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Research

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Current Research Activities

An Open Invitation: Understanding Obesity in our City Learning how obesity is organised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Design Fiction: The Movie EPSRC Project Highlighting Imagination Research in Design Fiction

Design Policy Union A collaborative partnership between Imagination and SUAD, China.

Dust Bunny Understanding the home as a source of infection of AMR bacteria carried by dust by exploring hygiene ...

FictionWare For all your future Design Fiction needs!

G Up: Ghanaian specific design and innovation models Working with manufacturing and high-tech company partners to co-design new, locally tailored innovation, ...

ImaginAging Imagining a City with our Senior Citizens

IsITethical? Ethics in Crises IsITethical? is an invitation to take time, and together support creative thinking for the complexity of ...

Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and ...

Liveable Cities Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Global and Societal Wellbeing

Living Design The effective use of design for sustainability in maker enterprises

Objects Of Immersion AHRC Immersive Experiences Project with BBC, University of Nottingham and FACT

Objects Of Immersion AHRC funded Immersive Experiences project in conjunction with BBC R&D, Mixed Reality Lab Nottingham, FACT ...

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Innovation

Current Innovation Activities

Dust Bunny Understanding the home as a source of infection of AMR bacteria carried by dust by exploring hygiene ...

G Up: Ghanaian specific design and innovation models Working with manufacturing and high-tech company partners to co-design new, locally tailored innovation, ...

ImaginAging Imagining a City with our Senior Citizens

IsITethical? Ethics in Crises IsITethical? is an invitation to take time, and together support creative thinking for the complexity of ...

Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and ...

Living Design The effective use of design for sustainability in maker enterprises

SODA Project Realising Data together with people living with dementia.

The Funding Accelerator : Co-design for Health and Wealth Co-design for health and wealth Funding Accelerator is a HEIF funded project led by Professor Leon ...

Tracing Tides Mapping flows of Morecambe Bay

What if? Design Fictions for Society Imagining the future implications of policy initiatives in creative ways.

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People

ImaginationLancaster Staff

Pam Allen AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship Coordinator

Bijan Aryana Design Thinking, User Experience, Emerging Design, Country-specific Design, International Design

Christopher Boyko Urban Design and Behaviour, Internet of Things, Protest/Resistance, Town Planning, Urban Sustainability, Wellbeing

Dan Burnett Research Through Design, Game Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Modelling

Loura Conerney

Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Design, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Paul Coulton Speculative Design, Design Fiction, Game Design, Design as Rhetoric, Research through Design, Design Futures, Play, Toys

Claire Coulton PETRAS IoT Research Hub and Transformation North West Project Officer

Gemma Coupe Design Manager, Leapfrog

Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Paul Cureton Future Cities, Urban Design, Garden Cities & New Towns, Drones - UAVs, GIS, Mapping, Landscape, Visualisation

Nick Dunn Urban Design, Design Thinking, Design & Manufacturing, Mapping, Visualisation, Speculative Design, Future Cities

Adrian Gradinar Design, Physical-Digital, Experience Design, Interaction Design, Research through Design

David Hands Design Policy Development; Design Briefing; Design Leadership; Designing against Crime; New Product Development.

Rachael Hill Design Visualiser

Malé Luján Escalante Ethics through Design, Creative Exchange, Digital Public Space, Philosophy of Technology, Feminist Techno-science, Mobilities

Francesco Mazzarella design activism; service design; social innovation; sustainable futures; fashion and textile craftsmanship

Serena Pollastri visual design, information visualisation, speculative design, polyphonic design, urban+rural futures, food

Daniel Richards Design & Manufacturing, Generative Design, Visualisation, Computational Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication, Speculative Design

Paul Rodgers Design Disruption, Design and Care, Social Innovation, Disciplinarity, Design Interventions

Michael Stead Industrial product design, design futures, design fiction, research through design, internet of things, sustainability

Sharon Summers

Ruth Templeton Imagination Coordinator and PA to Professor Rachel Cooper

Emmanuel Tsekleves Design for Health & Wellbeing, Design for Ageing, Design Interactions, Global Challenge Design, Design Fictions, Playful Design, Digital Design

Stuart Walker Design for Sustainability ; Design, Values & Spirituality

Roger Whitham Human-Computer Interaction, Collaboration, Tools, Visualisation, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation

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Lancaster University

Dr Claire Coulton

PETRAS IoT Research Hub and Transformation North West Project Officer

Wellbeing, Health, Futures, Sharing,

+44 (0) 1524 510818

c [dot] coulton2 [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

Claire is the Project Officer for the PETRAS IoT Research Hub and Transformation North West

She is currently editing a series of Little Books on IoT research for the PETRAS project and working with the PETRAS impact team based at UCL and Warwick University. She is also managing a cohort of 12 PhD students as they navigate the early days of their research.

