Making Design Research Work: New Knowledge Paradigms and AI Upskilling
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Lancaster Inst for the Contemporary Arts
Abstract
By demonstrating, communicating and empowering the value of Design Research, this programme ultimately seeks to strengthen the UK's global leadership in the responsible development of transformative technologies like AI and IoT. The goal is to ensure these powerful technologies are leveraged to drive positive economic and social impact while proactively addressing critical ethical challenges around privacy, trust, and fairness.
Design Research brings together the creative problem-solving mindset of design, with the analytical rigour of academic research and social science. The UK has been a leader in establishing this unique way of looking at the world, and this Fellowship seeks to empower the world's leading Design Researchers by clarifying and communicating the value of this way of understanding today's challenges and opportunities.
The Fellowship will promote the groundbreaking documentary film about Design Research, Permission to Muck About. The film will bring Design Research to new audiences, and stimulate rich new conversations to help communicate the value of design. The Fellowship will launch the Design Research Observatory, a unique curated collection of the world's best examples of Design Research. Finally the Fellowship the bring together several applied and impact-focused projects that are demonstrating how to put Design Research into action in the wild.
Design Research brings together the creative problem-solving mindset of design, with the analytical rigour of academic research and social science. The UK has been a leader in establishing this unique way of looking at the world, and this Fellowship seeks to empower the world's leading Design Researchers by clarifying and communicating the value of this way of understanding today's challenges and opportunities.
The Fellowship will promote the groundbreaking documentary film about Design Research, Permission to Muck About. The film will bring Design Research to new audiences, and stimulate rich new conversations to help communicate the value of design. The Fellowship will launch the Design Research Observatory, a unique curated collection of the world's best examples of Design Research. Finally the Fellowship the bring together several applied and impact-focused projects that are demonstrating how to put Design Research into action in the wild.
Organisations
- Lancaster University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (Project Partner)
- Simon Fraser University (Project Partner)
- Near Future Laboratory (Project Partner)
- IT University of Copenhagen (Project Partner)
- University of the Arts London (Project Partner)
- Aarhus University (Project Partner)
- Newcastle University (Project Partner)
- Ryelands Primary School (Project Partner)
- Sight Advice South Lakes (Project Partner)
- Arup (Project Partner)
- Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Project Partner)
- Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Project Partner)
- Royal Institute of Technology KTH Sweden (Project Partner)
- University of Cambridge (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford (Project Partner)
- Uroborus Festival (Project Partner)
- University of St Andrews (Project Partner)
- University of Edinburgh (Project Partner)
- New York University (Project Partner)
