themselves
Great mad inventions and design themes
emerged in our first co-design workshop
Businesses pitch international R&D projects to students
Lancaster China Catalyst Programme Businesses meet masters Students on the MSc International Innovation program to develop International R&D projects
CEDE Church featured in the Church Times
The CEDE installations at St Peter's De Beauvoir Town Church have been cited in relation to the argument for WiFi to be installed in every Church of Englan...
Non-Written Consultation tools move from participant ideas into working prototypes
Following on from the Tools for Non-written consultation short project, we gained feedback from partners and are refining selected tools for development
Leapfrog Springs into Action!
The £1.2 million AHRC project launches with a week long workshop and community consultation project drawing together partners from Lancashire with researc...
Ethics of Data
BBC R&D video released for European Data Protection Day
PhD Presentations Call
The Design PhD Conference 2015 was pleased to invite proposals for presentations
Time for a New Year’s home energy resolution
Have you thought about a New Year's home energy resolution?
Do You Have Problems Using Your Arm as A Result Of a Stroke?
If so, we need you! We are recruiting for our study at Brunel University London
Dorothy Mackenzie
Keynote Speaker announced: Dorothy Mackenzie
Co-Design Facemooc
Over 5 weeks during November and December 2014 the PROUD team delivered ‘Facemooc’ an innovative, online course in co-design. The first of its kind to uti...
Digital Empathy Project on BBC Click
The interactive systems we developed as part of our project on Digital Empathy for St Peter De Beauvoir Town Church in Hackney are featured on BBC Click
Skills in Action – presenting Creative Exchange Superheroes
A core strand of the work we do at Creative Exchange is looking how knowledge exchange can be incorporated into the training of doctoral students and early...
European Design Days – Brussels
Understanding the network of studies related to our project “Design Value: The Role of Design in Innovation”
Come and work with us! Funded PhD in Social Media research
Imagination is looking for someone interested in exploiting the potential of social media to share information and promote collaboration as part of a new p...
Meeting at Business Design Centre
Kick off meeting of our project "Design Value: The Role of Design in Innovation"
Conference Venue
The LICA Building
Conference Poster Exhibition
Submissions to the Conference Poster Exhibition have now closed
Sara Parkin OBE
Personas provide key insights on home energy use
and people's emotional connection with electric appliances
Active Parks presented in two international conferences
receiving a lot of attention and positive feedback
Northern Futures ‘Open Ideas Day’
Imagination Lancaster hosts 'open ideas' day to generate future visions for the North
Design Days – What is Co-Design Anyway
A workshop for the European Union sponsored Design Days event
BARTER Project goes Open Source
The code base produced as part of the BARTER project is being released Open Source so that other communities can benifit from the research
Co-Design FaceMooc
A creative, supportive and collaborative learning experience, aimed at equipping and improving your co-design knowledge, skills and contacts
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 th...
Exploring future models of Executive Education in Design Management
Design Management Institute Workshop, by Dr Emma Murphy and Dr Naomi Jacobs
What did people make of the interactive xylophone concept?
Watch a video of people's thoughts and feedback
First completed ‘energy use calendars’ back from the field
Initial thoughts and themes emerging
Birmingham case study research finished
Liveable Cities researchers finish collecting data on condition of built environment features in neighbourhoods using app
Interactive Xylophone musically dominates Lancaster’s city centre for a day
receiving great attention from locals and visitors
Amazing and Disastrous Group Work
Honest insights into the challenges and benefits of group work were shared by local government officers across Lancashire, all who have elements of public ...
Creative and playful ways for collecting user data
Using arts, crafts and Lego to creating enticing generative interview probes
Article about density & design published in The Guardian
Misunderstanding density: Why we are building the wrong sort of cities
Survey on Design for Service Innovation and Development
DeSID is a 6-months research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, investigating the role of Design for Service Innovation and Develo...
Creative Lounge Peep Board Tool
IDEAS for Impact offer support and help design tools for a CX event
Playfulness is Ageless!
Watch our video of people interacting with the Xylophone in the park
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, lea...
Having fun with the interactive xylophone in the park
and lots of exercise too
Designing playful interactions for stroke survivors
Invited talk given at the stroke rehabilitation and technology at the Royal Society of Medicine
Piloting the interactive xylophone in the park
People had lots of fun with this!
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 ...
Playful energy use calendar
Available and ready to be distributed to a number of participants
Making of our first proof-of-concept prototype
Interactive Xylophone prototype: music, fun and exercise in the park
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 ex...
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 master...
