Research

‘My Data, My Self’ at Dutch Design Week

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‘My Data, My Self’ at Dutch Design Week

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‘My Data, My Self’ Exhibition

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‘My Data, My Self’ TV

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‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 1

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‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 2

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‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 3

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‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 4

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‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 5

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“Evolution of Money”

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“No Machine is an Island” at BBC

Machine-based communication

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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

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A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism (and an artistic intervention)

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A Human Connection

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

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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. 

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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.

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A Token Gesture: ‘Ask us NFT-thing’ 

A Token Gesture: ‘Ask us NFT-thing’ 

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ACRC and Design Informatics at the 2022 Tiree Tech Wave

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

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Adam Jenkins

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Aditi Surana

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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.

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ACRC launch, November 2021

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

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After Money

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

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After Money Exhibition

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After Money symposium

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AfterMoney

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Alexandre Colle

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Anna Marie Rezk

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Anna Orme

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Anna Talley

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Ari Beckingham

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Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour

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

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Artcasting ARTIST ROOMS

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Auste Simkute

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Image of the Small-Talkifier design concept

Autistic Adults Online

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B-IoT at SURFLOGH

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

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Benjamin Bach

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Bettina Nissen

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Billy Dixon

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Biomorphis Architects – Architects for ‘Data Pipe Dreams’

Collaboration, Design and Build of the Design Informatics Pavilion

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Bitbarista

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Bjorn Ross

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BLING Conference in Gothenburg

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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).

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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.

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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

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Blockchain by design workshop at Codebase

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Blockchain City

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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

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Blockchain Technology and International Development workshop

Oxchain workshop on Blockchain and The Global South

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Blockexchange

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BlockExchange workshop

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BlockExchange Workshop

Understanding the Blockchain

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Blockexchange workshop – Digital Catapult

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Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

Cutting-edge life science meets speculative fiction.

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Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

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

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Bronwyn Jones

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Caitlin McDonald

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

Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018

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

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

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Call for Participation: DRS 2018 workshop

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Cally Russell from Mallzee on Dragon’s Den

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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).

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Can new technologies shift global power geometries?

An agricultural trade workshop with Caribbean partners in Edinburgh

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Capturing the Connections

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Cara Wilson

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CariCrop

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

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Carlos Guerrero Millan

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Caroline Parkinson

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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.

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Chain Re:Action

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

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Chain Re:Action Event

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Charlotte Bird

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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.

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Chatty Factories workshop

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

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Chatty factory research press releases

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Chris Elsden

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Chris Speed

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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

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

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CI Labs #18: Crossing Creative Borders

CI Labs #18: Crossing Creative Borders

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Collider: Digitising our World Heritage Site

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

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Collider: Keeping Promises — Responsible and Sustainable Tourism in Scotland

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Collider: Representing Cultural Heritage

Collider with the University Library Collections

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Collider: Technology and Tours

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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.

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Company Engagement

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Compassion Collider

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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.

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Creative AI Residency Work In Progress Presentation – Theodore Koterwas

Artist in Residency Theodore Koterwas presents his work to date as Creative AI Artist Residence for Design Informatics and Creative Informatics.

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CREATIVE COMMUNITIES

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

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Creative Cred Exhibition 2022

Creative Cred Exhibition

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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. 

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Creative Informatics Challenge Projects launched

Creative Informatics first round of Challenge Projects has been launched.

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Creative Informatics Partnership Forum 2

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festforward Magazine Cover

Creative Informatics Research Envisions Digital Futures for Festivals in 2030

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Creative Informatics Showcase 2020

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Creative Informatics Small Research Grants Showcase

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Crossing Borders as part of FuturePlay Festival Edinburgh

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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

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Cultural computing clash

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D-RISK | Training and re-training autonomous vehicles

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Dancing Robots

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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.

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Data as a Material Exhibition

Design with Data Student Showcase Exhibition 2023

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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.

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Data Lates

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

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Data Lates

Data Lates and PRETERNATURAL exhibitions

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Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpses of a Near Future

Glimpses of a Near Future

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Data Play 2019: Design Informatics Pavilion

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

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Data Play Events

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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.

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Data Play: Festival 2019

summer activities part of Edinburgh Fringe

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Data Vis Hub Talks – Isabel Meirelles, OCAD University

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Data Vis Hub Talks – Laura Smith, Slanted Theory

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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.

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DataVisFest on (In)equality and Incusion

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Dave Murray-Rust wins Lumen Prize

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

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DCHRN Seminar: Working with the Public

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DECaDE

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.

