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...
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...
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...
Presencing Institute (PI), based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre for Organisational Learning, is an action research organisation focussed on systems change challenges using participative and awareness-based methods. A core method developed...
Digital storytelling is a practice I have been facilitating for seven years with prisoners through my charity STRETCH. Encouraging people to tell their story, to re-biographise their lives creatively using the arts and making as starting points, gives people...
I recently attended 3 days of training at Huntington Research Schools on 'Metacognition and Self-regulated learning', based on the new guidance report published by the Education Endowment Foundation. The training was very effective in developing my...
The technical expertise related to the research has a steep learning curve and most of the relevant academic papers come from the field of Computer Science. Other publications from different areas of research have emerged but a significant number of these publications...
In Sept 2018 I attended the Design4Health conference at Lab4Living – Sheffield Hallam University. This conference has been running for the last 8 years – its aim being to explore ‘how design practice and processes meet the challenges of health and wellbeing in the...
This post was first published on the V&A blog in Aug 2018 and later on oliviavane.co.uk My PhD topic is designing timeline visualisations that offer new ways to explore cultural data. As cultural institutions like the V&A digitise their physical...
Typically characterised as outcasts, lawbreakers and nuisances, skateboarders have come to signify a visual representation of cool. Traveling to Los Angeles California, the birth place of skateboarding, my aim was to capture this authentic narrative from...
In 2018 LDoc student Silke Hofmann undertook a 4 month placement at the Kyoto Institute of Technology “Prior to this residency I lived in a number of cities around the world and have grown to consider myself somewhat cosmopolitan. Upon my arrival in...
In Designerly Ways of Knowing, Nigel Cross states that there are things to know, ways of knowing them, and ways of finding out about them that are specific to the design area. The past few months I have followed Cross’ mantra while learning Machine Learning and...