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Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds and Professor of Design and Imagination
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Dan Lockton previously worked as Associate Professor of Imagination and Climate Futures at Eindhoven University Of Technology and Assistant Professor at Eindhoven University Of Technology. Dan Lockton holds Phd, Design from Brunel University.
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I'm a designer and researcher, focused on imagination and climate futures: creating tools to enable new ways of understanding and imagining, and new ways to live, with the goal of more equitable socially and environmentally sustainable futures for us all. That includes our interactions with the systems around us and between us, from climate to energy to mental health. I'm looking for opportunities to do this and help others do it, in practical (and in academic) contexts.I founded the Imaginaries Lab, an international research studio, which at present is best known for the New Metaphors project. We started as a lab within Carnegie Mellon and are now an independent organisation, based in Utrecht, Netherlands. At present I am Associate Professor at TU Eindhoven; from 2016–2020 I was an Assistant Professor and Chair of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon; and before that, various research positions at the Royal College of Art (Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, and Innovation Design Engineering), Brunel University, and the University of Warwick.Earlier in my career I worked on the design of some unusual folding bikes for Sir Clive Sinclair, and wrote a book about the Reliant Motor Company. I studied Industrial Design Engineering at Brunel University (London), a Cambridge-MIT Institute Master's in Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge, and did my PhD (which led to the Design with Intent toolkit) in the School of Engineering & Design, also at Brunel.Emailing me: dan@imaginari.es may be better than sending me a message on here.
Listed skills include User Centered Design, Product Design, Service Design, Interaction Design, and 27 others.
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Associate Professor Of Imagination And Climate Futures
Department of Industrial Design, 'Making With...' clusterFellow, Centre for Unusual Collaborations, EWUU Alliance (April 2022–)Finalist (nominated by students) for Best Teacher (Master's) at TU/e, 2023
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Design, 'Future Everyday' group.Tenured 1 January 2023.Eindhoven Institute of Renewable Energy Systems, member (June 2021–)Eindhoven Artificial Intelligence Systems Institute, member (August 2021–)
Feb 2021 - Dec 2023
Instigator
A design research platform creating (and publishing) tools to support people's imagining—new ways to understand, and new ways to live—for more sustainable and equitable futures in an age of crises. Bridging research and practice, we have run studio classes and research projects with design students, and collaborated internationally with a variety of organisations including the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, Tepper School of Business, Philips, American Eagle, Demos Helsinki, and the UK's National Lottery Community Fund. We're proud to be part of the Untitled Community and the Plurality University Network.From 2017 to 2020 the Imaginaries Lab was based in Pittsburgh, PA, part of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, where we designed and ran research projects with a team of master's, PhD and undergraduate students, and did workshops and consultancy for external organisations, while from 2021 we are independent, based in Amsterdam and then Utrecht, Netherlands.
International Advisory Council Member
Chair of the programme committee for DRS 2022, Bilbao
Executive Board Member, Director
A director of The Design Research Society (UK company limited by guarantee)
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Writer On Design, Technology, And Society
Freelance
Writing mainly on design / technology / innovation, transport design and motor industry history, including:- Design with Intent book (in progress) - Living Labs (2016), edited with David Keyson & Olivia Guerra-Santin (Springer)- Rebel Without Applause (2003), a comprehensive history of the Reliant Motor Company - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on T.L. Williams (2012)- technical editing for Wiley (2012-13)- articles for Guardian Sustainable Business (2013) commissioned by Autodesk- 40 commissioned articles for Inventor Resource (2007).
Courtesy Appointment, School Of Design
Advising PhD candidates in Transition Design, and MDes students in Design for Interactions.
