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Making Connections: The Nature, Role and Future of Design – Design Issues

Research Theme Lead: Professor Paul Rodgers

Staff Profile: Professor Paul Rodgers, Research Lead for Making Connections Research Project: The Blurring of Design Boundaries by Professor Paul Rodgers, Research Lead for Making Connections Research Project: Look into my eyes and The world's tallest signpost Staff Profile: Dr. John Stevens, Senior Lecturer in Design for Industry Shift.ms News: We are all Designers - New Research Network maps complex connections between Designers and Non-Designers
TRUMP: Universities in the UK and India collaborate on multi million pound funded Mobile Health research project Research Project: Design and ‘Design Thinking’ at Board level: Behind the Hype by Dr. John Stevens, Senior Lecturer in Design for Industry News: Gallop - A film about what life can throw at us and how we get back up PhD Student Profile: Giovanni Innella Research Project: Can Critical Design Create a Debate, if it just keeps Talking to Itself? by Freddie Yauner, Lecturer in Design for Industry Staff Profile: Freddie Yauner, Lecturer in Design for Industry

Currently, this research agenda includes:

- Critical reflection on design beliefs and values, and on design research practices
- Multi-disciplinarity and blur, new partners and methods for design and innovation
- Storytelling
- Problem Solving and Design
- Design for Debate, as Agent Provocateur, for Sense Making
- Designing for Culture and Global Markets
- Post consumerist design