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Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Blaney, A., Ozkan, D., Pelit, E., & Hardy, J. (2023). Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures.

Imagine if our structures (buildings, cities) or objects (medical prosthetics, clothes) could be grown, self-healed and have multiple properties (shape, textures, composition etc) tuned or adapted to meet fluctuating demands. This could significantly... Read More about Adaptive Materials and The Role of Design[ers] (Research[ers]) in Shaping Transformative Futures.

Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Moreno-Rangel, A., & Tsekleves, E. (2023). Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme. . https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.265

The use of complex public health systems to empower communities is often met with challenges and frustrations. Community empowerment programmes focus on improving mental and physical health needs, enabling individuals to become active members of the... Read More about Community empowerment: lessons learned from a local health programme.

Shaping Social Design with communities (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Perez Ojeda, D., Owen, V., Zhang, L., Kwon, N., Brewster, L., …Summers, S. (2023). Shaping Social Design with communities. . https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.295

This position paper presents key Social Design work being conducted in the Design-led Research Centre, ImaginationLancaster, at Lancaster University in the UK. We position our local and global research in the Social Design landscape, defining the des... Read More about Shaping Social Design with communities.

Design Research Need in Helping to Address International Conflict Intersections in Southeast Asia (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Tsekleves, E., Varkkey, H., Rianawati, E., Ai Ling Lee, C., Fonseca Braga, M., Talib Latif, M., …Sheng Goh, C. (2022). Design Research Need in Helping to Address International Conflict Intersections in Southeast Asia. In [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes (576-584). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_38

Design-led research on conflicts arising from anthropogenic and environmental factors, such as that from forest management in Indonesia, are largely under-represented in the design research community. In this position paper we discuss the need for mo... Read More about Design Research Need in Helping to Address International Conflict Intersections in Southeast Asia.

'Parametric Matter': Pushing’ Updates into Materials and the Implications of Legacy and Lag (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Blaney, A., Ozkan, D., Pelit, E., Fonseca Braga, M., G. Hardy, J., & Ashton, M. (2022). 'Parametric Matter': Pushing’ Updates into Materials and the Implications of Legacy and Lag.

This paper discusses an ongoing interdisciplinary research project that develops a design and fabrication approach termed; tunable environments. This is an explorative approach, which enables updates from a digital parametric interface to be ‘pushed'... Read More about 'Parametric Matter': Pushing’ Updates into Materials and the Implications of Legacy and Lag.

Values and challenges in rapid prototyping of global health policies (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Yun Chong, S., Tsekleves, E., Penkunas, M. J., Mullagh, L., Joy Canlas Liwanag, H., …Tengku Adnan, N. (in press). Values and challenges in rapid prototyping of global health policies. . https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.641

This paper identifies the value and challenges in introducing rapid prototyping of policy to design non-expert and expert groups by analysing an online workshop series that was conducted with early-career professionals, policy makers, and design r... Read More about Values and challenges in rapid prototyping of global health policies.

Design capabilities for community resilience: Towards dialogic practices and policies (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., & Tsekleves, E. (in press). Design capabilities for community resilience: Towards dialogic practices and policies. . https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.659

This paper draws on a pilot study insight into Brazilian informal-settlement communities’ problems, adaptative strategies and needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although communities play a noteworthy role in resilience, emergency and recovery plans... Read More about Design capabilities for community resilience: Towards dialogic practices and policies.

Community-led design capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca Braga, M., Filho, E. R., G. Guimarães Pereira, H., Tsekleves, E., & L. O. Mendonça, R. M. (2021). Community-led design capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. In Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021 (2165-2181)

COVID-19 threats have been impacting disadvantaged communities even harder. This paper looks into challenge areas and community responses to those in Brazilian informal settlements during the COVID-19 pandemic. These were identified through online ro... Read More about Community-led design capabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

“Where’s the dead sheep?” Making virtual landscapes real (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Houghton, J. J., University of Leeds, Gordon, C. E., Robinson, A., Craven, B., Morgan, D. J., & Lloyd, G. E. (2017). “Where’s the dead sheep?” Making virtual landscapes real. . https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-301334

We are using screen-based virtual reality landscapes, created using the Unity 3D game engine, to enhance the training geoscience students receive in preparation for fieldwork. This presentation focuses on how we have tried to create realistic, engagi... Read More about “Where’s the dead sheep?” Making virtual landscapes real.

Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor, N., Hurley, U., & Connolly, P. (2016). Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life. In Proceedings of CHI 2016 (Human-Computer Interaction conference) (1415-1425). https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858073

Makerspaces—public workshops where makers can share tools and knowledge—are a growing resource for amateurs and professionals alike. While the role of makerspaces in innovation and peer learning is widely discussed, we attempt to look at the wider ro... Read More about Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life.

Newsroom 3.1: An editorial system for newspapers to thrive in the digital age?
Conference Proceeding
Broster, P. (2015). Newsroom 3.1: An editorial system for newspapers to thrive in the digital age?.

This paper provides a case study examining the introduction and development of a newsroom model (Newsroom 3.1), established at the Manchester Evening News in September 2014. It aims to establish the key differences between the previous model, aligne... Read More about Newsroom 3.1: An editorial system for newspapers to thrive in the digital age?.