Dr. Inge Panneels
Job title:
Lecturer in Service Design
Office:
4.12, Evolution House
Research Output:
Edinburgh Research Explorer linkBiography
Dr. Inge Panneels is an artist, researcher and lecturer in Service Design at University of Edinburgh, based in the School of Design and Edinburgh Futures Institute. She has published extensively on mapping and sustainability in the creative industries. She has worked with British Council and Applied Arts Scotland and was Specialist Advisor for Creative Scotland and Scottish Arts Council. She was a Trustee of Edinburgh Tool Library and currently chair of Creative Coathanger.
She was a Research Fellow and Lecturer in digital Media at Edinburgh Napier University and Senior Lecturer at the Artist Designer Maker course, University of Sunderland.
She has her own studio practice with both public art experience and the delivery of cultural projects (e.g. festivals and events) as well as creative programmes of events and exhibitions.
She completed her PhD at Northumbria University in 2020 on ‘Mapping the Anthropocene: an investigation of Cultural Ecosystems through artists’ engagement with environmental change in Scotland’, funded by the AHRC.
Research interests
- Sustainable design
- Service design
- Circular economy
- Materiality
- Craft practices
Inge teaches on the undergraduate Product Design BA(Hons Programme), with a particular focus on sustainable design. The module Re-Value (Semester 1) makes students gain hands-on experience of rapid prototyping to explore, evaluate and communicate future services, concepts and experience, whilst the Chains to Constellations (Semester 2) in an introduction to the role that design has in mediating value. There is a long history of how design add value to objects and services, and this course will provide an insight into the shifts in culture and commerce that change how design is perceived and the role that it plays in value construction.
She is also teaching on the postgraduate Service Management and Design Course at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) which the fields of service management and service design together to develop students understanding of a sector vital to the future of our economies and societies. Develop the critical, creative and data skills essential to career success within private and public service sectors including finance, retail, health, social care and more.and Inge delivers the Co-Creation (Semester 1) and Experience Prototyping (Semester 2) module.
Research
Research
Inge published extensively on mapping as method in creative practices to engage with climate and environmental change. She is particularly interested in sustainability in the creative industries. In her research she also asks what role design can play to support a circular and regenerative economy and also what role can creativity play to implement a culture shift towards a circular economy which operates within social and ecological boundaries?
She devised the Quintuple Bottom Line (people, planet, profit, purpose and place) as a framework to consider a holistic approach to sustainability in a circular economy.
PhD Supervision Topics
- Design
- Service design
- Product design
- Design futuring
- Sustainability
- Circular economy
- Mapping
- Nature based solutions
- Craft
- Materiality and making
