The Chiba Care Protocol Authors Paul A. Rodgers, Craig Bremner, Giovanni Innella, Irene Griffin, Omayma Alqatawneh, Mah Rana, Mark Bradford, Hugh Pizey, Trudy Watt, Tot Foster, Lilo Viehweg, Halima Lone, Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, Jessica Melville-Brown, Yutaka Yoshinaka, Ida…
In the fall of 1991 the Munich Design Charter was published in Design Issues. This charter was written as a design-led “call to arms” on the future nations and boundaries of Europe. The signatories of the Munich Design Charter saw…
Background The first Does Design Care…? workshop was held in 2017 at Imagination, Lancaster University and Does Design Care…? [2] in Chiba University, Japan in 2019. During this time, conferences about care and design have grown in number and all…
This report documents the work undertaken as part of my Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Design Leadership Fellowship between January 2017 and December 2019. Over the course of 36 months, I have conducted a series of events and activities…
Design Research for Change (DR4C) In recent years, design research has witnessed a clear “social turn” where researchers have looked to make change in more socially-focused contexts as opposed to wholly commercial realms. This “social turn” has encompassed a range…
The Covid-19 crisis and the designed interventions we have catalogued in this book appear to prove definitively that design does care. We have documented this as it evolved every day from the 1 January 2020 to 31 May 2020 inclusive. What the…
This toolkit has been produced as a legacy from the ‘UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship’ workshop series led by Professor Paul Rodgers (University of Strathclyde) as part of his AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship (2017-2020). For further information on the ‘Design Research…
The aim of the AHRC Residential Design Fellowships: Challenges of the Future 2020 is to create a better understanding of the role of design research in five challenging areas: AI & Data – Dr Joseph Lindley and Professor Paul Coulton,…
The Design Research for Change (DR4C) Symposium 2019 ran over two days exploring how design is increasingly involved in social, cultural, economic, environmental and political change. The films of the DR4C Symposium presentations were filmed over two days – Wednesday…
The Design Research Future Stars Workshops will build on on the successful AHRC Next Generation Design Researchers (NGDR) and Design Future Leaders Fellowships workshops (that were attended by over 1300 early career design researchers) held over the last 24 months. The…
The AHRC Design Research for Change (DR4C) Showcase at the London Design Fair 2019 included 61 design-led research projects that spanned a range of design disciplines, ways of working, geographical spread across the UK, methodological and conceptual boundaries. The 61…
Delighted to announce that we have just published the Illustrated A to Z for the Design of Care book. This illustrated A to Z for the Design of Care book was written collaboratively by nearly 50 design researchers and practitioners during the…