Research

‘My Data, My Self’ at Dutch Design Week

‘My Data, My Self’ at Dutch Design Week

‘My Data, My Self’ Exhibition

‘My Data, My Self’ TV

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 1

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 2

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 3

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 4

‘My Data, My Self’ TV – Episode 5

“Evolution of Money”

“No Machine is an Island” at BBC

Machine-based communication

2-year £1.2m project ‘Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ funded by UK EPSRC.

EPSRC have funded a captivating new project which examines social inequalities and their correlation with a variety of ecological and technological factors

A Beyond Boundary & Inspiring Journey at CHI 2025 by Xinrui Lin

A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism (and an artistic intervention)

A Human Connection

A Token Gesture @ the Oxford Blockchain Art & Technology Conference (OxBAT 2022)

A Token Gesture Exhibition

A Token Gesture is an exhibition and research project to introduce, explore and critique new public interactions and ownership of digital art via ‘non-fungible tokens’ – more commonly known as NFTs. 

A Token Gesture Exhibition Opening

‘A Token Gesture’ is an exhibition & research project to introduce, explore & critique new public interactions and ownership of digital art.

A Token Gesture: ‘Ask us NFT-thing’ 

A Token Gesture: ‘Ask us NFT-thing’ 

ACRC and Design Informatics at the 2022 Tiree Tech Wave

ACRC Satellite Seminar: ‘Co-what: so what?’

Adam Jenkins

Addressing socio-technical barriers to adopting blockchains for social good

Aditi Surana

Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC)

High‐quality data‐driven, personalised and affordable care that supports the independence, dignity and quality‐of‐life of people in later life living in their own homes and in supported care environments.

Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC) launch event (online)

After Money

If you change the representation of value, does it change the values that you can represent?

After Money Exhibition

After Money symposium

AfterMoney

AHRC SGSAH PhD Studentship – Pasts, Presents and Futures of Digitally-Mediated Theatre

AI for All: Designing Responsibly

AI for the Street…on the Street

What could Artificial Intelligence be in Bayes Courtyard?

AI for the Street…on the Street [Leith Walk]

What could Artificial Intelligence be on Leith Walk?

AI, Agency, and Aloha by Anna Rezk

PhD student Anna Rezk wrote a blogpost to share her experience in CHI 2024.

Alex Taylor

An Obscure Camera

Join us for An Obscure Camera an interactive moving image installation where you the viewer become the performer and conductor of you own experience.

An Obscure Camera | Artist in Residence

Andrea Kocsis

Anna Marie Rezk

Anna Talley

Announcing BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar 2024 Autumn Series

Announcing BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar 2025 Spring Series

Announcing BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar Series

Announcing Call for Creatives for STEAM Imaging VI: Resonant Connections through Design and Data

Announcing Inspace Autumn-Winter Exhibition Programme

We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions taking place at Inspace to bring our 2024 programme to a close.

Announcing new art and AI exhibitions programme by Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID)

Ari Beckingham

Artcasting and ARTIST ROOMS on Tour

Using mobilities-informed methods to support new approaches to arts evaluation

Artcasting ARTIST ROOMS

Artful Inquiry – Disinformation is Designed

Asad Khan

Aulia Wiradarmo

Auste Simkute

Authenticity Unmasked

The three commissioned artworks presented at the exhibit probe how Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshapes notions of authenticity, truth, and identity.

Authenticity Unmasked Open Call for Artists

Inspace is delighted to share ‘Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art’ Open Call for Artist Commissions, delivered by CREA-TEC (“Cultivating Responsible Engagement with AI Technology to Empower Creatives”), a project led by the University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Adobe.

Authenticity Unmasked: Unveiling AI-Driven Realities Through Art

Autistic Adults Online

B-IoT at SURFLOGH

Bean There Made The News…..Bitbarista Features on the BBC

Benjamin Bach

Bettina Nissen

Billy Dixon

Billy Franks

Biomorphis Architects – Architects for ‘Data Pipe Dreams’

Collaboration, Design and Build of the Design Informatics Pavilion

Bitbarista

Bjorn Ross

BLING Conference in Gothenburg

BLING Mid-term Conference

BLING partners from Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Scotland and Sweden present their latest use cases around blockchain. This conference is moderated by Hannah Rudman, researcher and blockchain expert at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC).

BLINGathon

On the 13th and 14th of November, 'What the Hackathon' will organize an international blockchain-hackathon called ‘BLINGathon’. The competitors work together in small teams to invent solutions for a wide variety of blockchain related challenges. Each team will have 30 hours to find a solution for their challenge.

Block Exchange

Explore the future of value beyond money in a dynamic workshop activity, run by you! Design Informatics and Design In Action has created a workshop toolkit for anyone interested in exploring the rapidly developing area of Blockchain and DLTs

Blockchain by design workshop at Codebase

Blockchain City

Blockchain Ruralities: Novel digital geographies in the Scottish Highlands

Blockchain Ruralities: Novel digital geographies in the Scottish Highlands - Dr. George Jaramillo - Glasgow School of Art's Innovation School

Blockchain Technology and International Development workshop

Oxchain workshop on Blockchain and The Global South

Blockexchange

BlockExchange workshop

BlockExchange Workshop

Understanding the Blockchain

Blockexchange workshop – Digital Catapult

Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

Cutting-edge life science meets speculative fiction.

Book Launch – Biopolis: Tales of Urban Biology

New visions of city living through the laser-sharp lenses of biological research.

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Srravya Chandhiramowuli

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Alex Taylor

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Ananda Rutherford

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Andrew McStay

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Bahareh Heravi

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Bhargavi Ganesh

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Caterina Moruzzi

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Christopher Burr

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Claire Paterson-Young

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Dan McQuillan

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Denis Newman-Griffis

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Dr Bronwyn Jones

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Dr Elinor Carmi

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Dr Emily Postan

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Dr Fiona Smith

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Lydia Farina

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Peaks Krafft

BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Universal Music Group

Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID)

BRAID is a UK-wide programme dedicated to integrating Arts and Humanities research more fully into the Responsible AI ecosystem, as well as bridging the divides between academic, industry, policy and regulatory work on responsible AI.

Bronwyn Jones

Building and testing a user-centred, Accessible Long COVID fatigue rehabilitation smartPHone App (ALPHA)

Building Public Value via Intelligible AI (PubVIA)

The PubVIA project aims to build public value via intelligible AI (Artificial Intelligence) and to enable the BBC to consider the potential threats and risks AI and IoT (Internet of Things) pose for journalism.

Caitlin McDonald

Call applications are now open for CoSTAR’s Realtime Lab Virtual Production Tool Box!

The CoSTAR Realtime Lab is seeking a collaborative partner to help democratise the Virtual Production process by creating a foundational media player, that is accessible, intuitive and simple for creative content creators to use.

Call for creative students: Creator in Residence: STEAM Imaging V Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account

New Creative Residency opportunity for Masters and PhD level students at the University of Edinburgh: Creator in Residence: STEAM Imaging V – Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account

Call for creatives for short video reel

Call for Participants: Caring about Care Study

Call for Participants: TIPS by Design – Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018

Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018

Call for Participation: DIS 2020 Remote Workshop – Designing for the End of Life of IOT Objects – July 13th/14th

Call for Participation: DIS 2020 Remote Workshop – Designing Futures of Money and FinTech – July 7th/8th

Call for Participation: DRS 2018 workshop

Cally Russell from Mallzee on Dragon’s Den

Calum Main

Can AI Represent Care? Exhibition, Workshop, and Sharing Event

Can new technologies help change global power geometries?

