The Next Generation: Design Research for the 21st Century
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Lancaster Inst for the Contemporary Arts
Abstract
A core part of the UK's Industrial Strategy is to maintain and promote our position as a global leader in world-changing technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Such technologies will allow us to drive the UK economy forwards as well as helping to address universal challenges such as healthy ageing, our changing climate, and securing our future work lives. However, because the IoT and AI fundamentally change how we live, as well as driving adoption of these technologies we must invest in developing new ways of understanding how acceptable they are. These technologies have profound consequences for our privacy, how we develop trust, and how we form our ethical judgements.
Core to the new multi-dimensional reality emerging through technology, we need new ways to understand the challenges and opportunities it presents. 'Design Research' can play a crucial role in this. Design-led approaches are particularly effective and critical for bringing together multiple perspectives (e.g. the engineering requirements of a new technology, what you might achieve with that technology, and how somebody might use the technology day-to-day) and this allows Design Research to produce rich and meaningful perspectives not only on what technology is doing right now, but what it might do in the near future. When the IoT and AI influence every aspect of our lives-what media we see, who we date, who gets hired, what healthcare we receive, which route we take to work, and so on, then it is crucial that we develop new ways to think about its implications. This is what this groundbreaking research programme aims to achieve.
By working with a range of prestigious project partners (Microsoft Research, The Royal Society for Arts Innovation and Commerce, The Cabinet Office, The University of Oxford, The University of Edinburgh and Sheffield Institute for Arts) over a 4-year period this fellowship will lay the foundations for a new generation of Design Research that is specifically created for and fit to address the challenges of the 21st Century.
Core to the new multi-dimensional reality emerging through technology, we need new ways to understand the challenges and opportunities it presents. 'Design Research' can play a crucial role in this. Design-led approaches are particularly effective and critical for bringing together multiple perspectives (e.g. the engineering requirements of a new technology, what you might achieve with that technology, and how somebody might use the technology day-to-day) and this allows Design Research to produce rich and meaningful perspectives not only on what technology is doing right now, but what it might do in the near future. When the IoT and AI influence every aspect of our lives-what media we see, who we date, who gets hired, what healthcare we receive, which route we take to work, and so on, then it is crucial that we develop new ways to think about its implications. This is what this groundbreaking research programme aims to achieve.
By working with a range of prestigious project partners (Microsoft Research, The Royal Society for Arts Innovation and Commerce, The Cabinet Office, The University of Oxford, The University of Edinburgh and Sheffield Institute for Arts) over a 4-year period this fellowship will lay the foundations for a new generation of Design Research that is specifically created for and fit to address the challenges of the 21st Century.
Planned Impact
The fellowship aims to establish Design Research as the preeminent means to understand and respond to the socio-technical complexities arising from the ongoing adoption of technologies such as the IoT and AI. The outputs of the research will impact a wide range of beneficiaries. In order to maximise these benefits, and central to the leadership goals and engagement activities, an ideology of openness (insofar as it is possible with respect to partner projects) is paramount for the fellowship's success. Impact will benefit the following:
1) In the short term the project partners will each benefit and represent direct impact across multiple contexts: private sector (Microsoft), public sector (Cabinet Office), 3rd sector (The RSA); Russell Group research-led departments of Computer Science (Oxford) and Design Informatics (Edinburgh), and a teaching-led post-1992 Art and Design Institute (Sheffield Hallam).
Benefit: The use of bespoke Design Research interventions: techniques, tools, methods, and theory specifically created to help these organisations operate efficiently and sustainably, maximising benefits (e.g. social and economic) and minimising harmful disruption (e.g. issues arising from lack of privacy, trust, security, ethical considerations), associated with adoption of technologies including the IoT and AI. Moreover the project partners will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to utilise Design Research to maintain/evolve this benefit independently from the fellowship.
2) In the short/medium term, organisations related to the project partners or in related industries will benefit (e.g. tech companies - Google, BT, Facebook, IBM, etc; the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport; Government Office for AI; Institute for Government; PETRAS2 - the UK's IoT Centre for Excellence; consumer rights organisations such as Which? magazine; the Information Commissioners Office; the Turing Institute).
Benefit: As with project partner benefits, these organisations will be able to utilise Design Research based techniques, tools, methods and theories to optimise adoption of the IoT and AI. These benefits are particularly relevant to producing IoT/AI services and products (e.g. tech companies); designing policy and regulating those products (e.g. DCMS, Government Office for AI, the ICO); and trying to understand and research them (e.g. PETRAS2, Turing Institute, Which?).
3) In the medium/long term customers, citizens, users, employees, and students of impacted organisations will benefit.
Benefit: IoT and AI will change the way we live in a prolonged and profound way; healthcare, transport, housing, work, watching television and going dating - all aspects of life will be effected. A huge variety of 'users' will ultimately benefit from the fellowship's research as the utilisation of Design Research across sectors helps provides techniques, tools, methods and theory which facilitate responsible and sustainable adoption of IoT and AI.
4) In the short/medium term the wider public will benefit.
Benefit: Via the comprehensive engagement and impact programme (e.g. Impact story films, Podcast series, Little Book of Design Research, and media engagement) the wider public will benefit by gaining a deeper understanding of the IoT/AI, equipping them to make more informed judgements, and hence minimise risks relating to adopting IoT/AI technologies.
1) In the short term the project partners will each benefit and represent direct impact across multiple contexts: private sector (Microsoft), public sector (Cabinet Office), 3rd sector (The RSA); Russell Group research-led departments of Computer Science (Oxford) and Design Informatics (Edinburgh), and a teaching-led post-1992 Art and Design Institute (Sheffield Hallam).
Benefit: The use of bespoke Design Research interventions: techniques, tools, methods, and theory specifically created to help these organisations operate efficiently and sustainably, maximising benefits (e.g. social and economic) and minimising harmful disruption (e.g. issues arising from lack of privacy, trust, security, ethical considerations), associated with adoption of technologies including the IoT and AI. Moreover the project partners will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to utilise Design Research to maintain/evolve this benefit independently from the fellowship.
2) In the short/medium term, organisations related to the project partners or in related industries will benefit (e.g. tech companies - Google, BT, Facebook, IBM, etc; the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport; Government Office for AI; Institute for Government; PETRAS2 - the UK's IoT Centre for Excellence; consumer rights organisations such as Which? magazine; the Information Commissioners Office; the Turing Institute).
Benefit: As with project partner benefits, these organisations will be able to utilise Design Research based techniques, tools, methods and theories to optimise adoption of the IoT and AI. These benefits are particularly relevant to producing IoT/AI services and products (e.g. tech companies); designing policy and regulating those products (e.g. DCMS, Government Office for AI, the ICO); and trying to understand and research them (e.g. PETRAS2, Turing Institute, Which?).
3) In the medium/long term customers, citizens, users, employees, and students of impacted organisations will benefit.
Benefit: IoT and AI will change the way we live in a prolonged and profound way; healthcare, transport, housing, work, watching television and going dating - all aspects of life will be effected. A huge variety of 'users' will ultimately benefit from the fellowship's research as the utilisation of Design Research across sectors helps provides techniques, tools, methods and theory which facilitate responsible and sustainable adoption of IoT and AI.
4) In the short/medium term the wider public will benefit.
Benefit: Via the comprehensive engagement and impact programme (e.g. Impact story films, Podcast series, Little Book of Design Research, and media engagement) the wider public will benefit by gaining a deeper understanding of the IoT/AI, equipping them to make more informed judgements, and hence minimise risks relating to adopting IoT/AI technologies.
Organisations
- Lancaster University (Fellow, Lead Research Organisation)
- Simon Fraser University (Collaboration)
- Association for Computing Machinery (Collaboration)
- Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) (Collaboration)
- MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Brantwood (Collaboration)
- Mozilla (Collaboration)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Collaboration)
- Design Museum London (Collaboration)
- Sheffield Hallam University (Project Partner)
- Royal Society of Arts (Project Partner)
- Microsoft (India) (Project Partner)
- University of Edinburgh (Project Partner)
Publications
Lindley J
(2020)
Signs of the Time: Making AI Legible
Stead M
(2020)
Edge of Tomorrow: Designing Sustainable Edge Computing
Pilling F
(2020)
The Process of Gaining an AI Legibility Mark
Lindley J
(2020)
Design Research and Object-Oriented Ontology
in Open Philosophy
Lindley J
(2020)
Ghosts in the Smart Home
Sturdee M
(2020)
The Seven Year Glitch: Unpacking Beauty and Despair in Malfunction
Lindley J
(2020)
Researching AI Legibility through Design
Joseph Lindley
(2020)
AHRC Challenges of the Future: AI and Data
Jacobs N
(2021)
ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT IN THE VIDEO CONFERENCING 'SPACE'
in AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
| Title | A Design-Led Exploration of Material Interactions between Machine Learning and Digital Portraiture |
| Description | Design materials are defined as a combination of what they are, what they do, and the ways they interact with other materials. In this pictorial, we explore the interactions between machine learning (as a design material) and another design material-the human face-in the form of digital portraiture. Employing an exploratory Research through Design approach we consider how machine learning simultaneously enriches and subverts the materiality of the human face. Through a combination of images and text, we offer some considerations and provocations for further research. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Presented as part of the IASDR conference in Hong Kong. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/656078159 |
| Title | An experimental Murmuration: Ways of Seeing Design Research |
| Description | A unique combination of research paper, interactive video-conferencing environment, exhibition and performance. This combined our work into 'ways of seeing design research' with the novel Gather.Town platform to enable an interactive event at the international design festival Uroborus. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Lively discussion, ongoing collaboration and change of views in the audience. |
| URL | https://uroboros.design/person/david-green-joseph-lindley-zach-mason/ |
| Title | Binaural Sound only Game |
| Description | The game has been early development for several months. It is a maze based game navigated through the use of sound only. It aims to develop and expand the accessibility of web based environment through non-visual methods. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The game has led to another funding bid, which will enable us to test and work with blind and visually impaired users to Co-Design the game further. An extended abstract and PhD consortium submission were also created and accepted for the DiGRAs games conference Poland in 2022. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPXWW2WaAPo&ab_channel=ZachMason |
| Title | CoCo: A wellbeing wearable |
| Description | A series of Design Fictions exploring the wellbeing impacts of self-tracking. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Some academic impact via publication at CHI (Human Factors in Computing Conference) |
| URL | http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/update/context-aware-wearables-the-last-thing-we-need-is-a-pandem... |
| Title | Design Research Works |
| Description | An overview of the premise of Design Research Works. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Part of a body of work being used to promote engagement with the project. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/598466635 |
| Title | Design Research and Ambiguity |
| Description | Design Research is powerful, promising and increasingly popular, but it is also ambiguous, broad, and contested. In this paper we draw upon interviews with leading Design Researchers and argue that some facets of this ambiguity hamper Design Research's maturation. This limits the effectiveness of Design to respond to the 21st century's entwined and complex problems. We argue that by understanding why this ambiguity exists and, where possible, attenuating its effects, the field will be galvanised and its ability to impact the world amplified. This work establishes that we may benefit from being clearer about what we mean when we talk about Design Research and explores some strategies for achieving this. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Presented as part of the European Academy of Design Conference. |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/656073946 |
| Title | Lab Engagement Video Diaries |
| Description | Daily video diaries documenting research field trips to 11 design research labs |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Increasing engagement with existing and new audiences |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/lab-engagements/ |
| Title | Machine Learnt Landscapes Web Exhibition |
| Description | The product was a web based 3D exhibition which showcased a earlier project which documented the process of creating a landscape from machine learnt GANs of my own face. It was part of the UCL Media Anthropology Lab's virtual showcase in early 2021. |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | This exhibition lead to a talk at UCLs conference which also lead to running workshops and facilitated networking opportunities. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7b5xueYtQs&ab_channel=ZachMason |
| Title | QuBr |
| Description | An open-ended discussion about Design Research. QuBr began in August 2021 with a question: What is Design Research? This deceptively simple question is the first in a branching sequence of contributions, each including (i) an answer to a question and (ii) a new question... QuBr is inspired by the interactive documentary project, Question Bridge, which pioneered the idea of sourcing questions from a community and posing those questions to others in the community - as a way of exploring that community's shared identity. In borrowing this approach, our aim is to connect the extended Design Research community, and facilitate an open-ended discussion about Design Research. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | QuBr is facilitating dialogue and connection within the Design Research Community. |
| URL | https://qubr.designresearch.works/ |
| Title | QuBr Teaser |
| Description | A dynamic discussion about Design Research... qubr.designresearch.works |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | informative to the development of QuBr, an online interactive Q&A about Design Research |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/597226068 |
| Title | Room for Improvement in the Video Conferencing (Space) |
| Description | This is the video presentation to support a paper published at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, 2021. The paper is available to download here: doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2021i0.12188 The Covid-19 pandemic led to a dramatic shift in the nature of work and collaboration for our design-led research group. In this paper, we describe the experimental use of the Gather Town platform for a variety of communication and collaboration activities. This alternative to standard video conferencing software uses spatial metaphors and attempts to regain some of the affordances of physical co-location such as serendipity and a sense of presence. In creating custom Gather spaces for our team, we found that it brought positive benefits to informal collaboration in work environment. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Presented as part of the AOiR conference 2021 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/656528136 |
| Title | The Hive |
| Description | The Hive is a visual and artistic representation of a week long Design symposium held in the Lake District in August 2022. Consisting of drawings, cartoons, crafts, writings and other representations, the Hive maps and connects the dialogue and discursive content in a visualisation that allows the researchers to re-engage and re-immerse themselves in the learning that took place. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Reengagement with the Hive has led to continued learning and reimagining of research through design???? |
| Title | The Interview Box |
| Description | Prototype for a self-contained documentary film-making box. The box can be used during lockdowns to remotely capture broadcast quality footage. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Research publication, films. |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/the-interview-box |
| Title | The Shape of Trust |
| Description | An interactive web tool allowing users to define a series of geometric shapes in response to prompts about trust. It allows users to define the 'shape' of their own trust. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | The work is due to be presented in the near future at a series of public events where it will be used as a research tool in the first instance. Further collaboration will explore integrating learning based no this work into future autonomous vehicles. |
| Title | The Shape of Trust |
| Description | This is a research and engagement tool designed to capture the 'shape of trust' of participatnts |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Exhibitions at Mozilla Festival and the V&A museum |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/va-ethical-dilemma-cafe |
| Title | This is Not a Paper |
| Description | This is not a paper. It is a video. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Presented at ACM CHI2021 - the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/555156828 |
| Title | This is not a paper |
| Description | Employing a game-like interactive video conferencing system (based on Gather Town) to stretch the boundaries between publication, conference presentation, and performance art. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Influencing conference formats and debate within the Human Computer Interaction community. Contributing to emerging discourse around next generation telepresence systems. |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/thisisnotapaper/ |
| Title | Trust me? (I'm an autonomous machine) |
| Description | Video presentation supporting the Trust me? (I'm an autonomous machine) project |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Increasing engagement |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/trust-me-im-an-autonomous-machine |
| Title | Uroboros: Experimental Murmuration - Introduction |
| Description | An introduction to our experimental murmuration at the Uroboros Festival |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | Part of an online exhibition at Uroboros |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/545528215 |
| Title | Virtual Reality Test Game |
| Description | The product is a virtually reality test environment which was created to explore sensory confusion and physics manipulation and the effects this would have on user immersion. It is composed of a simple cube lifting and throwing based room with different ability being enabled by holding and squeezing the cubes. |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | The game led to an exploration with senses other than sight due to the necessity of sight for standard virtual reality. This flowed into the creation of the sound only game which is currently in development. |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZc9QCouIEE&ab_channel=ZachMason |
| Description | The driver for the award is to gather evidence and promote the value of Design Research in a global sense. At this stage of the project much fundamental work has been done to make sense of the many interrelated practices which make up the Design Research landscape and to understand what factor might help drive its adoption. These factors include clarity of communications about design research, broadening of exposure (e.g., to teach design research in non-design contexts), packaging of materials so that design research is accessible for non-experts. |
