The Value of Design: A study of the role of design in innovation
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Lancaster Inst for the Contemporary Arts
Abstract
The principal research aim of this research project is to identify the specific conditions (e.g. leadership, culture, briefing processes) under which design is likely to make a substantial contribution to certain forms of innovation.
Working with the TSB and the Creative Industries KTN the research will create a framework of categories which constitute the range of conditions under which design can contribute to innovation., this will include the ways in which organisations can absorb and diffuse design's value to innovation, the leadership styles and roles necessary and the cultural and environmental factors. The work will make explicit the complex briefing process and evaluation of exemplar projects, identifying design specific innovation where is exists. The research will make recommendations on the application and scalability of the findings.
Working with the TSB and the Creative Industries KTN the research will create a framework of categories which constitute the range of conditions under which design can contribute to innovation., this will include the ways in which organisations can absorb and diffuse design's value to innovation, the leadership styles and roles necessary and the cultural and environmental factors. The work will make explicit the complex briefing process and evaluation of exemplar projects, identifying design specific innovation where is exists. The research will make recommendations on the application and scalability of the findings.
Publications
Alter H
(2019)
Learning by design. How engagement practitioners use tools to stretch the creative potential of their citizen participation practice
in The Design Journal
Cooper R
(2016)
Design Value: the role of design in innovation
Cooper R
(2019)
Design research - Its 50-year transformation
in Design Studies
Cooper R
(2018)
ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse
in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation
Cooper R
(2018)
ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse
in She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation
Cooper, R.
(2014)
Measuring Design Research
Cooper, R.
(2015)
Design Future and Design Incubation
Cooper, R.
(2015)
Connecting to Excellent Research
Cooper, R.
(2014)
Design Innovation Research Event
| Description | Academy of Design Innovation Management Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address with professional practitioner about the use of design in industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Approaches to Design Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speaker on Approaches to Design Research, and significant outcome was the encouraging of academics to develop design research initiatives |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | CHEAD Space & Place meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk to Council for Education in Art and Design about Design Research at Imagination |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Design For Change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chaired the first day, summing up the thinking throughout the day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Design Innovation Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote and recipient of life time achievment award |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Design in Context |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Design in Context at Instanbul Bilgi University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | EAD Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The future of Design education was debated |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | EXALT Paris |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address on the Value of Design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Emerging Models for Transdisciplinary Design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | International adotion of interdisciplinary research - Panel member |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | European Academy of Design Presidential Speech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A review of the Design Research community and history |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Evolving cities Keynote: Creating Healthy cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion virtual and physical about the design of future places |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | How to influence Government Innovation and Design Policies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speaker on Influencing Government Innovation and Design Policies. This influenced a change in the way Design Education is evaluated internationally |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | IASDR Keynote Thinking differently, designing radically |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on how we need to change the way we think and design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ID@50 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a talk on the move towards an integrated approach in design manegment, the new complexities of design and outcomes of design integration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | International Society Associations of Design Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Summing up the days presentations and illustrating the pathway to the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Panel Guest Cancer Research UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel Discussion on the role of the environment as a contributor to Non communicable Disease more specifically Cancer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to University of Tehran |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | presentation to the University of Tehran |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Great Competition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The Great Competition, The Design Museum completion. Panel judge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of the Arts Lisbon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote address on the Value of Design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |