Research

‘My Data, My Self’ at Dutch Design Week

‘My Data, My Self’ at Dutch Design Week

‘My Data, My Self’ Exhibition

‘My Data, My Self’ TV

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 1

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 2

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 3

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 4

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 5

“Evolution of Money”

“No Machine is an Island” at BBC

Machine-based communication

2-year £1.2m project ‘Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ funded by UK EPSRC.

EPSRC have funded a captivating new project which examines social inequalities and their correlation with a variety of ecological and technological factors

A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism (and an artistic intervention)

A Human Connection

A Token Gesture @ the Oxford Blockchain Art & Technology Conference (OxBAT 2022)

A Token Gesture Exhibition

A Token Gesture is an exhibition and research project to introduce, explore and critique new public interactions and ownership of digital art via ‘non-fungible tokens’ – more commonly known as NFTs. 

A Token Gesture Exhibition Opening

‘A Token Gesture’ is an exhibition & research project to introduce, explore & critique new public interactions and ownership of digital art.

A Token Gesture: ‘Ask us NFT-thing’ 

A Token Gesture: ‘Ask us NFT-thing’ 

ACRC and Design Informatics at the 2022 Tiree Tech Wave

ACRC Satellite Seminar: ‘Co-what: so what?’

Adam Jenkins

Aditi Surana

Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC)

High‐quality data‐driven, personalised and affordable care that supports the independence, dignity and quality‐of‐life of people in later life living in their own homes and in supported care environments.

Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) launch event (online)

After Money

If you change the representation of value, does it change the values that you can represent?

After Money Exhibition

After Money symposium

AfterMoney

Alexandre Colle

Anna Marie Rezk

Anna Orme

Anna Talley

Ari Beckingham

Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour

Using mobilities-informed methods to support new approaches to arts evaluation

Artcasting ARTIST ROOMS

Auste Simkute

Autistic Adults Online

B-IoT at SURFLOGH

Bean There Made The News…..Bitbarista Features on the BBC

Benjamin Bach

Bettina Nissen

Billy Dixon

Biomorphis Architects – Architects for ‘Data Pipe Dreams’

Collaboration, Design and Build of the Design Informatics Pavilion

Bitbarista

Bjorn Ross

BLING Conference in Gothenburg

BLING Mid-term Conference

BLING partners from Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland and Sweden present their latest use cases around blockchain. This conference is moderated by Hannah Rudman, researcher and blockchain expert at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC).

BLINGathon

On the 13th and 14th of November, 'What the Hackathon' will organize an international blockchain-hackathon called ‘BLINGathon’. The competitors work together in small teams to invent solutions for a wide variety of blockchain related challenges. Each team will have 30 hours to find a solution for their challenge.

Block Exchange

Explore the future of value beyond money in a dynamic workshop activity, run by you! Design Informatics and Design In Action has created a workshop toolkit for anyone interested in exploring the rapidly developing area of Blockchain and DLTs

Blockchain by design workshop at Codebase

Blockchain City

Blockchain Ruralities: Novel digital geographies in the Scottish Highlands

Blockchain Ruralities: Novel digital geographies in the Scottish Highlands - Dr. George Jaramillo - Glasgow School of Art's Innovation School

Blockchain Technology and International Development workshop

Oxchain workshop on Blockchain and The Global South

Blockexchange

BlockExchange workshop

BlockExchange Workshop

Understanding the Blockchain

Blockexchange workshop – Digital Catapult

Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

Cutting-edge life science meets speculative fiction.

Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

New visions of city living through the laser-sharp lenses of biological research.

Bronwyn Jones

Caitlin McDonald

Call for Participants: TIPS by Design – Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018

Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018

Call for Participation: DIS 2020 Remote Workshop – Designing for the End of Life of IOT Objects – July 13th/14th

Call for Participation: DIS 2020 Remote Workshop – Designing Futures of Money and FinTech – July 7th/8th

Call for Participation: DRS 2018 workshop

Cally Russell from Mallzee on Dragon’s Den

Can new technologies help change global power geometries?

This workshop will explore the potential of new technologies to support regional food production and trade particularly targeting the goals of the Food and Nutrition Policy of the CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market).

Can new technologies shift global power geometries?

An agricultural trade workshop with Caribbean partners in Edinburgh

Capturing the Connections

Cara Wilson

CariCrop

CariCrop looks at the potential of blockchain technologies to support regional food production and trade in the Caribbean.

Carlos Guerrero Millan

Caroline Parkinson

Central Bank Digital Currency Design Workshop

DI and UCL are working together to design a privacy-enhancing central bank digital currency system that takes inspiration from physical cash and electronic payments.