| Exploitation Route | There are multiple ways the outcomes may be taken forward: - for design researchers, to draw upon the outcomes as arguments in support of their practice - for policy-makers and innovators, resources to utilise in order to bring the value of design research into their professional roles - for the research community, communications to clarify the role of design research in interdisciplinary teams - in applied contexts (e.g., delivering responsible AI) practical tools to help drive those initiatives. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/ |
| Description | Government units (e.g., Centre for Data, Ethics and Innovation); professional societies (e.g., Association for Computing Machinery); not-for-profits (e.g., Responsible AI Licensing and Partnership on AI); primary schools (e.g., collaboration with Morecambe Bay Partnership); specific user groups (e.g., those with sight loss) - have all reported some impact based on the findings of this work. Such impacts are arising from the Fellowship's goal to gather evidence about, and promote, the value of Design Research in a variety of contexts. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Connected tech: smart or sinister? |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/connected-tech-smart-or-sinister-a-call-for-evidenc... |
| Description | IEEE P2840 Standard for Responsible AI Licensing |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Releasing software in an open source manner is a cornerstone of the development community, allowing for the spread and germination of technical advances and best practices. For AI technologies, open source is a more controversial topic. Given that these technologies evidence tremendous capacities, there are certain areas where use restrictions become important to support the adoption of AI technologies along open, democratic and responsible lines. The RAIL working group and the IEEE standard it establishes is therefore a milestone in dealing with this topic. At the time of writing (02/03/2023), the pre-standard RAIL working group endeavors are already massively impactful on the largest AI model distributor, HuggingFace, where 5,797 models are licensed under a RAIL-type license. |
| URL | https://www.licenses.ai/ |
| Description | Parliamentary inquiry into Governance of artificial intelligence (AI) submission |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Committee better informed as to the state of the art research approaches. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-104 |
| Description | Beyond Imagination: Workshop Grant |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 05/2022 |
| Description | Co-Designing Audio Games: Vice Chancellors Prize for Participatory Research |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT |
| Amount | £1,006,120 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W024780/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | RBOC N+ - Resilience Beyond Observed Capabilities |
| Amount | £1,829,947 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/X009947/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2022 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Seeing with Sound: A Game Co-Created with Blind and Visually Impaired People |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | Trust me? (I'm an autonomous machine) - TAS Pump Priming |
| Amount | £186,748 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | ACM |
| Organisation | Association for Computing Machinery |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We agreed with ACM that the outputs of our project will be shared with relevant committees (e.g., their Technology Policy Committee) in order to assess the value of this kind of approach. |
| Collaborator Contribution | ACM have provided access to a number of committee chairs and staff. |
| Impact | Forthcoming output will be a report into the viability of Design Led interventions as a tool for ACM committees to form and critique their policies. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Brantwood |
| Organisation | Brantwood |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Developing a case for relevance for John Ruskin's writing to 21st century technological dilemmas, e.g., Trust. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Several meetings with the project team to discuss Ruskin's writings and history. |
| Impact | Main output is forthcoming in the form of an interactive Trust tool inspired by Ruskin's view of the natural/technological world. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Design Museum |
| Organisation | Design Museum London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We partnered with the Design Museum to develop and create a Design Research intervention, to be delivered by the Design Museum's education arm, as a research vehicle. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design Museum team met with us on several occasions to shape the project and discuss ways in which we can drive impact through the partnership. |
| Impact | The significant output is currently a work in progress. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Emerging Minds Special Interest Research Group |
| Organisation | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Participation in special interest group exploring how to use co-production techniques to engage young people in understanding their relationships with mental health better. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dr James Duggan convened the group of 10-15 professionals. |
| Impact | The work has provided the foundation for further funding and further collaboration as well as a series of arts-based workshops with young people. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Ethical Dilemma Cafe |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Department | BBC Research & Development |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Ethical Dilemma Cafe (EDC) is a satellite event lead by BBC R&D that engages the public at various events surrounding societal and cultural issues associated with emerging technology in the form of interactive installations. For the EDC at MozFest (Mozilla Foundation) 2022 as well as the London Design Festival 2022, Dr Lindley and Dr Benjamin contributed two interactive installations related to ongoing research projects, first concerning trustworthiness of autonomous vehicles and second concerning the use of AI technologies in photography. |
| Collaborator Contribution | BBC R&D (for MozFest 2022 and London Design Festival) and Mozilla Foundation (for MozFest 2022) provided organisational and administrative support in the curation of the event, the spatial and infrastructural requirements of the installations contributed by Dr Lindley and Dr Benjamin. |
| Impact | Through the installations at EDC MozFest 2022 and EDC London Design Festival 2022, more than 1,000 members of the public were engaged relating to issues surrounding emerging technologies, with on-site ad-hoc discussions mediated by the interactive installations. Collaboration is by nature multidisciplinary, as the partners each represent various disciplinary backgrounds related to creative (design, prototyping), technical (AI, Internet of Things) and societal (Citizenship, Surveillance) domains. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Ethical Dilemma Cafe |
| Organisation | Mozilla |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Ethical Dilemma Cafe (EDC) is a satellite event lead by BBC R&D that engages the public at various events surrounding societal and cultural issues associated with emerging technology in the form of interactive installations. For the EDC at MozFest (Mozilla Foundation) 2022 as well as the London Design Festival 2022, Dr Lindley and Dr Benjamin contributed two interactive installations related to ongoing research projects, first concerning trustworthiness of autonomous vehicles and second concerning the use of AI technologies in photography. |
| Collaborator Contribution | BBC R&D (for MozFest 2022 and London Design Festival) and Mozilla Foundation (for MozFest 2022) provided organisational and administrative support in the curation of the event, the spatial and infrastructural requirements of the installations contributed by Dr Lindley and Dr Benjamin. |
| Impact | Through the installations at EDC MozFest 2022 and EDC London Design Festival 2022, more than 1,000 members of the public were engaged relating to issues surrounding emerging technologies, with on-site ad-hoc discussions mediated by the interactive installations. Collaboration is by nature multidisciplinary, as the partners each represent various disciplinary backgrounds related to creative (design, prototyping), technical (AI, Internet of Things) and societal (Citizenship, Surveillance) domains. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Everyday design studio (lab engagement) |
| Organisation | Simon Fraser University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Conducted research workshop, several presentations, and completed interviews with the Everyday Design Studio Team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing time to research workshops and filmed interviews. |
| Impact | Ongoing film production and website development |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Homeware Lab (lab engagemetn) |
| Organisation | Simon Fraser University |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Conducted research workshop, several presentations, and completed interviews with the Homeware Lab team |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing time to research workshops and filmed interviews. |
| Impact | Ongoing film production and website development |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | TU Delft StudioLab (Lab engagement) |
| Organisation | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Conducted research workshop, several presentations, and completed interviews with the studiolab team. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Contributing time to research workshops and filmed interviews. |
| Impact | Ongoing film production and website development |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Title | Entoptic Field Camera |
| Description | The Entoptic Field Camera is a web application (HTML/CSS/Javascript, with python backend) that allows users to take an image with their smartphone and receive an AI-generated interpretation of that image. First developed as part of Dr Benjamin's doctoral research, it has served as the pivot in a design-led, multi-collaborator investigation around AI technologies and the specific opportunities for design that they unfold. It has furthermore been exhibited extensively in events of international reach. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Exhibition at the Ethical Dilemma Cafe / MozFest 2022, Ethical Dilemma Cafe / London Design Festival 2022, Dutch Design Week 2022 with a total exceeding 2,000 visitors. Peer-reviewed publication at ACM CHI 2023 |
| URL | https://entoptic.media/cam |
| Title | Entoptic Field Monitor |
| Description | The Entoptic Field Monitor is a web application (HTML/Javascript/CSS, plus python backend) that continuously generates AI-generated interpretation of the incoming webcam stream of a device (e.g., smartphone, tablet). Developed as part of Dr Benjamin's conception and investigation of 'entoptic media' as part of a design-led, multi-collaborator investigation around AI technologies and the specific opportunities for design that they unfold. It has furthermore been exhibited extensively in events of international reach, where it triggered conversations surrounding AI, surveillance, and representation. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Exhibition at the Ethical Dilemma Cafe / London Design Festival 2022 and Dutch Design Week 2022 with a total exceeding 2,000 visitors. Peer-reviewed publication at ACM CHI 2023. |
| URL | https://entoptic.media/monitor |
| Title | Ryelands AI Lab Image Generator |
| Description | Under the title of "Ryelands AI Lab Image Generator", a host of web applications (HTML/CSS/Javascript with a python backend) is subsumed that were created by Dr Jesse Benjamin for a collaborative project with the Morecambe Bay Curriculum Committee. Together with Dr Joseph Lindley, these prototypes are used to explore hands-on engagement with cutting-edge generative AI tools (Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT) for primary school children. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Impact | Hands-on engagement with generative AI for primary school children; knowledge transfer to primary school teachers and headteachers |
| Description | 1258 Committee Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 1258 Committee workshops" included several activities such as the creation of a series of land art exhibits, free drawing exercises, and collaborative critique sessions. The 1258 committee was convened by a rolling roster of people that changed day-to-day throughout the whole event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | AAAI: Symposium on Responsible AI |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Design-led ways of responding to the challenges of responsible AI at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.aaai.org/ |
| Description | AHRC Focus Group on Responsible AI Policy and Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Focus group hosted by AHRC regarding how to strategically align to key issues relating ot AI and policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence: Towards Responsible AI in Surveillance, Media, and Security through Licensing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a provocation and hosted a debate about the value of Design Research approaches for operationalising ethical AI frameworks. In attendance were a wide range of academics, professionals, 3rd sector employees and tech industry professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss20.php |
| Description | Climate Fictions Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-organised this international workshop on climate futures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.climatefictionworkshopicids.com/ |
| Description | Communicating the value of design research |
| 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 | Hosted a 'conversation' event at the Design Research Society conference exploring the value of design research using a question bridge format. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/communicating-the-value-of-design-research |
| Description | Configuring ethical AI in healthcare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Configuring ethical AI in healthcare project was funded by the Wellcome Trust to apply a feminist Science and Technology Studies perspective to exploring how AI can be 'configured' ethically. This activity involved devising, developing and delivering a novel workshop format to capture figurations of an ethical AI are not only descriptive but also performative, but normative implications in policy, technology development and use. The workshop series was conducted across 2021 with various groups of professional AI ethicists. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/new-project-configuring-ethical-ai-in-healthcare/ |
