Design and The Importance of Imaginaries | Dan Lockton | TEDxUniversityofPittsburgh

Описание: Dan Lockton is Chair of Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Design, and leads the Imaginaries Lab, a new research/teaching platform. His research centers on questions of how the design of the systems around us interacts with our understanding of the world, and how to develop new ways to understand, and ultimately new ways to live, as part of a transition to more sustainable societies, socially and ecologically. Current research topics include developing design tools to work with new metaphors, qualitative and analog interface design, investigating mental models of local government, and ambient sonification of energy data. Dan joined CMU in 2016 from the Royal College of Art, London, where he worked from 2013–16, as a researcher and tutor at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design and the Innovation Design Engineering program. Dan’s earlier research, including his PhD at Brunel University London, focused on exploring design for behavior change, applied through roles in sustainability-related research projects including a collaboration with the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, and SusLabNWE, a European Living Lab project. Dan has an MPhil in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Industrial Design Engineering from Brunel. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx