School of Design Undergraduate Summer Lab 2023!
First School of Design Summer Lab yields positive results for students developing their portfolios and design identities
Collaboration, Tools, Human-Computer Interaction, Visualisation, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation
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Roger is a designer and a researcher with a range of commercial and academic experience centred on the design of interaction; physical, digital, human-to-computer and human-to-human. He has research and commercial experience in user interface design, user experience design, collaborative design, personal information management, information design and visualisation.
His recent work has focused on enabling people to collaborate and think in new ways, particularly through tools designed for and co-designed by communities. Underlying this is a deep interest in the technologies we use to control information, the structures underpinning work activity, and the evolution of practice alongside these. He has a particular focus on tools, both as resources that can transform the particular challenges individuals face, and as a means to transform the capabilities of organisations and communities. Recent funded projects include The Creative Exchange (AHRC) and Leapfrog (AHRC), both revolving around researching and proposing new ways, means and languages of collaboration
First School of Design Summer Lab yields positive results for students developing their portfolios and design identities
New paper published for alt.chi | CHI 2021
Leapfrog held a large, interactive tool sharing event at Lancaster University to close the Major Project 'Working with Young People' and share the tools that have been co-designed since it began in August 2015
The Leapfrog Team invite Early Career Researchers (ECR) from across the Arts and Humanities to participate in a Summer School from the 4th– 8th July 2016 at The Institute of Design Innovation’s Highland Studio in Forres – a beautiful town in the North of Scotland
On 24th November The Creative Exchange - a joint project between Lancaster, The Royal College of Art and Newcastle University - held a Parliamentary event exploring the value of creativity in education, artistic practice, industry and local commissioning
A Research Dimensions plan for the research that will take place throughout the Working with Young People major project for Leapfrog has been produced
The TimeTape tools are rolls of paper tape printed with different divisions of time, including a working day and a working week to help groups plan activities and projects
The IDEAS for Impact project recently added two new free downloadable tools to the Collaboration and Impact Toolbox website
This year’s theme is Better by Design: Environment, Society & Self and we are delighted to welcome two leading experts in their fields to speak on this topic
IDEAS for Impact ran a session to help early career academics engage with communities outside Lancaster University as part of OED's training programme
There seems to be an emerging case that some challenges of engaging with young people are universal, across all types of engagement, from one-to-one working up to national policy. As unlikely as this seems our tentative analysis of our first activity exploring public sector engagement with young people seems to be pointing in this direction
Following the 'Fostering Creativity' workshop for the V&A Museum, IDEAS for Impact has produced a tool for tracking the team's inspiration
IDEAS for Impact Contributes to OED's Proposal Writing Day
Sharing and debating policy challenges for the AHRC, UK Universities and the UK Government using collaborative digital tools
Sarah Campbell, Head of Schools, Families and Young People at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London describes the workshop designed and delivered by the IDEAS for Impact project
The IDEAS for Impact team are busy preparing for an exciting workshop at the V&A museum in London on the 24th of February
The IDEAS for Impact project developed and delivered a workshop on democratic renewal for the Scottish Government this month
The £1.2 million AHRC project launches with a week long workshop and community consultation project drawing together partners from Lancashire with researches from Imagination and Glasgow School of Art
IDEAS for Impact ran a workshop to offer strategic and practical support for academics from across Lancaster University interested in developing more impactful research
Researchers and academics from the Faculty of Arts and Social Science attended a workshop on Creative Facilitation in Research on Monday 8th December. The workshop was designed and run by the IDEAS for Impact team, who shared some of their tools and techniques
As part of the ongoing ‘Beyond the Castle’ project, Lancaster City and County Councils will be running an intensive hack day in Lancaster Castle at the end of this month
Imagination is looking for someone interested in exploiting the potential of social media to share information and promote collaboration as part of a new project called Leapfrog. This 3 year £1.25million AHRC project will explore how we can help more people be more creative and collaborative with a focus on the public sector
A downloadable tool to help facilitators document and evaluate the new tools they employ in workshops and other sessions
Working with the Scottish Government's Creativity Team and drawing on the research of Imagination PhD student Dee Hennessey we are tackling the challenges of workshop evaluation. Try the free resources included in this post
Imagination Lancaster hosts 'open ideas' day to generate future visions for the North
Last month, the IDEAS for Impact project delivered a workshop that brought together people from all faculties of the university sharing interests and experience in additive manufacturing technology
3D printing is a hugely disruptive technology, with implications that reach deep into business models, engineering approaches and cultural assumptions. Understanding these implications and the opportunities accompanying them requires thinking and research that crosses between disciplines and faculties
3…2…1 Blastoff! IDEAS for Impact Tweet up launches for the first time
Focusing on ‘Interesting Group Collaborations’
How will traditional media such as television and radio adapt as they become part of a larger Internet of Things
The IDEAS for Impact project has time and funding to support collaborative research projects at Lancaster University
The IDEAS for Impact project have launched a new free online resource to help Lancaster academics collaborate and initiate high impact research
Ideas for Impact is a Lancaster University project to support academics across the University in conducting excellent research with significance to the outside world. We are especially interested in helping newly appointed academics to develop high impact research
