Shaping societal transitions through design
Design is all around us. It is about product design, systemic approaches, AI-driven methods, design culture, and much more. The nature and influence of design in our society has broadened considerably over recent years.
As design researchers we aim to grow the understanding of how design can be used to play a distinctive role in approaching increasingly complex challenges and societal transitions. As design researchers we aim to grow the understanding of how design can be used to play a distinctive role in approaching increasingly complex challenges and societal transitions. We also explore the transformative potential of novel technology-driven approaches to industrial design engineering research.
We focus on four main themes - AI, Health, Mobility, and Sustainability; and our faculty is organised into three departments - Design, Organisation and Strategy (DOS), Human-Centered Design (HCD), and Sustainable Design Engineering (SDE).
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Our research is clustered into four societal themes.
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