Open lab news
Schoolchildren helped redesign a city to cut air pollution and climate warming
Children are the future, so why don’t we listen to them more often? Writing for The Conversation, Sean Peacock discusses his research about working with children to give them the tools to tackle air pollution.
BBC micro:bit and video-making at JTELSS: getting innovative in the classroom
Anna Vasilchenko and Megan Venn-Wycherley talk about their experience running a workshop on Constructivism and Learn-by-making at the 15th annual European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning Summer School.
Designing for citizens rather than users: Purdue students bring UX magic to digital civics
Sixteen UX students from Purdue University joined us and took on the task to create their own ideas around Open Lab’s digital civics work.
Open Lab involved in ground-breaking bowel cancer research across the North East and Cumbria
Open Lab is involved in a ground-breaking cancer research and treatment project aiming to reverse the region’s high incidence and low survival rates of bowel cancer (also called colorectal cancer).
INTERIOR DESIGN OF THE FUTURE WILL SEEM LIKE MAGIC
Writing for The Conversation, PHD student Sara Nabil discusses her work on ‘interioraction’ – blending interior design with interaction design.