Dr Leon Cruickshank

Associate Director and Reader in Design

Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive 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.

This has led to the emergence of designing knowledge exchange as a research area. He is currently involved in 6 funded projects in this area. He is Director of Knowledge Exchange for the £4 million AHRC Creative Knowledge Exchange Hub and UK lead for the €4 million PROUD project looking at knowledge exchange through co-design

Blog: imaginarium42.blogspot.com

The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference.

Upcoming Eventin 3 months and 8 days

26^th of September 2013, LICA Building, Lancaster University

The conference is taking place on the 26th and 27th September 2013 at Lancaster University, and is aimed at exploring and propagating new mutually beneficial exchanges between academia and the creative...Read full update

Maximising Impact of EPSRC: Workshop for 60 academic and industry participants

Articleby Leon Cruickshank

The first EPSRC funded Impact Acceleration Account day took place on May 8th in the event space at LICA. The event was designed to encourage collaborations that will bring to life and increase the impact of research and encourage the development of a series of robust and fundable collaborative proposals. To assist in this IAA has secured the services of Dee Hennesy, a skilled facilitator and PhD student in Imagination to assist in the delivery of...Read full article

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 until the end of the week. After an epic journey by rail and an emergency shopping trip to a mall to buy some essentials we settled down to the...Read full update

Laser Cutting Masterclass

Event1 month and 27 days ago

22^nd of April 2013, ImaginationLab

Laser cutters are extremely useful pieces of equipment and we use the PROUD laser cutter at least a few times a week. There is a danger though that they are used in only a basic way just to cut things.

We were lucky then to have the...Read full update

Calling All Masters Of Co-Design a 'reverse masterclass' in Eindhoven

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe

Facilitating masterclasses in co-design has always provided us with a bit of a headache. The notion of a master (or more interesting mistress) in co-design sets up a hierarchy just when we want to break them down. This was especially true when we were invited to run a masterclass for more experienced co-designers. Our response was the event “Calling All Co-Design Masters”. This event was all about sharing best and worst practice. In particular we...Read full article

Co-Design Master class

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe

On 19th March 2013 we joined our excellent partners in Capital D in Eindhoven to run a master class on co-design. This was aimed at design participants thet were new to co-design. We had a fantastic mix of young products designers, service designers as well as entrepreneurs and business leaders. In this session we explored 8 fundamental factors that designers need to think about and in some cases be challenged by, these are - Agree how the...Read full article

The Knowledge Exchange: An Interactive Conference.

Upcoming Eventin 3 months and 8 days

26^th of September 2013, LICA Building, Lancaster University

PROUD Partner Meeting in Luxembourg

Laser Cutting Masterclass

Event1 month and 27 days ago

22^nd of April 2013, ImaginationLab

We were lucky then to have the...Read full update

Hexagon Tool Available from New IDEAS

The New IDEAS Hexagon Tool is a tactile and versatile method for connecting together ideas in multiple directions during brainstorming, meetings, workshops and other events where knowledge needs to be exchanged.

The tool was developed as an alternative to post-it notes because we found that...Read full update

Scenario Comic Tool Available from New IDEAS

A simple but effective tool for revealing motivations in knowledge exchange projects.

The Scenario Comic Tool from New IDEAS The New IDEAS project is producing a series of useful knowledge exchange tools and toolkits for dissemination both within and outside Lancaster University. As part...Read full update

Co-designing a new collaborative forum with the Faculty of Science and Technology

Event3 months and 23 days ago

25^th of February 2013, Imagination LICA

New Ideas helping 'FST' to collaborate more effectively and provide a more coherent voice for feedback to strategic proposals through the design of a new series of forum events.

