PROUD

People Researchers and Organisations Using Design for Co-Creation and Innovation. Working with designers, businesses, academics and the public to promote innovation through new types of Knowledge Exchange

PROUD is a €4.8 million euro, 3 year project funded by the EU INTEREG programme. 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).

Project Team

CruickshankCruickshank 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
CoupeCoupe Gemma Coupe Design Manager, PROUD

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Region27 Co-Design for Public Policy

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe
Region27 Co-Design for Public Policy

One of the great tings about the PROUD project is meeting and working with really interesting and innovative people across Europe. Stephan Vincent fits squarely into this description. He leads the company Region 27 (http://la27eregion.fr) is based in Paris and is focused on working with the 26 regional governments in France (hence the name Region 27).

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PROUD Project Meeting in Paris

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 Innovation Hub to partners from across North West Europe.

The ‘Two Locations: One Centre’ concept aims to facilitate the flow of ideas and...Read full update

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

Proud meeting and conference

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

With the project now really up and runing we gathered together in Eindhoven to discuss progress but also to exchange new ideas and to meet soem of the prople...Read full update

Designing creative frameworks: design thinking as an engine for new facilitation approaches

OutcomeJournal Paper
Designing creative frameworks: design thinking as an engine for new facilitation approaches

This paper documents implications and opportunities for the design

profession offered by the rise of the knowledge society and digital economies.

Within this we show the value of applied design thinking in the creation and

delivery of business development and...More information

Innovation in the Exchange of Knowledge Exchange

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.

My colleague Tom Clark from (the Storey Creative Industries Centre) and I have just spent the last two days in a seminar run by Interact...Read full update

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