Previously, she has worked on the Liveable Cities project and the N8 Urban and Community Transformation theme.

Claire completed a PhD in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University in 2012 and has previously worked at Lancaster University as Postgraduate Coordinator in the Department of Communication Systems.

Check out the Liveable Cities video archive!

OutcomeDigital or Visual Products

As a result of a 3-day Communication Symposium held in March 2017 in Lancaster, Liveable Cities has produced a series of informative videos. Please follow this link to the Liveable Cities official website, where we have all 37 videos available to watch, download and...More information

The Little Book of Wellbeing

OutcomeBook

This little book tells you about research that we did as part of the Liveable Cities project, looking at wellbeing in neighbourhoods. We begin by describing wellbeing and how different people have tried measuring the concept. A research study is presented next, showing how two factors - urban...More information

How sharing can contribute to more sustainable cities

OutcomeJournal Paper

Recently, much of the literature on sharing in cities has focused on the sharing economy, in which people use online platforms to share underutilized assets in the marketplace. This view of sharing is too narrow for cities, as it neglects the myriad of ways, reasons, and scales in which citizens...More information

The Little Book of Sharing in the City

OutcomeBook

This little book tells you about research that we did as part of the Liveable Cities project, looking at sharing in cities. ...More information

Liveable Cities facilitates important Birmingham workshops

Event2 years, 1 month and 13 days ago

1^st of November 2016, Highbury Hall, Birmingham

Birmingham City Council creating 'bottom-up' natural captial plan using design methods

The Liveable Cities team from Lancaster went to Birmingham on 2 November to facilitate two workshops on behalf of Birmingham City Council. The...Read full update

Future of Health and Healthcare Provision in Cities

OutcomeReport

This paper is concerned with the future of health and healthcare provision in cities in the UK. The primary data was collected at a facilitated workshop held at the Academy of Medical Sciences in September 2015. The workshop was designed to guide participants through a series of exercises in order...More information

Liveable Cities facilitates important Birmingham workshops

Event2 years, 1 month and 13 days ago

1^st of November 2016, Highbury Hall, Birmingham

Birmingham City Council creating 'bottom-up' natural captial plan using design methods

The Liveable Cities team from Lancaster went to Birmingham on 2 November to facilitate two workshops on behalf of Birmingham City Council. The...Read full update

Liveable Cities presents... the Skype Sessions

Join us for our next Skype Session about ecosystem services in cities!

Back in Spring 2015, Liveable Cities presents... The Skype Sessions held three successful sessions on topics, such as Determining City Performance, Complexity in Cities, and Sharing and the City. Now, after a short summer...Read full update

Liveable Cities built environment audits begin in Lancaster

Researchers are collecting data on the condition of built environment features within different neighbourhoods

This week, Christopher Boyko and Claire Coulton began auditing the built environment in two neighbourhoods in Lancaster as part of the Liveable Cities project's Wellbeing...Read full update

Liveable Cities hosts second Sharing Cities Workshop in Birmingham this September

Event3 years, 3 months and 9 days ago

7^th of September 2015, mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham B12 9QH (www.macbirmingham.co.uk)

Have some interesting stories about sharing? Live in the Moseley and King's Heath area of Birmingham? If so, come to our workshop and share!

After a very successful workshop...Read full update

Seeking applicants for Senior Research Associate position on the Liveable Cities project

Interested in making cities more liveable? Have a background in urban design, architecture or design management? This job might be for you!

ImaginationLancaster seeks to appoint a Senior Research Associate to work on an EPSRC funded Liveable Cities project. The project is an ambitious...Read full update

Liveable Cities workshop on sharing in Lancaster is a success!

Event3 years, 8 months and 17 days ago

30^th of March 2015, Friends Meeting House, Lancaster

Lancaster Sharing City Workshop pushes the boundaries on what sharing means in cities

Over 30 participants from Lancaster and Birmingham gathered at the Friends Meeting House in Lancaster to explore sharing in cities. The...Read full update

You can find a list of Claire Coulton's publications on the Lancaster University research pages.