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DECaDE

DECaDE at Design Informatics | A 2021 update

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Demonstrating GeoPact at ICoT

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Design and the invisible: material conceits as design activism

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

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Design in Action

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

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Design in Action: Final report

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Design Informatics and SHAPE in Innovation

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Design Informatics at ACM CHI 2020

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Design Informatics at DIS 2020

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Design Informatics Fly Through

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

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Design Informatics Pavilion – launch event photos

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Design Informatics Pavilion 2019

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Design Informatics Pavilion: Future Play

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Design Informatics Pavilion: Histories and Futures

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

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Design Informatics Research Webinar Recordings

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Design Informatics Research Webinars Winter/Spring 2022

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Design Informatics Webinar – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

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Design Informatics Webinar – Iohanna Nicenboim, TU Delft

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Design Informatics Webinar – Martin Glynn

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Design Informatics Webinar – Mel Woods, Dundee

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Design Informatics Webinar – Andrew Marks, Niantic

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Design Informatics Webinar – Blockchain NGO Panel

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Design Informatics Webinar – Dave Murray-Rust, ECA

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

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Design with DataSphere 9-19 April

Student Showcase Exhibition

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Designing Ethical Human-Computer Systems

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

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Designing for Near Futures talk

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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!

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Designing machines with autonomy

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Designing Robotics Thinking

Masters Students at International Conference on Soft Robotics 

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Designing Temporal Ecologies Symposium

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Designing with living organisms

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Devanjan Bhattacharya

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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.

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

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

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

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DI Research Webinar – Mike Phillips, Plymouth

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Alexandre Colle

DI Webinar – Alexandre Colle, Edinburgh centre for Robotics

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DI Webinar – Anne Galloway, Wellington NZ

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Antonio Roberts Hellocatfood

DI Webinar – Antonio Roberts, artist and curator | Hellocatfood

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Audrey Desjardins-Webinar

DI Webinar – Audrey Desjardins, University of Washington

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DI Webinar – Christina Chung, Indiana

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DI Webinar – Claudia Westermann, XJTLU Dept of Architecture

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Conor Linehan, Playfulness in design research

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

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DI Webinar – Daniel Pargman

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

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DI Webinar – Dr Mariza Dima, Brunel University London

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DI Webinar – Dr Shama Rahman

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

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

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DI Webinar – Helen Pritchard

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

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

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DI Webinar – Karen Gregory, Digital Sociology @ UofE

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DI Webinar – Katie Siek, Indiana

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DI Webinar – Kellie Morrissey, University of Limerick

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DI Webinar – Lachlan Urquhart

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DI Webinar – Lynne Murray, ECA Design Informatics

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DI Webinar – Mark Perry

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DI Webinar – Martijn de Waal

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DI Webinar – Michael Stead

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DI Webinar – Mick Grierson, London

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DI Webinar – Mike Phillips, Plymouth

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DI Webinar – Mina Doosti, University of Edinburgh

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

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DI Webinar – Nadia Berthouze & Youngjun Cho

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DI Webinar – Neha Kumar

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Nicola Bidwell, Translating Time

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

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Zoom Obscura

DI Webinar – Pip Thornton and Chris Elsden, Zoom Obscura

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DI Webinar – Prof Martyn Evans, MMU Design

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Ministry of Multispecies Communications walk

DI Webinar – Rachel Clarke, Open Lab, Newcastle University

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Rachel O'Dwyer, DO WHAT YOU LOVE

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

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DI Webinar – Raphael Kim, London

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DI Webinar – Reem Talhouk

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Richmond Wong- DI Exploring Values and Ethics in UX Work through Design Futuring

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

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

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DI Webinar – Sara Nabil, Queen’s University

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DI Webinar – Sarah Fox

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DI Webinar – Shana Agid

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DI Webinar – TUDelft

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DI Webinar – Uta Hinrichs, University of Edinburgh

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Will Odom

DI Webinar – Will Odom, Simon Fraser University

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Aural Textiles, Distributed Capabilities

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

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

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Paul Thomas, Quantum Sound (detail), 2013, graphite, graphite acrylic paint on paper.

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

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Dinny Duan

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Dynamic Wall Visualisations

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ECA Degree Show

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

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ECA Degree Show 20-26 August

ECA Degree Show now open 20-26 August

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EFI – MSc in Service Management & Design Survey

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EFI Autumn 2022 programme: First Breath

Edinburgh Futures Institute Autumn Event Programme: First Breath

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Ella Tallyn

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Emma Pirie

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Evan Morgan

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Every-Body Exhibition

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

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Every-Body: Body – Webinar

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Every-Body: City – Webinar

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

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

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Every-Body: Technology – Webinar

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Ewa Luger

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Exploring Ethical AI in Accounting

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

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Eyes Online: Understand your data, switch on your rights

Free public event this weekend in Inspace

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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

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Farid Ghani

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

Christopher Collins, Ontario Tech Institute, OT

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FinTech Hackathon prize

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Fintech: Cryptocurrency, blockchain and cash in the future

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FND Stories Exhibition 7-26 June

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

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Fringe Futures Online – Research Study

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

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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.

