Design + Business and Publics
RESEARCH THEME
Design + Business and Publics is one of three strategic research themes in Northumbria School of Design, which cuts across all of our core areas of design expertise.
Our research with businesses and publics explores the ways design processes, methods and techniques can lead to innovative new ideas and value creation for organisations and society.
Research in this theme examines design within the industrial and commercial sector, such as design’s strategic role in responsible corporate innovation and creativity in product manufacturing and service organisations, and design’s role in facilitating innovation across disciplines. Our research also employs design within the public and third sectors, tackling a range of social challenges. This includes research into whether the design of public and community services can be used to improve the delivery and commissioning of public services, and how collaborative designing with communities can be used to engender ownership and a sense of empowerment amongst their stakeholders. We also conduct research with organisations across all sectors exploring how they can make the most of new technologies, materials and platforms – such as blockchain, crowdfunding and immersive technologies.
Please see the projects below for examples of our Design + Business and Publics research.
Animation as a Creative Tool
Bespoke
Blockchain for Civic Good
Challenging Online Fear and Othering
Co-designing the Co-Design Process
Community Conversational
Community Led Systems-Change
Connected High Street
Creative and Cultural Districts in Thailand
Creative Fuse North East
Creative Spark: Get Ready to Innovate Armenia
Creative Temporal Costings
Crowdsourcing Technologies for Product Design and Development
Cumulative Revelations of Personal Data
Data Acquisition, Processing and Combining for Realism in VR
Deep Discoveries UX/UI Design
Designing Feedback Systems in Care Organisations
Designing in the Digitally Mature Museum: Refocusing Design From Technology To Human Practice
Designing Social Innovation in Asia-Pacific
Designing Technologies for Financial Inclusion
Design-Led Multidisciplinary Innovation Education
Design Led Start-ups
Design Process and Organisational Strategy
Design Thinking for Digital Heritage
Digital Media for Heritage: Refocusing Design from the Technology to the Visitor Experience
Digital Money with Older Adults
Digital Originals
EGK Starters
Embedding Design-Led Innovation Processes in a Multinational Manufacturing Organisation
Embedding Design Thinking in Multinational Organisations
Embedding Service Design in Age UK Newcastle
Embedding Service Design in GirlGuiding UK
Embedding Sustainability as an Educational Design Tool for Change
Experts in Rebellion
Global
Entrepreneurial
Talent Management
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Interaction Design From Concept to Completion
Issrar – Youth Agency for Sustainable Development
Link2, World’s first Seamless Linking Roller Banner
Moral Compass
Multi-Disciplinary Innovation for Social Change
Newsr
OpenDoTT
OUTBURST
Oxchain
Playing Out with IoT
Policymaking and HCI
Relationships in Design and Social Innovation
Salon: Rethinking the Future
Screenr
Service Design in
Mind
Socially Responsible Fashion
Storytelling and Social Innovation
Storytelling and the Design Pitch
TAPESTRY: Trust, Authentication and Privacy over a DeCentralised Social Registry
Technology for Activism and Social Justice
The Environmental Impact of Plastic Garment Hangers
The MIT Museum Glassware Prototype: Visitor Experience Exploration for Designing Smart Glasses
The Partnership Quilt
The Sill Experience
The Speculative Gaze
The Trust Map
The T-shifting Designer
The Value of Service Design to the Voluntary Community Sector
Transformations: 7 Roles to Drive Change by Design
Transnational Fashion Storytelling
A Taxonomy of UK Crowdfunding and Examination of the Potential of Trust and Empathy in Project Success
Unblocking the Circular Economy
Unilever|Northumbria Partnership
User Experience, Design Innovation and AI
Valuing Design
Virtual Embodied Receptionist
Working Carers