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Research

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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.

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, ...

Service Design Research Research into the development of Service Design as a discipline

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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.

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

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

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, Forecasting and Design Futures, Design and Brand Strategy, Product Design and Development, Design Thinking, Product Semantics, New Product Development (NPD)

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

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

Dr Leon 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Themes

Key Projects

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

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 IDEAS Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing

IDEAS at Daresbury Collaboration for Innovation in Knowledge Exchange

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change