Chain Re:Action

A knowledge exchange day discussing feminist thinking and community economies with blockchain technologies

Chain Re:Action Event

Charlotte Bird

Chatty Factories

Our vision for the manufacturing factory of the future is to embrace the rapid growth of Internet-connected products via embedded sensors producing massive volumes of data, and transform these traditionally discrete activities into one seamless process that is capable of real-time continuous product refinement.

Chatty Factories workshop

Chatty Factories workshop: Exploring the future of data driven product design at the Digital Catapult London

Chatty factory research press releases

Chris Elsden

Chris Speed

CI Lab 22: Digital Identities

Join us as we bring together artists who explore issues of identity in alternative ways and use technology as a creative tool

CI Labs #12: Creativity and curation in a post-digital world

CI Labs #18: Crossing Creative Borders

Collider: Care Experience & Creativity

A Collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers and problem-holders.  At the start of the Collider we set the scene with a challenge statement from Eona Craig, Chief Executive of the Articulate Cultural Trust.

Collider: Designing a Parasensical Futures Institute

A collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers, and problem holders. The first part of the Collider sets the scene through invited provocations before breaking out in to co-design sessions.

Collider: Designing a sustainable future for the Scottish visitor economy

A collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers, and problem holders. The first part of the Collider sets the scene through invited provocations before breaking out in to co-design sessions.

Collider: Digital Busking

A collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers, and problem holders. The first part of the Collider sets the scene before breaking out in to workshop sessions.

Collider: Digitising our World Heritage Site

How could new technologies help to survey and track the historic buildings of Edinburgh?

Collider: Keeping Promises — Responsible and Sustainable Tourism in Scotland

Collider: Representing Cultural Heritage

Collider with the University Library Collections

Collider: Technology and Tours

Community Hacking

The Community Web2.0: creative control through hacking project sought to explore whether concepts and vocabularies emerging in relation to the Internet could usefully be applied to understandings of off-line contemporary community relations and practices.

Company Engagement

Compassion Collider

Connected High Street

This timely project explores the potential for reconfiguring the traditional organisation of customer, salesperson, cash register, tangible things and database, allowing shops ‘stacks’ of both immaterial and material processes to share data that will improve social and economic conditions.

CREATIVE COMMUNITIES

Making the invisible visible through creative expression of mental wellbeing in land and sea communities in Scotland

Creative Cred Exhibition 2022

Creative Cred Exhibition

Creative Informatics

Creative Informatics aims to bring Edinburgh’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together, utilising innovative data-driven technologies to develop ground-breaking new products, businesses and experiences. 

Creative Informatics Challenge Projects launched

Creative Informatics first round of Challenge Projects has been launched.

Creative Informatics Partnership Forum 2

Creative Informatics Research Envisions Digital Futures for Festivals in 2030

Creative Informatics Showcase 2020

Creative Informatics Small Research Grants Showcase

Crossing Borders as part of FuturePlay Festival Edinburgh

Crypto-Knitting

Crypto-Knitting is a new collaboration between artist Ailie Rutherford and researcher Bettina Nissen exploring the potential of digital currencies in feminist economies

Cultural computing clash

D-RISK | Training and re-training autonomous vehicles

Dancing Robots

DAOWO Summit UK

DAOWO (Distributed Autonomous Organisations With Others) Summit UK facilitates cross-sector engagement with leading researchers and key artworld actors to discuss the current state of play and opportunities available for working with blockchain technologies in the arts.

Data Flows

As part of our move into our new offices at the Bayes Centre we employed designers Sigrid Schmeisser from Peak15 and Christoph Miler from Offshore Studio to create an engaging entranceway to our offices and studio space.

Data Lates

A newly launched site, Inspace City Screen, will host two out of hours exhibitions projected onto Potterrow.

Data Lates

Data Lates and PRETERNATURAL exhibitions

Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpses of a Near Future

Glimpses of a Near Future

Data Play 2019: Design Informatics Pavilion

We can’t design the future. But we can try it out, test it and play with it.

Data Play Events

Data Play: Festival 2019

The Design Informatics Pavilion is a pop-up exhibition space designed by biomorphis architects featuring a range of objects and experiences that invite you to step into the future.

Data Play: Festival 2019

summer activities part of Edinburgh Fringe

Data Vis Hub Talks – Isabel Meirelles, OCAD University

Data Vis Hub Talks – Laura Smith, Slanted Theory

Data Visualization Meetup – Data Physicalization

Anyone interested in the process and product of more effectively and ingeniously communicating the meanings inherent in data by visual or other sensory techniques.

DataVisFest on (In)equality and Incusion

Dave Murray-Rust wins Lumen Prize

Lumen Prize award to Dave Murray-Rust and Rocio von Jungenfeld

DCHRN Seminar: Working with the Public

DECaDE

DECaDE recognises this position and asks what can we do to transform this emerging future economy into one that is fair, that has appropriate governance, and maximises opportunites for everyone to create value. How can decentralised platforms enabled by emerging data-centric technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Ledgers and Blockchain transform our future economy – and the way we work, interact and create value.