Jan 2021 - Apr 2024
Assistant Professor
Chair of Design Studies (2017–2020)Founder, Imaginaries Lab (2017– (now an independent entity))Faculty Affiliate, Scott Institute for Energy Innovation (2017–)Faculty Affiliate, Center for Arts in Society (2019-)Teaching BDes, MDes, and PhD courses; advising PhD researchers and MDes student theses. Contributions to Transition Design reesarch / teaching. Reappointed 2019
Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
Visiting Research Tutor, Innovation Design Engineering
Developing research, teaching seminars and supervising practice-based MPhil/PhD researchers.—Lead UK academic (2016) for Legible Policy: collaboration with Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Mexico City), Future Cities Catapult, Superflux and UNAM around making policy and agency tangible in urban space, funded by British Council. —Project manager (2015) for setting up public engagement work package of GATEway: Greenwich Automated Transport Environment (autonomous vehicles), funded by Innovate UK (with RCA Vehicle Design). —Academic advisor (2015–16) for NHS Citizen Localnets project (Jimmy Tidey) around community participation in healthcare decision-making (with RCA Information Experience Design / The Creative Exchange), funded by AHRC.—Internal examiner (including chair) for interim and MPhil–PhD transfer exams. Panel member for entrance exams and interviews.
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
Project Manager, School Of Design / Helen Hamlyn Centre For Design
Project Manager for setting up and planning the RCA's public engagement role in the GATEway project, introducing driverless cars to the UK, working with TRL, Royal Borough of Greenwich and a range of other partners: http://gateway-project.org.uk
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Senior Associate, Helen Hamlyn Centre For Design
As part of the Age & Ability and Work & City Research Labs, I am working on projects including the RCA's role in SusLabNWE - http://suslab.rca.ac.uk - a European project integrating people-centred design with domestic energy and behaviour sensing, and Creative Citizens - http://creativecitizens.co.uk - exploring how digital technology can support and add value to community-led design projects. I am also Co-Investigator on Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design for Behaviour Change - http://behaviourchange.eu - working with SMEs, and regularly contribute to workshops and teaching as part of the Helen Hamlyn Centre’s Executive Education programme.
Mar 2013 - Mar 2015
Consultant
Requisite Variety provided consultancy and research at the interface between people and designed systems, through the Design with Intent toolkit, a crossdisciplinary collection of design patterns for behaviour change, workshops, training and speaking on design, behaviour and idea generation, and consultancy on design approaches to influencing behaviour. Clients in a variety of capacities included: Autodesk, Wiley, West Sussex County Council (for Ripple PRD), Unilever/Lifebuoy (for Helen Trevaskis Ltd) and ?What If!
2010 - Jul 2016
Visiting Lecturer
Putting together and teaching on Rice's 2015 and 2016 Urban Sustainability & Livability Summer Programs in Copenhagen, with presentations and student projects.
Jan 2015 - Jun 2016
Guest Lecturer
Guest lecturer for MA Creative Economy, Kingston Business School, running workshops.
Sep 2014 - Jun 2016
Phd Researcher
‘Design with Intent: A design pattern toolkit for environmental & social behaviour change’*2007-12, Cleaner Electronics Research Group, Brunel Design, Brunel University, LondonSupervisors: David Harrison, Professor of Design Research, Brunel University and Neville A. Stanton, Professor of Human Factors in Transport, University of SouthamptonMy PhD involves developing a ‘design pattern’ toolkit, called Design with Intent, to help designers create products, services and environments which influence the way people use them. The toolkit brings together techniques for understanding and changing human behaviour from a number of psychological disciplines, illustrated with examples, to enable designers to explore and apply relevant strategies to problems.Publications: http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/dan-lockton/#publications
Sep 2007 - Jun 2013
Research Assistant
EMPOWER: Empowering Empathic Energy Efficiency DesignCO2 emissions from non-domestic buildings -‐ primarily workplaces -‐ make up 18% of the UK's carbon footprint. A combination of technology advances and behaviour change has the potential to make significant impact.WMG and Brunel University are working with CarbonCulture, a startup which is developing and trialling a software platform aiming to increase staff engagement in more sustainable behaviour at work, in areas such as HVAC and thermal comfort, building occupancy, transport modes and food choices.With the Department of Energy & Climate Change's offices in Whitehall as a pilot site, we are applying methods from user-centred design practice to understand diverse users' priorities, mental models of energy and decision-making heuristics, and incorporating these insights into the development of the CarbonCulture platform.The project comprises an ethnographic research phase, participatory design, and iterative trials; we are both providing academic ressearch input to the development of CarbonCulture, and using the platform itself as a research tool.The EMPOWER project is funded by the Technology Strategy Board's user-centred design for energy efficiency in buildings programme, in conjunction with the EPSRC.
