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The Case for Informal Spaces in the Workplace
Monica Biagioli makes the case for informal spaces in the workplace by emphasising the qualitative benefits they can…
Service Design pedagogy and effective student engagement
This practice-led investigation evaluates three generative design tools for active and tacit student engagement with postgraduate Service Design…
Negotiated modernism: British suburbia between the wars
Barry Curtis Curtis describes the many ways in which forms of tradition infused the design and inhabitation of the…
Objects of Desire
Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of…
The Future of Industrial Design for a Global Mass Market
Ashley Hall discusses ideas that relate to design practice and academic research exploring whether designers should seek to include…
GoGlobal: Design collaboration and e-commerce models in developing countries
Using previous case studies by the authors and a current live project, Ashley Hall considers whether the creative…
Elastic Octopus: A Catalogue of Failures for Disrupting Design Education
Elastic Octopus was inspired by a perceived increased reluctance in student attitudes towards taking risks and failure in…
The Idea and Image of Historical Time: Interactions between Design and Digital Humanities
Stephen Boyd David explores the interaction between designers and humanists in the context of our work on time-wise…
Early visualisations of historical time
Stephen Boyd Davis, Royal College of Art, discusses the visualization of historical time, illustrated by key examples from…
Explorations in Urban Design: An Urban Design Research Primer
Whilst recognising that distinctly different traditions exist within the study and practice of urban design, Matthew Carmona, Professor…