DECaDE at Design Informatics | A 2021 update

Demonstrating GeoPact at ICoT

Design and the invisible: material conceits as design activism

Design and the invisible: material conceits as design activism: Luis Hernan, ArchaID, Newcastle University

Design in Action

Doing things in new ways, solving problems and pushing boundaries are the essence of any good economy.

Design in Action: Final report

Design Informatics at ACM CHI 2020

Design Informatics at DIS 2020

Design Informatics Fly Through

drone fly through of DI studio, workshop, Inspace and office

Design Informatics Pavilion – launch event photos

Design Informatics Pavilion 2019

Design Informatics Pavilion: Future Play

Design Informatics Pavilion: Histories and Futures

History of the Design Informatics Pavilion as we look forward to the 2018 Pavilion

Design Informatics Research Webinar Recordings

Design Informatics Research Webinars Winter/Spring 2022

Design Informatics Webinar – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Design Informatics Webinar – Iohanna Nicenboim, TU Delft

Design Informatics Webinar – Martin Glynn

Design Informatics Webinar – Mel Woods, Dundee

Design Informatics Webinar – Andrew Marks, Niantic

Design Informatics Webinar – Blockchain NGO Panel

Design Informatics Webinar – Dave Murray-Rust, ECA

Design of a decision support tool for visualising E. coli risks on agricultural land using a stakeholder-driven approach

Design with DataSphere 9-19 April

Student Showcase Exhibition

Designing Ethical Human-Computer Systems

Funded by: EPSRC ‘Telling Tales of Engagement, 2016’ award

Designing for Near Futures talk

Designing Futures of Money and FinTech: Show and Tell

Join us for an hour of Show & Tell with future scenarios from our DIS 2020 Workshop on Designing Futures of Money and FinTech!

Designing machines with autonomy

Designing Robotics Thinking

Masters Students at International Conference on Soft Robotics 

Designing with living organisms

Devanjan Bhattacharya

Developing a Data Driven Creative Company

Develop your creative practice, business, or cultural organisation by harnessing the power of your data to develop insights and inform decisions, and maximise your creative service, product, or experiences for audiences.

DI Graduate’s Exciting New Installation in Xi’An, China!

A mesmerizing art installation, presented by one of our recent graduates, Keki Chen!

DI Research Webinar – ‘We Began as Part of the Body’ Discussion, Beverley Hood (ECA) & Prof Sara Brown (Dundee)

DI Research Webinar – Mike Phillips, Plymouth

DI Webinar – Alexandre Colle, Edinburgh centre for Robotics

DI Webinar – Anne Galloway, Wellington NZ

DI Webinar – Antonio Roberts, artist and curator | Hellocatfood

DI Webinar – Audrey Desjardins, University of Washington

DI Webinar – Christina Chung, Indiana

DI Webinar – Claudia Westermann, XJTLU Dept of Architecture

DI Webinar – Conor Linehan, School of Applied Psychology, UCC

DI Webinar – Daniel Pargman

DI Webinar – Design Informatics Webinar – Karey Helms, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

DI Webinar – Dr Mariza Dima, Brunel University London

DI Webinar – Dr Shama Rahman

DI Webinar – Elisa Giaccardi, Post-industrial Design @ TU Deflt

DI Webinar – Exploring the risks of D-RISK: Training algorithms through public engagement

DI Webinar – Helen Pritchard

DI Webinar – Joseph Lindley and David Philip Green, Lancaster University

DI Webinar – Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

DI Webinar – Karen Gregory, Digital Sociology @ UofE

DI Webinar – Katie Siek, Indiana

DI Webinar – Kellie Morrissey, University of Limerick

DI Webinar – Lachlan Urquhart

DI Webinar – Lynne Murray, ECA Design Informatics

DI Webinar – Martijn de Waal

DI Webinar – Michael Stead

DI Webinar – Mick Grierson, London

DI Webinar – Mike Phillips, Plymouth

DI Webinar – Mina Doosti, University of Edinburgh

DI Webinar – Mr. Gee, Poet @ 6th Vision

DI Webinar – Nadia Berthouze & Youngjun Cho

DI Webinar – Neha Kumar

DI Webinar – Nicola Bidwell, International University of Management, Namibia

DI Webinar – Pip Thornton and Chris Elsden, Zoom Obscura

DI Webinar – Prof Martyn Evans, MMU Design

DI Webinar – Rachel Clarke, Open Lab, Newcastle University

DI Webinar – Rachel O’Dwyer, School of Visual Cultures, NCAD

DI Webinar – Raphael Kim, London

DI Webinar – Reem Talhouk

DI Webinar – Richmond Wong, University of California Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

DI Webinar – Ron Wakkary, SFU School of Interactive Arts & Tech

DI Webinar – Sara Nabil, Queen’s University

DI Webinar – Sarah Fox

DI Webinar – Shana Agid

DI Webinar – Uta Hinrichs, University of Edinburgh

DI Webinar – Will Odom, Simon Fraser University

DI Webinar – George Jaramillo, Heriot-Watt University and Distributed Capabilities

DI Webinar – Winnie Soon, artist-researcher at Aarhus University

DI Workshop Webinar – Paul Thomas, University of New South Wales

Dinny Duan

Dynamic Wall Visualisations

ECA Degree Show

The ECA degree show is currently taking place across the ECA Lauriston Place campus

ECA Degree Show 20-26 August

ECA Degree Show now open 20-26 August

EFI – MSc in Service Management & Design Survey

EFI Autumn 2022 programme: First Breath

Edinburgh Futures Institute Autumn Event Programme: First Breath

Ella Tallyn

Evan Morgan

Every-Body Exhibition

We are delighted to announce our virtual Festival exhibition for 2020, Every-Body: City, Technology and the Body.

Every-Body: Body – Webinar

Every-Body: City – Webinar

Every-Body: City, Technology and the Body from 1-16 August

Every-Body presents the work of the pioneering design studio, Universal Everything.

Every-Body: Technology – Webinar

Ewa Luger

Exhibition Launch – Every-Body: City, Technology and the Body

Exhibition Launch and Keynote talk for our virtual Festival exhibition for 2020. Talk from Joel Gethin Lewis from Universal Everything.

Exhibition Launch – Somewhere In The Universe It Rains Diamonds (Aether)

Join us for the launch of Somewhere In The Universe It Rains Diamonds (Aether), a three room installation making the invisible visceral.

Exhibition Launch: We began as part of the body

‘We began as part of the body’ is a multi-component digital artwork inspired the eczema genetic research laboratory of Professor Sara Brown, (University of Dundee) where Beverley Hood (University of Edinburgh) undertook an artist residency in 2017 organised by ASCUS Art & Science.

Exhibition: Space & Satellites Artist Residency

In our first Artist in Residence programme for Inspace we invited a group of 5 multi-disciplinary artists to focus on the theme of Space and Satellites data. These residencies created a space for exploration and aimed to create genuine collaborations between science and creative practice.

Exploring Ethical AI in Accounting

Accounting is one of the latest professions to consider the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support decision-making.

Eyes Online: Understand your data, switch on your rights

Free public event this weekend in Inspace

Facilitating Well-Informed Data Science through Interactive Visual Analysis

Join us for a series of online summer talks on data visualization: https://visualinteractivedata.github.io/invited-talks.html as part of the Vis Hub online course for professionals: https://datavis-online.github.io

Farid Ghani

FinBook

Finding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques to Guide Investigation

Christopher Collins, Ontario Tech Institute, OT

FinTech Hackathon prize

Fintech: Cryptocurrency, blockchain and cash in the future

FND Stories Exhibition 7-26 June

Capturing the stories and lived experience of those diagnosed with neurological condition, Functional Neurological Disorder, through art. 

Fringe Futures Online – Research Study

Do you have ideas about the future online landscape of the Edinburgh Fringe?

Future Visions of Active Travel in Edinburgh

The B-IoT project hosted a workshop exploring the space where visions of future transport meet Blockchain and IoT technologies.

FutureLab Exhibition, China, 5-13 December

Design Informatics is delighted to be taking part in this year’s FutureLab representing Edinburgh College of Art. FutureLab is an international platform dedicated to the research and presentation of innovative teaching practice for future art and design education.

Garnet Hertz – ‘Disobedient Electronics’ talk

Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data

GeoAid

GeoCoin

GeoCoin

Geocoin Workshop

Geocoin Workshop

GeoPact

Huge benefits in transportation can be gained if Intelligent Transportation Systems such as automated vehicles are enabled to communicate between each other, and their surrounding infrastructure in ways that are simple, reliable, and widely acceptable for human operators. At the same time, it is imperative that the security and privacy of such communications are considered. This project will demonstrate the potential of distributed ledgers such as blockchain as a method of securing the integrity of such systems.

GeoPact at the Scottish Parliament

GeoPact at the University of Edinburgh

GeoPact at the University of Warwick

GeoPact Demonstration

Smart Contracts in Action

Ghost Cinema App: Temporal Ubiquity and the Condition of Being in Everytime

Glasgow Improv Theatre Play ‘Whose Ticket is it Anyway?’ with Ticket Designer

Harvey Everson

HAT

HAT is a £1.2m multi-disciplinary project funded by the Research Council’s UK Digital Economy Programme. It involves a team of 16 researchers from the domains of Economics, Business, Computing and the Arts across six UK universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Nottingham, Warwick and the West of England

HCI for Blockchain

Hector Michael Fried

Human Data Interaction Network Plus Workshop

This workshop represents the first workshop of the network plus in Human Data Interaction (HDI).  Our aim is to draw together people from all three sectors (academia, public and third sector) to start making connections/partnerships and think about projects you’d like us to fund.  Funding will be announced in January (project will range from 2.5k to 50k) and we hope this event will help people to start developing their proposals. 