Sep 2010 - Sep 2012
Hp Lecturer In Environmentally Sensitive Design (Part-Time)
Teaching on BSc/BA Design courses, DM3316 Environmentally Sensitive Design module.
Sep 2011 - Jul 2012
Research Fellow
EMPOWER: Empowering Empathic Energy Efficiency DesignCO2 emissions from non-domestic buildings -‐ primarily workplaces -‐ make up 18% of the UK's carbon footprint. A combination of technology advances and behaviour change has the potential to make significant impact.WMG and Brunel University are working with CarbonCulture, a startup which is developing and trialling a software platform aiming to increase staff engagement in more sustainable behaviour at work, in areas such as HVAC and thermal comfort, building occupancy, transport modes and food choices.With the Department of Energy & Climate Change's offices in Whitehall as a pilot site, we are applying methods from user-centred design practice to understand diverse users' priorities, mental models of energy and decision-making heuristics, and incorporating these insights into the development of the CarbonCulture platform.The project comprises an ethnographic research phase, participatory design, and iterative trials; we are both providing academic ressearch input to the development of CarbonCulture, and using the platform itself as a research tool.The EMPOWER project is funded by the Technology Strategy Board's user-centred design for energy efficiency in buildings programme, in conjunction with the EPSRC.
Oct 2011 - Sep 2012
Visiting Practitioner
Guest lectures on design and behaviour change for BA, MA and Service Design short course students.
2010 - 2012
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Freelance Consultant
Dan Lockton Design & Innovation
Freelance product design and R&DClients and collaborators including Sinclair Research, More Associates, Tangerine, Mayhem UK, the Wilson Brothers and a number of other companies and individual entrepreneurs. Variety of work including design and prototyping of radical future vehicles for Sir Clive Sinclair, corporate identity strategy and smartphone market segmentation for Tangerine’s Korean and Chinese clients, mechanical design of pharmaceutical packaging equipment, concepts for novelty toothpaste caps, a novel form of packaging now going through the patent process, prototyping radio-controlled watercraft, setting up collaborative blogs for other designers and the creation and development of Incluminate, an award-winning lighting backup system.
Oct 2005 - 2011
Teaching Assistant / Demonstrator
Assistance and assessment for Analogue Electronics labs (Level 2) and Environmentally Sensitive Design projects (Level 3) for design undergraduates, and Sustainable Design for MSc Integrated Product Design postgraduates including teaching and workshop session on design for sustainable behaviour
Sep 2007 - Aug 2010
Design Consultant
Mayhem Uk Ltd
Summer job with Mayhem UK, an innovative design-led gadget retailer selling through shops and charity catalogues. I worked on new product development, branding, packaging and POS design, exhibitions, product testing and literature preparation.
Jul 2004 - Sep 2004
Industrial Design Engineer & Product Designer
Daka Research (Uk) Limited & Sinclair Research Limited
Lightweight transport design. Development of A-Bike, electric vehicles & wheelchair accessories for international markets, including FEA, solid modelling, concept generation and testing, prototyping, competitor analysis, technical investigation, literature production and customer-facing roles at trade shows.
Aug 2002 - Jul 2003
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Dan Lockton education
Phd, Design
Mphil, Technology Policy (Cambridge-Mit Institute)
Bsc (Hons), Industrial Design Engineering With Professional Development
4Tu University Teaching Qualification (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs)
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Dan Lockton has worked for Norwich University Of The Arts, Eindhoven University Of Technology, Imaginaries Lab, Design Research Society (Drs), and Freelance.
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