Imagination is an open and exploratory design-led research centre conducting applied and theoretical research into current and future challenges relating to people, products, spaces, services, systems, and complex systems of systems.
We are delighted to announce Permission to Muck About. This film has been over 3 years in the making and represents a major output from the Design Research Works project and its aim is to show the world what it can gain from Design Research.
It is the culmination of hundreds of hours of workshops and interviews, conversations and explorations and all kinds of other digressions and includes interviews with a cross-section of world-leading Design Researchers.
Our hope is that the film will contribute towards increasing awareness of the broad value of Design Research to those outside of the Design Research community. Alongside we hope it will help galvanise the community around the common issues and challenges we face.
We have extensive experience collaborating with academics, public, private and third sectors to deliver research with measurable real world economic and societal impact. Through in-depth collaboration we apply our exploratory research to address the complex challenges identified by industry, public and private sectors, national and international governments.
Our diverse team of researchers including designers, architects, creative technologists and more take a cutting-edge, design-led, interdisciplinary approach to create and evaluate next generation places, products and services.
Explore our website, we have many resources to help you understand the wide ranging research we undertake here at Imagination. Our “Little Book of” series are short books to share and explain some of our research and are all freely available to download and we have developed the Leapfrog tools to help you engage, understand, and work with diverse teams. These and other resources can be found here.
If you would like to understand better what design research is and how it helps drive us towards solutions for societal challenges please look at our “What is Design Research?” page.