This workshop will explore the potential of new technologies to support regional food production and trade particularly targeting the goals of the Food and Nutrition Policy of the CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market).

Can new technologies shift global power geometries?

An agricultural trade workshop with Caribbean partners in Edinburgh

Can your kids help us explore some money mysteries?

Capturing the Connections

Cara Wilson

CariCrop

CariCrop looks at the potential of blockchain technologies to support regional food production and trade in the Caribbean.

Carlos Guerrero Millan

Caterina Moruzzi

Central Bank Digital Currency Design Workshop

DI and UCL are working together to design a privacy-enhancing central bank digital currency system that takes inspiration from physical cash and electronic payments.

Centre for Digital Citizens

The Centre for Digital Citizens is a "next stage digital economy" research centre, led by Newcastle University and Northumbria University in partnership with 33 partners including the Design Informatics at University of Edinburgh.

Centre for Investing Innovation

The Centre for Investing Innovation is a strategic partnership between global asset management company abrdn and the University of Edinburgh.

Chain Re:Action

A knowledge exchange day discussing feminist thinking and community economies with blockchain technologies

Chain Re:Action Event

Charlotte Bird

Chatty Factories

Our vision for the manufacturing factory of the future is to embrace the rapid growth of Internet-connected products via embedded sensors producing massive volumes of data, and transform these traditionally discrete activities into one seamless process that is capable of real-time continuous product refinement.

Chatty Factories workshop

Chatty Factories workshop: Exploring the future of data driven product design at the Digital Catapult London

Chatty factory research press releases

Chris Elsden

Chris Speed

Christie Chan

Christine O’Dell

CI Lab 22: Digital Identities

Join us as we bring together artists who explore issues of identity in alternative ways and use technology as a creative tool

CI Labs #12: Creativity and curation in a post-digital world

CI Labs #18: Crossing Creative Borders

Citizens Data Agency

A year-long design research project exploring people’s data advice needs both today and in the future, with the aim of understanding how to better enhance privacy and security for people using digital technologies.

Citizens Data Agency – Dr. Elinor Carmi

Citizens Data Agency Event – Civic Approaches to Data Governance

Citizens Data Agency Event – Demystifying Your Data with Tactical Tech

Citizens Data Agency Exhibition

Collective Storytelling with ORAgen Fables

Collider: Care Experience & Creativity

A Collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers and problem-holders.  At the start of the Collider we set the scene with a challenge statement from Eona Craig, Chief Executive of the Articulate Cultural Trust.

Collider: Designing a Parasensical Futures Institute

A collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers, and problem holders. The first part of the Collider sets the scene through invited provocations before breaking out in to co-design sessions.

Collider: Designing a sustainable future for the Scottish visitor economy

A collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers, and problem holders. The first part of the Collider sets the scene through invited provocations before breaking out in to co-design sessions.

Collider: Digital Busking

A collider is a conceptual design event, bringing together computational thinking and design thinking, to pull informaticians together with designers, and problem holders. The first part of the Collider sets the scene before breaking out in to workshop sessions.

Collider: Digitising our World Heritage Site

How could new technologies help to survey and track the historic buildings of Edinburgh?

Collider: Keeping Promises — Responsible and Sustainable Tourism in Scotland

Collider: Representing Cultural Heritage

Collider with the University Library Collections

Collider: Technology and Tours

Community Hacking

The Community Web2.0: creative control through hacking project sought to explore whether concepts and vocabularies emerging in relation to the Internet could usefully be applied to understandings of off-line contemporary community relations and practices.

Company Engagement

Compassion Collider

Congratulates Prof Melissa Terras elected as new Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

Congratulations to Prof Melissa Terras become MBE

Connected High Street

This timely project explores the potential for reconfiguring the traditional organisation of customer, salesperson, cash register, tangible things and database, allowing shops ‘stacks’ of both immaterial and material processes to share data that will improve social and economic conditions.

Constructing the Agenda: Public Service AI in News and Media Production

Exploring the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for public service media (PSM), drawing out the big questions AI and data-intensive technologies raise alongside the practical and conceptual challenges they pose.

CoSTAR at Beyond Conference Salford

CoSTAR Foresight Lab

The Foresight Lab’s role in the CoSTAR network is to capture and disseminate a body of industry knowledge, trends and needs – present and future.

CoSTAR Realtime Lab

The vision for the CoSTAR Realtime Lab is to establish a mixed reality R&D centre that supports sector engagement in collaborative R&D.

CoSTAR Realtime Lab Launch

Scotland’s new £9m virtual production studios to drive research and innovation for screen, gaming, and performance industries

Creative AI Residency Work In Progress Presentation – Theodore Koterwas

Artist in Residency Theodore Koterwas presents his work to date as Creative AI Artist Residence for Design Informatics and Creative Informatics.

CREATIVE COMMUNITIES

Making the invisible visible through creative expression of mental wellbeing in land and sea communities in Scotland

Creative Cred Exhibition 2022

Creative Cred Exhibition

Creative Industries Workshop: Ownership, Rights & Attribution for digital media

Creative Informatics

Creative Informatics aims to bring Edinburgh’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together, utilising innovative data-driven technologies to develop ground-breaking new products, businesses and experiences. 

Creative Informatics Challenge Projects launched

Creative Informatics first round of Challenge Projects has been launched.

Creative Informatics partnered with 2024 Science Festival

Creative Informatics Partnership Forum 2

Creative Informatics Research Envisions Digital Futures for Festivals in 2030

Creative Informatics Showcase 2020

Creative Informatics Small Research Grants Showcase

Critically Envisioning Biometric AI Futures

The project started by mapping the state of the art and different socio-technical and legal issues raised by future uses of biometric artificial intelligence systems in law enforcement. Drawing insights from this analysis, the project informed the development of a series of speculative design fictions that focused on different applications, such as live automated facial and emotion recognition or DNA phenotyping. 

Crossing Borders as part of FuturePlay Festival Edinburgh

Crypto-Knitting

Crypto-Knitting is a new collaboration between artist Ailie Rutherford and researcher Bettina Nissen exploring the potential of digital currencies in feminist economies

Cultural computing clash

D-RISK | Training and re-training autonomous vehicles

Dancing Robots

DAOWO Summit UK

DAOWO (Distributed Autonomous Organisations With Others) Summit UK facilitates cross-sector engagement with leading researchers and key artworld actors to discuss the current state of play and opportunities available for working with blockchain technologies in the arts.

Data as a Material Exhibition

Design with Data Student Showcase Exhibition 2023

Data Flows

As part of our move into our new offices at the Bayes Centre we employed designers Sigrid Schmeisser from Peak15 and Christoph Miler from Offshore Studio to create an engaging entranceway to our offices and studio space.

Data Lates

A newly launched site, Inspace City Screen, will host two out of hours exhibitions projected onto Potterrow.

Data Lates

Data Lates and PRETERNATURAL exhibitions

Data Pipe Dreams: Glimpses of a Near Future

Glimpses of a Near Future

Data Play 2019: Design Informatics Pavilion

We can’t design the future. But we can try it out, test it and play with it.

Data Play Events

Data Play: Festival 2019

The Design Informatics Pavilion is a pop-up exhibition space designed by biomorphis architects featuring a range of objects and experiences that invite you to step into the future.

Data Play: Festival 2019

summer activities part of Edinburgh Fringe

Data Vis Hub Talks – Isabel Meirelles, OCAD University

Data Vis Hub Talks – Laura Smith, Slanted Theory

Data Visualization Meetup – Data Physicalization

Anyone interested in the process and product of more effectively and ingeniously communicating the meanings inherent in data by visual or other sensory techniques.

Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries

Data-Driven Innovation in the Creative Industries, new book led by Creative Informatics researchers published

DataVisFest on (In)equality and Incusion

Dave Murray-Rust wins Lumen Prize

Lumen Prize award to Dave Murray-Rust and Rocio von Jungenfeld

David Mahoney

DCHRN Seminar: Working with the Public

DCODE

DCODE is a EU-Funded network of seven world-class higher education design institutions and stakeholders from industry, government, and civil society, to explore new ways of designing with data and autonomous systems

DCODE team contributes in new book – Rethink design: A vocabulary for designing with AI

DECaDE

DECaDE recognises this position and asks what can we do to transform this emerging future economy into one that is fair, that has appropriate governance, and maximises opportunites for everyone to create value. How can decentralised platforms enabled by emerging data-centric technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Ledgers and Blockchain transform our future economy – and the way we work, interact and create value.

DECaDE and Digital Catapult, Creative Industries Workshop, Ownership Rights and Attribution for Digital Media

DECaDE at Design Informatics | A 2021 update

DeCaDE Online Webinar: Emerging Futures for Tokenised Licensing in the Creative Industries

Demonstrating GeoPact at ICoT

Design and the invisible: material conceits as design activism

Design and the invisible: material conceits as design activism: Luis Hernan, ArchaID, Newcastle University

Design in Action

Doing things in new ways, solving problems and pushing boundaries are the essence of any good economy.

Design in Action: Final report

Design Informatics and SHAPE in Innovation

Design Informatics at ACM CHI 2020

Design Informatics at DIS 2020

Design Informatics at the 2024 Science Festival

Design Informatics at the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival

Design Informatics Celebrating Humanities Research

We are delighted to announce that during the 2025 ESRC Festival of Social Science and Being Human Festival, the Institute for Design Informatics will present a series of events and an exhibition

Design Informatics Fly Through

drone fly through of DI studio, workshop, Inspace and office

Design Informatics Innovation Inspiration Tours

Design Informatics MA Programme Director Lynne Craig shared some highlights of this year's Design Informatics Innovation Inspiration Tour.

Design Informatics Pavilion – launch event photos

Design Informatics Pavilion 2019

Design Informatics Pavilion: Future Play

Design Informatics Pavilion: Histories and Futures

History of the Design Informatics Pavilion as we look forward to the 2018 Pavilion

Design Informatics presentation in Ars Electronica Festival 2024

We were honoured to have two Design Informatics’ collaborations, The BOX 2.0 by Fiona Smith and DUCK by Rachel Maclean, presented at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024 in Linz this September.

Design Informatics Research Webinar Recordings

Design Informatics Research Webinars Winter/Spring 2022

Design Informatics to lead new centre focused on designing responsible natural language processing applications

IDI will host a major new CDT looking at trustworthy and responsible in-the-world NLP.

Design Informatics Webinar – Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Design Informatics Webinar – Iohanna Nicenboim, TU Delft

Design Informatics Webinar – Martin Glynn

Design Informatics Webinar – Mel Woods, Dundee

Design Informatics Webinar – Andrew Marks, Niantic

Design Informatics Webinar – Blockchain NGO Panel

Design Informatics Webinar – Dave Murray-Rust, ECA

Design of a decision support tool for visualising E. coli risks on agricultural land using a stakeholder-driven approach

Design with DataSphere 9-19 April

Student Showcase Exhibition

Design, Data and Beyond

Design with Data Student Showcase Exhibition 2025

Design4Health 2024 25th – 27th June

Research fellow Jacob Sheahan recently attended and presented at the biannual Design4Health conference in Sheffield, UK

Designing Data Humans

Design with Data Student Showcase Exhibition 2024

Designing Ethical Human-Computer Systems

Funded by: EPSRC ‘Telling Tales of Engagement, 2016’ award

Designing for Near Futures talk

Designing Futures of Money and FinTech: Show and Tell

Join us for an hour of Show & Tell with future scenarios from our DIS 2020 Workshop on Designing Futures of Money and FinTech!

Designing machines with autonomy

Designing Responsible NLP

Designing Responsible NLP is a PhD with intergrated programme being run as part of the newly funded (as of the start of 2024) UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing.

Designing Robotics Thinking

Masters Students at International Conference on Soft Robotics 

Designing Temporal Ecologies Symposium

Designing with Friction: Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology

Designing with living organisms

Developing a Data Driven Creative Company

Develop your creative practice, business, or cultural organisation by harnessing the power of your data to develop insights and inform decisions, and maximise your creative service, product, or experiences for audiences.

Developing a Theory of Change for Digital Mental Health

This project was conducted in collaboration with Togetherall (formerly Big White Wall), a multimodal peer-support DMH community platform providing anonymous, round-the-clock peer support made safe by professionally registered moderators, self-help materials, guided courses, digital art and self-monitoring of psychological symptoms.

Developing public engagement and co-design skills with health-data researchers

A case study on co-designing networks of care with rural communities

DI – Watch Party: Chagall

DI Graduate’s Exciting New Installation in Xi’An, China!

A mesmerizing art installation, presented by one of our recent graduates, Keki Chen!

DI Hybrid Research Seminar – Aluna Everitt

DI Hybrid Research Seminar – Belén Barros Pena

DI Hybrid Research Seminar – Grace Turtle

DI Hybrid Research Seminar – Prof Duncan Brumby

DI Member Interview – Caitlin McDonald

DI members contributed to AI and Festivals Workshop at the European Festival Association’s Arts Festival Summit

DI PhD students at the 2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Along with other academics and students in Design Informatics, PhD students Anna Rezk, Carlos Guerrero Millan and Yuning Chen participated in the 2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024), and they shared their experience in Hawaii in the blog posts.

DI PhD students at the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Design Informatics PhD students Yuhao Sun, Xinrui Lin and Sarah Dunn participated in the 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025) along with many other UoE and DI researchers, and they shared their experiences in the blog posts.

DI PhD students at the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 (DIS 2024)

Along with other academics and students in Design Informatics, PhD students Yuhao Sun, Youngsil Lee and Aditi Surana participated in the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024 (DIS 2024).

DI Research Webinar – ‘We Began as Part of the Body’ Discussion, Beverley Hood (ECA) & Prof Sara Brown (Dundee)

DI Research Webinar – Mike Phillips, Plymouth

DI Webinar – Alexandre Colle, Edinburgh centre for Robotics

DI Webinar – Anne Galloway, Wellington NZ

DI Webinar – Antonio Roberts, artist and curator | Hellocatfood

DI Webinar – Audrey Desjardins, University of Washington

DI Webinar – Caterina Moruzzi

DI Webinar – Christina Chung, Indiana

DI Webinar – Claudia Westermann, XJTLU Dept of Architecture

DI Webinar – Conor Linehan, School of Applied Psychology, UCC

DI Webinar – Daniel Pargman

DI Webinar – Data, Value + Design #2: Designing After Fungibility

DI Webinar – David Chatting

DI Webinar – Design Informatics Webinar – Karey Helms, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

DI Webinar – Dr Mariza Dima, Brunel University London

DI Webinar – Dr Shama Rahman

DI Webinar – Elisa Giaccardi, Post-industrial Design @ TU Deflt

DI Webinar – Exploring the risks of D-RISK: Training algorithms through public engagement

