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Email	imagination [at] lancaster [dot] ac [dot] uk
Tel.	+44 (0) 1524 510873
Address	ImaginationLancaster LICA Building Lancaster University Bailrigg, Lancaster LA1 4YW, UK

Research

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Current Research Activities

An Open Invitation: Understanding Obesity in our City Learning how obesity is organised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Beyond Imagination Providing fresh perspectives on real world issues and facilitating innovation

Design Fiction: The Movie EPSRC Project Highlighting Imagination Research in Design Fiction

Design Policy Union A collaborative partnership between Imagination and SUAD, China.

Dust Bunny Understanding the home as a source of infection of AMR bacteria carried by dust by exploring hygiene ...

FictionWare For all your future Design Fiction needs!

G Up: Ghanaian specific design and innovation models Working with manufacturing and high-tech company partners to co-design new, locally tailored innovation, ...

ImaginAging Imagining a City with our Senior Citizens

IsITethical? Ethics in Crises IsITethical? is an invitation to take time, and together support creative thinking for the complexity of ...

Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and ...

Liveable Cities Transforming the Engineering of Cities for Global and Societal Wellbeing

Living Design The effective use of design for sustainability in maker enterprises

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Innovation

Current Innovation Activities

Beyond Imagination Providing fresh perspectives on real world issues and facilitating innovation

Dust Bunny Understanding the home as a source of infection of AMR bacteria carried by dust by exploring hygiene ...

G Up: Ghanaian specific design and innovation models Working with manufacturing and high-tech company partners to co-design new, locally tailored innovation, ...

ImaginAging Imagining a City with our Senior Citizens

IsITethical? Ethics in Crises IsITethical? is an invitation to take time, and together support creative thinking for the complexity of ...

Leapfrog: transforming public sector engagement by design The Leapfrog project will be a close collaboration with public sector and community partners to design and ...

Living Design The effective use of design for sustainability in maker enterprises

SODA Project Realising Data together with people living with dementia.

The Funding Accelerator : Co-design for Health and Wealth Co-design for health and wealth Funding Accelerator is a HEIF funded project led by Professor Leon ...

Tracing Tides Mapping flows of Morecambe Bay

What if? Design Fictions for Society Imagining the future implications of policy initiatives in creative ways.

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People

ImaginationLancaster Staff

Pam Allen AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship Coordinator

Bijan Aryana Design Thinking, User Experience, Emerging Design, Country-specific Design, International Design

Christopher Boyko Urban Design and Behaviour, Internet of Things, Protest/Resistance, Town Planning, Urban Sustainability, Wellbeing

Dan Burnett Research Through Design, Game Design, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Modelling

Loura Conerney

Rachel Cooper Design Management, Design Policy, Design Thinking, Urban Design, Urban Sustainability, Socially Responsible Design, Design Against Crime, Design & Manufacture

Paul Coulton Speculative Design, Design Fiction, Game Design, Design as Rhetoric, Research through Design, Design Futures, Play, Toys

Claire Coulton PETRAS IoT Research Hub and Transformation North West Project Officer

Gemma Coupe Design Manager, Leapfrog

Leon Cruickshank Open Design and Innovation, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive Design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Paul Cureton Future Cities, Urban Design, Garden Cities & New Towns, Drones - UAVs, GIS, Mapping, Landscape, Visualisation

Nick Dunn Urban Design, Design Thinking, Design & Manufacturing, Mapping, Visualisation, Speculative Design, Future Cities

Adrian Gradinar Design, Physical-Digital, Experience Design, Interaction Design, Research through Design

David Hands Design Policy Development; Design Briefing; Design Leadership; Designing against Crime; New Product Development.

Rachael Hill Design Visualiser

Malé Luján Escalante Ethics through Design, Creative Exchange, Digital Public Space, Philosophy of Technology, Feminist Techno-science, Mobilities

Francesco Mazzarella design activism; service design; social innovation; sustainable futures; fashion and textile craftsmanship

Serena Pollastri visual design, information visualisation, speculative design, polyphonic design, urban+rural futures, food

Daniel Richards Design & Manufacturing, Generative Design, Visualisation, Computational Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Fabrication, Speculative Design

Paul Rodgers Design Disruption, Design and Care, Social Innovation, Disciplinarity, Design Interventions

Michael Stead Industrial product design, design futures, design fiction, research through design, internet of things, sustainability

Sharon Summers

Ruth Templeton Imagination Coordinator and PA to Professor Rachel Cooper

Emmanuel Tsekleves Design for Health & Wellbeing, Design for Ageing, Design Interactions, Global Challenge Design, Design Fictions, Playful Design, Digital Design

Stuart Walker Design for Sustainability ; Design, Values & Spirituality

Roger Whitham Human-Computer Interaction, Collaboration, Tools, Visualisation, Virtual Work Environments, Facilitation

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Study

BA Design

Masters Programme

PhD Programme

Lancaster University

PETRAS

Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Acceptability, and Security for the Internet of Things.

Stories 2 Connect

Enabling children and young people at the margins of society to tell their own stories.

Mobile Utopia

Co-creation research project to creatively analyse and explore alternative futures.

Leapfrog

Transforming public sector engagement by design.

We are...

An open and exploratory design-led research centre at Lancaster University

We conduct applied and theoretical research into people, products, places and their interactions.

We work with a variety of organisations to provide fresh perspectives on real-world issues and facilitate innovation.

We offer Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD study opportunities. All our staff are active researchers with extensive expertise in teaching.

Imagination secures £13.2 million investment to expand our research activities.

Beyond Imagination, a radical £13.2 million research project, will explore and demonstrate how cutting-edge design research can create a healthier, more prosperous and sustainable world.

Lead by Professor Leon Cruickshank, the bold and engaging Beyond Imagination project will put design...Read full update

Living Room of the Future at Tate Modern

A new version of the Living Room of the Future (LRofTF) was presented at Tate Modern on the 8th and 9th of February as part of the PETRAS living in the Internet of Things by Prof Paul Coulton, Dr Adrian Gradinar, and Dr Joe Lindley.

The LRofTF presents a dynamic data generated version of a...Read full update

ImaginationLancaster and Sunway University have been awarded an international grant...

...to empower local communities and Government in Malaysia in addressing social issues in ageing

The 12-month project, ProtoPolicyAsia involves the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development Malaysia, Petrosains - The Science Discovery Centre in Kuala Lumpur, Lancaster University,...Read full update

Funding Accelerator Events 2019

Articleby Sharon Summers, Leon Cruickshank

After a very successful stage two launch event at the end of November we have taken the ideas and enthusiasm from the attendees and also others from stage one to create a series of workshops and events for the first half of 2019. I will add the links to the Eventbrite listing as event details are finalised. ...Read full article

Funding Accelerator: Updates Dec 2018

Articleby Sharon Summers, Leon Cruickshank

It's been a busy two months since the project restarted, I've been spending the time catching up with our project partners as well as organising our launch event and planning next year's workshops. As a result of our excellent launch event we have now got a series of events planned for the first half of 2019, the first one being held on the 22nd January at the Imagination Lab in the LICA Building. ...Read full article

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