| Description | Consequences, Schmonsequences! Considering the Future as Part of Publication and Peer Review in Computing Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organising and facilitating this workshop at the international conference for Human Factors in Computing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://designresearch.works/schmonsequences-workshop/ |
| Description | Cumulus Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosting a showcase of ImaginationLancaster's design-led research around emerging technologies for the International Cumulus community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Delivering the AI Strategy - the use of new AI technologies in industry and the public sector |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participation in discussions at this event sponsored by the Foundation for Science and Technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.foundation.org.uk/ |
| Description | Design Jamboree |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The DRW team organised a 5 day research symposium called the Design Jamboree which took place in August 2022 at Brathay Hall in the Lake District. 30 designers, researchers, students and thinkers, were invited to attend to discuss Research through Design (RtD). With the focus being on how do we communicate and share that value with the rest of the world? To address the question, the week was organised into specific challenges and aims: How can we articulate the interplay/relationship between RtD and the broader Design, Research, and Innovation landscape? If there was an RtD chapter in A Dummies Guide to Research... what would go into that chapter? If there was an RtD 101 lecture or seminar, for people at different levels (school to postgrad)... what would go in the lecture? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://jamboree.designresearch.works |
| Description | Design Research presentation to Security Lancaster |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Design Research to Lancaster Security Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Design Summit: Flourishing Organisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting a position piece at the international Design Summit series relating to how Design Research may bring about a paradigm shift in how organisations construct strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | EAD PhD Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The EAD PhD event was an informal, student only event with talks from guest speakers and a chance to meet and chat with like-minded design students. It was hosted by some PhD students from Imagination Lancaster including me (Kim) to provide a safe space for people to discuss related issues and topics around PhD life including 'imposter syndrome' and 'fear of the blank page'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://eadresearch.org/conference-programme |
| Description | Entoptic Field Camera @ Ethical Dilemma Cafe / MozFest 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition of the Entoptic Field Camera (research artefact) at the Ethical Dilemma Cafe / MozFest 2022 in Manchester. Dr Benjamin was on site for instruction and ad hoc discussion with visitors of the event, estimated 100 attendees. Visitors could take a selfie with a camera that was transformed by an AI technology, which sparked conversation surrounding bias and subtle distortions brought about by AI technologies in smartphones. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Entoptic Field Monitor @ Dutch Design Week 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition of the Entoptic Field Monitor (research artefact) at the Dutch Design Week 2022 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Dr Benjamin was on site for instruction and ad hoc discussion with visitors of the event, estimated 2000 individual attendees of the interactive installation. Visitors were confronted with an application on a tablet that continuously took images that were transformed by an AI technology, which sparked conversation surrounding surveillance, bias and subtle distortions of reality brought about by AI technologies in smartphones and other imaging applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Entoptic Field Monitor @ Ethical Dilemma Cafe / London Design Festival 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Exhibition of the Entoptic Field Monitor (research artefact) at the London Design Festival 2022 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Dr Benjamin was on site for instruction and ad hoc discussion with visitors of the event, estimated 2000 individual attendees of the interactive installation. Visitors were confronted with an application on a tablet that continuously took images that were transformed by an AI technology, which sparked conversation surrounding surveillance, bias and subtle distortions of reality brought about by AI technologies in smartphones and other imaging applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Festival of Emergence: Moments of Imagination |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Hosted a show and tell event promoting the range of Design-led activities conducted at ImaginationLancaster, shared with an international community via the Design Research Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://imagination.lancaster.ac.uk/update/drs-festival-of-emergence/ |
| Description | Festival of Emergence: QuBr |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Launch of the QuBr (Question Bridge) project as part of the Design Research Society's festival of emergence. This is an online engagement tool with a broad reach. Reached ~500 people during the launch event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://qubr.designresearch.works/ |
| Description | How to make a short research film |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A half day workshop on making research videos. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Human-Data Interaction through Design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organising and facilitating this workshop to define a forward-looking agenda for Human Data Interaction, conducted at the international conference for Human Factors in Computing (CHI) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://designresearch.works/chi2021-hdi-workshop/ |
| Description | Interaction Design and Architectures Journal: 'Meet the Authors' |
| 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 | Participation in expert panel associated with this journal special issue on Speculative Design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/interaction-design-and-architectures-journal-meet-the-authors |
| Description | Interviews with Audrey Desjardins, James Pierce, etc |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |
| Description | Interviews with Elisa Giaccardi, Peter Jan Stappers, etc |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |
| Description | Interviews with Jayne Wallace, Abi Durrant, etc |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |
| Description | Interviews with Kristina Anderson, Dan Lockton, etc |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |
| Description | Interviews with Marie Louise Juul Sondergaard, Andrew Morrison, etc. |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |
| Description | Interviews with Ron Wakkary, Will Odom, etc |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |
| Description | Introductory lecture to RtD |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | General introductory lecture for masters students in Dundee |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Invited talk University of Leeds Sociologies of AI Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited 90 minute lecture to the University of Leeds Sociology of AI Network. The network encompasses staff and students across disciplines and schools at Leeds university. The title of the talks was: Design. Research. AI-ght? This talk introduced Design Research and used examples to explain why it may be the one of the most profound tools we have to temper our rapidly changing relationships with Artificial Intelligence. The world is more complex than it ever has been before. Socio-technological assemblages made up of humanity and technology (and often involving the Internet of Things, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence) are a driver of this complexity. Meanwhile the pace of technology-based change is ever increasing. We have made a brand-new world, one which is complex, fast, globalised, digital, unequal, and technological. Hence, we need brand-new methods to help us understand that world. The question is what methods are suitable to respond to 21st century complexity? In this talk I will argue that one of the best answers is Design Research. In making this point I explored several additional questions: What is Design Research? How do you do it? What are its limitations? Can we design our way out of (or into) an AI apocalypse? Who is the ghost in the smart home? Is un oeuf really enough? What is it like to live with a senile robot? In answering these questions, and drawing on a range of examples, I demonstrated some of the roles that Design Research can play in contemporary studies of Philosophy, Sociology, Ethics and Human-Computer Interaction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Invited talk to the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence for loT Systems Cybersecurity Community Development Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to discuss my research and successful FLF application to the PETRAS Academic Community. The event was hosted by Prof Dave De Roure (University of Oxford and Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute). The PETRAS Community encompasses a consortium of 22 research institutions and the world's largest socio-technical research centre focused on the future implementation of the IoT. Since this talk I have actively supported Dr Leonie Tancer in her FLF application. Dr Tancer (UCL) is a former PETRAS post doc and is now lecturer at UCL. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Delft |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/9933001 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Edinburgh |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/10118467 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Eindhoven |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/9933003 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Newcastle |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/10037140 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Oslo |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/9968905 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Seattle |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/9932997 |
| Description | Lab Engagement Vancouver |
| 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 | We spent a week connecting with Design Researchers in their Research Labs and Studios, as well as out-and-about in locations in the city. The visit included a talk, a workshop, filmmaking, and knowledge exchange / dialogue with Design Research experts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/showcase/9932991 |
| Description | Lecture and Student Critique for UN Futuring Peace - North East Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The UN Futuring Peace initiative seeks to engage undergraduate students in ways of exploring more sustainable and peaceful futures. Delivered a lecture and provided critical comments on the student projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Machine Learning and Place Making Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of paper on drones at this international symposium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Metaphors for Human-AI Interaction |
| 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 | Attended and contributed to this Microsoft hosted workshop on metaphors in AI, also contributing to the writing of a whitepaper based on the discussions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Not Equal Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Facilitating the final day of the EPSRC "Not Equal Summer School" event, presenting to students design-led methods for exploring the inequalities of 21st century socio-technical systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/summerschool/ |
| Description | Panel: More than human: creative fuel or short term fad? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | At the 2022 edition of the Design Research Society Conference in Bilbao, particiation in this panel discussion about More Than Human Design: "There has been a recent and active exploration of concepts and approaches in design and beyond that can be loosely classified as "beyond-human-centred", "posthuman", or "more-than-human". Whilst this area of thought is broad and heterogeneous, one of the core pillars is looking beyond the human. This can be in terms of definition (e.g., who is a human?), subjects of design (e.g., designing for non-humans), and how we see the hierarchies, or lack thereof, that structure our perceptions (e.g., exploring a "flat ontology")" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/panel-more-than-human-centeredness |
| Description | Podcast: 21st century enlightenment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Appearance on Near Future Laboratory podcast discussing the design research jamboree on the 3rd space |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/podcast-21st-century-enlightenment |
| Description | Podcast: Design Fiction and the Generalist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Apperance on the Near Future Laboratory Podcast, discussing design fiction and generalism. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/postcast-with-near-future-lab |
| Description | Podcast: can AI be ethical? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Appearance on the living with AI podcast discussing whether AI can be ethical |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/podcast-can-ai-be-ethical |
| Description | Presentation of paper for alt.chi 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented a fictional advertisement (attached in url) followed by an explanation of the fictional paper 'Context-Aware Wearables' with a section for q&a and discussion from the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIW_P-zNfTQ |
| Description | Radio Appearance: RNIB Connect |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Discussing the Seeing with Sound video game on RNIB Radio with David Hogg |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/blog/rnib-connect-apperance |
