The Networked Production or Architectural Icons: Exceptional Planning in the development of London's Iconicity
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Environment, Education and Development
Abstract
Building on the research expertise in design, digital technologies and the creative sector across five core NWCDTP partner institutions (Lancaster, Manchester Metropolitan, Liverpool, Manchester and Salford Universities), innovative cooperation and collaboration across the whole consortium will help to deliver new product and service opportunities for businesses in the North West. Our approach draws upon the NWCDTP's research excellence in design, technology and the creative sector, and the consortium's experience in innovative in doctoral training.
Through interdisciplinary collaboration linking large and small-scale businesses together, students will undertake an applied PhD typically comprising three or four thematically linked projects with industry partners. Adopting a open and cross-industry approach, students will fuse science and technology with creative techniques, integrating place- and thematic-based responses to foster conditions for a sustainable, resilient and inclusive economy.
Through interdisciplinary collaboration linking large and small-scale businesses together, students will undertake an applied PhD typically comprising three or four thematically linked projects with industry partners. Adopting a open and cross-industry approach, students will fuse science and technology with creative techniques, integrating place- and thematic-based responses to foster conditions for a sustainable, resilient and inclusive economy.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Albena Yaneva (Primary Supervisor) | |
| Benjamin Blackwell (Student) |
| Description | Managing the GEIC |
| Organisation | Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project involved a number of semistructured interviews with users of the recently opened Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre as well as walking interviews/shadowing and ethnographic observation. This project was treated as a post-occupancy study, in which the research looked to understand how networks were able (or were not able) to form in the space. The project looked to understand the interactions between social and technical networks in the facility. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner offered contacts and arranged a number of interviews as well as taking me on walking tours, giving me access to meetings and allowing me to shadow them during a working day. |
| Impact | The project output was a report that I compiled with my findings which was given to the project partners for their internal use. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Mapping Graphene City |
| Organisation | Graphene Enabled Systems Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This project involved the collection and visualisation of data regarding the research and development of Graphene in Manchester. Due to scarcity of such data, the project primarily focussed on scientomentric mapping and visualisations but also visualised themes relating to funding sources and media analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project partner offered contacts and took part in regular feedback sessions in which the data and visualisations were interrogated, analysed and improved. |
| Impact | The project produced an array of visualisations. These have been presented in part at conferences and a number of them will be included in future publications. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Workshop at Kings College London: multidisciplinary collaborations to interdisciplinary communities. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a two day workshop in which presentations and discussions were held on the topic of interdisciplinarity. Future collaboration on the topic, in terms of special issues and conference panels were discussed at the end of the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |