"The great project for design is to help people decarbonise their lives"
Justin McGuirk, Director Future Observatory and Chief Curator, Design Museum
coastal design, coastal futures, blue humanities, visual design, information visualisation, speculative desig urban+rural futures, more-than-human, biodiversity
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I am a designer and a lecturer who uses practice as an essential part of research and teaching.
My research focusses primarily on coastal environments, particularly intertidal and estuarine areas. Here, I employ a Research Through Design approach to work with interdisciplinary teams and multiple partners (including policy makers and local communities) to explore ways to understand, monitor and design participatory nature-based interventions for coastal adaptation.
Serena Pollastri's full list of publications can be viewed here
Justin McGuirk, Director Future Observatory and Chief Curator, Design Museum
Testing the first prototypes of the SaMPaS toolkit
Author: George Kafka, Future Observatory Curator
Proud to be a part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science
presentations from our design research showcase event in March 2022
A pilot project with Ryelands’ primary school
As a result of a 3-day Communication Symposium held in March 2017 in Lancaster, Liveable Cities has produced a series of informative videos.
a collaborative cartographic workshop
A one-day event to share stories about the last 50 years of protest in Manchester
BBC Radio Manchester's Andy Crane to interview Chris Boyko about the Remembering Resistance project
Interested in making cities more liveable? Have a background in urban design, architecture or design management? This job might be for you!
Using Locally Sourced Materials for the Creation of Community-Involved Coastal Protection
Salt Marsh Participatory Sensing
using design-led approaches for planning, implementing, and monitoring interventions for climate adaptation in coastal areas.
Collecting data stories of biodiversity in Morecambe Bay
Stories of birds, shells, fishermen, and sands
Design sustainable, healthier, safer, high-quality ready-to-eat seafood products to meet the 65+ adults’ needs and reduce food loss
Mapping flows of Morecambe Bay