Gemma Coupe

Coupe
Design Manager, PROUD EU INTERREG program
+44 (0) 1524 510893
g [dot] coupe1 [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

With a background in design, Gemma specialises in leading the development and production of interdisciplinary demand led projects with design and innovation at their core. Gemma was instrumental in developing the county’s economic development service for creative and digital SME’s ‘Creative Lancashire’ to the point where it now acts an advocate for creative excellence across the North West. Gemma built effective relationships with SMEs in order to identify and develop solutions to barriers to growth, and has an extensive network of design, cluster and stakeholder contacts across Lancashire and the North West.

Updates and Outcomes

Laser Cutting Masterclass

Event26 days ago
Laser Cutting Masterclass

22nd 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
Calling All Masters Of Co-Design a 'reverse masterclass' in Eindhoven

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
Co-Design Master class

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

Beyond the Castle - Imagining the Future

OutcomeReport
Beyond the Castle - Imagining the Future

This report documents the Beyond the Castle Co-design project. Undertaken in the 12 months from Feburary 2012 - 13 this process involved over 700 people in the development of common aspirations for the future development of the green space around Lancaster Castle. Beyond the Castle is part of the...More information

PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe, Laura Morris
PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings

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

Action Points Tool

Action Points Tool

A simple but effective tool for addressing action points in meetings.

A Proud meeting for partners across Europe took place at the beginning of this week and in order to ensure that this meeting was an engaging experience for all of the participants, the New IDEAS and Proud team came together...Read full update

Laser Cutting Masterclass

Event26 days ago
Laser Cutting Masterclass

22nd 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

Action Points Tool

Action Points Tool

A simple but effective tool for addressing action points in meetings.

A Proud meeting for partners across Europe took place at the beginning of this week and in order to ensure that this meeting was an engaging experience for all of the participants, the New IDEAS and Proud team came together...Read full update

'Beyond the Castle' Co-Design Challenge Interim Report

'Beyond the Castle' Co-Design Challenge Interim Report

This interim report documents the initial stages of the ‘Beyond the Castle’ project. This tracks its transition from the ‘City Park’ project that is part of Square Routes into a co-design project led by ImaginationLancaster as part of the PROUD EU INTERREG funded project.

In this interim...Read full update

PICTURE THIS Co-Design Exhibition Opening Times

PICTURE THIS Co-Design Exhibition Opening Times

Exhibition runs from Friday16th - Tuesday 20th November 2012 at The Storey Creative Industries Centre, Lancaster

Since April 2012 over 500 people have joined together on a journey to co-design a quality public space for the area 'Beyond the Castle'. PICTURE THIS brings together all the...Read full update

The Fundamentals of Co-Design: A PROUD Master Class

The Fundamentals of Co-Design: A PROUD Master Class

When the UK contingent of PROUD suggested we deliver a master class on Co-Design we knew we were in for an interesting developmental journey.

For us co-design is a really quite different activity to designing, even to designing in a participatory or user centred way. Our task was to distil the...Read full update

Lets Do it together: Co-Design Practices

Event6 months and 27 days ago
Lets Do it together: Co-Design Practices

22nd of October 2012, Eindhoven, Holland

Dutch design week is fast becoming one of the highlights of the global design calendar highlights.

The UK partners were a (small) part of this this year through the running of a master class on co-design (more of this another time) but...Read full update

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

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe
Calling All Masters Of Co-Design a 'reverse masterclass' in Eindhoven

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
Co-Design Master class

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

PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe, Laura Morris
PROUD partners in Lancaster and the design of meetings

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

PROUD 'Beyond the Castle' Interactive Co-Design Exhibition Launch

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe
PROUD 'Beyond the Castle' Interactive Co-Design Exhibition Launch

The PROUD project ‘Beyond the Castle’ had the opening of its interactive co-design exhibition on 15th November in the Storey Creative industries Centre. This marks a key point in the development of the project where all stakeholders come together and respond creatively to the ideas generated so far and really start to co-design. To set the scene for this we had presentations form Julian Inman, Senior Planner (Regeneration) and almost more...Read full article

City Park Strategic Workshop

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe
City Park Strategic Workshop

Dee Hennessy facilitated this workshop as part of her activites on the Proud project. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the contrasting, overlapping strategic goals of policy makers and opinion shapers in Lancaster for areas such as transport, culture and heritage, environment and community engagement and how the City Park project could advance the strategic aims of the sectors to make a positive contribution to the economic, cultural...Read full article

PROUD – Urban Culture in Helsinki

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe
PROUD – Urban Culture in Helsinki

Our regular Proud project meetings led us recently to Helsinki (World Design Capital). Helsinki is always a great place to be, but with the world Design Capital preparations and the large CUMULUS conference, it was especially vibrant. One of the activates laid on for us by the City Council (our Proud partner hosts) was a series of themed visits across the city. One of the highlights of this was a tour of activities looking at Urban...Read full article

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