Responsible Design Innovation Research Group
Description
The Northumbria University Responsible Design Innovation research group is a multidisciplinary education, research and knowledge-exchange community of practice dedicated to making a positive difference in the world, by design.
The group mission is to unleash the creative power of disciplinary collaboration with the help of design thinking and practice to drive research, generate ideas, demonstrate possibilities and shape a better future whilst foregrounding a positive social conscience about potential implications and consequences of change. The group acts as a hub for interdisciplinary collaboration across the university and with regional, national and global partners spanning sectors and scales.
Members engage researchers, learners and external partners together in design-facilitated, practice-based research that addresses complex matters of concern through design-led Responsible Innovation practices. They describe this process as ‘integrated academic practice’. By this approach, group researchers contribute to a wider agenda where research that delivers social and/or economic impact is highly valued whilst simultaneously delivering high-quality, relevant and authentic learning.
The group works with external partners on three key fronts which are defined as the ‘value frames’ of the group’s delivery:
- to co-create their responsible enterprise strategy
- to liberate organisational creativity;
- to capitalise on creative opportunities that leverage positive strategic change.
As the group moves forwards, its cross-cutting Responsible Innovation approach is focussed on three themes: Design for Social Justice, Design for Behaviour Change, and Design for Enterprise Innovation.
Offers funding
No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
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E1 7HT
United Kingdom
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Northumbria University
London
Last modified:
2023-09-20 13:55:33