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Email	imagination [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk
Tel.	+44 (0) 1524 510873
Address	ImaginationLancaster LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK

Research

Themes

Current Research Activities

A Practice-Based Approach to Design Research Exploring new creative directions in product design to include sustainable principles.

Bridge Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management

CaTalyST: Citizens Transforming Society (Tools for Change) This £1.5 million EPSRC funded 4 year project examines the role of new technology in citizen led ...

Data Arts An investigation into emerging approaches to visualising, interpreting and using data.

DeEP: Design in European Policies Evaluating and Sharing Design Innovation Policies for European Growth

Design and Production for Sustainability Research into the nature and form of functional objects

Design for Wellbeing how design contributes to health and well-being

Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change

Innovation Theory/Practice Understanding through challenging: Innovation and Design

Innovation through Improved Service & Design A series of 3 workshops aiming at introducing Design to manufacturing SMEs with a particular focus on the ...

New Interaction Order New(?) mobile behaviour in public spaces

PROUD People Researchers and Organisations Using Design for Co-Creation and Innovation. Working with designers, ...

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Innovation

Themes

Current Innovation Activities

Bridge Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management

Creative IDEAS Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing

Data Arts An investigation into emerging approaches to visualising, interpreting and using data.

DeEP: Design in European Policies Evaluating and Sharing Design Innovation Policies for European Growth

Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change

IDEAS at Daresbury Collaboration for Innovation in Knowledge Exchange

Innovation Theory/Practice Understanding through challenging: Innovation and Design

Innovation through Improved Service & Design A series of 3 workshops aiming at introducing Design to manufacturing SMEs with a particular focus on the ...

PROUD People Researchers and Organisations Using Design for Co-Creation and Innovation. Working with designers, ...

The Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

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People

ImaginationLancaster Staff

Pragya Agarwal Location-based services, social networks, spatial cognition, spatial reasoning and representation, places and sense of place, semantics and spatial ontologies

Pam Allen Acting Project Manager: The Creative Exchange

Christopher Boyko Environmental Psychology, Regeneration, Space and Place, Tourism, Town Planning, Urban Design and Behaviour, Urban Sustainability, Wellbeing

Monika Büscher Sociology / Anthropology / Cultural studies of mobilities, Technology (futures), Video Ethnography and Design, Ethnomethodological studies

Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Gemma Coupe Design Manager, PROUD

Leon Cruickshank Open Innovation and Mass Creativity, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive TV service design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Martyn Evans Design, Design Management, Design Futures, Design Strategy, Product Design and Development, Design and Branding, Design Policy, Design Thinking, New Product Development

Drew Hemment Art Curation, Open Data, Social Technologies, Smart Cities, Digital Innovation

Sabine Junginger Design in the Organization, Design and Change, Design Management, Design Thinking, Human-Centered Product Development, Design Theory

Laura Marinello Team Coordinator

Emma Murphy Design Management, Branding (Organisational, Place and Services), Design Thinking, Design Procurement, Briefing Process, Design and Business.

Daniela Sangiorgi Service Design, Design for Public Services, Service Innovation

Stuart Walker Design for Sustainability; Design and Meaning; Practice-based Design Research; Design, Values and Spirituality; Product Aesthetics; Product Design, Localization and Place

Roger Whitham Human-Computer Interaction, Visualisation, Interactive Structures, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation

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Study

Masters Programme

PhD Programme

Lancaster University

Innovation through Improved Service & Design

A series of 3 workshops aiming at introducing Design to manufacturing SMEs with a particular focus on the role of Service Thinking and Service Design for Innovation.

The project is part of Innovation for Growth (IFG) programme in the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (IEED) of Lancaster Management School; this programme offers advice and support to embed innovation within the business and management processes and practices of regional SMEs. Imagination aims at introducing Design within this large programme with a particular focus on the role of Service Thinking and Service Design for Innovation.

We are collaborating with design agencies Engine and The Hub.

Innovation by Service Design is co-funded by the Design Council Grant

Project Team

Daniela Sangiorgi Service Design, Design for Public Services, Service Innovation

Roger Whitham Human-Computer Interaction, Visualisation, Interactive Structures, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation

Helen Fogg Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

Partners / Funders

Project Funders

Design Council

European Regional Development Fund in the Northwest

The Northwest Regional Development Agency

Updates

13th June 2011 _ Workshop 01

Event8 months and 11 days ago

13^th of June 2011, Imagination Lab, LICA Building, Lancaster University

The Role of Service Thinking in Product Orientated SMEs

This first workshop focused on the value of service thinking in the generation of new business opportunities. It supported companies moving from...Read full update

20th June 2011 - Workshop 02

Event8 months and 4 days ago

20^th of June 2011, Imagination Lab, LICA Building, Lancaster University

Customer Centred Innovation

This second workshop focused on how Service Design as a methodology can support identifying and defining new or improved service offerings. It helped generating new ideas...Read full update

27th June 2011 - Workshop 03

Event7 months and 28 days ago

27^th of June 2011, Imagination Lab, LICA Building, Lancaster University

Service Development and Action Planning

This third and final workshop focused on how to develop and embed ideas and insights emerged from the previous workshops. In particular it looked at how new value...Read full update