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September - December 2011
Socio-economics Inspired Distributed Systems Design
David Hales
Date: Wednesday, 16th November 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Cyclestreets and OpenStreetMap: collaborative map making for cycle journey planning
Martin Lucas-Smith
Date: Wednesday, 9th November 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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From Attitude to Action - Testing the Cambridge Sustainable Design Tool Kit
Bernhard Dusch, Cambridge University
Date: Wednesday, 12th October 2011
Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
Getting ready for the United Nations Rio Plus 20 Green Economy Conference in 2012
Victor Anderson, Economist at WWF
Date: Wednesday, 21st September 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
Joint PhD Seminar
Lynne Maclachlan and Andreas Peter, Open University
Date: Wednesday, 14th September 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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January - July 2011
Solar Photovoltaic Community Project Presentation
Barry O'Brien, Lee Valley Energy
Date: Wednesday, 6th July 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Red for Danger: Visualising the emerging spaces of British
militarism
Matthew Flintham, Researcher, Royal College of Art
Date: Wednesday, 22nd June 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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From collaborative and integrated design to engineering for the
environment
Emmanuel Caillaud, Professor in Mechanical and Industrial
Engineering, Université de Strasbourg
Date: Wednesday, 15th June 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Is Slow Travel really Low Carbon?
James Warren, Staff Tutor, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 8th June 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Mappiness: mapping happiness across space and time
George MacKerron, Researcher, Geography & Environment, LSE
Date: Wednesday, 25th May 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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The Logic of Taking Expert Design as Good Design
Pieter Vermaas, Senior Researcher, TU Delft
Date: Wednesday, 18th May 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Integrating sustainable design in new product development - the
development of the Cambridge sustainable design tool kit
Bernhard Dusch and James Moultrie, Cambridge University
Date: Wednesday, 11th May 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Participation in the design of learning environments: bring
architects and young children together
Alison Clark, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Childhood,
Development and Learning, Open University
Date: Wednesday, 13th April 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
T3ab - Design and Innovation for a Changing World
T3ab module team, Open University
Date: Wednesday, 6th April 2011
Time: 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
Archetypes of healthcare technology innovation: the role of design
processes led by healthcare professionals
Clive Savory, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems and
Technology Management, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 16th March 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Developing objectives in early product design - challenges and
obstacles
Sabine Muschik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and
Porsche
Date: Wednesday, 16th February 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Car fuel economy - the real story from an industry
insider
Anthony Sale, Senior Engineer, Powertrain
Date: Wednesday, 9th February 2011
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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September - December 2010
How the young child represents order: lessons from cubes,
touchscreens and models that learn
Iain Kusel, PhD Researcher, Design Group, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 15th December 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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The impact of London's urban heat island on energy, thermal comfort
and health
Anna Mavrogianni, Research Associate in Energy and Building
Modelling, UCL Energy Institute
Date: Wednesday, 24th November 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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MK Time: historicizing the recentralization of social life in Milton
Keynes post 1990
Davinia Gregory, Royal College of Art
Date: Wednesday, 17th November 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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From Assessing Communication in Design to Navigating Design
Communication
Anja Maier, Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark,
DK
Date: Wednesday, 3rd November 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Design, Innovation and Transitions to Sustainability
Matthew Cook, Lecturer in Design and Innovation, Design Group,
The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 6th October 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Antarctic Adventures and Environmental Education - a powerful mix?