ICT4D and Covid-19

Imaginative Futures for Finance

Inersis

Innovation In Housing Exhibition

Inspace + Design Informatics showreel

The 2021 showreel raises the screens and opens the doors, inviting you in to see what has been and what can be at Inspace, Inspace City Screen and with Design Informatics.

Inspace: Artist Residencies

Inspace is part of the Institute for Design Informatics; commissioning and producing creative activity that unlocks digital technology and explores its role in society. Our public programme will connect data, research and creative talent.

Inspace: Exhibitions

Inspace is a unique events and exhibitions space which is part of the Institute of Design Informatics within the University of Edinburgh. Inspace commissions and produces creative activity that unlocks digital technology and explores its role in society, through public programmes that connect data, research and creative talent.

Internet of Second Hand Things

Adopting more sustainable patterns of consumption offers positive outcomes for improving personal wellbeing, minimising resource depletion and meeting environmental targets.

INTUIT

Interaction Design for Trusted Sharing of Personal Health Data to Live Well with HIV

IoT in the Home: Writing and Acting the Future of Autonomous Energy Devices

Focus group

Isn’t it time to change the way we think about time?

James Scott-Brown

Jane Macdonald

Jenny Elliott

Jessica Armstrong

Job Posting – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Design (Design Informatics)

Joe Revans

John Lee

John Morrison

John Vines

Jonathan Rankin

June 15 to July 17 – 5 Week Online Data Visualization Course for Professionals

The University of Edinburgh is hosting a university-certified, 10-credit, online course in data visualisation with flexible schedule. The course runs from June 15-July 17 (5 weeks) and is primarily dedicated to professionals in, among others, finance, the sports industry, the creative industry, journalism, education and the public sector.

Kam Chan

Kami Vaniea

Karma Kettles

Could your kettle do more than boiling water?

KASH Cups

Kiersten Hay

Kyle Morrison

Lachlan Urquhart

Larissa Pschetz

Launch of new centre – The Digital Economy Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE)

Centre heralds new era for the digital economy

Launch: Space and Satellites Artist Residency Programme

New artist residencies launched for Inspace looking at space and satellite data

Laurence Moroney on AI: Breakthroughs, Opportunities and the Future

Learning Energy Systems at Science Festival

National Museum of Scotland for Edinburgh International Science Festival

Lending a Making Hand

LENS: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

LENS: interactive research pod exploring data sharing

Let There Be Dragons CI Exhibition

Join us for the launch of There be Dragons: Navigating the uncharted data territories of creative practice, an exhibition by five artists.

Let’s Get Concrete: The Aesthetics of Legitimacy

Liquan Chai

Listening to Voices

Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network

Listening to Voices Project Report

Living with the Internet of Things

Explore how the Internet of Things is affecting our lives, and how it will influence our futures - at home, at work and in our environment.

Living with the Internet of Things Event

A short film about the Living with the Internet of Things event at Tate Exchange on 8-9 Feb, 2019

Local Impact Through European Collaboration with Una Europa

Luis Soares

Lynne Craig

Mapping Privacy Models

Maria Wolters

Mark Kobine

Martin Disley

Masterclass: academic collaboration to future proof the creative industries

Matthew Tannam-Elgie

Melissa Terras

Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden

The Memories of Mr. Seel’s was an AHRC Connected Communities Pilot Demonstrator Project

Miromations

Miromations are short, highly participatory performances for 100’s of people within a Miro board

Modern Human Presents Pizza Block

Pizza Block workshop with Decentralized Design Meet-up

Moneylab

Near Future Teaching Collider

Network Plus in Human Data Interaction

Network Plus in Human Data Interaction: Legibility, Agency, Negotiability

New Artist in Residence Programme for Inspace

Creative AI Artist Residency Sept 2022-April 2023

New Job Posting! Design Research Developer – DECaDE project

New Job Posting! Lecturer/Reader in Design Informatics

New Job Posting! Manager, Institute for Design Informatics

New Job Posting! Research Associate, Institute for Design Informatics

New Job Posting! Research Centres Support Assistant, Institutes for Design Informatics and OPENspace

New Value Transactions

New Value Transactions

NEWSPEAK (2019)

Nichole Fernandez

Nicola Osborne

One Day Workshop on Blockchain, Trust and Global Challenges

One HAT, so many possibilities…

OxChain

Ox-Chain is a major research project between the Universities of Edinburgh, Northumbria and Lancaster, and research partners Oxfam, Zero Waste Scotland, Volunteer Scotland and WHALE Arts, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It brings together experts in digital design, cryptography, business and international development. Through collaborative research, we will design a Blockchain for Oxfam to better support the circulation and re-circulation of valuable items within its business model – hence ‘Ox-Chain’.

