Conference
[Design – Creative Practice – Research]3
Celebrating AHRC-funded Centres for Doctoral Training
The legacy event celebrates the work of three Centres for Doctoral Training: LDoc, Design Star and 3D3.
The London Doctoral Design Centre (LDoc) is a collaboration between the Royal College of Art, Kingston University, the University of the Arts London and industry partners aimed at promoting and supporting world-class design research, study and knowledge exchange.
Design Star is a collaboration between Loughborough University, The Open University, University of Reading, University of Brighton and Goldsmiths, University of London and aims to develop research leaders of the future who are equipped to make a difference to contemporary social concerns, knowledge production and creative practices.
The 3D3 Centre for Doctoral Training is a collaboration between Falmouth University, University of Plymouth and the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE Bristol). Its aim is to train a new generation of interdisciplinary practitioner-researchers.
These three CDTs have offered a concentration of high-level skills and expertise in creative, critical and ethical thinking to prepare graduates, from creative and cultural industries, for the wider professional world.
Included throughout the event, will be keynote speeches and presentations from researchers whose pioneering and visionary practices have determined future research agendas and engaged with urgent areas of enquiry including notions of authenticity, biodesign, co-design, critical design, data-driven design, design Innovation, ethics, ethnography, gender and material futures, socially responsive and inclusive design, sustainability, technology, UX/UI, wellbeing, amongst others.
Over the cycle of funding to date, LDoc, Design Star and 3D3 have proved to be an arena for exploration, enabling failure and success, as well as being a space for social innovation where design and creative practice researchers can stand for their values.
We would like to invite you to celebrate with the creative community some of the outcomes of these talented students, as we look forward to their future developments and the contribution they have made to creative research.
