Designing with data

Informatics is about structure, behaviour, and interactions. It’s about natural and engineered information processors. Design is about the generation, development and testing of concepts. It’s about the creation of physical objects, capabilities or services. Design Informatics focuses on designing with data. We can harness massive connectivity, analytic power and industrial-strength simulation to design tangible products and intangible services to transform the ways we work, live at home, care for each other, and play.

News

Resident Entrepreneur launches game prototype
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Resident entrepreneurs are joining the Centre to help take their own informatics products to market.
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Upcoming Events
29 Aug 13 29 Aug 13 Thursday 29th August - Art and Technology
30 Aug 13 30 Aug 13 Friday 3oth August - Shaping Things: Artefacts and the 3D Printer

Writings and Resources

Ubiquity: Journal of Pervasive Media
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Systems Thinking in the Public Sector - the failure of the reform regime... a manifesto for a better way - John Seddon
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Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens When People Come Together - Clay Shirky
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Visual Complexity - Mapping Patterns of Information - Manuel Lima
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Books about Design, Data, Information
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Highlights

9th April - Mapping Edinburgh's Internet of Things

The Evaporation of Things symposium 13th and 14th March 2013

NEW DESIGN INFORMATICS COURSES TO START SEPTEMBER 2013

To be or not to be human in the smart city, Rob van Kranenburg

Wednesday 12th December - Seminar: Mimicking Object Agency: A digital arts approach

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Design Informatics Vision
Design is about the way you develop concepts into products and services and all the areas around them. It's about people and places and the other dynamic elements which affect the development process.
 
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People and Projects
Students, staff and entrepreneurs are exploring the possibilities which emerge when you cross ideas from design and informatics. For instance, how can you attach memories to everyday objects?
 
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Design Entrepreneurs
We aim to grow a community of entrepreneurial product designers, fascinated by the interplay between design and technology and driven to create impact through innovative products.
 
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Community of Interest
Every project, student or staff, has to address practical challenges ranging over the ways we work, care and play. To do this, we are building up a community of interest of academics, commercial and public sector organisations.