'What can participatory design contribute to participatory democracy: A response to the call to Stand Up for Democracy', presented by Professor Lorraine Gamman and Professor Adam Thorpe. We would like to welcome you to our 10th Keynote lecture, lead...
Design.Different
The Design.Different festival at the RCA will feature work by LDoc students Will Renel and Silke Hofmann, two of our PhD candidates researching inclusive design. As part of the London Design Festival, the exhibition will explore innovate design solutions to tackle...
2017 Welcome Event
We would like to welcome all new and returning LDoc students, supervisors and industrial partners to the LDoc Welcome Event at the RSA on 4th October. This will be an opportunity to network, present your work, hear about other students' and supervisors'...
Beyond Design Conference
[slideshow_deploy id='1810'] On Thursday 8th of June, the Beyond Design conference was held at the LCF Rootstein Hopkins Suite, University of the Arts London. The event was launched by three LDoc PhD researchers as they wanted to highlight that design research...
Designing Participation Conference
The Designing Participation conference was held at the Royal Society of the Arts in London on 26 May 2017. The event was organised by LDoc researchers Julia Johnson, Jack Champ and Will Renel with support from the LDoc Cohort Development Fund. The conference...
Watch the LDoc Keynote 9 Lecture
LDoc Keynote 9: A New Narrative For A Material Culture is now available for students to watch online. The talk was chaired by Paul Micklethwaite of Kingston University, and speakers were Paul Chamberlain and Stuart Walker.
Keynote Lecture 9: A New Narrative for a Material Culture
The London Doctoral Design Centre (LDoc) would like to invite you to attend its ninth keynote lecture, with Paul Chamberlain and Stuart Walker, at 6.30pm on Tuesday 13th June 2017. The event will be of particular interest to postgraduate design research...
Disciplinary Encounters Beyond Design
This student-led conference and workshop will span disciplines for cross-disciplinary encounters from anthropology, science, service design and visual culture. Together we will explore how design is expanding its role through its encounters with other disciplines. We...
Designing Participation: Current approaches and future directions
A Cohort Development Fund (CDF) funded conference for LDoc researchers. Please email ldoc@rca.ac.uk for tickets and more information Read about the outcomes of the conference.
Keynote Lecture: Zowie Broach – Thinking Material Practice
Design thinking necessarily leads to moments of collaboration, collision and opinion. Design thinking is discursive and challenging. This term's keynote lecturer is designer and head of fashion at the Royal College of Art Zowie Broach, co-founder of...
Collectives in the Making: Design Research as Social Practice
Keynote Lecture Mon 7th November 2016 6.30pm Royal College of Art, South Kensington SW7 2EU Register at ldoc@rca.ac.uk carldisalvo.com
Designing for Services: Past Moments & Possible Futures
Dr Lucy Kimbell of the Innovation Insights Hub, UAL, gave the summer LDoc Keynote at UAL's London College of Fashion in central London on 10 May 2016. Watch the keynote here or on vimeo. Lucy Kimbell is Director, Innovation Insights Hub, University of...