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Technological Disobedience

Examples of the design innovation process and research methods used to establish stakeholder needs.
Chen Cai, Jiyao Liu, Lingyu Luan, Yuhao Zhu, Jiajie Lang, Simeng Li, Xiaochen Zhan, Yanyun Yu, Jiarui Zhang, Tingyu Qiu, Ruoyu Fang, Hongcen Zhou and Jana Amueller

Future Experiences 2021

How design can shape our society in the future through the relationships between people, products and places.
Kirsty Ross

Hydro-City Stories: Glasgow

A project exploring the potential of using transmedia stories for public engagement on environmental issues in the city.
Iona Geddes

Self-Management Beyond the Self

Participatory design practice towards preferable diabetes self-management principles
Ross McIntosh

Crafting Futures

Examining the role design innovation can play in supporting the creative education and development of young women in craft contexts
Dr Lynn-Sayers McHattie and Dr Marianne McAra

Chain reaction

The principle of a chain reaction is simple and intuitive - one event generates an output, the result of which in turn triggers another one.
2nd year Product Design students

The Modern Outpatient

A person-centred vision of care for people living with multiple long-term conditions for the Modern Outpatient Programme
Gemma Teal

Backpack

Backpack, a project with the Digital Health & Care Institute examining the role of personal healthcare records.
Gemma Teal, Tara French and Jay Bradley

Ritual Respect

Co-designing care and emotional support around miscarriage
Sneha Raman & Angela Tulloch

Language of Pain

Co-designing opportunities for open dialogue and shared learning between people with chronic pain and health professionals
Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn

Craft and Place in the Highlands and Islands

What role does ‘place’ have for craft makers in the Highlands and Islands in relation to their challenges, ambitions and practice?
Dr Michael Pierre Johnson

ReMantle and Make

Exploring close loop innovation within the textile sector, and the role maker spaces could have in a sustainable future for design
Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, Dr Paul Smith and Dr Lynn-Sayers McHattie

Design in Action

Exploring design as a strategy for economic growth and innovation in Scotland across fields of knowledge, business, technology and policy.
Dr Lynn-Sayers McHattie, Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, Dr Cara Broadley

Future Experiences 2021

How design can shape our society in the future through the relationships between people, products and places.
Kirsty Ross

Hydro-City Stories: Glasgow

A project exploring the potential of using transmedia stories for public engagement on environmental issues in the city.
Iona Geddes

Brand X

Envisaging new domestic behaviours & rituals to build an innovative lifestyle brand of the near future
3rd year Product Design students

Healthcare Design with NHS Ayrshire & Arran and NHS Lothian

Continuing the fruitful and ongoing collaboration between GSA and NHS Ayrshire & Arran and NHS Lothian
3rd Year Product Design Students

Chain reaction

The principle of a chain reaction is simple and intuitive - one event generates an output, the result of which in turn triggers another one.
2nd year Product Design students

Technological Disobedience

Examples of the design innovation process and research methods used to establish stakeholder needs.
Chen Cai, Jiyao Liu, Lingyu Luan, Yuhao Zhu, Jiajie Lang, Simeng Li, Xiaochen Zhan, Yanyun Yu, Jiarui Zhang, Tingyu Qiu, Ruoyu Fang, Hongcen Zhou and Jana Amueller

Skilled Hands

An approach to participating in fashion design processes to encourage responsible practices
Heather Archibald

Seeing Timeless Rebels

Challenge people’s perspectives of ageing
Yoni Lefevre

Recovery - Let's Talk About It

A community based intervention that sought to reduce stigma around alcohol dependency and create a safer social environment.
Gul Rasool

The Culture of Creative Enterprise

An exploration of the support needs of creative practitioners operating in a non-urban Scottish context
Hannah Clinch

Designing situated-participation

Exploring a space for design to move away from an expert-driven approach in community-based design collaborations.
Gamia Dewanggamanik

Re-imagining creative education in Shetland

Addressing Shetland's unique challenges and opportunities surrounding the sustainability of creative practice.
Chris Wild

Knitting in the Round

Evaluating a provotyping approach in a traditional craft context to enable knitwear practitioners,
Chris Wild

Social Studios

Enabling people and communities to reimagine local decision-making and co-design tools to support policy across Scotland.
Dr Cara Broadley

Self-Management Beyond the Self

Participatory design practice towards preferable diabetes self-management principles
Ross McIntosh

Crossover Workshop

Exchanges between design and biomedical sciences
Elio Caccavale and Dr Michael Pierre Johnson

Crafting Futures

Examining the role design innovation can play in supporting the creative education and development of young women in craft contexts
Dr Lynn-Sayers McHattie and Dr Marianne McAra

The Modern Outpatient

A person-centred vision of care for people living with multiple long-term conditions for the Modern Outpatient Programme
Gemma Teal

SCOTCAP Service Evaluation

SCOTCAP is a potential new shared service model for a video capsule endoscopy in Scotland, which complements existing Endoscopy services.
Dr Jay Bradley & Dr Megan Palmer-Abbs

Person-centred Records

Exploring the potential of a multi-disciplinary, electronic, inpatient record in NHS Grampian.
Dr Jay Bradley & Angela Bruce

Midlothian Pathfinder

Innovating the Frailty System of Care
Gemma Teal & Silvia Cantalupi

Backpack

Backpack, a project with the Digital Health & Care Institute examining the role of personal healthcare records.
Gemma Teal, Tara French and Jay Bradley

Ritual Respect

Co-designing care and emotional support around miscarriage
Sneha Raman & Angela Tulloch

Leapfrog

New approaches to community co-design, innovative engagement tools
Madeline Smith, Elizabeth Brooks, Paul Smith, Cara Broadley, Marianne McAra and Michael Pierre Johnson

Language of Pain

Co-designing opportunities for open dialogue and shared learning between people with chronic pain and health professionals
Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn

Craft and Place in the Highlands and Islands

What role does ‘place’ have for craft makers in the Highlands and Islands in relation to their challenges, ambitions and practice?
Dr Michael Pierre Johnson

Work/Life

Researching local understanding of lived experience, and identifying opportunities around occupational segregation and inclusive growth
Marianne McAra, Emma Murphy

ReMantle and Make

Exploring close loop innovation within the textile sector, and the role maker spaces could have in a sustainable future for design
Dr Michael Pierre Johnson, Dr Paul Smith and Dr Lynn-Sayers McHattie
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