Research

“Evolution of Money”

“No Machine is an Island” at BBC

Machine-based communication

A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism (and an artistic intervention)

A Human Connection

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

Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour

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

Artcasting ARTIST ROOMS

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

BLING Conference in Gothenburg

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

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: 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

CariCrop

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

Catie Cundall

Chain Re:Action

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

Chain Re:Action Event

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

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: Representing Cultural Heritage

Collider with the University Library Collections

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 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.

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

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 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 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

DCHRN Seminar: Working with the Public

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

Designing Ethical Human-Computer Systems

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

Designing for Near Futures talk

Designing machines with autonomy

Designing with living organisms

Dynamic Wall Visualisations

ECA Degree Show

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

Ella Tallyn

Evan Morgan

Ewa Luger

Exploring Crowdfunding at the Edinburgh Fringe – Interview Study

How do new technologies support performers and creative teams to crowdfund and bring their work to the Edinburgh Fringe?

Exploring Ethical AI in Accounting

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

FinBook

FinTech Hackathon prize

Fintech: Cryptocurrency, blockchain and cash in the future

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.

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

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. 

Inersis

Innovation In Housing Exhibition

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?

Jane Macdonald

Joe Revans

John Lee

Jonathan Rankin

Kam Chan

Karma Kettles

What would change if your kettle could store energy and push/pull it back to the grid?

Kash cups

Katerina Gorkovenko

Larissa Pschetz

Learning Energy Systems at Science Festival

National Museum of Scotland for Edinburgh International Science Festival

LENS: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

LENS: interactive research pod exploring data sharing

Let’s Get Concrete: The Aesthetics of Legitimacy

Liam Upton

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

Luis Soares

Mapping Privacy Models

Maria Wolters

Mark Kobine

Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden

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

Michaela Turner

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 Value Transactions

New Value Transactions

NEWSPEAK (2019)

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

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

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

Project Mercury

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

PuBliC: Future Everything

Quantified Body Language: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Intelligent furniture?

Rainbows and Unicorns

Recommended Relics

National Museum of Rural Life Scotland

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: 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: Jonathan Rankin, Design Informatics

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

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: 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: Teresa Almeida

Teresa Almeida, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

Research Seminar: Wendy Moncur

Research Seminars Autumn Term 2019

Robin Hill

Rory Gianni

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.

Sarah Bennett

Scottish Living artist: Wikipedia Editathon

Seannachies

Addressing Social Isolation through Storytelling

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

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.

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 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.

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

Tangible Data Controls

Tangible Tools for Understanding Distributed Systems

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

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 power of storytelling

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:

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 Initial Coin Offerings

Understanding situated energy values in rural Kenya

UR Black

Using service blueprints to help visualise design

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

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 recruiting: Design Informatics Research Software Engineer

Wearing data; the fabric of social becoming

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

Zezhong Wang