DI Webinar – Frauke Zeller

DI Webinar – Helen Pritchard

DI Webinar – Joseph Lindley and David Philip Green, Lancaster University

DI Webinar – Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton

DI Webinar – Karen Gregory, Digital Sociology @ UofE

DI Webinar – Katie Siek, Indiana

DI Webinar – Kellie Morrissey, University of Limerick

DI Webinar – Lachlan Urquhart

DI Webinar – Lynne Murray, ECA Design Informatics

DI Webinar – Marion Lean

DI Webinar – Mark Perry

DI Webinar – Martijn de Waal

DI Webinar – Michael Stead

DI Webinar – Mick Grierson, London

DI Webinar – Mike Phillips, Plymouth

DI Webinar – Mina Doosti, University of Edinburgh

DI Webinar – Mr. Gee, Poet @ 6th Vision

DI Webinar – Nadia Berthouze & Youngjun Cho

DI Webinar – Neha Kumar

DI Webinar – Nicola Bidwell, International University of Management, Namibia

DI Webinar – Pip Thornton and Chris Elsden, Zoom Obscura

DI Webinar – Prof Martyn Evans, MMU Design

DI Webinar – Rachel Clarke, Open Lab, Newcastle University

DI Webinar – Rachel O’Dwyer, School of Visual Cultures, NCAD

DI Webinar – Raphael Kim, London

DI Webinar – Reem Talhouk

DI Webinar – Richmond Wong, University of California Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity

DI Webinar – Ron Wakkary, SFU School of Interactive Arts & Tech

DI Webinar – Sara Nabil, Queen’s University

DI Webinar – Sarah Fox

DI Webinar – Sebastian Prost

DI Webinar – Shana Agid

DI Webinar – TUDelft

DI Webinar – Uta Hinrichs, University of Edinburgh

DI Webinar – Will Odom, Simon Fraser University

DI Webinar – Xianghua (Sharon) Ding

DI Webinar – George Jaramillo, Heriot-Watt University and Distributed Capabilities

DI Webinar – Winnie Soon, artist-researcher at Aarhus University

DI Workshop Webinar – Paul Thomas, University of New South Wales

Diane Lac

Digital Ghosts: The Hauntings of Data

DIS 2024 at Copenhagen — We’re in the future, and we’re designing a better future by Yuhao Sun

PhD student Yuhao Sun wrote a blogpost to share his experience in DIS 2024.

Dorsey Kaufmann

DUCK

DUCK: a deepfake British spy thriller parody starring Sean Connery and Marilyn Monroe. Produced using deepfake visuals and audio, Rachel Maclean, who plays all the characters, swaps her voice and face with the very recognisable cast of actors.

Dushani Perera

Dynamic Wall Visualisations

ECA Degree Show

The ECA degree show is currently taking place across the ECA Lauriston Place campus

ECA Degree Show 20-26 August

ECA Degree Show now open 20-26 August

Edinburgh Doors Open Day 2024

EFI – MSc in Service Management & Design Survey

EFI Autumn 2022 programme: First Breath

Edinburgh Futures Institute Autumn Event Programme: First Breath

Eilidh Bowman

ekip – European Cultural and Creative Industries Innovation Policy Platform

The European Commission has granted the ekip partnership 6 million euros to develop innovation policies for the cultural and creative industries. New policies for innovation are needed to provide the ecosystems in these sectors with more tailormade support, faciliating access to funding and incubators.

Ekip: help shape the future of the creative industries!

Ekip’s policy lab: Immersive Media

Electricity control room algorithms for a decarbonised system

Elisa Cardamone

Ella Tallyn

Emma Dorfman

Emma Pirie

Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for an Ethical Life

Social sciences and humanities led, Emotional AI Lab examines the social, cultural, legal and ethical impact of artificial intelligence technologies that function in relation to data about human emotion, moods, affective states and other intimate dimensions of human life.

Evan Morgan

Every-Body Exhibition

We are delighted to announce our virtual Festival exhibition for 2020, Every-Body: City, Technology and the Body.

Every-Body: Body – Webinar

Every-Body: City – Webinar

Every-Body: City, Technology and the Body from 1-16 August

Every-Body presents the work of the pioneering design studio, Universal Everything.

Every-Body: Technology – Webinar

Ewa Luger

Exciting new responsible AI Open Call for Artists

Inspace and the Institute for Design Informatics are delighted to be partnering with BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) project who will commission five UK-based artists or artist groups to create artworks that explore new ways to think about today’s AI and the futures we want work in responsible AI to help us build.

Exhibition Launch – Every-Body: City, Technology and the Body

Exhibition Launch and Keynote talk for our virtual Festival exhibition for 2020. Talk from Joel Gethin Lewis from Universal Everything.

Exhibition Launch – Somewhere In The Universe It Rains Diamonds (Aether)

Join us for the launch of Somewhere In The Universe It Rains Diamonds (Aether), a three room installation making the invisible visceral.

Exhibition Launch: We began as part of the body

‘We began as part of the body’ is a multi-component digital artwork inspired the eczema genetic research laboratory of Professor Sara Brown, (University of Dundee) where Beverley Hood (University of Edinburgh) undertook an artist residency in 2017 organised by ASCUS Art & Science.

Exhibition: Space & Satellites Artist Residency

In our first Artist in Residence programme for Inspace we invited a group of 5 multi-disciplinary artists to focus on the theme of Space and Satellites data. These residencies created a space for exploration and aimed to create genuine collaborations between science and creative practice.

Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the Street: Working with Leith Walk

This project is motivated by the question “What does Artificial Intelligence mean for the person on the street?”

Exploring Ethical AI in Accounting

Accounting is one of the latest professions to consider the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support decision-making.

Exploring the potential for Creative AI

Eyes Online: Understand your data, switch on your rights

Free public event this weekend in Inspace

Facilitating Well-Informed Data Science through Interactive Visual Analysis

Join us for a series of online summer talks on data visualization: https://visualinteractivedata.github.io/invited-talks.html as part of the Vis Hub online course for professionals: https://datavis-online.github.io

FinBook

Finding What to Read: Visual Text Analytics Tools and Techniques to Guide Investigation

Christopher Collins, Ontario Tech Institute, OT

FinTech Hackathon prize

Fintech: Cryptocurrency, blockchain and cash in the future

Five new academics join the Institute for Design Informatics

Fixing the Future Card Deck Evaluation Workshop

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT

‘Fixing the Future’ is an interdisciplinary project investigating how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital economy.

FND Stories Exhibition 7-26 June

Capturing the stories and lived experience of those diagnosed with neurological condition, Functional Neurological Disorder, through art. 

Foraging walks, participatory mapping, and ice cream – by Youngsil Lee and Aditi Surana

DI PhD student Youngsil Lee and Aditi Surana wrote a blogpost to share their experience in DIS 2024.

Fostering Digital Cultural Participation

Four new academics join the Institute for Design Informatics

Four-year funded PhD studentships in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh

Frances Liddell

Frauke Zeller

Fraunhofer MEVIS welcomes Edinburgh-based scientist, artist, and medic Fiona Smith to the residency program STEAM Imaging V – Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account

Fringe Futures Online – Research Study

Do you have ideas about the future online landscape of the Edinburgh Fringe?

From Fit to Contribution: My First CHI by Yuhao Sun

Future Infrastructure for Retail Remittances (FIRE)

The FIRE project explores the design requirements for cash-like digital payment systems as part of an efficient and robust payments infrastructure of the future.

Future Visions of Active Travel in Edinburgh

The B-IoT project hosted a workshop exploring the space where visions of future transport meet Blockchain and IoT technologies.