Forty-five arts and humanities practitioners, academics and funding partners gathered at a N8 event in Lancaster to participate in a workshop that explored how the imagination is being used to influence social and cultural development in the North
The Knowledge Exchange conference was conceived as having three distinct phases and each one of these would have a different feel. With the final morning we wanted people to come into a very austere space with no furniture to introduce our eight KE manifesto points and then literally open the space into something much more dynamic and visual
Useful, well-designed communication and tools played an important role in the interactions taking place at the Knowledge Exchange conference
Marc Tassoul delivered a unique keynote at as part of The Knowledge Exchange conference using sounds rather than words
The final event on the Thursday of The Knowledge Exchange conference was a panel session held at the Storey Institute in Lancaster
Using coffee houses in The Knowledge Exchange Conference as a comfortable location for group discussion around selected themes
Dee Hennessey reflects on the way in which she developed and facilitated a unique and interactive way for the authors to present their conference papers
As part of The Knowledge Exchange conference a New IDEAS digital tool was created to capture a starting point for the conference
The conference is taking place on the 26th and 27th September 2013 at Lancaster University, and is aimed at exploring and propagating new mutually beneficial exchanges between academia and the creative industries
The digital tools being developed as part of the New IDEAS project have been seeing increasing use over the past months. Last week saw major test of the system with the first use of the digital tools outside of the Imagination Laboratory and with the largest number of people using the system at one time so far
The New IDEAS Hexagon Tool is a tactile and versatile method for connecting together ideas in multiple directions during brainstorming, meetings, workshops and other events where knowledge needs to be exchanged
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
A simple but effective tool for revealing motivations in knowledge exchange projects
After six months or so of technical development, we are now creating the first tools that run on our digital KE platform
A simple but effective tool for addressing action points in meetings
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
We are looking to recruit two university funded PhDs to work on the EPSRC Programme Grant Liveable Cities, Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Global and Societal Wellbeing
This week, we completed the final of three labs with the leading knowledge exchange practitioners in the University, marking the end of the first phase if the New IDEAS project
Participants generated tool ideas that would be useful for knowledge exchange activities across the University
Asking the Right Questions to Frame Knowledge Exchange Challenges
Designing Tools for Designing Knowledge Exchange & High Impact Research
A Paper on Designing Knowledge Exchange is Presented at the 2012 DMI Conference
Multi-user platform in development, allowing collaborative data to be created and visualised using a suite of software and hardware tools
Lancaster University is seeking to recruit five PhD students to participate in an exciting collaborative project with a range of academic and industrial partners in the creative and digital industries
The Creative Exchange is picking up pace after the first management meeting for 2012
Launching the Environment 2.0 project connecting the arts and innovation in mobile and social technologies with the renewed urgency surrounding climate change
Building on the ImaginationNets approach to promoting innovation through networks we developed and delivers this workshop and toolkit in a the Imagination facilitation space
This booklet seeks to highlight, frame and hopefully start to answer many of the issues around creativity, collaboration and growth
Embedding new sustainability thinking into day-to-day activities of civil engineering can result in substantial social, economic and environmental benefits for all stakeholders, but, to date, sustainability in consulting engineering is still more of a reactive activity than a proactive one. Through engaging with Civil Engineering consultants, educators and regulators as stakeholders, the series of workshops aims to bring together fresh perspectives on sustainability in consulting engineering in the supply chain
This event concluded the IDEAS at Daresbury series of engagement activities. Decision makers from regional and national funding bodies were brought together to disseminate the project
The Future of TV-workshop brought together experts from BBC’s R&D (Research and Development) section and students from the doctoral programme HighWire at Lancaster University
This workshop has looked at Social Networks and how value can be created through them by providing simple and hands-on tools to benefit from your contacts. Networks are, in fact, an important means through which companies can access knowledge and resources to foster innovation
Embedding research, design and innovation behaviours in the everyday work of the V&A Museum’s Learning Team.
Participants at a Leapfrog and World Design Weeks workshop at Dutch Design Week 2019
An interactive conference, which took place on the 26th and 27th of September 2013 that explored academic engagement with the creative sector as part of The Creative Exchange project
Research into the exchange of knowledge exchange structures rather than the exchange of knowledge itself
Helping industry, educators and policy makers think about sustainable futures
The aim of New IDEAS is to develop, refine and disseminate highly innovative knowledge exchange approaches to local, academic, creative industries and stakeholders that are not dependent on delivery by staff from Imagination for success
A series of 3 workshops aiming at introducing Design to manufacturing SMEs with a particular focus on the role of Service Thinking and Service Design for Innovation
A project to help Lancaster University academics undertake high impact, excellent research
Collaboration for Innovation in Knowledge Exchange
Investigating new forms of social sensing and participatory observation of local environment and climate
Design Research for Turbulent Times
Better by Design: Environment, Society & Self
Innovative Mechanisms for Knowledge Sharing
Creating New Contexts for Growth in the Experience Economy
The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and evaluate new approaches to consultation.