Oxchain – Blockchain & the Global South symposium round up

Round up of the day's activities at the Blockchain and the Global South conference

Oxchain Workbooks

PACTMAN

Understanding how to manage issues of trust, privacy and consent in future pervasive environments

Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022

Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022

Peak 15: Creating the surrealistic identity for Data Pipe Dreams

Peak 15's collaboration with Design Informatics

Pedagogy & Physicalization

PETRAS Conference

Phase 2: Co-authorship and publication

Phase one: Cycle probes

Pip Thornton at the Fruitmarket Gallery

Creative Informatics RA, Pip Thornton's work is now showing at the Fruitmarket Gallery following on from her work shown as part of the Festival last year

PizzaBlock at DataPlay

Can you help solve Edinburgh’s lack of good pizza? Come and learn about the future of identity with blockchain technologies in this one-off PizzaBlock workshop!

Polite Robots That Make Way for People

Postponed- BLING GeoPact Collider: Location based digital contracts

Workshop- Can blockchain technologies redesign the way we transport people and things around cities?

Project Mercury

Project Mercury is a 12 month collaboration between Design Informatics and Tesco Bank to explore FinTech by Design.

PuBliC: Future Everything

Pushpi Bagchi

Qualified Selves: Co-Creating Meaning Post-Big Data

Qualified Selves is a joint project between Lancaster and Edinburgh Universities. Its novel approach to co-design and co-creation has so far allowed for new and exciting prototypes to be developed to help us think about tracking data in different ways.

Quantified Body Language: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Intelligent furniture?

Quantum Computing by Design week

Rainbows and Unicorns

Recommended Relics

National Museum of Rural Life Scotland

REPHRAIN

REPHRAIN

REPHRAIN will develop a wide range of tools to keep people safe and informed online. These include automated tools to flag online harms in social media and a map to identify and avoid different threat such as fraud or disinformation. Researchers at the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (REPHRAIN), will also develop new methods to protect against micro-targeting, a tactic used to gather data about individuals, and a Data Advice Bureau to help citizens navigate online spaces safely.

Research posts at Design Informatics

Research Seminar – Aaron Quingley

Research Seminar – Ana Betancourt & Hector Fried + Rory Gianni

Research Seminar – Des Higham

Research Seminar – Dr Rachel Jacobs

Research Seminar – Felix Green

Research Seminar – Laura Forlano

Research Seminar – Leah Lockhart

Research Seminar – Mike Hazas

Research Seminar and Performance: Tim Shaw & John Bowers

Tim Shaw and John Bowers work in the Digital Cultures Research Group, Culture Lab and Fine Art, Newcastle University.

Research Seminar Series: Benjamin Bach, Data Visualization

Research Seminar Series: Tim Fawns, Education, Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Alex Taylor

Research Seminar: Angelo Plessas, Independent Practitioner

Research Seminar: Augusto Esteves

Augusto Esteves, Edinburgh Napier University

Research Seminar: Beatrice Alex

Research Seminar by Beatrice Alex / Education, Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Beverley Hood

Beverley Hood is Lecturer and Research Director for Design at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Daniela Petrelli

Research Seminar: Dr Katerina Gorkovenko

Dr Katerina Gorkovenko is a human computer interaction researcher and designer who recently completed her PhD at Dundee University. Her work is situated at the intersection of technology, politics, and broader societal change. Her research practice utilises an array of design led qualitative research methods in order to explore complex problems around human behaviour and the use of digital tools.

Research Seminar: Gilad Rosner

Gilad Rosner, Internet of Things Privacy Forum

Research Seminar: Grace Annan-Callcott

Grace Annan-Callcott is Press Officer at IF. Her role is central to increasing IF’s visibility and influence, and ensuring IF shapes the narrative across issues of trust, privacy and data rights. She works with journalists and influential organisations, to establish IF’s reputation as world leading experts. Grace has an MPhil from Cambridge and a BA from Newcastle University.

Research Seminar: Ida Telalbasic

Research Seminar: Jonathan Rankin, Design Informatics

Jonathan Rankin from Design Informatics will talk about designing for speculative future visions.

Research Seminar: Lachlan Urquhart

Research Seminar: Lisa May Thomas

Lisa May Thomas is a contemporary dance artist, based in Bristol, who has worked extensively with dance for screen and is currently developing live choreographic, sensorial performances with new technologies.

Research Seminar: Liz McFall

Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Lucy Havens

Lucy joined Design Informatics to create new interfaces for exploring large data and information repositories.

