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Lancaster Care Charter Published
Lancaster Care Charter
Design Research for Change 2019 – Symposium Presentations
The Design Research for Change (DR4C) Symposium at the Design Museum, London on 11 and 12 December 2019 comprised 20 presentations from design researchers based across the world. Below are the filmed Design Research for Change Symposium presentations: TITLE, Rachel…
The Chiba Care Protocol
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…
The Lancaster Care Charter
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…
Does Design Care…? [3] – Design for the Unthinkable-World
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…
AHRC Design Leadership Fellowship Final Report
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) Book
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…
A Design History of the COVID-19 Virus
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…
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Toolkit
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…
AHRC Design Fellowships: Challenges of the Future 2020
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,…
Design Research for Change (DR4C) Symposium Films 2019
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…