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...
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...
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...
Ninela Ivanova is an LDoc CEE Post Doctoral Research Fellow at The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art,...
John Fass recently completed a PhD in design research at the RCA with the London Doctoral Research Centre. This project is part of a...
Designing Circular Users Behaviours (DCUB) is a research project that explores the potential of experiential design in activating Circular Economy frameworks and policies (technical systems), in order to enable consumer goods brands to create products, services and...
The use of fishskin to create articles of clothing is a tradition shared by the Amur delta people with other Siberian and circumpolar peoples (Fitzhugh, 1988). Before synthetic fibres were invented, people clothed themselves with natural materials available in their...
Raül's thesis researches on the new roles that architects are assuming in the city of Barcelona in a context of economic crisis, where the so celebrated Barcelona Model that emerged for the 1992 Olympic Games has proved to be obsolete and unable to give a response to...
In The Nature of Art and Workmanship, (2007) David Pye asserts that the difference between craft and design is that craft seeks to flawlessly repeat whereas design seeks to find unknown possibilities. Shai's research project shares that spirit and aims to challenge...
'Our technological advancements have connected and alienated us simultaneously from our material world and our perception of it.’ Shalini’s works largely aim to create spaces which positively influence the users’ state of being. This as a part of an in-depth...
A Harmonious Path for Cultural and Creative Organizations? EU Cultural Policy and Business Model ‘Innovation’ Bethany Rex’s LDoc Post-Doctoral Fellowship focuses on situating the Creative Lenses project within the context of a transnational policy environment...