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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.

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Garnet Hertz – ‘Disobedient Electronics’ talk

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Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data

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Geocoin Workshop

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Geocoin Workshop

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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.

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GeoPact at the Scottish Parliament

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GeoPact at the University of Edinburgh

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GeoPact at the University of Warwick

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GeoPact Demonstration

Smart Contracts in Action

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

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

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Harvey Everson

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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

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Hattie Simms

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HCI for Blockchain

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Hector Michael Fried

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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. 

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ICT4D and Covid-19

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Imaginative Futures for Finance

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Innovation In Housing Exhibition

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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INTUIT

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

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

Focus group

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

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Jacob Sheahan

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James Scott-Brown

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Jenny Elliott

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

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Joe Revans

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John Lee

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John Morrison

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John Vines

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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.

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Kam Chan

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Kami Vaniea

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Karma Kettles

Could your kettle do more than boiling water?

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KASH Cups

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Kiersten Hay

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Kyle Morrison

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Lachlan Urquhart

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Larissa Pschetz

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DECaDE

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

Centre heralds new era for the digital economy

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Launch: Space and Satellites Artist Residency Programme

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

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Laurence Moroney on AI: Breakthroughs, Opportunities and the Future

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Learning Energy Systems at Science Festival

National Museum of Scotland for Edinburgh International Science Festival

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Lending a Making Hand

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LENS: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

LENS: interactive research pod exploring data sharing

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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.

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Let’s Get Concrete: The Aesthetics of Legitimacy

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Liquan Chai

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Listening to Voices

Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network

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Listening to Voices Project Report

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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.

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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

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Local Impact Through European Collaboration with Una Europa

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Luis Soares

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Lynne Craig

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Making and Deepfaking the News

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Mapping Privacy Models

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Maria Wolters

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Mark Kobine

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Martin Disley

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Masterclass: academic collaboration to future proof the creative industries

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Matthew Tannam-Elgie

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Melissa Terras

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Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden

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

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Miromations

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

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Modern Human Presents Pizza Block

Pizza Block workshop with Decentralized Design Meet-up

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Moneylab

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Near Future Teaching Collider

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Network Plus in Human Data Interaction

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

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New AHRC grant awarded to Ewa Luger

new grant will look at ‘Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem’

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New Artist in Residence Programme for Inspace

Creative AI Artist Residency Sept 2022-April 2023

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DECaDE

New Job Posting! Design Research Developer – DECaDE project

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DECaDE

New Job Posting! Lecturer/Reader in Design Informatics

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DECaDE

New Job Posting! Manager, Institute for Design Informatics

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DECaDE

New Job Posting! Research Associate, Institute for Design Informatics

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DECaDE

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

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New Value Transactions

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New Value Transactions

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NEWSPEAK (2019)

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Nichole Fernandez

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Nicola Osborne

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Olivia Salamon

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One Day Workshop on Blockchain, Trust and Global Challenges

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One HAT, so many possibilities…

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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’.

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Oxchain – Blockchain & the Global South symposium round up

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

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Oxchain Workbooks

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PACTMAN

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

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PDC2022 Logo

Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022

Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022

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Peak 15: Creating the surrealistic identity for Data Pipe Dreams

Peak 15's collaboration with Design Informatics

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Pedagogy & Physicalization

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PETRAS Conference

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Phase 2: Co-authorship and publication

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Phase one: Cycle probes

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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

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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!

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Polite Robots That Make Way for People

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Postponed- BLING GeoPact Collider: Location based digital contracts

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

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Project Mercury

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

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PuBliC: Future Everything

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Pushpi Bagchi

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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.

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Quantified Body Language: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Intelligent furniture?

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Quantum Consciousness © Paul Thomas, 2015

Quantum Computing by Design week

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Rainbows and Unicorns

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Recommended Relics

National Museum of Rural Life Scotland

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REPHRAIN

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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.

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Research posts at Design Informatics

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Research Seminar – Aaron Quingley

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Research Seminar – Ana Betancourt & Hector Fried + Rory Gianni

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Research Seminar – Des Higham

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Research Seminar – Dr Rachel Jacobs

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Research Seminar – Felix Green

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Research Seminar – Laura Forlano

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Research Seminar – Leah Lockhart

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Research Seminar – Mike Hazas

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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.

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Research Seminar Series: Benjamin Bach, Data Visualization

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Research Seminar Series: Tim Fawns, Education, Edinburgh

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Research Seminar: Alex Taylor

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Research Seminar: Angelo Plessas, Independent Practitioner

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Research Seminar: Augusto Esteves

Augusto Esteves, Edinburgh Napier University

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Research Seminar: Beatrice Alex

Research Seminar by Beatrice Alex / Education, Edinburgh

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Research Seminar: Beverley Hood

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

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Research Seminar: Daniela Petrelli

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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.

