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Design Futures

2020

Place-Based Policymaking and HCI

Metro Futures: Co-designing the future of Tyne and Wear Metro

Consumerist, mundane, and uncanny futures with sex robots

Un-authorised View: Leveraging volunteer expertise in heritage

Educational Technology

When the civic turn turns digital: Designing safe and secure refugee resettlement

Digital Social Innovation

Unplatformed Design: Appropriating social media for coordinated participation

Educational Technology

Effects of questionnaires in VR user studies

Examining design choices for questionnaires in VR user studies

2019

Immersive humanitarian escape room: Disseminating strategy in a new way

It’s Our Future: putting young people at the centre of building their future

Involving Syrian refugees in design research: Lessons learnt from the field

Digital Social Innovation

The complex dynamics of diverse practises at Maker Faire

WhatFutures: engaging youth volunteers using WhatsApp

Relations are more than bytes: Making smart cities with people at heart

Journeycam: Exploring experiences of accessibility and mobility among powered wheelchair users

DemVR: a virtual reality hackathon for people living with dementia

Not-Equal: Exploring social justice in the digital economy

Digital Social Innovation

Data:In Place: Making open data work for communities

Our Story: A participatory video app and workflow that can be used by anyone

Digital Sustainability

2018

Sense Explorers: tools for children to transform the environment

Sunblock: Distributed ledgers and decentralised energy in Sub Saharan Africa

Sense my Street: A toolkit for data-driven change

Digital Social Innovation

Seamless Seams: Machine sewing shape-changing and colour changing threads

2017

Make Place: an open-source mapping and survey tool

Jigsaudio: Drawing and talking about urban change

2016

ThoughtCloud: situated digital feedback made easy

Empowering Hacks: challenging perceptions through DIY making

2015

Change Explorer: engaging people on planning decisions

2014

PosterVote: a low-cost electronic voting system for communities and activists

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