2021/22
More details to follow.
The Centre for Design Informatics is a collaboration between the Schools of Design and Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
Each year, we invite a variety of practitioners - from local business people to academics to artists - to share their story in our Research Seminar Series. The events are a fantastic opportunity to hear from those working across the UK, Europe and beyond; we've had guests from St Andrews, The Netherlands, Portugal, Massachusetts and Toronto to name a few.
Events usually take place at Inspace, 1 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, though locations may vary.
Please contact Jane Macdonald, the series organiser, if you have any questions: jane.macdonald@ed.ac.uk
Previous seminar series
2020/21
24 Sep 2020 | Martin Glynn, Data Verbalization / Birmingham | 4pm
1 Oct 2020 | Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, Climate Change & Design / Designswarm | 4pm
8 Oct 2020 | Iohanna Nicenboim, More-Than-Human Design / TUDelft | 4pm
15 Oct 2020 | Dave Murray-Rust, Human-Algorithm Interaction / Edinburgh | 4pm
22 Oct 2020 | Andrew Marks, Designing Locative Media / Niantic | 4pm
29 Oct 2020 | Mel Woods, Social Digital Design / Dundee | 4pm
5 Nov 2020 | Jonathan Ledgard, Interspecies Money / Berlin| 4pm
12 Nov 2020 | Mike Phillips, Bad {Data} Behaviours / Plymouth| 4pm
19 Nov 2020 | Bev Hood, Tolerating Uncertainty / Edinburgh | 4pm
26 Nov 2020 | Anne Galloway, Multispecies Anthropology / Wellington | 4pm
3 Dec 2020 | Martyn Evans, Design Futures / Manchester | 4pm
14 January | Elisa Giaccardi / Interactive Media Design / Delft | 4pm
21 January | Mr Gee / Spoken Word / London | 4pm
28 January | Karen Gregory / Digital Sociology / Edinburgh | 4pm
4 February | Claudia Westermann / Poetics of architecture / Xi'an | 4pm
11 February | Ron Wakkary / Interaction Design / Vancouver | 4pm
25 February | Rachel Clarke / Participatory Design / Newcastle | 4pm
4 March | Lynne Murray / Digital Anthropology / Edinburgh | 4pm
11 March | Jussi Parikka / Media Theory / Winchester | 4pm
18 March | Antonio Roberts / New Media Art / Birmingham | 4pm
25 March | Zoom Obscura / Ethics & Data / Edinburgh | 4pm
1 April | Winnie Soon / Art Research / Aarhus | 4pm
15 April | George Jarmillo / Aural Textiles / Galashiels | 4pm
2019/20
Fri 6 Sep 2019 | Human Computer Interaction, Wendy Moncur (University of Dundee) | 11am
Thu 19 Sep 2019 | Design for Social Innovation, Ida Telalbasic (Loughborough University London) | 4pm
Thu 26 Sep 2019 | Design for HCI, Alex Taylor (City, University of London) | 4pm
Wed 2 Oct 2019 | Human Computer Interaction, Aaron Quigley (University of St Andrews) | 2pm
Thu 3 Oct 2019 | Sustainable HCI Research, Mike Hazas (Lancaster University) | 4pm
Thu 10 Oct 2019 | Behavioural Science, Suzy Moat (University of Warwick) | 4pm
Thu 17 Oct 2019 | Technology Law, Lachlan Urquart (University of Edinburgh) | 4pm
Thu 24 Oct 2019 | Mobile HCI, Matt Jones (Swansea University) | 4pm
Thu 31 Oct 2019 | Interaction Design, Daniela Petrelli (Sheffield Hallam University) | 4pm
Thu 7 Nov 2019 | Architectural theory, Felix Green (University of Edinburgh) | 4pm
Thu 14 Nov 2019 | Service Design for Good, Leah Lockhart | 4pm
Thu 28 Nov 2019 | Distributed Creativity, Marcus O’Dair (University of the Arts London) | 4pm
Thu 23 Jan 2020 | Numerical Analysis, Des Higham (Edinburgh) | 4pm
Thu 30 Jan 2020 | STS/Feminist Technoscience/Design, Laura Forlano (Illinois) | 4pm
Thu 6 Feb 2020 | Rachel Jacobs (Artist, Curator, Lecturer, Nottingham) | 4pm
Thu 13 Feb 2020 | Ana Betancourt & Hector Fried (Black Goblin Audio & InChat, Creative Informatics, Resident Entrepreneurs) | 4pm
2018 - 19