FutureLab Exhibition, China, 5-13 December

Design Informatics is delighted to be taking part in this year’s FutureLab representing Edinburgh College of Art. FutureLab is an international platform dedicated to the research and presentation of innovative teaching practice for future art and design education.

Garnet Hertz – ‘Disobedient Electronics’ talk

Gavin Inglis

Generating Narratives from Personal Digital Data

GeoAid

GeoCoin

GeoCoin

Geocoin Workshop

Geocoin Workshop

GeoPact

Huge benefits in transportation can be gained if Intelligent Transportation Systems such as automated vehicles are enabled to communicate between each other, and their surrounding infrastructure in ways that are simple, reliable, and widely acceptable for human operators. At the same time, it is imperative that the security and privacy of such communications are considered. This project will demonstrate the potential of distributed ledgers such as blockchain as a method of securing the integrity of such systems.

GeoPact at the Scottish Parliament

GeoPact at the University of Edinburgh

GeoPact at the University of Warwick

GeoPact Demonstration

Smart Contracts in Action

Ghost Cinema App: Temporal Ubiquity and the Condition of Being in Everytime

Glasgow Improv Theatre Play ‘Whose Ticket is it Anyway?’ with Ticket Designer

Haili Wu

Harvey Everson

HAT

HAT is a £1.2m multi-disciplinary project funded by the Research Council’s UK Digital Economy Programme. It involves a team of 16 researchers from the domains of Economics, Business, Computing and the Arts across six UK universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Exeter, Nottingham, Warwick and the West of England

Hawaiian Cosmos by Carlos Guerrero Millan

PhD student Carlos Guerrero Millan wrote a blogpost to share her experience in CHI 2024.

HCI for Blockchain

Healthier Working Lives and Ageing for Workers in The Care Sector: Developing Careers, Enhancing Continuity, Promoting Wellbeing

The Innovate UK-funded, University of Edinburgh-led Healthier Working Lives programme assesses the challenges and opportunities for the over-50s care workforce.

Horizon 3.0: Trusted Data Driven Products

The Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute is a multidisciplinary centre of excellence for Digital Economy research.

How to Find the Soul of the Sailor

How to Find the Soul of a Sailor, a deeply personal and innovative project that fuses the past, present, and future through the lens of artificial intelligence and memory.

Human Data Interaction Network Plus Workshop

This workshop represents the first workshop of the network plus in Human Data Interaction (HDI).  Our aim is to draw together people from all three sectors (academia, public and third sector) to start making connections/partnerships and think about projects you’d like us to fund.  Funding will be announced in January (project will range from 2.5k to 50k) and we hope this event will help people to start developing their proposals. 

I & AI: Mirror — Reflections on Human–AI Intimacy

ICT4D and Covid-19

Imaginative Futures for Finance

IMMERSE: The implementation of Digital Mobile Mental Health in clinical care pathways: towards person-centered care in psychiatry

IMMERSE unites an interdisciplinary team of researchers with the objective of propelling the transformation of mental health care in Europe into true person-centred care.

Inaugural Lecture | Melissa Terras

Inersis

Information xyz

Innovation In Housing Exhibition

Inspace + Design Informatics showreel

The 2021 showreel raises the screens and opens the doors, inviting you in to see what has been and what can be at Inspace, Inspace City Screen and with Design Informatics.

Inspace announced as Fringe Venue for the 77th Edinburgh International Film Festival

Inspace: Artist Residencies

Inspace is part of the Institute for Design Informatics; commissioning and producing creative activity that unlocks digital technology and explores its role in society. Our public programme will connect data, research and creative talent.

Inspace: Exhibitions

Inspace is a unique events and exhibitions space which is part of the Institute of Design Informatics within the University of Edinburgh. Inspace commissions and produces creative activity that unlocks digital technology and explores its role in society, through public programmes that connect data, research and creative talent.

Intelligent Governance Design

International Fraunhofer Talent School Bremen: STEAM Imaging VI

Internet of Second Hand Things

Adopting more sustainable patterns of consumption offers positive outcomes for improving personal wellbeing, minimising resource depletion and meeting environmental targets.

INTUIT

Interaction Design for Trusted Sharing of Personal Health Data to Live Well with HIV

IoT in the Home: Writing and Acting the Future of Autonomous Energy Devices

Focus group

Isn’t it time to change the way we think about time?

Jenny Elliott

Jenny Long

Jinrui Wang

Job Posting – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Design (Design Informatics)

John Lee

John Morrison

John Vines

June 15 to July 17 – 5 Week Online Data Visualization Course for Professionals

The University of Edinburgh is hosting a university-certified, 10-credit, online course in data visualisation with flexible schedule. The course runs from June 15-July 17 (5 weeks) and is primarily dedicated to professionals in, among others, finance, the sports industry, the creative industry, journalism, education and the public sector.

Kam Chan

Karma Kettles

Could your kettle do more than boiling water?

KASH Cups

Kiersten Hay

Kourosh Khalilian

Kyle Morrison

Lachlan Urquhart

Larissa Pschetz

Launch of new centre – The Digital Economy Centre for the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE)

Centre heralds new era for the digital economy

Launch: Space and Satellites Artist Residency Programme

New artist residencies launched for Inspace looking at space and satellite data

Laurence Moroney on AI: Breakthroughs, Opportunities and the Future

Learning Energy Systems at Science Festival

National Museum of Scotland for Edinburgh International Science Festival

Lending a Making Hand

LENS: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

LENS: interactive research pod exploring data sharing

Let There Be Dragons CI Exhibition

Join us for the launch of There be Dragons: Navigating the uncharted data territories of creative practice, an exhibition by five artists.

Let’s Get Concrete: The Aesthetics of Legitimacy

Liquan Chai

Listening to Voices

Creative Disruptions with the Hearing Voices Network

Listening to Voices Project Report

Living with the Internet of Things

Explore how the Internet of Things is affecting our lives, and how it will influence our futures - at home, at work and in our environment.

Living with the Internet of Things Event

A short film about the Living with the Internet of Things event at Tate Exchange on 8-9 Feb, 2019

Local Impact Through European Collaboration with Una Europa

Luis Soares

Lynne Craig

Machine Whispers: Reading – Writing – Robots

Making and Deepfaking the News

Making and Deepfaking the News

Mapping Privacy Models

Maria Wolters

Mark Kobine

Martin Disley

Masterclass: academic collaboration to future proof the creative industries

Melissa Terras

Melody (Zixuan) Wang

Memories of Mr Seel’s Garden

The Memories of Mr. Seel’s was an AHRC Connected Communities Pilot Demonstrator Project

Mina Lavender

Miriam Walsh

Miromations

Miromations are short, highly participatory performances for 100’s of people within a Miro board

Mitigating climate risks to Scotland’s festivals

Modern Human Presents Pizza Block

Pizza Block workshop with Decentralized Design Meet-up

Moneylab

Morality Calculus and Tasting Event

MRI measurements on a desk

MRI Sequence Composition Beyond Academia [Talk]

Near Future Teaching Collider

Network Plus in Human Data Interaction

Network Plus in Human Data Interaction: Legibility, Agency, Negotiability

New AHRC grant awarded to Ewa Luger

new grant will look at ‘Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem’

New Artist in Residence Programme for Inspace

Creative AI Artist Residency Sept 2022-April 2023

New CoSTAR funding for on-screen innovations

At the forefront of innovations in film, screen and games; the University of Edinburgh and Creative Informatics to be core partners on new CoSTAR programmes.

