Dr Leon Cruickshank

Associate Director and Senior Lecturer

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

+44 (0) 1524 510874

l [dot] cruickshank [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk

Leon's core interests relate to how technology can enable new relationships between users and designers and through this allow users to become more active in shaping our society, environment and media. This requires a radical change in the way we think about designers and designing.

This has led to the emergence of designing knowledge exchange as a research area. He is currently involved in 6 funded projects in this area. He is Director of Knowledge Exchange for the £4 million AHRC Creative Knowledge Exchange Hub and UK lead for the €4 million PROUD project looking at knowledge exchange through co-design

Blog: imaginarium42.blogspot.com

PROUD launch Lancaster Co-design Challenge

The PROUD project officially launched in the UK on Tuesday 8th May at ImaginationLab. Over 100 people from business, academic, government and local communities came to hear how co-design is being used to solve complex societal challenges in Lancashire and across Northern Europe.

Keynote...Read full update

Will.i.am and Knowledge Exchange Toolkits

Articleby Leon Cruickshank

New IDEAS is all about designing new KE toolkits (by this we mean creating processes that act as a foil to enable knowledge exchange between others when we are not present). We think we have a pretty good handle on KE and exchange toolkits, having read many KE events and developed many more KE mechanisms.

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The PROUD Sensitising Event 'City Park' Workshop at The Storey

An event at the Storey Creative Industries Centre to turn project consultation in the start of a co-design process. Here people started to design the intervention process for the next 6 months.

The Lancaster City Park initiative was discussed last month at a consultation event, and last...Read full update

PROUD and Co-Design for Local Councillors

Proud sensitising event with the elected members of Lancaster City Council

We ran a sensitizing event recently (on the 23rd April) with a delegation of councilors from Lancaster City Council. This was a very interesting group, we have very good relationships with the Officers of the City...Read full update

PROUD launches at ImaginationLab on the 8th May

Event8 days ago

8^th of May 2012, LICA Building, Lancaster University

We are pleased to announce an open invitation to the launch of the PROUD project at ImaginationLab on the 8th May. Keynote speaker is Stéphane Vincent, founder of the French innovation lab La 27e Région, a laboratory for the...Read full update

PROUD seeks Designers and Creatives

Lancaster University is seeking to procure a pool of designers to work closely with the PROUD project team to develop innovative co-design interventions to address local co-design challenges, broadly looking at place, product and service design.

We are looking for individuals / agencies...Read full update

PROUD launch Lancaster Co-design Challenge

Keynote...Read full update

The PROUD Sensitising Event 'City Park' Workshop at The Storey

An event at the Storey Creative Industries Centre to turn project consultation in the start of a co-design process. Here people started to design the intervention process for the next 6 months.

The Lancaster City Park initiative was discussed last month at a consultation event, and last...Read full update

PROUD and Co-Design for Local Councillors

Proud sensitising event with the elected members of Lancaster City Council

PROUD launches at ImaginationLab on the 8th May

Event8 days ago

8^th of May 2012, LICA Building, Lancaster University

PROUD seeks Designers and Creatives

We are looking for individuals / agencies...Read full update

Proud Master Classes Taking shape

The Master Class work package that Lancaster are leading as part of the Proud project took a big step forward recently with structures, techniques and topics fixed at a meeting in Eindhoven hosted by Capital D with Designregion Kortrijk from Belgium also in attendance.

We will be delivering...Read full update

Will.i.am and Knowledge Exchange Toolkits

Articleby Leon Cruickshank

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Playing with the Proud Identity

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe

As the project continues, our design and branding agency, under the direction of the Capital D, our lead partners have instructed us to take the basic form of the PROUD logo and play with it. This is quite refreshing and also a neat way of sidestepping the endless quest for perfection from the 15 or so designers that are part of the Proud project team across the NW of Europe. Here are some of the different versions so far but I suspect...Read full article

Region27 Co-Design for Public Policy

Articleby Leon Cruickshank, Gemma Coupe

One of the great things about the PROUD project is meeting and working with really interesting and innovative people across Europe. Stephan Vincent fits squarely into this description. He leads the company Region 27 (http://la27eregion.fr) is based in Paris and is focused on working with the 26 regional governments in France (hence the name Region 27).

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PROUD has first Pre-Meeting

Articleby Leon Cruickshank

This is the first 'offical' picture of the PROUD partner team. Hosted by Brainport in Eindhoven this meeting bourght together partners from Falanders, Helsinki, Lancaster, Gremany, Luxemberg, France as well as the Netherlands.

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Book Chapters

Applied Imagination - Designing Innovative Knowledge Transfer Approaches. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Mather, Alison ; Evans, Martyn .

In: Innovation Through Knowledge Transfer. ed. / Robert James Howlett. Berlin : Springer-Verlag,, 2010. p. 219-229 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2010; 4).

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Other Book Contributions

IDEAS: A Knowledge Platform for Innovation, Competitive Performance and Economic Development. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Mather, Alison ; Howells, Jeremy .

In: The 32nd ISBE (Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) Conference - Liverpool, 3rd to 6th November 2009. 2009.

Research output : Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Conference contribution

Journal Articles

Nets: Applied Cognitive Design Tools for Social Networks. / Cruickshank, Leon ; Mortati, Marzia.

In : Tangible and Embedded Interaction, A special issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology , 2012.