Visualising Lost Stories in Transient Landscapes

Oct 6, 2015 | Research

This practice-based research explores challenges in documenting physically shifting landscapes and considers audience engagement with lost sites in the 21st Century.  Positioning contemporary illustration practice alongside, and in relationship to, humanity...

Using Data Visualisation to Explore Digitised Cultural Collections

Oct 6, 2015 | Research

  Olivia’s research explores how interactive timelines can be used to make sense of cultural data (digitised museum, library and archive collections). Cultural institutions have become swamped by digital data. Digitising the objects, images and texts in their...

Design and social innovation: a critical analysis exploring the encounter between these two different organisational cultures

Oct 6, 2015 | Research

  Starting from the acknowledgment of design as a socially constructed practice (Whitely 1993), which is understood and applied differently by participants, in different design contexts, I will investigate the role, the meaning and the impact of design when...

Dr Paul Micklethwaite

Oct 6, 2015 | Supervisors

Dr Paul Micklethwaite is course director of MA Sustainable Design at Kingston University. His primary interests are in the impact of the sustainability (social and ecological) agenda on the theory and practice of design, and emerging modes of design practice such as...

Prof. Stephen Boyd Davis

Oct 6, 2015 | Supervisors

Professor Stephen Boyd Davis leads staff research activities in the School of Design at the Royal College of Art. Originally a textile designer, Stephen has for many years been involved in the creative use of digital technologies, most recently in locative media where...