Design Research for Change Showcase 2018 at London Design Fair

 

Date

20th – 23rd September 2018

Location

Design Fair 2018Old Truman Brewery26 Hanbury StreetLondon E1 6QR

Design Research for Change is a showcase of 67 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Design research projects. The projects traverse disciplinary, methodological, geographical, and conceptual boundaries.

The work on display at the Old Truman Brewery during London Design Fair 2018 was developed by researchers and practitioners from a range of Design disciplines including product, graphic, fashion, and furniture and from other specialist areas such as healthcare, business, engineering, and elsewhere.

The projects illustrate wide-ranging social, cultural, and economic impact and highlight the significant roles that UK-based Design researchers play in some of the most complex and challenging issues we face both in the UK and globally and the positive outcomes that are being designed and developed.

More information about the 67 exhibited projects can be found by clicking on the links below.

67 Projects

Brief Encounters Network: Exploring New Forms of Online Collaborative Design
Design, material culture and popular creativity in suburban faith communities
The Time of the Clock and the Time of Encounter: Pathfinders for Connection
Whose right to the (smart) city?
Scaling Up Co-Design research and practice: building community-academic capacity and extending reach
Woven Concrete: developing weaves for use in textile/concrete hybrid wall panels.
FIREup: Fashion Innovation Research and Enterprise
Home Improvements: Improving quality and value in the provision of volume house building through architectural knowledge exchange
Design to Manufacture: Realising the creative and commercial potential of a unique aesthetic ‘Eco-material’
Design Thinking for Prison Industries: Exchanging design tools, methods and processes with prisons in London and Ahmedabad to build inmate resilience
FLEX – Flexible Dwellings for Extended Living
Improving healthcare support for rural communities in India
Telling the Bees
Hearing Trouble: Sound Art in Post-Conflict Cities
Stories to connect with: disadvantaged children creating phygital community objects to share their life-narratives of resilience and transformation
Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing (S4S)
Living Design: The effective use of design for sustainability in maker enterprises
Virtual Reality of Medieval Culture: Collaborative Network for Cultural-Feed Virtual Heritage (CfVH) platforms of medieval Cairo
Creative Temporal Costings
The view of the child and young person in designing museum and gallery spaces for learning,exploration, discovery and research.
Design Matters? The Effects of new schools on students’, teachers’ and parents’ actions and perceptions
Picturing Modern Ankara: ‘New Turkey’ in Western Imagination
Network for Repair, Reuse & Maintenance (RRM) Cultures
Public Spaces and the Role of the Architect: a comparative study of Modernist and contemporary examples in London and Sao Paulo
Designing the workhome: from theory to practice
The Pre-Raphaelites and Science
Culshaw & Sumners: a Victorian architectural practice and its impact on Liverpool’s built environment.
AHRC Proposal for Commissioned Research on Mapping Social Design Research and Practice
Co-designing an evaluation framework for design in the context of policy
Equalities of wellbeing in philosophy and architecture
Design Innovation for New Growth (DING): design as a strategy for growth and innovation in the creative economy of the Highlands and Islands.
Exploring British Design: developing research competencies by connecting archive content
The Welcoming Workplace: rethinking office design to enable growing numbers of older people to participate in the 21st century knowledge economy
The Electrification of the Rural Irish Home: Housewives, Electrical Products and Domesticity in the 1950s and 1960s
Community-led Heritage Regeneration in India
The Armenian alphabet: research into historical types and the development of new digital typefaces
Crafting communities of practice and interest: connecting ‘online’ and ‘offline’ making practices
Enhancing the authenticity and sustainability of the visitor heritage experiences through 3D printing technology
Emergent Objects: Designing the human/technology interface through performance
Considerate Design for Personalised Fashion Products
PARNASSUS: Ensuring integrity, preserving significance: value based flood resilience for protection of cultural heritage from climate change impact
Design futures – Exploring internationally comparative product design methods to meet material need, facilitate entrepreneurship and create emplo (HN)
The Multi Sensory Environment (MSE) in dementia care: the role of design
Isotype revisited
Picturesqueness in Everything:Primitivism, futurism, mysticism and resistance in the art,craft, design and dress of British woodcraft groups 1916-2016
People Powering Policy
Guernica Remakings, South Africa, research into the practice of cross-cultural translation through making.
Design Research Get Lost: An asset-based approach to support young people to self-organise
Real-time Visuals for Performance, Gaming, Installation, and Electronic Environments
Co-producing CARE: Community Asset-based Research & Enterprise
None in Three(Ni3) – A Centre for the Development, Application, Research and Evaluation of Prosocial Games for the Prevention of Gender-based Violence
Stress Computation, Visualisation and Measurement in: 1. Design of free-form fabric structures 2. Fine art restoration and novel artist materials 3. D
Hidden Florence: Geo-located historical walks in a context-aware environment.
Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design for Behaviour Change
smART cities and waste: Developing an arts-led interdisciplinary network for waste management and treatment innovation
3 x 4: Exploring metaspace platforms for inclusive future cities
The Life of Buildings
Woven Communities: the warp and the weft of Scottish vernacular basketry
Leapfrog: Transforming Public Service Consultation by Design
Around the toilet: Co-creating intersectional understandings of gender, disability and access
Extending the Potential for the Digitally Printed Ceramic Surface
Ludic Artefacts: Using Gesture and Haptics (LAUGH) to support subjective wellbeing of people with dementia
VisitorBox: a toolkit to support ideation of novel visiting experiences
AMRSim: A Microbial Reality Simulator
Hacking the Bees
Information Design and Architecture in Persuasive Pharmacy Space: combating Anti-Microbial Resistance (IDAPPS)
Benchmarking Synergy Levels to Encourage International Standards of Sustainability for Metadesign