Tim Jarvis, Associate Director, Environmental Scientist/Public
Speaker, URS Corporation Ltd
Date: Wednesday, 29th September 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Renewables-Intensive Energy Futures
Godfrey Boyle, Professor of Renewable Energy, Design Group,
The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 22nd September 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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January - June 2010
Sustainable fashion: remanufacturing using second hand clothes in
Tanzania
Pammi Sinha, Senior Lecturer Fashion Management, University of
Huddersfield and University of Manchester
Date: Wednesday, 30th June 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Co-construction processes in Team Design
Chrysi Rapanta, PhD student, New Media in Education Lab,
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Date: Wednesday, 23rd June 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Designing novel applications for emerging multimedia
technology
Hyowon Lee, Designer-Researcher, CLARITY: Centre for Sensor
Web Technologies, Dublin City University
Date: Wednesday, 19th May 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Recovering some Associations between Sociology, Technology
and Design
Tobie Kerridge, Researcher, Goldsmiths College, University of
London
Date: Wednesday, 12th May 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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An Ethnographic Study of the Eco-Innovation Journey in a Firm from
the UK Food and Farming Sector
Pelle Langendahl, PhD Student, Design Group, The Open
University
Date: Wednesday, 28th April 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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ImaginationLancaster: An Opportunity to Rethink Design Research
Rachel Cooper, Professor of Design Management, Imagination
Lancaster, Lancaster University
Date: Wednesday, 14th April 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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The Future of Coal and Carbon Capture and Storage
John Kessels, Senior Analyst, International Energy Agency
Clean Coal Centre
Date: Wednesday, 17th March 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Functional analysis of existing products: initial findings of an
experiment
Thomas Alink, Researcher, Karlsruher Institute of Technology
(KIT)
Date: Wednesday, 3rd March 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Experiencing built environments: learning from Milton
Keynes
Gillian Rose, Professor of Cultural Geography, Head of
Department of Geography, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 24th February 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Co-evolution of product and network of partners
Marc Zolghadri, MCF, Associate Professor, IMS, Dpt. Laps,
Université Bordeaux 1
Date: Wednesday, 10th February 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Which Way Forward for Travel Plans?
Helen Roby, PhD Student, Design Group, The Open University
Date: Friday, 15th January 2010
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Stuff stuff and long car trips: application of the 4see
socio-economic-energy model to the UK and designing future
scenarios
Simon Roberts, Associate Director, Arup Foresight Innovation +
Incubation
Date: Wednesday, 13th January 2010
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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September - December 2009
Problem analysis and thinking tools: an empirical study of
non-hierarchical mind mapping
Vasilije Kokotovich, Lecturer, Industrial Design, University
of Technology Sydney
Date: Tuesday, 24th November 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Ground Floor Meeting Room 1, JLB
Summary
Integrating Second Life in Humanitarian and Development Training
Helen Yanacopulos, Senior Lecturer, International Policy and
Development, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 4th November 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Architectural morphospace: mapping worlds of built forms
Philip Steadman, Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies,
Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL
Date: Wednesday, 21st October 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Design for the psychological habitability of spacecraft for
extended
exploration missions
Regina Peldszus, PhD Student, Design Research Centre/
Astronautics & Space Systems Group, Kingston University London
Date: Wednesday, 14th October 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Improving design quality through community led design
Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive, The Glass House Community
Led Design
Date: Wednesday, 2nd September 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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January - July 2009
Ambient displays: reforming movement patterns
Tasos Varoudis, PhD student, Design Group, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 22nd July 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
Communication Processes in eLearning Design Teams
Chrysi Rapanta, PhD student, New Media in Education Lab,
Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Date: Wednesday, 15th July 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Improving the Creative use of CAD/CAM in the Design Technology
curriculum of Secondary Schools
Deborah Cook, PhD Student, Design Group, The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 3rd June 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: N2033, George Rzevski Laboratory
Summary
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Physical objects in design
Research Workshop
Date: Thursday, 28th May 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Design Observatory
Modeling risk, digital innovation and complex organizations
Jennifer Whyte, Reader in Innovation and Design, School of
Construction Management and Engineering, University of Reading
Date: Wednesday, 6th May 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
A generative system for synthesis of product
architectures
David Wyatt , PhD Researcher, Cambridge University
Date: Wednesday, 29th April 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Sniffing space
Tim Ireland, PhD Researcher, University College London
Date: Wednesday, 22nd April 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Trends in product form
Andrew Muir Wood, Researcher, Engineering Design Group, Cambridge
University
Date: Wednesday, 11th March 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Drawing messaging
Derrick Welsh
Date: Wednesday, 25th February 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Summary
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Sustainable energy systems: Linking the local to the
global
David Elliott, Professor Energy and Environment Research Unit,
The Open University
Date: Wednesday, 11th February 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Distance learning and tacit skills
Nicola Wood, Researcher Sheffield Hallam University
Date: Tuesday, 3rd February 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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The Vital Nature of Creating Sustainability
Emma Dewberry, Lecturer, Design Group, The Open
University
Date: Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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Designing (for) creative experience
Ernest Edmonds, Professor of Computation and Creative Media,
University of Technology Sydney
Date: Wednesday, 14th January 2009
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
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January - July 2008
Sustainable product innovation best practice.
