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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

Brief Encounters An AHRC Network project to explore new forms of collaborative design processes

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 IDEAS To develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic and ...

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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

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 IDEAS To develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic and ...

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 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 EU INTERREG program

Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive 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

Vicky Lund Proud Project Administrator

Laura Marinello Team Coordinator

Laura Morris Graphic Design, Knowledge Exchange, Creative Problem Solving, Multidisciplinary Work

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

Lorenz Herfurth

Past Staff Member

Research Associate, August 2009 to June 2011

Innovation, Knowledge Exchange, Design Research, Design Management for Sustainability, Design Thinking

Lorenz joined Imagination Lancaster as Research Associate in 2009 after completing his Master in Design Management and Policy at Lancaster University.

He has a background in product design and design management and gained working experience in several industrial sectors, like product, cosmetic and transportation for several years. His work is centred around the engagement between academia and businesses as part of the IDEAS project. Lorenz’ research interests cover innovation methods, design management, design in organisations and sustainability in decision making processes.

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

Creative IDEAS book completed

A book documenting the activities and specifically the new techniques and approaches developed under the HEIF4 funded Creative IDEAS project.

This book describes some of the processes, activities and approaches we have developed over the last 18 months as part of the knowledge exchange...Read full update

Design and the Big Society

Event1 year and 15 days ago

3^rd of May 2011, Imagination Lab, Lancaster University

Design and the Big Society brought design researchers together with others from politics, journalism, technology and finance to consider the relationship between design for social innovation, socially responsive design and the...Read full update

ISBE 2011 Paper Abstract: Co-Design of Knowledge Sharing Experiences

Objectives

We will share insights generated during a research project which applied co-design approaches to the planning and delivery of highly innovative knowledge sharing experiences. The paper suggests the reconsideration of the roles, researchers,...Read full update

Workshop Series: Next Generation Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Embedding new sustainability thinking into day-to-day activities of civil engineering can result in substantial social, economic and environmental benefits for all stakeholders, but, to date, sustainability in consulting engineering is still more of a reactive activity than a proactive one. Through...Read full update

Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration and Co-Design

Event1 year, 1 month and 12 days ago

4^th of April 2011, Storey Creative Industries Centre

The Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration and Co-design workshop brought together a multidisciplinary group of designers, designer makers and craftspeople to spend a half day within the shell of the 3rd floor ‘art school’...Read full update

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