New Job Posting – Chair in Design Informatics

Design Informatics in the Edinburgh College of Art is recruiting a new Chair in Design Informatics to co-direct and drive forward our research, innovation and pedagogy within the Institute for Design Informatics.

New Job Posting – Chancellor’s Fellowships in Humanities Informatics – ECA

Design Informatics in the School of Informatics is recruiting a Lecturer or Reader who has the associated expertise at the intersection of design, computer science, human-computer interaction, data science, and artificial intelligence.

New Job Posting – Generative AI Research Software Engineer – School of Informatics

The School of Informatics is recruiting a Generative AI Research Software Engineer at the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Designing Responsible NLP.

New Job Posting – Lecturer in Design Informatics – ECA

Design Informatics in the School of Informatics is recruiting a Lecturer with applied and practice-led areas where data and creativity collide, aligned to wider institute themes of Design Informatics.

New Job Posting – Lecturer or Reader in Design Informatics – School of Informatics

Design Informatics in the School of Informatics is recruiting a Lecturer or Reader who has the associated expertise at the intersection of design, computer science, human-computer interaction, data science, and artificial intelligence.

New Job Posting – Postdoctoral Research Associate – School of Informatics

The School of Informatics is recruiting a Generative AI Research Software Engineer at the Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Designing Responsible NLP.

New Job Posting! Design Research Developer – DECaDE project

New Job Posting! Lecturer/Reader in Design Informatics

New Job Posting! Manager, Institute for Design Informatics

New Job Posting! Research Associate, Institute for Design Informatics

New Job Posting! Research Centres Support Assistant, Institutes for Design Informatics and OPENspace

New Opportunities – Innovation Fellows

New PhD Studentship – Toward A Digital Commons for Supporting Creative Practitioners’ Journeys through the Technology Ecosystem

Applications open for a fully funded AHRC SGSAH CDA PhD Studentship: “Toward A Digital Commons for Supporting Creative Practitioners’ Journeys through the Technology Ecosystem”

New Value Transactions

New Value Transactions

NEWSPEAK (2019)

Nichole Fernandez

Nicola Osborne

Nicola Osborne awarded The Research Impact Prize

One Day Workshop on Blockchain, Trust and Global Challenges

One HAT, so many possibilities…

Open Innovation Factory: Inclusivity in Gaming

Open Innovation Factory: Rethinking Policy for the Creative Economy

Operation Biodegradable: Rethinking Surgical Environments

Discover how biomaterials and human-centred design could revolutionise surgical environments at this exhibition brought to you by staff, students and graduates at the University of Edinburgh.

ORAgen Fables at Edinburgh Futures Institute

ORAgen Fables at Leith Police Box

ORAgen Fables at Storytelling Centre

Our Responses to the UK Government Intellectual Property Office Consultation: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

OxChain

Ox-Chain is a major research project between the Universities of Edinburgh, Northumbria and Lancaster, and research partners Oxfam, Zero Waste Scotland, Volunteer Scotland and WHALE Arts, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It brings together experts in digital design, cryptography, business and international development. Through collaborative research, we will design a Blockchain for Oxfam to better support the circulation and re-circulation of valuable items within its business model – hence ‘Ox-Chain’.

Oxchain – Blockchain & the Global South symposium round up

Round up of the day's activities at the Blockchain and the Global South conference

Oxchain Workbooks

PACTMAN

Understanding how to manage issues of trust, privacy and consent in future pervasive environments

Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022

Participatory Design Conference (PDC) 2022

Peak15 Design & Research Studio: Creating the surrealistic identity for Data Pipe Dreams

Peak 15's collaboration with Design Informatics

Pedagogy & Physicalization

Peoplehood: Value Exchange in Later Life Communities

The Peoplehood project is a large collaborative project led by Blackwood Homes and Care, involving a wide range of organisations including University of Edinburgh researchers across Informatics, the Business School and the Institute for Design Informatics.

PETRAS 2

PETRAS Conference

Phase 2: Co-authorship and publication

Phase one: Cycle probes

PhD studentship in Human-computer Interaction exploring AI in Film and TV

Pieces of Peace: Women and Gender in Peace Agreements

Design Informatics PhD candidate Jenny Long and Jinrui Wang participated in The Conflict Research Society Conference 2024 and held an exhibition Pieces of Peace: Women and Gender in Peace Agreements in the MacLaren Stuart Room at the Old College, University of Edinburgh.

Pip Thornton at the Fruitmarket Gallery

Creative Informatics RA, Pip Thornton's work is now showing at the Fruitmarket Gallery following on from her work shown as part of the Festival last year

PizzaBlock at DataPlay

Can you help solve Edinburgh’s lack of good pizza? Come and learn about the future of identity with blockchain technologies in this one-off PizzaBlock workshop!

Polite Robots That Make Way for People

POSTPONED – BRAID x IDI Hybrid Seminar – Dan McQuillan

POSTPONED – DI Hybrid Research Seminar – Iryna Kuksa

Postponed- BLING GeoPact Collider: Location based digital contracts

Workshop- Can blockchain technologies redesign the way we transport people and things around cities?

Project Mercury

Project Mercury is a 12 month collaboration between Design Informatics and Tesco Bank to explore FinTech by Design.

Prototype your own MRI Sequence [Workshop]

Join us in transforming the complex world of MRI physics – Making controlling a three million dollar medical device as easy as operating a smartphone 

PuBliC: Future Everything

Pushpi Bagchi

Q&A Session – Creator in Residence: STEAM Imaging V Holding the ‘Digital’ in Medicine to Account

Join Chris Speed, Edinburgh Futures Institute, and Bianka Hofmann, Fraunhofer MEVIS and ask them anything regarding the residency!

Qualified Selves: Co-Creating Meaning Post-Big Data

Qualified Selves is a joint project between Lancaster and Edinburgh Universities. Its novel approach to co-design and co-creation has so far allowed for new and exciting prototypes to be developed to help us think about tracking data in different ways.

Quantified Body Language: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Intelligent furniture?

Quantum Computing by Design week

RAD Lab Talk: Supply Chain Cybersecurity and the Law – Tackling the Modern Trojan Horse’

RAD Lab Workshop: Security by Design for the Internet of Things

Rainbows and Unicorns

Recommended Relics

National Museum of Rural Life Scotland

Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab

The Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab explores how to create better human-technology interactions by building an interdisciplinary research agenda at the interface of technology, design, and regulation.

REPHRAIN

REPHRAIN

REPHRAIN will develop a wide range of tools to keep people safe and informed online. These include automated tools to flag online harms in social media and a map to identify and avoid different threat such as fraud or disinformation. Researchers at the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (REPHRAIN), will also develop new methods to protect against micro-targeting, a tactic used to gather data about individuals, and a Data Advice Bureau to help citizens navigate online spaces safely.

Research posts at Design Informatics

Research Seminar – Aaron Quingley

Research Seminar – Ana Betancourt & Hector Fried + Rory Gianni

Research Seminar – Des Higham

Research Seminar – Dr Rachel Jacobs

Research Seminar – Felix Green

Research Seminar – Laura Forlano

Research Seminar – Leah Lockhart

Research Seminar – Mike Hazas

Research Seminar and Performance: Tim Shaw & John Bowers

Tim Shaw and John Bowers work in the Digital Cultures Research Group, Culture Lab and Fine Art, Newcastle University.

