Research through Design Workshop: Exploring productive ambiguity in sensing and measurement

The workshop will first present participants with the opportunity to briefly introduce and reflect on the role measurement and sensing play (or might play) in their own research. This round of introductions will be followed by a presentation of the Interaction Research Studio's (https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/irs/) approach to Research through Design. Building on these presentations, participants will join an open discussion to identify shared interests and possibilities for collaboration.

The second half of the workshop will be devoted to an ideation session based on the Studio's methods. Using weather(-health) scenarios as a working example, small groups will use hands-on methods to imagine future scenarios and develop proposals for speculative design artefacts.

Overall, the workshop will share the Studio's design-led methodology and allow participants to learn, practise, and experiment with new research methods.

The workshop is funded by Flourish@Durham (Faculty of Social Sciences) and organised through shared interests between the Department of Geography and the Institute for Medical Humanities (Weather, Climate and Health research theme; Measurement lab).

To apply, please give a brief pitch via Microsoft Form as to how measurement and sensing feature in your work by Friday 24 April. We particularly welcome applications from PhD students and early career researchers.

Workshop leads:
William Gaver (Northumbria)
Liliana Ovalle Piedra (Northumbria)
Maximilian Hepach (Durham)