One of the key aims of New Ideas is to help participants...Read full update

Maximising Impact of EPSRC: Workshop for 60 academic and industry participants

Articleby Leon Cruickshank

Calling All Masters Of Co-Design a 'reverse masterclass' in Eindhoven

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe

Co-Design Master class

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe

Designing Knowledge Exchange - Lecture and Workshop in Dundee

Articleby Leon Cruickshank

With Imaginations leadership of one of the AHRC Knowledge exchange hubs (ours is called the Creative Exchange) one of the advantages of being involved in this is the connections made with other institutions both within the hubs and beyond. A case in point was a recent invitation to lecture and give a workshop with the good folks at DJCAD (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design). ...Read full article

Future Infrastructure UK: Engineering Roadmap Final Report

Articleby Rachel Cooper, Roger Whitham, Leon Cruickshank

This report describes the results of a workshop undertaken as part of a programme of advice commissioned by Infrastructure UK to consider the interdependencies and future engineering challenges as part of an ‘engineering roadmap’ for the next National Infrastructure Plan (due to be published in autumn 2011). This plan will include specific actions needed to achieve an integrated, reliable, secure and resilient national infrastructure. ...Read full article

PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe, Laura Morris

One of the joys of academia is that you get to collaborate with great people that you really like. This is certianly the case with the PROUD project. The flip side of this is that you offten meet up with these great people in meetings, endless meetings. For big EU funded projects like PROUD these can take over 2 days and after that much time with 15 people or so sat around a table its pretty easy to loose the will to live. ...Read full article

Books

The Citizen in Open Design. / Cruickshank, Leon .

Gower Publishing Company, 2013.

Research output : Book/Report/Proceedings › Book

Book Chapters

Applied Imagination - Designing Innovative Knowledge Transfer Approaches. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Mather, Alison ; Evans, Martyn .

Innovation Through Knowledge Transfer. ed. / Robert James Howlett. Berlin : Springer-Verlag, 2010. p. 219-229 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2010; 4).

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

The Case for a Re-evaluation of Deconstruction and Design: Against Derrida, Eisenman and their Choral Works. / Cruickshank, Leon .

O Triunfo do Desenho. ed. / Eduardo Corte-Real. Lisboa, Portugal : Livros Horizonte, 2010. p. 353-361.

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter

The Augmenting of Textual Conversation with User Created Icons. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Barfield, Lon.

Iconic communication. ed. / Philip G. Barker; Masoud Yazdani. Bristol : Intellect Books, 2000.

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter

Other Book Contributions

IDEAS: A Knowledge Platform for Innovation, Competitive Performance and Economic Development. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Mather, Alison ; Howells, Jeremy .

The 32nd ISBE (Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) Conference - Liverpool, 3rd to 6th November 2009. 2009.

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Conference contribution

Journal Articles

The Citizen in Design and Innovation: Post-Structural Perspectives. / Cruickshank, Leon .

In: Design Philosophy papers , 2013.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

Nets : applied cognitive design tools for social networks. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Mortati, Marzia.

In: Tangible and Embedded Interaction, A special issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology , Vol. n/a, No. n/a, 2012, p. n/a.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

Designing creative frameworks: Design thinking as an engine for new facilitation approaches. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Evans, Martyn .

In: International Journal of Arts and Technology , Vol. 5, No. 1, 2012, p. 73-85.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

NETS: a design tool for activating social networks. / Mortati, Marzia ; Cruickshank, Leon .

In: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research , Vol. 18, No. 4, 2012, p. 509-523.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

Understanding Design Interventions in Democratic Innovation: a Toolkit Approach. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Carolan, Natasha.

In: Design Research Journal , Vol. 2, No. 10, 2011, p. 33-38.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

The Innovation Dimension: Designing in a Broader Context. / Cruickshank, Leon .

In: Design Issues , Vol. 26, No. 2, 2010, p. 17-26.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

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

The Case for a Re-Evaluation of Deconstruction and Design: Against Derrida, Eisenman and their Choral Works. / Cruickshank, Leon .

In: The Radical Designist , No. 3, 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

Designing interactive TV with users in mind. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Tsekleves, E; Hill, A; Kondo, K ; Whitham, Roger .

In: User Experience Magazine (Usability Professionals Association) , Vol. 6, No. 3, 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

Facilitating the evolution of a user driven iconotextual internet patois. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Hughes, Brian.

In: Digital Creativity , Vol. 10, No. 2, 1999, p. 79-89.

Research output : Contribution to journal › Journal article

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Conference Contributions

Innovation through the Design of Knowledge Exchange and the Design on Knowledge Exchange Design. / Cruickshank, Leon .

2012. Paper presented at DMI Conference - Leading Innovation Through Design, Boston, United States.