Research Seminar Series: Benjamin Bach, Data Visualization

Research Seminar Series: Tim Fawns, Education, Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Alex Taylor

Research Seminar: Angelo Plessas, Independent Practitioner

Research Seminar: Augusto Esteves

Augusto Esteves, Edinburgh Napier University

Research Seminar: Beatrice Alex

Research Seminar by Beatrice Alex / Education, Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Beverley Hood

Beverley Hood is Lecturer and Research Director for Design at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Daniela Petrelli

Research Seminar: Dr Katerina Gorkovenko

Dr Katerina Gorkovenko is a human computer interaction researcher and designer who recently completed her PhD at Dundee University. Her work is situated at the intersection of technology, politics, and broader societal change. Her research practice utilises an array of design led qualitative research methods in order to explore complex problems around human behaviour and the use of digital tools.

Research Seminar: Gilad Rosner

Gilad Rosner, Internet of Things Privacy Forum

Research Seminar: Grace Annan-Callcott

Grace Annan-Callcott is Press Officer at IF. Her role is central to increasing IF’s visibility and influence, and ensuring IF shapes the narrative across issues of trust, privacy and data rights. She works with journalists and influential organisations, to establish IF’s reputation as world leading experts. Grace has an MPhil from Cambridge and a BA from Newcastle University.

Research Seminar: Ida Telalbasic

Research Seminar: Jonathan Rankin, Design Informatics

Jonathan Rankin from Design Informatics will talk about designing for speculative future visions.

Research Seminar: Lachlan Urquhart

Research Seminar: Lisa May Thomas

Lisa May Thomas is a contemporary dance artist, based in Bristol, who has worked extensively with dance for screen and is currently developing live choreographic, sensorial performances with new technologies.

Research Seminar: Liz McFall

Liz McFall, University of Edinburgh

Research Seminar: Lucy Havens

Lucy joined Design Informatics to create new interfaces for exploring large data and information repositories.

Research Seminar: Matt Jones

Research Seminar: Mohamed Khamis

Mohamed Khamis is a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in the School of Computing Science since September 2018.

Research Seminar: Pete Bennett

Pete is a freelance creative technologist, resident of the Pervasive Media Studio and teaching fellow in the University of Bristol's computer science department.

Research Seminar: Rachel Clarke

Rachel Clarke is a Global Challenges Research Fellow at Northumbria University, in the School of Design and Centre for International Development.

Research Seminar: Richard Mortier

Richard Mortier is the Reader in Computing and Human-Data Interaction in the Systems Research Group of the University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science & Technology (aka The Computer Laboratory).

Research Seminar: Sarah Bennett

Sarah Bennett is a PhD student in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, researching the role of moral values in the design of symbiotic human-AI systems.

Research Seminar: Steve Love, GSA

The School of Simulation and Visualisation (SimVis) is currently a postgraduate research, teaching and commercial centre of The Glasgow School of Art. It aims to exploit the interface between science, technology and the arts to explore imaginative and novel uses of advanced 3D digital visualisation and interaction technologies.

Research Seminar: Suzy Moat

Research Seminar: Teresa Almeida

Teresa Almeida, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

Research Seminar: Wendy Moncur

Research Seminars – Autumn Term 2022 Schedule

Design Informatics Research Seminars Autumn Term 2022

Research Seminars Autumn Term 2019

Research Webinar – Abi Durrant, Caroline Claisse & Bakita Kasadha

Research Webinar – Björn Rust + Chris Elsden

Research Webinar – Karen Elliott & Glenn Smith

Research Webinar – Marcus O’Dair

Research Webinar – McFall, Thornton, Bassett, Galip, McGowan

Research Webinar – Vicky Gunn

Research Webinar – m.c. schraefel

Research Webinar – Martin Kornberger

Research Webinars – Autumn 2020 Schedule

Research Webinars – Autumn/Winter 2021 Schedule

Research Webinars – Spring/Summer 2021 Schedule

Research Webinars – Winter 2021 Schedule

Robin Hill

Roxanne Wong

Ruby Marshall

Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age

Rural Crafting Communities in the Digital Age

The research addresses three related themes: crafting practices, rurality and digital engagement.

Sabrina Carter

SAIDS Project

Mydes - SAIDS project aims to digitally enable public and third sector services that are typically paper-based or repeated manual data entry

Saoirse Houtmeyers

Sarah Kettley

Scottish Living artist: Wikipedia Editathon

Seannachies

Addressing Social Isolation through Storytelling

Seeing the use of things: how IoT will shape future business

Seeking Chancellor’s Fellowship in Service Design

Seismic See-saw – Design Informatics Pavilion

Semi-automatic Data Tours to Support Data Exploration and Visualisation Literacy for Novice Analysts

Shama Rahman

Sharing Little Sparta

Project to attract new audiences to artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden; Little Sparta.

Simran Chopra

Sixth Sense Transport

Sixth Sense Transport research is investigating the extent to which behavioural change and better understanding of transport habits and practices can be facilitated through the creation of a new form of ‘transport network’, based on extending social networking principles to transport users, their individual vehicles and objects around them.

Smart Contracts in Action!

Smart Donations – OxChain Showcase

Smart Energy Wales: Consumer of the Future

Smart Energy GB is the campaign for a smarter Britain. It’s our task to help everyone in Great Britain understand smart meters, the national rollout and how to use their new meters to be cleaner and greener with their energy use.

Smart Transactions in Public Spaces

From communicating with loved ones to organising our finances, IoT technology enables us to perform an increasingly wide range of tasks on the move, and in a variety of public spaces.

Sound Exchange at Inspace City Screen

Space & Satellites Work in Progress events

As part of the Space and Satellites Artist Residency programme we are running a series of Work in Progress events for our research webinar series. Over the next 5 weeks you will get to hear from each of the artists alongside an academic/scientist in to how the collaboration is progressing and hints as to what is to come for our exhibition in July.

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Cécile Simonis

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Elaine Ford

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Julia McGhee

As part of the Space and Satellites Artist Residency programme we are running a series of Work in Progress events for our research webinar series and each week we will hear from the artists on their experiences so far and a glimpse as to what is to come for our exhibition in July.

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Stacey Hunter & Ben Hymers

Space and Satellites Artist Residency – Work in Progress: Victoria Evans

Space and Satellites Artists in Residence

We are delighted to announce our first five artists in residence, selected from 35 international applications, who will be focussing on the theme of Space and Satellites data. These residencies will create a space for exploration and aim to create genuine collaborations between science and creative practice.

Space meets the Creative sector – Mash-up

Space technology offers an interesting ability to understand our world, but in order to take full advantage of this the industry needs help and fresh perspectives. The space sector needs the skills, talent and imagination of games makers and data visualisers

Srravya Chandhiramowuli

STEAM Imaging VI: Resonant Connections through Design and Data – Q&A Event with IDI and Fraunhofer MEVIS Scientists

Stefania Pasare

Story blocks

StoryStorm

The ‘StoryStorm Network’  was funded by AHRC CCN+ with the aim of developing collaborative, co-creative workshops to explore the ways stories are increasingly supported and shaped by digital technology.

StoryStorm Project website

String Figures talk at Community Economies Research Network conference

Student Studio Access Induction

Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work (SHAW)

Working with four partner organisations, the SHAW project explores ways to support healthy ageing at work, to enable productive later-life employment

Susan Lechelt

Suzanne Black

Tactile Intelligence

Tactile Intelligence - Exhibition and Artist Talk

Talk: Laying down the law on NFTs

Funging the non-fungible: Laying down the law on NFTs

Tangible Data Controls

Tangible Tools for Understanding Distributed Systems

Tara Capel

Telling Tales of Engagement open until 23 February

Poetic expressions of smart donations with Oxfam

Telling the Bees

Telling the Bees is an interdisciplinary project working with Tay Landscape Partnership (TayLP) to develop new understandings of beekeeping practices through ‘future folklore’ for new and future generations of beekeepers. The future folklore prototypes will be a community resource and also a probe for academic communities, prompting questions on the role of folklore, literature, tacit knowledge, and traditional ecological knowledge structures. The project runs from April 2015 until March 2016.

