Month: July 2018
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Is it smart to be Smart?
Smart products are elements of product-service-systems which use processors, sensors and communication technologies to collect and communicate data. The most common example is the smart phone which is a multi-functional device that uses its embedded technologies in different ways according to the installed apps, for example as activity tracker, health monitor, shopping assistant, etc. Based […]
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Design Star Methods Day
For the last two years we’ve hosted a research methods day for the AHRC funded Centre for Doctoral Training ‘Design Star‘. This year we focused on exploring the relationship between ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies in our own research … through the making of personal ‘thinking positions’ pyramids and placing them on a landscape describing different paradigms of approaching research, […]
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End of Year 2018 exhibition
Creating an exhibition of Design and Innovation undergraduate students’ work has been one of the most rewarding experiences I had for a while. We called for contributions to an End of Year design exhibition. Having an ‘Annual show’ has a long tradition in other design schools, but we never had one at the OU. This […]
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U101 AL to win British Medical Journal Innovation Award 2018
We are proud to say that Dr Liliana Rodriguez, AL at the Open University and teaching on our U101 module, has received the prestigious British Medical JournalInnovation Award 2018. She took part in a collaborative research project with colleagues from the Brighton and Sussex Medical school. The project was funded by Public Health England (PHE). […]