DESIS-UK - Key Persons
Adam Thorpe is a Reader in Socially Responsive Design and Innovation at University of the Arts London. He is based at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design where he is Creative Director of the Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub and the Design Against Crime Research Centre and co-ordinator of the University of the Arts London's (UAL) Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab.
Job Titles:
- Administrator on the Project
Chloe is administrator on the project. She is a core member of the Design Against Crime Research Centre and the Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub at Central Saint Martins. She is involved in the administration and management of all DACRC projects.
For many years Clare Brass was a prominent product designer, who, early in her career, began to explore ways of using design to help people adopt a more pro-environmental behaviour. Leader of Sustainability at the Design Council until 2007, she is recognised as an outspoken champion of design and sustainability and is currently exploring new ways for designers to use their professional abilities while addressing social and environmental challenges. She took up a part-time role at Design London to bring social enterprise and sustainability thinking to business, design and engineering students of IDE at the RCA and Imperial College.
Daniela is Senior Lecturer in Service Design, Design for Public Services, Service Innovation at Lancaster University. Her research focuses on Service Design. She has investigated services as complex social systems, proposing holistic and participatory approaches to Service Design. In recent work she has been investigating the role of Design in public sector reform and in service innovation in general.
Matt is a lecturer on MA Industrial Design and a Research Fellow within the Socially Responsive Design and Innovation Hub at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts London. His research interests focus on critical and socially responsive forms of design and design-led social innovation.
Is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Design at Kingston University. Paul's primary interests are in the impact of the sustainability agenda on the theory and practice of design, and emerging modes of design practice such as social innovation and open design. He developed social research capabilities while investigating the research question ‘What is design?' for PhD (completed 2002). Paul regularly collaborates with sustainability and design-led organisations, companies and manufacturers on knowledge transfer and research projects.
Job Titles:
- Chairman in Design Practice
Robert Young is Chair in Design Practice and the Director for the Centre for Design Research in the School of Design at Northumbria University, where he has directed research activities since 1991. He originally trained as an Industrial Designer. Before taking up a full time academic appointment in 1984 he worked in the furniture and engineering manufacturing industries, as a design researcher with the Home Office and emergency services.