Date: Wednesday 23 July 2008
Time: 2.00pm - 3.00pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Speaker: David Peck
Poster information
Design patterns for cross-cultural collaborative design learning
Date: Wednesday, 16th April 2008
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Speaker: Nicole Schadewitz, Lecturer, Design Group, The Open University
Summary
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Problem Oriented Engineering
Date: Wednesday, 2nd April 2008
Time: 2.00 - 3.00 pm
Location: Complexity Laboratory, N2033, Venables
Speaker: Jon Hall, Senior Lecturer, Computing, The Open University
Summary
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Biofuels. Opportunity or Threat?
Wednesday, 12th March 2008
Jonathan Scurlock, Chief Adviser, Renewable Energy and Climate Change, National
Farmers' Union
Summary
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Zero Carbon Britain. What would it be like?
Wednesday, 5th March 2008
Peter Harper, Head of Research, Centre for Alternative Technology
Summary
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Considering organisation design from a complexity science
perspective: the Fractal Web
Wednesday, 27th February 2008
Elizabeth McMillan, The Open University
Summary
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Water, cities and breasts. Introducing the Emerging Sustainability
project.
Wednesday, 20th February 2008
Christina Cerulli, Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield
Summary
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Riding the global warming wave - floating houses and climate change
Wednesday, 30th January 2008
Ties Rijcken, Coordinator, Climate Change Adaptation Lab, Delft University of
Technology
Summary
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Hearlands, discovering a new world
Wednesday, 16th January 2008
Rachel Jacobs, Creative Director, Active Ingredient
Summary
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The use of programming by demonstration for mechatronic tutoring
Wednesday, 9th January 2008
Stephen Lawthwell, Design and Innovation, The Open University
Summary
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October - December 2007
Investigating current social, business and technological issues,
using frameworks and tools from complexity science
Wednesday, 12th December 2007
George Rzevski, Emeritus Professor, The Open University / Founder, Magenta
Corporation
Summary
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How design researchers think: DTRS7 - An international workshop
using shared data
Wednesday, 5th December 2007
Peter Lloyd, Senior Lecturer, Design and Innovation, The Open University
Summary
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Student product designers and their perceptions and attitudes of
their design responsibilities
Wednesday, 28th November 2007
Stacey Birkett, Research Student, Design and Innovation, The Open University
Summary
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Design synthesis and shape generation
Wednesday, 21st November 2007
Miquel Prats, Research Fellow, Design and Innovation, Open University
Summary
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Design PhD: a perspective from Carnegie Mellon University
14th November 2007
Ramesh Krishnamurti, Professor of Computational Design, Carnegie Mellon
University
Summary
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Iconicity as homomorphism in representative practice: a comparative
study of art and science
7th November 2007
Chiara Ambrosio, Researcher, Department of Science and Technology Studies,
UCL
Summary
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Shareables past, present and some future
31st October 2007
Nick Dalton, Lecturer, Computing, Open University
Summary
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Eco village sustainability planning application - Horswell Farm,
North Devon
24th October 2007
Colin Jones, Chartered Environmentalist
Summary
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Dwelling temperature and energy use since 1990: results from a
longitudinal
study of low energy dwellings in Milton Keynes, UK
17th October 2007
Alex Summerfield, RCUK Fellow, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL
Summary
January 2007 - September 2007
Good Design and the Design Education Debate
11th July 2007
Naomi Gornick, The Open University
Hostprods - Multi-disciplinary artworks involving the convergence of
technological and natural systems
27th June 2007
Andy Gracie, University of Huddersfield
Summary
A typology of sketches: an instrument for classification and
definition of diagrams, schemes and illustrations
13th June 2007
Luiz Gomes and Ligia Medeiros
Summary
Marine Renewables - New Designs for Sea Power
30th May 2007
Dave Elliott
Summary
Can we Bury Global Warming?
23rd May 2007
Malcolm Fowles
Summary
Design Education in Brazil
16th May 2007
Luiz Gomes and Ligia Medeiros (Brazilian visitors to Design and Innovation from
end of March to end of June 2007)
Summary
The New Treasure Island?
9th May 2007
Dominic Mason
Summary
Dimensions of Sustainable Design
25th April
Ann Thorpe (FT Research student in Design and
Innovation)
Understanding distributed design as coordination
28th March 2007
Katerina Alexiou , Research Fellow
Summary
…And here’s one I made earlier: form generation in
digital design
31st January 2007
Gareth Paterson
Transport Students Seminar
21st February 2007
Helen Roby, Paul Hodgson, Chris Berridge (Research students)
Summary
An illustration of new approaches to researching interaction with
visual representations in the context of investigating design processes
7th March 2007
Jonathan San-diego (OU student), Research Fellow, London Knowledge Lab
Institute of Education, University of London
Summary
Complexity Science is Design
14th March 2007
Professor Jeffrey Johnson
Complexity - mathematical exploration of an organisational level
theory of design
21st March 2007
Theodore Zamenopoulos, Research Fellow
September - December 2006
Adapting Buildings & Cities for Climate Change: The Research
Challenge
20th September 2006
Susan Roaf, Professor of Sustainable Architecture at Oxford Brookes
University
The Aesthetics of Interactive Art
18th October 2006
Karen Cham
Pathways to MetaDesign
25th October 2006
Naomi Gornick
Solving Design Problems: A Comparative Study of Engineering Student,
Faculty, and Expert Practitional Design Processes
8th November 2006
Cindy Atman, Director of the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching,
University of Washington, United States
Further Information
Consumer Empowering - Green Certificates from Point to Point
15th November 2006
Hugo Schonbeck
Transport, Emissions, Energy & Mobility in Small Islands
29th November 2006
James Warren
Exploring Rail Futures using Scenarios: Experience and Potential
6th December 2006
Professor Stephen Potter
February - July 2006
Supply Chain Design
Ed Rhodes
1st February 2006
Supporting Design Project Planning through Simulation Analysis
Tomas Flanagan, Cambridge University
15th February 2006
A Review of Transport Policy and Practice in Japan
Marcus Enoch, Loughborough University
1st March 2006
Early Alignment of Design Requirements with Stakeholder Need
Vassilis Agouridas, Leeds University
15th March 2006
Comparing Design Processes Across Domains
Professor Chris Earl
29th March 2006
Robotics Outreach
Ashley Green
26th April 2006
The Barcelona Chair: Deconstructing a Design Classic
Peter Lloyd
10th May 2006
Designerly Ways of Knowing
Professor Nigel Cross
24th May 2006
Sustainable Energy
Patrick Devine-Wright and Kerry Kirwan, De Montfort University
7th June 2006
Why the Global Oil Peak is Close
Roger Bentley, University of Reading
28th June 2006
Research Initiatives in the School of Architecture and Product
Design at Wolverhampton University
Anthony Felton and Kevin Garner, Wolverhampton University
5th July 2006
Sketch Based Interface and Geometric Modelling
Prof. David Wright, Dr Shengfeng Qin, Daychi Ku and Usman Kahn, Brunel
University CAD Research Group
19th July 2006
January - November 2005
Nuking Ourselves: How our Nuclear Waste Strategy is Providing Tools
for Terrorists
David Lowry
30th November 2005
Integrating Scientific and Social Knowledge to Manage Radioactive
Waste
Andy Blowers
9th November 2005
Designing Low and Zero Carbon Products and Systems
Robin Roy
19th October 2005
Selling Climate Change Forgiveness: Consumer Carbon Offset Schemes
Stephen Peake
5th October 2005
Energy Forecasting to 2100: A Retrospective Look at Year 2000
Forecasts
Horace Herring
14th September 2005
Learning From Team Simulation
Ed Rhodes, Ruth Carter, John Jaworski
29th June 2005
Transport without Oil: A Peculiar Pictorial History
Bob Everett
22nd June 2005
Implementing Road Pricing
Petros Ieromonachou
15th June 2005
Robots: The State of the Technology
Martin Smith
25th May 2005
Digital Media: Aesthetics, Semantics, Technology
Karen Cham
18th May 2005
The Curious Case of Changing Management Imperatives and their Effect
on Design Activity
Naomi Gornick
20th April 2005
Two Research Students Present:
1. Exploring and Reinterpreting Shapes in the Design Process
2. Implementation and Application of Curved Shape Grammars
Miquel Prats (1) and Iestyn Jowers (2)
6th April 2005
Generative Component: Parametric Design and Architectural Expression
Robert Aish, Bentley Systems
9th March 2005
Transport Taxation Regime Change
Professor Stephen Potter
9th February 2005
Developments in the Hydrogen Economy: An Icelandic Perspective
James Warren
26th January 2005
Two Research Students Present:
1. From Soccer to Stars: Implementing Cooperation in Robotic Systems
2. Extending TRANSIMS Technology to a Multi-level Representation
James Law (1) and Joan Serras (2)
19th January2005
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