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Research Seminar: Gilad Rosner

Gilad Rosner, Internet of Things Privacy Forum

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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.

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Research Seminar: Ida Telalbasic

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Research Seminar: Jonathan Rankin, Design Informatics

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

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Research Seminar: Lachlan Urquhart

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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.

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Research Seminar: Liz McFall

Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh

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Research Seminar: Lucy Havens

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

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Research Seminar: Matt Jones

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Research Seminar: Mohamed Khamis

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

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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Research Seminar: Suzy Moat

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Research Seminar: Teresa Almeida

Teresa Almeida, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

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Research Seminar: Wendy Moncur

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Research Seminars – Autumn Term 2022 Schedule

Design Informatics Research Seminars Autumn Term 2022

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Research Seminars Autumn Term 2019

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Research Webinar – Abi Durrant, Caroline Claisse & Bakita Kasadha

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Research Webinar – Björn Rust + Chris Elsden

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Research Webinar – Karen Elliott & Glenn Smith

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Research Webinar – Marcus O’Dair

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

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Research Webinar – Vicky Gunn

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Research Webinar – m.c. schraefel

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Research Webinar – Martin Kornberger

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Research Webinars – Autumn 2020 Schedule

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Research Webinars – Autumn/Winter 2021 Schedule

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Research Webinars – Spring/Summer 2021 Schedule

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Research Webinars – Winter 2021 Schedule

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Robin Hill

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Roxanne Wong

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Ruby Marshall

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Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age

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Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age

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

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Ryan David Bowler

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SAIDS Project

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

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Sarah Bennett

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Sarah Kettley

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Scottish Living artist: Wikipedia Editathon

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Seannachies

Addressing Social Isolation through Storytelling

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

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Seeking Chancellor’s Fellowship in Service Design

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Seismic See-saw – Design Informatics Pavilion

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Sharing Little Sparta

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

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Simran Chopra

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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.

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Smart Contracts in Action!

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Smart Donations – OxChain Showcase

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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.

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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.

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Aural Textiles, Distributed Capabilities

Sound Exchange at Inspace City Screen

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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

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Story blocks

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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.

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StoryStorm Project website

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String Figures talk at Community Economies Research Network conference

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Student Studio Access Induction

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Susan Lechelt

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Tactile Intelligence

Tactile Intelligence - Exhibition and Artist Talk

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Talk: Laying down the law on NFTs

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

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Tangible Data Controls

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Tangible Tools for Understanding Distributed Systems

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Telling Tales of Engagement open until 23 February

Poetic expressions of smart donations with Oxfam

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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.

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Temporal Design

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Temporal design

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Temporal Design Workshop

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

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Tesco Bank Project Mercury

video explaining Project Mercury

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Textiles for Soft Robotics – Vanessa Sanchez

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The Changing Law on Ownership in Digital Assets: A Consultation

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The Dust [n]Forcer

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The Ethnobot

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The Latent Image; Transimage 2018

eartaret reatreatae ertaret

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The Latent Image: Transimage 2018 round up and videos

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

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The Memorial for Misused Time

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The Overlay

Science Festival Exhibition from The New Real Observatory

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The power of storytelling

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CHI 2021

The University of Edinburgh at ACM CHI 2021

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Theodore Koterwas new Artist in Residence

Creative AI Artist Residency Sept 2022-April 2023

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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.

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Three before CHI

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

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

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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.

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

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Travel Behaviours Network

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TrustBall: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Who do you trust with your data?

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TurningPoint

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Caretree ACRC 4

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

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Understanding Initial Coin Offerings

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Understanding situated energy values in rural Kenya

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Universal Matter at Inspace City Screen

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Upcoming PhD positions at Design Informatics

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UR Black

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Using service blueprints to help visualise design

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Uta Hinrichs

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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

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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.

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Victoria Murray

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Vikki Jones

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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.

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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.

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Volunteering on the Ledger #1 – Identity Management

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

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Volunteering on the Ledger #2 – Alternative Currencies

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We are looking for a new Co-Director!

Vacancy for new Chair in Design Informatics

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Two students using a robot they've developed

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

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We are recruiting: Design Informatics Research Software Engineer

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Wearing data; the fabric of social becoming

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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.

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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?

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When Your Teacup Goes Online and Demands to Design Itself

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Winter Term Research Seminars

Research Seminars - Winter Term

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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.

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Youngsil Lee

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Yuhao Sun

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Yuning Chen

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Zezhong Wang

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Zoom Obscura - Ilse Pouwels,

Zoom Obscura at Inspace City Screen

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