Thu 20 Sep 2018 | Data Visualisation, Benjamin Bach | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 27 Sep 2018 | Cloud Euphoria, Angelo Plessas | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 4 Oct 2018 | Blended Memory, Tim Fawns | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 11 Oct 2018 | Gaze Awareness, Augusto Esteves | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 18 Oct 2018 | Product Design, Jonathan Rankin | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 25 Oct 2018 | Digital Humanities, Bea Alex | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 1 Nov 2018 | Digital Societies, Liz Mcfall | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 8 Nov 2018 | IoT & Privacy, Gilad Rosner | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 15 Nov 2018 | Critical Wearables, Teresa Almeida | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 22 Nov 2018 | Cross-Cultural Co-Design, Rachel Clarke | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 29 Nov 2018 | Digital Art, Beverley Hood | T-Room, Floor 1, Evolution House | 4:00pm
Thu 17 Jan 2019 | Ethical Information Society, Grace Annan-Callcott | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 24 Jan 2019 | Visualising Meta-Data, Lucy Havens | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 31 Jan 2019 | Privacy in Ubicomp, Mohamed Kahmis | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 7 Feb 2019 | Human Data Interaction, Richard Mortier | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 14 Feb 2019 | Sound Performance (followed by a sound performance at the Wee Red Bar), Bowers & Shaw | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 28 Feb 2019 | Blockchain, DAOWO | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Thu 7 March 2019 | VR & Dance, Lisa May Thomas | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 14 March 2019 | Design Through Tangibles, Peter Bennett | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 21 March 2019 | AI Ethics, Sarah Bennett | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 28 March 2019 | Design for Immersive Tech, Steve Love | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
Thu 4 April 2019 | Interaction Design, Katerina Gorkovenko | Inspace, 1 Crichton Street | 4:00pm
2017 - 2018
Thu 21 Sep | Digital Geographies | George Jaramillo, Glasgow School of Art
Thu 28 Sep | Linguistic Geographies | Pip Thornton, Royal Holloway
Thu 5 Oct | Interaction Design | Tim Peix
Thu 12 Oct | Web Science | Kieron O'Hara, University of Southampton
Thu 19 Oct | Digital Architecture | Luis Hernan, Newcastle University
Thu 26 Oct | Digital Urban | Drew Hemment, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee
Thu 2 Nov | Business and Law | Glenn Parry, University of the West of England
Thu 9 Nov | Political Ecology | Brett Matulis, University of Leicester
Thu 16 Nov | Global Creative Enterprise | Candace Jones, University of Edinburgh
Thu 23 Nov | Interaction Design | Jamie Steane, Northumbria University
Thu 30 Nov | Storytelling & Design | Denis Mallon
Thu 18 Jan | Strategy and Innovation | Steven Drost, CodeBase
Thu 25 Jan | Interaction Design | Caroline Claisse, Sheffield Hallam University
Thu 1 Feb | Creative Industries | Clive Gillman, Creative Scotland
Thu 8 Feb | Blockchain & Trust | Bill Buchanan, Edinburgh Napier University
Thu 15 Feb | FinTech | Karen Elliott, Newcastle University
Thu 1 Mar | Designing for Dementia | Nick Jenkins, the University of the West of Scotland
CANCELLED: TO BE RESCHECULED | Thu 8 Mar | Sound Performance | Venue to be confirmed | John Bowers & Tim Shaw, Newcastle University
CANCELLED: TO BE RESCHECULED | Blended Memory | Tim Fawns, University of Edinburgh
Thu 22 Mar | Digital Humanities | Melissa Terras, University of Edinburgh
Thu 29 Mar | Internet of Soft Things | Sarah Kettley, University of Edinburgh
Thu 5 Apr | Data Visualisation | Benjamin Bach, University of Edinburgh
2016 - 2017
HCI | Maria Wolters, University of Edinburgh
More Than Human | Anne Galloway, Wellington
HCI | Aaron Quigley, St Andrews
Naked Craft | Amelie-Proulx, Québec)
Wallscope | David Eccles, University of Edinburgh