Augmented Reality Art
Using augmented reality to curate your own art exhibitions
Participant Recruitment for “Behaviours that Stick” is now open
Take part in a fun and creative study and win up to £50 in gift vouchers
New Masters puts students’ skills to the test in China
A ground-breaking new Masters programme from Lancaster University gives students the opportunity to work on high-impact business projects that develop coll...
Television in the Internet of Things
How will traditional media such as television and radio adapt as they become part of a larger Internet of Things
Kick off meeting for DeSID
Kick off meeting for DeSID at the Design Council
Support Available for Collaborative Research Projects
The IDEAS for Impact project has time and funding to support collaborative research projects at Lancaster University
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
Health & Wellbeing in the City Design Jam
1st Active Parks Workshop successfully completed
A most engaging and fun to have participated in co-design workshop
Get your hands inside some wearable tech
We are recruiting field trial pilot participants for a shiny new bit of wearable tech
ServDes 2014 has now started!
Welcome everybody to ServDes 2014; the conference is now officially ‘open’
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 ...
A hacktastick experience!
Numbers that Matter Hackathon
ServDes.2014 conference programme now available
The programme is now available for the ServDes.2014 conference in April
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 ...
We’re recruiting a Design and Innovation Manager
We are building an international team, with hubs in both the UK and China and are seeking to recruit a Design and Innovation Manager to embed design driven...
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
Imagination launches a new project to support excellent, high impact research across Lancaster University
Ideas for Impact is a Lancaster University project to support academics across the University in conducting excellent research with significance to the ou...
Early-Bird Registrations soon to end for ServDes2014
Last few days of eligibility for 'Early-Bird' registrations available. The deadline to obtain discounted prices for ServDes 2014 ends on 25 February 2014
Design for Europe – Development of the European Design Innovation Platform
Following the announcement of €3.8m EU funding to build the European Design Innovation Platform, the consortium starts work and plans its launch event in B...
How to Win in the Age of Now?
An Inspirational Masterclass delivered by the Worldwide CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi, Kevin Roberts on Monday 10th of February
Can we build more enjoyable cities?
For blind and partially sighted people, just navigating around a city can leave them feeling tired, anxious and vulnerable. Can technology make it a seamle...
Liveable Cities mobilities and wellbeing focus groups begin in Lancaster
Three mobilities and wellbeing focus groups took place in Heysham, Morecambe and Lancaster during the week of 1 December 2014... with one more to go
Services in the City (Open Data) Design Jam
China Catalyst Programme Planning
Imagination designed, organised and hosted a five-hour workshop for the Lancaster China Catalyst Programme (LCCP) on the 13th of January 2014. The aim of t...
ServDes 2014 papers selected
The final selection of papers for ServDes 2014 is now complete!
Design Council announce €3.8 million EU fund to build the European Design Innovation Platform
Design Council announced that it will be leading a consortium to deliver the European Design Innovation Platform (EDIP) with Lancaster University as key pa...
Initial User Experience Testing for Mobile Augmented Reality App
Making in the City [3D Printing] Design Jam
Making in the City [3D Printing], offered a successful and acclaimed introduction to the series of Cities Design Jams, by the Imagination team at Lancaster
Making in the City [3D Printing] – Crossing Boundaries
Co-creation through intense collaborative activity...Hexagons and Lego leading innovative 'thinking'
Imagination is key to rethinking creative and successful collaboration in the North
Forty-five arts and humanities practitioners, academics and funding partners gathered at a N8 event in Lancaster to participate in a workshop that explored...
2nd and 3rd Prototype tests for the Zoners
In discussion with Helen, after the 1st test we decided not to design a cover for the metal ground pins available at the Council
Final handover of the Creative Consultation Tools
This project presented both a significant challenge and a distinct learning curve. However, the final products are the strong and successful result of the ...
Refining the tools for production – Successes, tricky decisions and compromises
The successes at this point included progress made on the commenters. We had refined the notch design to ensure the shapes were a usable size which didn’t ...
The Knowledge Exchange: 26 and 27 September ImaginationLancaster
I say Oh la la! What a challenge and what fun!
Making in the City (3D Printing) Design Jam
Bringing London-based digital and creative small and medium businesses together to create innovate concepts for cities
Built environment audits started
Liveable Cities researchers begin collecting data on condition of built environment features in neighbourhoods using app
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 Ei...
DeEP returns to London for the 5th Consortium meeting – September 2013
The Work Foundation welcomes back the DeEP Consortium
Tools Prototype Test
With the prototypes and designs ready for testing, the full project team met to review the progress. We gave a re-cap of the work completed so far, talking...
Physical Tools
The Knowledge Exchange conference was conceived as having three distinct phases and each one of these would have a different feel. With the final morning w...
