HighWire

Each year HighWire recruits 10-12 exceptional students interested in working between and beyond the disciplines of computing, design and management.

Design PhD Conference 2011

Outcomes from the 2011 Design PhD Conference are now available, including Kevin Roberts' keynote.

Urban Futures

A 4-year research project which uses future scenarios to measure the resilience of today’s urban regeneration solutions in terms of sustainability.

Creative IDEAS

The Creative IDEAS project is dedicated to impact generation through the design of innovative and highly interactive approaches, processes and tools for knowledge sharing.

Innovation through Improved Service & Design

We are...

An open and exploratory design-led research lab at Lancaster University
We conduct applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.
We work with a variety of organisations to provide fresh perspectives on real-world issues and facilitate innovation.
We offer Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and PhD study opportunities. All our staff are active researchers with extensive expertise in teaching.

Latest

Design on a Darkling Plain: transcending utility through questions in form

OutcomeJournal Paper
Design on a Darkling Plain: transcending utility through questions in form

This paper will appear in The Design Journal, Oxford: Berg, Vol.15, No.3 in 2012.

 

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First CX Management Meeting

First CX Management Meeting

The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012

The Creative Exchange Hub Management team members from Lancaster University, Newcastle University and The Royal College of Art met in Newcastle to make key decisions about how the Hub will develop over the...Read full update

Congratulations to Rachel from ImaginationLancaster

Congratulations to Rachel from ImaginationLancaster

As Co-Director of ImaginationLancaster and on behalf of everyone in the ImaginationLancaster team, I would like to offer warmest congratulations to our colleague Professor Rachel Cooper on being honoured with an OBE in the 2012 New Year’s Honours List for her services to education.

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OBE

Rachel Cooper recognised in New Years Honours list

Rachel Cooper, Professor of Design Management, has been recognised on the  2012 New Years Honours list. Rachel becomes OBE for services to education. 

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Proud and HighWire Event

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 renovation in January

In a first event in the Proud space in the Storey Creative Industries Centre in the center of Lancaster we...Read full update

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Monday 23rd of Jan, 09:28pm

Exciting job: research associate for the creative exchange, http://t.co/fGVe7y3F

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Monday 23rd of Jan, 05:33pm

RT @FuturEverything: Job Opp: Knowledge Exchange, Innovation and Digital Design post at Creative Exchange #cxhub http://t.co/qkxyajmU #AHRC

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Tuesday 17th of Jan, 10:13pm

RT @RachelFDCooper: First CX Management Meeting – ImaginationLancaster http://t.co/2Kv01iBZ @ImaginationLanc

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Monday 16th of Jan, 10:30pm

HighWire-Creating Innovative People for Radical Change in the Digital Economy (10 PhD Studentships,apply by 30th April) http://t.co/SmG07DUy

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Tuesday 3rd of Jan, 04:05pm

Congratulations from @ImaginationLanc to @RachelFDCooper upon her OBE in the new year's honours list: http://t.co/7oGgNdjy

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Friday 16th of Dec, 12:31pm

10th European Academy of Design Conference announced: April 17 - 19 2013 Gothenburg Sweden. CRAFTING THE FUTURE http://t.co/3BgqQHDh

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Thursday 15th of Dec, 09:17pm

RT @martyn_evans: Design and innovation for growth. The UK Design Council report is out: http://t.co/ntf1tY9h

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Thursday 15th of Dec, 09:16pm

RT @martyn_evans: Restarting Britain - Design Education and Growth. A Design Commission Report now available: http://t.co/C7Uv8V9K

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Wednesday 14th of Dec, 10:35am

RT @toodrew: at #Catalyst Ideas Lab - building tools for social change @LancasterUni @ImaginationLancs @FuturEverything #futr

Tweet@ImaginationLanc, Saturday 10th of Dec, 03:18pm

The road sign as a design classic: http://t.co/PAEjJD2K

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Design and Production for SustainabilityDesign and Production for Sustainability Design and Production for Sustainability Research into the nature and form of functional objects
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Environment 2.0Environment 2.0 Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.
Structural IDEAS Exchange Structural IDEAS Exchange Structural IDEAS Exchange Research into the exchange of knowledge exchange structures rather than the exchange of knowledge itself.
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