Dr Leon Cruickshank

Cruickshank
Associate Director and Senior Lecturer
Open Innovation and Mass Creativity, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive TV service design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy
+44 (0) 1524 510874
l [dot] cruickshank [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

Leon's core interests relate to how technology can enable new relationships between users and designers and through this allow users to become more active in shaping our society, environment and media. This requires a radical change in the way we think about designers and designing.

Blog: imaginarium42.blogspot.com

Updates and Outcomes

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

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

Creative IDEAS Book

OutcomeBook
Creative IDEAS Book

This ImaginationLancaster published book documents the activities undertaken within the HEIF funded Creative IDEAS project. Creative IDEAS addressed one of the more difficult issues in contemporary innovation, the fruitful and mutually beneficial collaboration of large and small...More information

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

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

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

Spreading the Net - ImaginationLab with Senior Managers from Huddersfield University

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 facilitation space.

ImaginationNets is a series of tools we have developed over the past 3 years, and in particular with the IDEAS...Read full update

HighWire at MOMA New York

HighWire at MOMA New York

Two high wire students are currently exhibiting some of their work in the Talk to Me Exhibition in New Yorks Museum of Modern Art.

Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us. Tangible and intangible, and at all scales—from the spoon to the city, the...Read full update

PROUD has first Pre-Meeting

Articleby Leon Cruickshank
PROUD has first Pre-Meeting

This is the first 'offical' picture of the PROUD partner team. Hosted by Brainport in Eindhoven this meeting bourght together partners from Falanders, Helsinki, Lancaster, Gremany, Luxemberg, France as well as the Netherlands. 

...Read full article

Journal Articles

Designing cultures? Post-disciplinary Practices.. / Buscher, Monika ; Cruickshank, Leon .

In : Proceedings of the 8th European Academy Of Design Conference: Connexity. 1st-3rd April 2009, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland. , 04.2009.

Research output : Contribution to journal Journal article

MAKING INTERACTIVE TV EASIER TO USE:INTERFACE DESIGN FOR A SECOND SCREEN APPROACH.. / CRUICKSHANK, Leon ; TSEKLEVES, E. ; WHITHAM, R. ; HILL, A..

In : The Design Journal , Vol. 10, No. 3, 14.12.2007.

Research output : Contribution to journal Journal article

Rapid Prototyping and Fast User Trial of Multimedia Broadcast and Cellular Services.. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Cosmas, J. ; Elgohari, T. ; Itagaki, K..

In : International Journal of Mobile Communications , Vol. 3, No. 3, 01.09.2005, p. 263-286.

Research output : Contribution to journal Journal article

Conference Contributions

The fluidity of the ‘magic circle’ : using playful interventions in the design process. / Wood, Richard Tempest ; Coulton, Paul ; Cruickshank, Leon .

2011. Paper presented at 5th DiGRA : Think Design Play, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Research output : Contribution to conference Conference paper

A Provocative Educational Application of a New Approach to Design Methodology.. / Cruickshank, Leon .

2006. 20 Wonderground Design Research Society, Lisbon, Porgtual,.

Research output : Contribution to conference Other

CSpace: an adaptive, user-led communication service exploiting the convergence of DVB-T and UMTS in portable devices.. / Cruickshank, Leon .

2004. Mobile Entertainment: User Centered Perspectives CRIC University of Manchester ISBN: 1-84052012-4 25-27 March 2004,.

Research output : Contribution to conference Other

Key Projects

PROUDPROUD PROUD People Researchers and Organisations Using Design for Co-Creation and Innovation. Working with designers, ...
CaTalyST: Citizens Transforming Society (Tools for Change)CaTalyST: Citizens Transforming Society (Tools for Change) 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 ...
Creative IDEASCreative IDEAS Creative IDEAS Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing
IDEAS at DaresburyIDEAS at Daresbury IDEAS at Daresbury Collaboration for Innovation in Knowledge Exchange
HighWireHighWire HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change