Communication and KE Tools at The Knowledge Exchange Conference
Useful, well-designed communication and tools played an important role in the interactions taking place at the Knowledge Exchange conference
Conference Photographs on Flickr
Conference Toolbox Overview
Developing the Prototypes
Since the last meeting, the process of generating ideas, developing and producing tools the team can experiment and play with has moved quickly and yielded...
A Keynote without words
Marc Tassoul delivered a unique keynote at as part of The Knowledge Exchange conference using sounds rather than words
Reflections on The CX Conference
Some academics know how to dress!
Evening Panel Event at The Knowledge Exchange
The final event on the Thursday of The Knowledge Exchange conference was a panel session held at the Storey Institute in Lancaster
Presenting a Paper at The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference
Naomi Jacobs, Senior Research Associate on The Creative Exchange reflects on the presentation of her paper titled 'Measuring Knowledge Exchange' at The Kno...
Coffee House Discussions
Using coffee houses in The Knowledge Exchange Conference as a comfortable location for group discussion around selected themes
Paper Exchange and Discussions
Dee Hennessey reflects on the way in which she developed and facilitated a unique and interactive way for the authors to present their conference papers
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 confe...
Singing – you’re crazy right?
New Appointment to Imagination
Imagination are pleased to appoint Pam Hearne as Senior Conference Administrator to the ServDes 2014 Conference team
New IDEAS Digital tools used to kick-off conference
As part of The Knowledge Exchange conference a New IDEAS digital tool was created to capture a starting point for the conference
Consultation Tool Co-Design
The PROUD project in the UK is taking an exciting new direction. After the rather intense, highly designed activities of Beyond the Castle we were looking ...
ServDes2014 keynote speakers
ServDes2014 has its two key note speakers: Prof. Pelle Ehn (Malmö University) and Dominic Cambpell (Futuregov)
SDR UK Advisory Board 01
On 26th March, the AB members shared their understanding of what Service Design is and mapped out people/organisations and projects that are related to and...
Big Data Art
How do you visulaise 2.5 billion calls and text messages exchanged between 5 million users?
London Fusion – Interactive Workshop [2]
Limited places remaining at the CX KE Conference
Register soon for the Knowledge Exchange Conference: places are filling up fast with less than 20 remaining
London Fusion – Interactive Workshop
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 Master...
New Appointment to Imagination
Imagination is proud to announce the appointment of Dr Noor Aldoy to the Fusion project team
New PhD Students Appointed
A warm welcome to Cosmin Popan and Serena Pollastri
Taking the Artwork Home: App Update
Augmented Reality Prototype Demo Ready!
Curating the Creatives
Ideas. Opportunities. Passionate people. Imagining the future...
NuBlue provides support for BARTER
NuBlue are providing free hosting for BARTER to log research data in the cloud
Digital tools used at EPSRC Impact Accelerator event
The digital tools being developed as part of the New IDEAS project have been seeing increasing use over the past months. Last week saw major test of the s...
scARecrow Time Machine available on the App Store
Use this Augmented Reality application to find scarecrows hidden in both space and time throughout your local environment. These scarecrows are from the an...
Taking the Artwork Home: Project Update
Tough Decisions!
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...
ScareBot goes to Wray Scarecrow Festival
ScareBot unveiled at the 2013 Wray Scarecrow Festival
ScareBot takes shape
Down in the lab scarebot rises from the slab!
ScareBot construction
Fabrication of main digital scarecrow parts done!
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 h...
Creative Co-Design Tools – Excellent Student project
MA Design Management student makes significant new contribution to the design of knowledge exchange and consultation tools
Emma Murphy talks research with Create Hub
Interview with Samuel Fry about the Taking the Artwork Home project
Digital KE Tools
After six months or so of technical development, we are now creating the first tools that run on our digital KE platform
Action Points Tool
A simple but effective tool for addressing action points in meetings
Knowledge Exchange Tool Co-Design Continues Across the University
The three part series of labs run as part of the New Ideas project may have finished in December 2012, but the development of the tools created in the labs...
Funded PhD Studentship: Liveable Cities
We are looking to recruit two university funded PhDs to work on the EPSRC Programme Grant Liveable Cities, Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Globa...
Co-Designing Tools for the New IDEAS Project
This week, we completed the final of three labs with the leading knowledge exchange practitioners in the University, marking the end of the first phase if ...
European Design Innovation Initiative (EDII) ‘First Action’ meeting in Brussels
First meeting between all six funded projects in the European Design Innovation Initiative (EDII) identified potential synergies between projects
Second KE Tool Design Lab: Generating Ideas
Participants generated tool ideas that would be useful for knowledge exchange activities across the University
The First of the Knowledge Exchange Tool Design Labs
Asking the Right Questions to Frame Knowledge Exchange Challenges
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
Just Imagine…The Shape of the Park
The day started well bright sunshine after a week of rain and there we where strategically positioned between The Storey Institute and the Priory Green.
