A transcultural taxonomy of critical and speculative design: Tracking speculative and critical design practices in Yugoslav design
This design research introduces the origins of critical and speculative design in former socialist Yugoslavia. It identifies and maps the practices, methods, and tactics employed and build on these insights to redefine the historical narrative of the practice taking...
Maja Grakalic
Maja Grakalic is a London based designer, design researcher and a jazz singer from Croatia. Her practical design training is in product and motion graphic design. Following her MA in Critical Design Practice at Goldsmiths University, she worked on numerous commercial...
The Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO) method.
The Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO) method. The Immersive Behavioural Observation (IBO) method is used to study the behavioural and tacit patterns of users in their natural environment. It is used when other obtrusive methods like questionnaires and...
Covid 19 – update for LDoc students
[UPDATED - 16/04/2020] Information for LDoc students about Covid-19 Last week, the science minister announced that UKRI-funded PhD students whose studies have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic will be provided with additional support. UKRI-funded...
Conversational circularity in Public Spaces
The high desirability and scarcity of urban spaces often lets its usages be fluid, layered and multi-faceted. In Hong Kong the area next to the central station (streets, pavements and parts of the station) transforms every Sunday and on public holidays into a maze of...
Keynote 16: Design, the Arts and Social Practice: Helen Storey and Lucy Orta in conversation with Sandy Black
Design, the Arts and Social Practice: Helen Storey and Lucy Orta in conversation with Sandy Black Tuesday 18th February 2020, 6.30pm, London College of Fashion Sign up at the event page now Please send your questions in advance to Sandy Black at...
The Public in Public Transportation
The Public in Public Transportation The rapid gentrification of our cities has driven out the middle and the lower classes to the suburbs. The Brookings Institute’s report on the global metro, states how the emerging markets are city focussed. 300 of the...
LDoc Conference 2020 – Risk and Resilience in Design Research
The first Annual International LDoc PhD Research Network Conference on Risk and Resilience in Design Research will take place between 2nd – 3rd April 2020 at BBC White City. The conference will bring together creatives in the field of innovative cross-disciplinary...
Creating balance between transformation and preservation within UNESCO World Heritage Sites
During this period, I have been exposed to the ideas of rich heritage design, which also allowed an insight into improved assessments in today’s architecture and design. Thanks to Student Development Fund (SDF) received from LDoc, I...
Creative Leadership
Ninela Ivanova is an LDoc CEE Post Doctoral Research Fellow at The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art,...
Could a crocodile run a steeplechase?
John Fass recently completed a PhD in design research at the RCA with the London Doctoral Research Centre. This project is part of a...
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