CTO Pycom | Fred de Haro, Eindhoven
Interdisciplinary Design Afternoon | Robert Baines
Democratic Renewal | Cat Macaulay, ScotGov
Data Viz | Rebecca Kaye, University of Edinburgh
Digital sociology | Karen Gregory, University of Edinburgh
Digital Arts | Gosia Walton, University of Edinburgh
Representations of ANT | Michael Johnson, Glasgow School of Art
Cultural Geography | Kate Symons, University of Edinburgh
Studio Andthen | Santini Basra, Glasgow University
Accounting and Social Innovation | Paolo Quattrone, University of Edinburgh
Social Computing | Joe Corneli,University of Edinburgh
The Incredible Machine | Marcel Schouwenaar, Netherlands
Applied Ethics | Ewa Luger, University of Edinburgh
Digital Architectures | Cristina Nan, University of Edinburgh
2015 - 2016
Multispecies Methods: Participatory Research and the more-than-human | Michelle Bastian, Edinburgh College of Art
Animal-Computer Interaction: Designing Interactive Systems for and with More-than-Humans | Clara Mancini, Open University
New Trends in Digital Storytelling: The case of Laura Silva | Valentina Nisi, M-ITI Portugal
The GeoMerce Project | Nuno Nunes and Giovanni Innella, M-ITI Portugal and Chiba University
eoSurgical: Improving Skills and Saving lives | Simon Humphrey-Adam/ eoSIM
The Water Next Time: Changing Wavescapes in the Anthropocene | Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Designing Digital Cultures | Gerard Briscoe, Glasgow School of Art
Process and Notation in the work of Anni Albers and Alfred North Whitehead | Simon Yuill, independent artist
From intervention to co-creation: how ‘meSch’ is empowering cultural heritage professionals realise tangible interactive installations | Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University
Designing Digital for the Real | Alexander Cole, Peekabu
Flagging Interest: A neuropolitical approach to implicit identity triggers | Laura Cram, School of Social & Political Science
Cultural Evolution and Human Uniqueness | Simon Kirby, Language Evolution, University of Edinburgh
Unexpected Items in the Bagging Area | Neil McGuire, After The News
Designing for Creative Intelligence | Mel Woods, University of Dundee
Crafting the Computational Maker: The Conservation of Embodied Phenomenological Experience | Matt Ratto, University of Toronto
Exploring Smart Cities | Simon Tricker, Urban Tide, Smart City Data Experts
Staying safe online and making security usable | Kami Vaniea, School of Informatics
Design Activism: Co-Design in the Wild with Collective Imagery | Priscilla Chueng-Nainby, design activist, academic and poet
2014 - 2015
New opportunities with Beacons | Mark Sorsa-Leslie, Bubbal
The stratification of life, mind and disciplinary knowledge | Cris Simonetti, University of Aberdeen
Process of Drawing | Clare Petherick, illustrator
Free Software | Hadi Mehrpouya, Edinburgh College of Art
Can a designer be courageous? Looking at the ethics of design through the virtues of craft | Jeremy Kidwell, School of Divinity
Data and Life on the Street | Alex Taylor, Microsoft
Summarizing Data Using Probabilistic Machine Learning | Charles Sutton, School of Informatics
Punchcard Economy - Rates for the Job | Sam Meech, artist and videosmith
Towards Bio-Hybrid Soft Robots and Integrated Soft Systems | Adam Stokes, Institute for Micro and Nano Systems & Institute for Bioengineering
Making Unknown Technology | Kristina Andersen, STEIM, The Netherlands
Temporal Design | Larissa Pschetz, Edinburgh College of Art
Evaluating and developing Tangible Interactive Exhibits for museums | Loraine Clarke, University of Strathclyde
Validated by 3D Printing | Filipe Vilela, Heriot-Watt University
Emerging practitioners/creative technologies, why talking about disruptive technologies is wrong | Diego Zamora, Edinburgh College of Art
Keeping you playing: Gaming Analytics | Mark Robinson, deltaDNA
Slow Tech Time | Will Odom, Simon Fraser University