DeEP into social media
The DeEP project has launched itself onto social media
Just Imagine…All the Stories
It was a bright sunny day in late Autumn when we set out on a quest to consider what was needed for a perfect day out Beyond the Castle
New IDEAS at DMI Conference, Boston, USA
A Paper on Designing Knowledge Exchange is Presented at the 2012 DMI Conference
Proud and Future Morecambe
A new approach to open to all citizen-led innovation, a hectic Saturday morning in Morecambe
User experiments completed
Sat-Nav paper receives wide media attention
Platform Development
Multi-user platform in development, allowing collaborative data to be created and visualised using a suite of software and hardware tools
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 Castl...
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 re...
Creative Exchange Launch Event
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 communi...
Getting to Grips with Knowledge Exchange for New IDEAS
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 inter...
PROUD and Co-Design for Local Councillors
Proud sensitising event with the elected members of Lancaster City Council
Preparing for Creative Conversations
Imagination delivered a workshop with the theme of 'Creative Conversations' on Friday 20th April as part of the Brief Encounters project
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 t...
Get ready for The Little Book of Density!
April 2012 sees the launch of the Urban Futures publication, entitled 'The Little Book of Density'
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 topi...
Planning for ServDes2014
Debrief meeting with Laurea University team in Helsinki
PROUD Local Design Challenges
Brief Encounters: Funding Awarded
Really excited that this AHRC Network bid has been funded, we have an excellent group of international academics that we are bringing together to explore n...
CX Funded PhD Studentships
Lancaster University is seeking to recruit five PhD students to participate in an exciting collaborative project with a range of academic and industrial pa...
PROUD Project Meeting in Paris
The newly appointed Design Managers for Lancaster University and The Storey Creative Industries Centre presented the concept for the Lancaster Design Innov...
First CX Management Meeting
The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012
Proud meeting and conference
As part of Dutch design week our first Proud project meeting and one day conference on design and Safety was convened in Eindhoven
Proud and HighWire Event
HighWire students helped to develop a code of practice or values for the 'open to all' participants in the centre when its formally open after a period of ...
Presentation of “Design in Practice” project
Presentation of "Design in Practice" project at Service Design Thinks Leeds 04
Innovation in the Exchange of Knowledge Exchange
Engaging with the EUs experts in meta-knowledge exchange (to knowledge exchange to and between knowledge experts), we find exciting areas to collaborate
Prime Numerics data visualisation by Sosolimited
A live data visualisation by USA design group Sosolimited that remixes in realtime the 2010 UK election TV debate, curated by Drew Hemment
Data Visualisations selected by Aaron Koblin
A selection of leading edge data visualisations by Aaron Koblin, presented as a part of the Serendipity City exhibition at FutureEverything 2010
Environment 2.0 Keynote Talk at Picnic09, Amsterdam
What do we mean by Environment 2.0? How can we engage large numbers of people in collaborative activities for environmental and social good? How can we bri...
Spreading the Net – ImaginationLab with Senior Managers from Huddersfield University
Building on the ImaginationNets approach to promoting innovation through networks we developed and delivers this workshop and toolkit in a the Imagination ...
HighWire at MOMA New York
Two HighWire students are currently exhibiting some of their work in the Talk to Me Exhibition in New York's Museum of Modern Art
Designing Spaces for Collaboration and Co-Design
In preparation for the PROUD project this workshop brought together designers and craft-workers from across the region to help shape the commissioning proc...
HighWire Recruitment
New HighWire cohort selected for 2011-12 entry
Co-designing connected communities
Imagination Lancaster, through Creative Ideas, are involved in an ongoing co-design project run by Lancaster City Council working with local communities to...
ECSCW 2011 Collective Intelligence – CfP
Discuss design for collective intelligence at ECSCW 2011
Public Space & Security
Mapped, tracked interrogated?
Discuss design for collective intelligence at ECSCW 2011
Density survey goes live in May 2011!
Views needed on aspects of density and decision-making in the urban environment
Making Knowledge Work Presentation
Workshop Series: Next Generation Sustainability in Civil Engineering
Embedding new sustainability thinking into day-to-day activities of civil engineering can result in substantial social, economic and environmental benefits...
Recommendations for GP Commissioning Consortia
Instead of focusing exclusively on GP responsibility for commissioning, the focus should be on the broader communities that could be involved in commissio...
Lancaster University Staff Prize 2010
The IDEAS project team was presented with a Lancaster University Staff Prize by the Chancellor Sir Chris Bonington