Temporal Design

Temporal design

Temporal Design Workshop

The Temporal Design workshop will invite participants to think about time beyond dominant narratives of clock-time.

Tesco Bank Project Mercury

video explaining Project Mercury

Textiles for Soft Robotics – Vanessa Sanchez

THE BOX

The Changing Law on Ownership in Digital Assets: A Consultation

The Dust [n]Forcer

The Ethnobot

The Institute for Design Informatics is going to ACM DIS 2024! 

The Latent Image; Transimage 2018

eartaret reatreatae ertaret

The Latent Image: Transimage 2018 round up and videos

The LATENT IMAGE is the fifth iteration in the Transdisciplinary Imaging Conferences Series

The Memorial for Misused Time

The Overlay

Science Festival Exhibition from The New Real Observatory

The power of storytelling

The Provocateurs

This summer three members of IDI took part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, sharing their work through performances for paying Fringe audiences as part of ‘The Provocateurs’

The Provocateurs: Children’s money

The Provocateurs: Get in the zone!

The Provocateurs: No location, no location, no location!

The Sounds of Deep Fake – Opening Reception and Artist Talks

The Sounds of Deep Fake: Unit Test, Theodore Koterwas, Everest Pipkin

The University of Edinburgh at ACM CHI 2021

The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Hear from Petra Molnar on her new book, 'The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence'

Theodore Koterwas

Theodore Koterwas new Artist in Residence

Creative AI Artist Residency Sept 2022-April 2023

ThingTank

As objects around us begin to collect data and make suggestions about what might be desirable, it is possible that they may even be able to design things that we could never think of. Project Thing Tank is doing design research on these possibilities.

Three before CHI

Please join us for an extended seminar in which each speaker will have 30 mins to present their research:

Thriving in later life through care networks and data-driven care technologies

Tianqi Bi

Tina Donnelly

Tipping Point: Artist Responses to AI

Transcultural Data Pact event

Transcultural Data Pact, a research event that is also a game of serious make believe. We welcome you to a future-historic event and clash.

Transformative Spaces: Science-Art Residencies

Transforming communities through co-designing novel experience of heritage at a local museum

Travel Behaviours Network

Traverse Theatre introducing Emma Dorfman

TrustBall: Design Informatics Pavilion 2018

Who do you trust with your data?

TurningPoint

UKFin+

UKFin+ is a "network plus", with a mission to bridge the gap that currently exists between research in universities and the needs of the financial services industry, its consumers and the regulator.

UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Node in Governance and Regulation

This Node will delve into the development of a framework for regulation of autonomous systems, enabling them to effectively adapt to the intricacies of the environment in which they operate.

Under the palm trees: reflections of first CHI experience in Hawaii by Yuning Chen

PhD student Yuning Chen wrote a blogpost to share her experience in CHI 2024.

Understanding informal networks of care with older adults at the Advanced Care Research Centre (ACRC)

Understanding Initial Coin Offerings

Understanding situated energy values in rural Kenya

Universal Matter at Inspace City Screen

University of Edinburgh researchers head to ACM CHI 2025 in Yokohama, Japan!

Unmasking the Algorithm

Up Next at Inspace: Data, Technology and Creativity

We are delighted to share the upcoming series of exhibitions taking place at Inspace to kick off our 2025 programme.

Upcoming PhD positions at Design Informatics

UR Black

Using service blueprints to help visualise design

Uta Hinrichs

Vacancy: Post-doctoral Research Associate in Creative Informatics

come and work with the team at Design Informatics on an exciting new project as an RA

Valentina Andries

Victoria Evans on Radiophrenia

Victoria Evans’ work, Deep Space Call and Response which she produced as part of her Space and Satellites artist residency has been selected to appear on Radiophrenia, a temporary art radio station which will broadcast 24 hours a day from the 9-22 November across Glasgow on 87.9FM.

Vikki Jones

Virtual Exhibition Launch for the Space and Satellites Artist Residency Programme for Inspace

Please join us in raising a virtual glass to celebrate the work from our Artist-In-Residence Programme for Inspace. A group of 5 multi-disciplinary artists have been focussing on the theme of Space and Satellites data for the past 3 months.

VisActivities: An Open Online Platform for Collecting, Browsing, and Discussing Activities for Visualization Empowerment and Data Literacy

The VisActivities Platform is an open platform designed to help capture, characterize, and share visualization activities used as part of visualization teaching and workshops at large.

VisHub

The VisHub is an interdisciplinary research lab and hub for teaching, collaboration, and outreach around data visualization hosted by the Institute for Design Informatics and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Visual+Interactive Data

Visual+Interactive Data is a research group that investigates data visualizations and intreractive means to make data more immediate, tangible, and understandable across a variety of media such as paper, screen, and immersive.

Volunteering on the Ledger #1 – Identity Management

An exploratory design workshop to understand the potential for blockchain-based identity management in the voluntary sector.

Volunteering on the Ledger #2 – Alternative Currencies

We Are Hiring!

An exciting support opportunity has opened in the Institutes for Design Informatics, Inspace and OPENspace! Apply now to join this exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. DEADLINE: 9TH OCT

We are looking for a new Co-Director!

Vacancy for new Chair in Design Informatics

We are now recruiting for a Lecturer in Soft Robotics and Physical Computing!

We are recruiting: Design Informatics Research Software Engineer

Wearing data; the fabric of social becoming

Welcome to our new IDI Masters and PhD students!

Over 80 new masters’ students, from both design and computer science backgrounds have joined us to begin their postgraduate studies in Design Informatics

Welcoming a new Co-Director to the Institute for Design Informatics: Prof. John Vines

It is with absolute pleasure and excitement that we are able to announce that Prof. John Vines has been appointed as Chair of Design Informatics, and Co-Director for the Institute for Design Informatics. The appointment based in the School of Informatics defines a new era in which to extend the development of research at the intersection of design and computing.

What happened at 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival

What is privacy, why can’t we agree about it, and why is data a particular problem?

What is privacy, why can't we agree about it, and why is data a particular problem?

What took me to Japan? CHI 2025! by Sarah Dunn

When Your Teacup Goes Online and Demands to Design Itself

Where are AI’s publics?

Noortje Marres, Bettina Nissen and Alison Powell will invite discussion on the public’s role in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Through prompts and engagements with a diverse audience, they’ll discuss tilting the balance away from those actors and agencies who usually wield the power. Opening a space for alternatives, they'll explore possibilities involving the public in the developments and uses of AI and how it is governed and regulated.

Who Cares

Winter Term Research Seminars

Research Seminars - Winter Term

Worlds of Care Exhibition 9-24 April

Part of the Edinburgh Science Festival, the ‘Worlds of Care’ photography exhibition aims to explore how care is commonly portrayed, perceived and experienced.

Ximulacra

XR Network+: Virtual Production in the Digital Economy

XR Network is a new research network commissioned to set the agenda for future innovation in virtual production technology, content creation and consumption.

Yiwei Lu

Yixun Li

You’re Not Alone

You’re Not Alone is a Photovoice exhibition presenting the experiences and priorities of Autistic people with eating disorders.

Youngsil Lee

Yuhao Sun

Yumeng Guo

Yuning Chen

Yuxiang Zhai

Zoom Obscura at Inspace City Screen