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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.

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.

Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

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

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

Creative Exchange Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy

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

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

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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

BARTER

moBile sociAl netwoRking supporTing local Ethical tRading

This project will investigate whether gameful design of mobile and ubiquitous computing can be used to enhance local ethical trade initiatives by: combining elements of social networking, alongside elements derived from Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS) and Local/Community currencies to produce a new approach we term a Local Wealth Generation System that will encourage individuals to move from seeing themselves as private consumers to public citizens. This research project will be conducted ‘In The Wild’ through support from the EPSRC.

Project Team

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

Jon Whittle Department of Computing

Mark Lochrie School of Computing and Communications

Mike Hallam Lancaster Ethical Small Traders Association

Partners / Funders

Project Partners

Lancaster Ethical Small Traders Association (ESTA)

NuBlue

Project Funders

EPSRC: Engineering and Physical Sciences Council

Updates

NuBlue provides support for BARTER

NuBlue are providing free hosting for BARTER to log research data in the cloud.

We are delighted that InfoLab21 company NuBlue has offered to provide BARTER with free hosting for the duration of the project. This allows us to utilise a scalable virtual hosting platform t...Read full update

Local Trade-Local Wealth NFC cards

Local Trade – Local Wealth NFC cards.

Today we took delivery of the first batch of Catalyst project Local Trade – Local Wealth NFC cards. These will enable customers to register their trades with members of ESTA in Lancaster during the system alpha trials that will commence shortly. The...Read full update