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Address	ImaginationLancaster LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK

Research

Themes

Current Research Activities

A Practice-Based Approach to Design Research Exploring new creative directions in product design to include sustainable principles.

BARTER moBile sociAl netwoRking supporTing local Ethical tRading

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 ...

CheckinDJ The first crowdsourcing jukebox to use NFC technolog.

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 PhD Conference 2013 Design Research for Turbulent Times

DESIS UK Network Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) UK Network

Environment 2.0 Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate.

HighWire Creating Innovative People for Radical Change

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

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Innovation

Current Innovation Activities

BARTER moBile sociAl netwoRking supporTing local Ethical tRading

Beyond the Castle Write a new chapter in the history of Lancaster's green space

Bridge Bridging resources and agencies in large-scale emergency management

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

London Creative and Digital Fusion Ambitious £5m project to inspire and support growth in the digital industries

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, ...

ServDes 2014 Service Design and Innovation Conference at Lancaster University

Taking the Artwork Home Digital Curation Through Mobile Augmented Reality

The Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

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People

ImaginationLancaster Staff

Pam Allen Project Manager: The Creative Exchange

Sam Birchall AI, Programming, Philosophy, Knowledge Exchange, Pedagogy

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

Valerie Carr Design for health and wellbeing, therapeutic environments, workplace design, post occupancy evaluation, community engagement, design for social innovation, codesign

John Chisholm Innovation, Design Management, European Policy, Business Support

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

Paul Coulton Digital Design, Game Design, Design Fiction, UX Design, Play, Toys, Mobile, Gameful Design, Fun, Interaction Design, Bricolage, Storytelling

Claire Coulton Liveable Cities Project Administrator and Editorial Assistant (The Design Journal)

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, Design and Branding, Design Policy, Design Thinking, New Product Development

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

Drew Hemment Art Curation, Open Data, Social Technologies, Smart Cities, Digital Innovation

Naomi Jacobs Senior Research Associate, The Creative Exchange

Vicky Lund Proud Project Administrator

Laura Morris 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

Nicola Sarjent Team Coordinator

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

Sam Birchall

Multi-user Environment Programmer

AI, Programming, Philosophy, Knowledge Exchange, Pedagogy

s [dot] birchall [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

Sam came to Imagination Lancaster after studying Intelligent Systems and Philosophy, with an independent study specialising in modelling empathy as a function. He has a wide and varied background in many academic disciplines with unions on the theme of mind and intelligence, especially agent-based and emergent systems.

He is currently working as part of the New IDEAs team realising creative toolkits for use in digital knowledge exchange. Sam's likes to indulge his mind-bits in activities such as reading sci-fi, writing and performing poetry, singing sea shanties and old chain-gang blues songs, balancing chairs on his chin and drawing famous people as otters.

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 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 once the post-its...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

Event2 months and 26 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

Digital KE Tools

After six months or so of technical development, we are now creating the first tools that run on our digital KE platform.

By focusing first on creating a stable platform, New IDEAS has opened the door to rapidly creating a wide range of digital tools. Our platform takes care of all the data...Read full update

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

Knowledge Exchange Tool Co-Design Continues Across the University

The three part series of labs run as part of the New Ideas project may have finished in December 2012, but the development of the tools created in the labs continues this year.

The New Ideas team are the in process of meeting with each of the lab participants across the different faculties in...Read full update