Research Seminar: Matt Jones

Research Seminar: Mohamed Khamis

Mohamed Khamis is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the School of Computing Science since September 2018.

Research Seminar: Pete Bennett

Pete is a freelance creative technologist, resident of the Pervasive Media Studio and teaching fellow in the University of Bristol's computer science department.

Research Seminar: Rachel Clarke

Rachel Clarke is a Global Challenges Research Fellow at Northumbria University, in the School of Design and Centre for International Development.

Research Seminar: Richard Mortier

Richard Mortier is the Reader in Computing and Human-Data Interaction in the Systems Research Group of the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science & Technology (aka The Computer Laboratory).

Research Seminar: Sarah Bennett

Sarah Bennett is a PhD student in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, researching the role of moral values in the design of symbiotic human-AI systems.

Research Seminar: Steve Love, GSA

The School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) is currently a postgraduate research, teaching and commercial centre of The Glasgow School of Art. It aims to exploit the interface between science, technology and the arts to explore imaginative and novel uses of advanced 3D digital visualisation and interaction technologies.

Research Seminar: Suzy Moat

Research Seminar: Teresa Almeida

Teresa Almeida, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

Research Seminar: Wendy Moncur

Research Seminars – Autumn Term 2022 Schedule

Design Informatics Research Seminars Autumn Term 2022

Research Seminars Autumn Term 2019

Research Webinar – Abi Durrant, Caroline Claisse & Bakita Kasadha

Research Webinar – Björn Rust + Chris Elsden

Research Webinar – Karen Elliott & Glenn Smith

Research Webinar – Marcus O’Dair

Research Webinar – McFall, Thornton, Bassett, Galip, McGowan

Research Webinar – Vicky Gunn

Research Webinar – m.c. schraefel

Research Webinar – Martin Kornberger

Research Webinars – Autumn 2020 Schedule

Research Webinars – Autumn/Winter 2021 Schedule

Research Webinars – Spring/Summer 2021 Schedule

Research Webinars – Winter 2021 Schedule

Robin Hill

Roxanne Wong

Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age

Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age

The research addresses three related themes: crafting practices, rurality and digital engagement.

Ruth Oliver

Ryan David Bowler

SAIDS Project

Mydes - SAIDS project aims to digitally enable public and third sector services that are typically paper-based or repeated manual data entry

Sarah Bennett

Sarah Kettley

Scottish Living artist: Wikipedia Editathon

Seannachies

Addressing Social Isolation through Storytelling

Seeing the use of things: how IoT will shape future business

Seeking Chancellor’s Fellowship in Service Design

Seismic See-saw – Design Informatics Pavilion

Sharing Little Sparta

Project to attract new audiences to artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden; Little Sparta.

Simran Chopra

Sixth Sense Transport

Sixth Sense Transport research is investigating the extent to which behavioural change and better understanding of transport habits and practices can be facilitated through the creation of a new form of ‘transport network’, based on extending social networking principles to transport users, their individual vehicles and objects around them.

Smart Contracts in Action!

Smart Donations – OxChain Showcase

Smart Energy Wales: Consumer of the Future

Smart Energy GB is the campaign for a smarter Britain. It’s our task to help everyone in Great Britain understand smart meters, the national rollout and how to use their new meters to be cleaner and greener with their energy use.

Smart Transactions in Public Spaces

From communicating with loved ones to organising our finances, IoT technology enables us to perform an increasingly wide range of tasks on the move, and in a variety of public spaces.

Sound Exchange at Inspace City Screen

Space & Satellites Work in Progress events

As part of the Space and Satellites Artist Residency programme we are running a series of Work in Progress events for our research webinar series. Over the next 5 weeks you will get to hear from each of the artists alongside an academic/scientist in to how the collaboration is progressing and hints as to what is to come for our exhibition in July.

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Cécile Simonis

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Elaine Ford

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Julia McGhee

As part of the Space and Satellites Artist Residency programme we are running a series of Work in Progress events for our research webinar series and each week we will hear from the artists on their experiences so far and a glimpse as to what is to come for our exhibition in July.

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Stacey Hunter & Ben Hymers

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Victoria Evans

Space and Satellites Artists in Residence

We are delighted to announce our first five artists in residence, selected from 35 international applications, who will be focussing on the theme of Space and Satellites data. These residencies will create a space for exploration and aim to create genuine collaborations between science and creative practice.

Space meets the Creative sector – Mash-up

Space technology offers an interesting ability to understand our world, but in order to take full advantage of this the industry needs help and fresh perspectives. The space sector needs the skills, talent and imagination of games makers and data visualisers

Story blocks

StoryStorm

The ‘StoryStorm Network’  was funded by AHRC CCN+ with the aim of developing collaborative, co-creative workshops to explore the ways stories are increasingly supported and shaped by digital technology.

