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View article: Re-wilding the Night: Understanding How Darkness Is Valued Through the Nighttime Light Ecology of Bonn Botanical Gardens
Re-wilding the Night: Understanding How Darkness Is Valued Through the Nighttime Light Ecology of Bonn Botanical Gardens Open
Rewilding the Night is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to reimagine the urban night by capturing and communicating the qualities and rhythms of both artificial and natural light at night. Through a collaborative and experim…
View article: From Slow Shifts to Fast Flips: Unraveling problem-based learning group function dynamics
From Slow Shifts to Fast Flips: Unraveling problem-based learning group function dynamics Open
Purpose Problem-Based Learning (PBL) relies on self-directed learning in small groups in the presence of a tutor. While the effectiveness of PBL is often attributed to the dynamics of group function, change in group function over time and …
View article: Dark skies
Dark skies Open
This chapter presents the underpinning argument of the book, focusing upon how meanings about dark skies have emerged and relationships them have evolved. In particular, the chapter responds to the significant gap in knowledge across the h…
View article: Under the night
Under the night Open
In this concluding chapter, we bring together the theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and empirical work in order to explain their implications for this emerging multi- and interdisciplinary field. We discuss the manifold pe…
View article: Dark Skies
Dark Skies Open
Dark Skies addresses a significant gap in knowledge in relation to perspectives from the arts, humanities, and social sciences. In providing a new multi- and interdisciplinary field of inquiry, this book brings together engagements with da…
View article: Sensing dark places
Sensing dark places Open
Darkness is not simply the absence of light—it offers a nuanced understanding of the self in relation to the environment and others. The night-time qualities of light and sound, for example, create embodied experiences of environments that…
View article: Designing more-than-human urban places
Designing more-than-human urban places Open
The idea that design should be human centred seems increasingly precarious given the anthropogenic impacts we have made and continue to have upon the planet. Our relentless quest for the future has produced an astounding array of highly be…
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
Design impacts everyday life, shaping the way we engage with the world and those around us, humans and non-humans. This introductory essay presents the notion of flourishing as a springboard for different perspectives and practices. Couple…
View article: Welcome To The New Normal! Emerging Patterns And Trends To Rethink What Cities Are
Welcome To The New Normal! Emerging Patterns And Trends To Rethink What Cities Are Open
Hello everyone, and thanks to Polis University for the introduction and to the conference organizers for the invitation to talk to you today. It is a genuine pleasure to be able to do so as the pandemic has profoundly changed the ways we r…
View article: Levelling Up North of England for Rural Youth: Co-design Possibilities and Challenges
Levelling Up North of England for Rural Youth: Co-design Possibilities and Challenges Open
This paper explores how co-design approaches contribute to support, learning and work opportunities for young people who are socially and economically disadvantaged because of where they live in the UK. The paper presents a project in whic…
View article: Responsive Megastructures:Growing Future Cities for Global Challenges
Responsive Megastructures:Growing Future Cities for Global Challenges Open
From the mid-twentieth century the primary drivers for cities were industrialization and globalization, as urban development sought to maximize productivity and access to labour and resources along with connectivity to markets. More recent…
View article: More-than-human Nights:Intersecting lived experience and diurnal rhythms in the nocturnal city
More-than-human Nights:Intersecting lived experience and diurnal rhythms in the nocturnal city Open
The contemporary nocturnal city is characterised by the interplay of luminosity and darkness, a chiaroscuro tableau inhabited by a myriad of flora and fauna—including, of course, humans. What patterns, rhythms, and indeed disturbances can …
View article: Dark Design: A New Framework for Advocacy and Creativity for the Nocturnal Commons
Dark Design: A New Framework for Advocacy and Creativity for the Nocturnal Commons Open
Urbanization continues to provide habitat for more and more of the planet’s human population. Accompanying this process are the energy, transport, and service infrastructures that support urban life. Enmeshed in these networks is artificia…
View article: Dark Design, Reimagining Nocturnal Ambiances
Dark Design, Reimagining Nocturnal Ambiances Open