| Description | RtD Community Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Team of international design researchers participating in workshop to brainstorm the future of the Research through Design Conference and broader community. Report to Research through Design conference steering committee and proposal to host conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RtD Pluriverse Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to discuss the 'pluriverse' of design research (e.g., practices that are related but have different terminologies). To be incorporated into forthcoming website, lecture materials and films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | RtD mapping workshop at Design Jamboree |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Team of international design researchers creating map of diagrams related to Research through Design. To be incorporated into forthcoming website, lecture materials and films. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Seeing Design Research: An Experimental Murmuration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Showcasing our 'Ways of Seeing' project at this international design festival, hosting 30+ festival attendees in a talk and panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://uroboros.design/person/david-green-joseph-lindley-zach-mason/ |
| Description | Seminar for Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation, showcasing design-led methods, to the policy professionals at CDEI, DCMS, and ONS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Talk at UCL Media Anthropology Lab Virtual 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 virtual conference occurred online and was accompanied by a 3D virtual exhibition. Artists and researchers came to talk about their work form a variety of countries and digital and non-digital perspectives. The live viewers were around 400 with many viewing later the recordings made, as well as the virtual exhibition and continued outreach to UCL. This took the form of several workshops run by Zach (myself) to teach masters students about 3D modelling basics in order to fuel their virtual space creation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=287786702730591 |
| Description | The Egg/This is not a paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Novel presentation of "This is not a paper" publication using the Gather Town platform - an open discussion about conference formats, publication, and interactive technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/thisisnotapaper/ |
| Description | Trust me? I'm an autonomous machine; Consultative workshop with Trust/Autonomy Professionals |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Organising and hosting a consultative workshop for professionals working in and around autonomous systems and issues relating to Trust. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.tas.ac.uk/asking-the-experts-so-what-is-trust-anyway/ |
| Description | Trust me? I'm an autonomous machine; Mozfest Exhibition |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the 'shape of trust' outcome at the international Mozfest festival event in Manchester. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UCL 3D modelling workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Several workshops were run by myself (Zach) teaching masters students to 3D model and texture onto this using blender. This was with an aim for a further project which would create a virtual museum in collaboration with indigenous people from brazil. The workshop was really successful in teaching them enough to get going and the current virtual space can be seen in the attached link. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.uclmal.com/virtual-museum |
| Description | Understanding Artificial Intelligence: How to Spot a Mutant Algorithm (ESRC Festival of Social Science) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The ESRC Festival of Social Science is an annual, UK-wide, free celebration of the social sciences comprising of over 300 individual events. This event showcases how Design-led methods can be used to demystify the highly technical world of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The event began with the screening of a short film explaining the background to the project and then discusses the unique role of Design in researching the social aspects of AI. The second part of the event was a short interactive workshop where attendees were invited to look at a series of icons and symbols which have been designed to try and explain how AI systems work. The task is to match up the symbols with their meanings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/events/understanding-artificial-intelligence-how-to-spot-a-mutant-algori... |
| Description | Ways of doing doing documentary research: research into, for and through documentary. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this talk, I discussed my experiences as a researcher and documentary-maker in various contexts. I focused on projects combining documentary and research in interesting ways, including my current research, which seeks to develop new ways of understanding design research through a multifaceted documentary project. I framed the discussion around three approaches to documentary research: research into documentary (i.e. learning about documentary); research for documentary (i.e. developing tools, systems and processes to enable, support and advance documentary) and research through documentary (i.e. creating new knowledge through the processes of making documentaries). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://uclic.ucl.ac.uk/news-events-seminars/uclic-research-seminar-31st-of-march-dave-green-lancast... |
| Description | Workshop "Designing an Atlas of RtD" - Delft |
| 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 | Workshop to co-create an Atlas/database of RtD projects. The workshop was conducted in TU/Delft. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-an-atlas-of-rtd-tickets-441066360357 |
| Description | Workshop "Designing an Atlas of RtD" - Edinburgh |
| 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 | Workshop to co-create an Atlas/database of RtD projects. The workshop was conducted in the University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-an-atlas-of-rtd-tickets-487940602477 |
| Description | Workshop "Designing an Atlas of RtD" - Newcastle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to co-create an Atlas/database of RtD projects. The workshop was conducted in Newcastle University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-an-atlas-of-rtd-tickets-465708345197 |
| Description | Workshop "Designing an Atlas of RtD" - Oslo |
| 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 | Workshop to co-create an Atlas/database of RtD projects. The workshop was conducted in the University f Oslo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-an-atlas-of-rtd-tickets-453920878567 |
| Description | Workshop "Designing an Atlas of RtD" - Seatle |
| 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 | Workshop to co-create an Atlas/database of RtD projects. The workshop was conducted in the University of Washignton. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-the-world-needs-design-research-tickets-424217003477 |
| Description | Workshop "Designing an Atlas of RtD" - Vancouver |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to co-create an Atlas/database of RtD projects. The workshop was conducted in Simon Fraser University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-an-atlas-of-rtd-tickets-424231346377 |
| Description | interviews with Chris Speed, Chris Elsden, etc |
| 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 | Ethnographic filmed interviews, designed to generate insights into the current challenges facing design researchers, as well as to generate video materials for a forthcoming documentary film project about research through design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://designresearch.works/documentary |