StoryStorm Project website

String Figures talk at Community Economies Research Network conference

Student Studio Access Induction

Susan Lechelt

Talk: Laying down the law on NFTs

Funging the non-fungible: Laying down the law on NFTs

Tangible Data Controls

Tangible Tools for Understanding Distributed Systems

Telling Tales of Engagement open until 23 February

Poetic expressions of smart donations with Oxfam

Telling the Bees

Telling the Bees is an interdisciplinary project working with Tay Landscape Partnership (TayLP) to develop new understandings of beekeeping practices through ‘future folklore’ for new and future generations of beekeepers. The future folklore prototypes will be a community resource and also a probe for academic communities, prompting questions on the role of folklore, literature, tacit knowledge, and traditional ecological knowledge structures. The project runs from April 2015 until March 2016.

Temporal Design

Temporal design

Temporal Design Workshop

The Temporal Design workshop will invite participants to think about time beyond dominant narratives of clock-time.

Tesco Bank Project Mercury

video explaining Project Mercury

Textiles for Soft Robotics – Vanessa Sanchez

The Changing Law on Ownership in Digital Assets: A Consultation

The Dust [n]Forcer

The Ethnobot

The Latent Image; Transimage 2018

eartaret reatreatae ertaret

The Latent Image: Transimage 2018 round up and videos

The LATENT IMAGE is the fifth iteration in the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conferences Series

The Memorial for Misused Time

The Overlay

Science Festival Exhibition from The New Real Observatory

The power of storytelling

The University of Edinburgh at ACM CHI 2021

Theodore Koterwas new Artist in Residence

Creative AI Artist Residency Sept 2022-April 2023

ThingTank

As objects around us begin to collect data and make suggestions about what might be desirable, it is possible that they may even be able to design things that we could never think of. Project Thing Tank is doing design research on these possibilities.

Three before CHI

Please join us for an extended seminar in which each speaker will have 30 mins to present their research:

Thriving in later life through care networks and data-driven care technologies

Transcultural Data Pact event

Transcultural Data Pact, a research event that is also a game of serious make believe. We welcome you to a future-historic event and clash.

Transforming communities through co-designing novel experience of heritage at a local museum

Travel Behaviours Network

TrustBall: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Who do you trust with your data?

TurningPoint

Understanding informal networks of care with older adults at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC)

Understanding Initial Coin Offerings

Understanding situated energy values in rural Kenya

Universal Matter at Inspace City Screen

Upcoming PhD positions at Design Informatics

UR Black

Using service blueprints to help visualise design

Uta Hinrichs

Vacancy: Post-doctoral Research Associate in Creative Informatics

come and work with the team at Design Informatics on an exciting new project as an RA

Victoria Evans on Radiophrenia

Victoria Evans’ work, Deep Space Call and Response which she produced as part of her Space and Satellites artist residency has been selected to appear on Radiophrenia, a temporary art radio station which will broadcast 24 hours a day from the 9-22 November across Glasgow on 87.9FM.

Vikki Jones

Virtual Exhibition Launch for the Space and Satellites Artist Residency Programme for Inspace

Please join us in raising a virtual glass to celebrate the work from our Artist-In-Residence Programme for Inspace. A group of 5 multi-disciplinary artists have been focussing on the theme of Space and Satellites data for the past 3 months.

Visual+Interactive Data

Visual+Interactive Data is a research group that investigates data visualizations and intreractive means to make data more immediate, tangible, and understandable across a variety of media such as paper, screen, and immersive.

Volunteering on the Ledger #1 – Identity Management

An exploratory design workshop to understand the potential for blockchain-based identity management in the voluntary sector.

Volunteering on the Ledger #2 – Alternative Currencies

We are looking for a new Co-Director!

Vacancy for new Chair in Design Informatics

We are now recruiting for a Lecturer in Soft Robotics and Physical Computing!

We are recruiting: Design Informatics Research Software Engineer

Wearing data; the fabric of social becoming

Welcoming a new Co-Director to the Institute for Design Informatics: Prof. John Vines

It is with absolute pleasure and excitement that we are able to announce that Prof. John Vines has been appointed as Chair of Design Informatics, and Co-Director for the Institute for Design Informatics. The appointment based in the School of Informatics defines a new era in which to extend the development of research at the intersection of design and computing.

What is privacy, why can’t we agree about it, and why is data a particular problem?

What is privacy, why can't we agree about it, and why is data a particular problem?

When Your Teacup Goes Online and Demands to Design Itself

Winter Term Research Seminars

Research Seminars - Winter Term

Worlds of Care Exhibition 9-24 April

Part of the Edinburgh Science Festival, the ‘Worlds of Care’ photography exhibition aims to explore how care is commonly portrayed, perceived and experienced.

Youngsil Lee

Yuhao Sun

Yuning Chen

Zezhong Wang

Zoom Obscura at Inspace City Screen