The implementation of energy- efficient artificial lighting has been accom- panied by a compelling narrative of savings in economic terms. However, this obscures significant costs to the environment, humans and non-humans. It has also led …
View article: Roaming Narratives:New Architectural Methods for Remaking the City
Roaming Narratives:New Architectural Methods for Remaking the City Open
Who is the city for? With public space under increasing pressure from market-led ideologies and development practices, questions of identity are urgent. We are developing architectural methods to engage people in writing the city’s future …
View article: Local creative industries may be more global than we think:A study of tenants based at Baltic Creative, Liverpool
Local creative industries may be more global than we think:A study of tenants based at Baltic Creative, Liverpool Open
LOCAL CREATIVE INDUSTRIES MAY BE MORE GLOBAL THAN WE THINK explores the extent of international trade amongst a group of UK-based, micro-enterprises and SMEs (small-and-medium sized enterprises) classed as “creative industries.” The UK gov…
View article: Business as Unusual:Creative industries, international trade and Brexit
Business as Unusual:Creative industries, international trade and Brexit Open
UK government statistics maintain that only 18 per cent of creative industries firms engage in international trade. The UK’s Industrial Strategy: Creative Industries Sector Deal aims to increase UK creative industry exports by 50% within 5…
View article: Geographical Context Influence on Co-design Practice Between Indonesia and the UK Context
Geographical Context Influence on Co-design Practice Between Indonesia and the UK Context Open
(2019). Geographical Context Influence on Co-design Practice Between Indonesia and the UK Context. The Design Journal: Vol. 22, Running with Scissors: 13th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Dundee, 10-12th April, …
View article: Questioning the social and ethical implications of autonomous vehicle technologies on professional drivers.
Questioning the social and ethical implications of autonomous vehicle technologies on professional drivers. Open
The haulage industry and its drivers have been using vehicles with the first generation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for the last three years, gaining a wealth of knowledge and experience in the millions of kilometres drive…
View article: Are Local Creative Industries More Global than We Think? A study of creative and digital firms based at Baltic Creative in Liverpool
Are Local Creative Industries More Global than We Think? A study of creative and digital firms based at Baltic Creative in Liverpool Open
"Are Local Creative Industries More Global than We Think? A study of creative and digital firms based at Baltic Creative in Liverpool." The Design Journal, 22(sup1), pp. 2159–2160
View article: Social Design Fiction. New Methods for the Design of Emerging Technology.
Social Design Fiction. New Methods for the Design of Emerging Technology. Open
There is no shortage of Emerging Technologies all vying for our attention; a recent example of this is 3D Printing. However, a great deal of this technology fails to deliver on its potential. The implications of these technologies on our e…
View article: Co-designing Pathways to Opportunities for Young People in the North West of England
Co-designing Pathways to Opportunities for Young People in the North West of England Open
(2019). Co-designing Pathways to Opportunities for Young People in the North West of England. The Design Journal: Vol. 22, Running with Scissors: 13th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Dundee, 10-12th April, 2019,…
View article: Dark Inscriptions
Dark Inscriptions Open
This paper presents a frame for rethinking how we make cities by exploring the notion of writing beyond a literary act.To contextualize our approach and its application, we draw upon our recent Collaborative Urbanismpractice in the Scottis…
View article: The Future of Community and Values
The Future of Community and Values Open
This paper examines the future of community and values for 2050 in three areas: likely trends, probable trends, and possible outcomes. It evaluates current and emergent patterns, in particular the overarching shifts toward a more individua…
View article: Talk on the Wild Side:Moving Beyond Storytelling in Cities
Talk on the Wild Side:Moving Beyond Storytelling in Cities Open
When we arrive in urban situations they often have a problematic narrative through the palimpsest of their development. What we are exploring is how to change this story, inclusively and positively, to help people rewrite the future of the…
View article: ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse
ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse Open
The paper is the story of building a design research group from scratch. As there has been some recent interest in design research as a team based activity, this article illustrates how we built the Imagination research team and how it con…