Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake secure funding to study human-interaction with generative AI

Creativity AI

Professor Daniela Petrelli (ADMRC) and Nick Dulake (Design Futures) have secured EU funding to study human-interaction with generative AI. They will work with AI researchers in Munich to develop a new interactive installation for the Deutches Museum. Petrelli and Dulake have secured funding from the EU Humaine AU Net to explore generative AI and human creativity. Generative AI creates text, […]

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Design Futures shortlisted in two categories for the UK Packaging Awards 2023

Photo shows a pink cardboard box. The closing flap of the box has the appearance of a pig's nose. To the left of the box are 3 Trupic vegan chocolate bars. The packaging is printed with the words 'Keep Trufflin'"

Design Futures has been shortlisted once again for UK Packaging Awards. This year, they are shortlisted for the ‘Design Team of the Year’ Performance Award. They have also been nominated for their innovative packaging design for local chocolate company Trupig Vegan in the ‘Corrugated: Online Retail and Consumer Goods’ Quality Award category. Speaking about the design for Trupig, Design Futures […]

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Design Council features David Swann and Kieran McDonald’s Decarbonised Double-Diamond model

Decarbonised Double Diamond model developed by David Swann & Kieran McDonald

The Decarbonised Double-Diamond model, developed by David Swann and Kieran McDonald, was recently selected, credited and featured in a Design Council YouTube short celebrating 20-years of the Double Diamond. The Double Diamond is a visual representation of the design and innovation process popularised by the Design Council. The modified Double-Diamond was an outcome of an AHRC-funded project aiming to develop a […]

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CCRI Seminar Series – ‘Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School’ with Layla Gharib (CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design)

Banner image for CCRI seminar featuring CCRI logo, Workshop Image III - CCRI PhD Candidate in ADMRC/Art & Design - Layla Gharib - and Layla Gharib - Courtesy of Layla Gharib

Please join us on Wednesday 17 May between 1300-1400 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design Layla Gharib. Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School This talk will explore speculative workshopping as a world-building research method […]

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Design For Health Vol 7 issue 1, April 2023

Design For Health Vol 7 issue 1

Pull together In his editorial, Pull Together, Paul Atkinson reflects on recent humanitarian disasters, crises, conflict and economic recession, and notes how people from a wide range of backgrounds and different walks of life are coming together to try and help. He believes this shows there is potential for design for healthcare practitioners and researchers to work with others to make […]

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‘Usability and Innovation: The Key Role of Research for Business’ – Professor Daniela Petrelli talks at conference at Università Iuav di Venezia

Università Iuav di Venezia – Dipartimento di Culture del progetto Usability and Innovation: The Key Role of Research for Business Conference, taking place 18 April 2023, Cotonificio aula Gradoni, 1430. Marco Zamarato, Google Research Center Hugo Gamboa, NOVA University of Lisbon Benjamin van Buren, The New School University of New York Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield Hallam University Oliver Siy, Google Research […]

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Bio-Hacking as Design Practice pop-up exhibition

Bio-Hacking as design practice

A pop-up exhibition in the White Building on Thur 9 Mar 2023  Mon 13 Mar 2023 presents the work of Sheffield Hallam University MA Design students working with Lab4Living researchers on the theme of BioHacking. It invites visitors on a speculative journey about the human’s future, challenging us to rethink and reinvent the interplay between humans, nature and technology. The […]

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CCRI Seminar Series – ‘How clinical practice, ergonomics, engineering and design methods have interacted in the development of a dysphagia tool, influenced its function and design and aided its development into a commercial reality’ with Professor Alaster Yoxall (ADMRC)

Seminar banner - Picture of Alaster Yoxall, ADMRC logo and picture of woman with fluid thickness tool - courtesy of Professor Alaster Yoxall

Please join us on Wednesday 08 March 2023 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from the ADMRC‘s Professor Alaster Yoxall. How clinical practice, ergonomics, engineering and design methods have interacted in the development of a dysphagia tool, influenced its function and design and aided its development […]

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About Home: pop-up exhibition by PhD students Marney Walker and Jackie Leaver

About Home exhibition banner

Lab4Living postgraduate students Marney Walker and Jackie Leaver present work in progress from their ongoing PhD design projects at a pop-up exhibition in Sheffield City Centre next week. Marney and Jackie will be sharing some of their research findings, and there will be a chance for visitors to interact with objects found in the house and reflect on their own […]

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