Innovative Design Lab

Vision

Our vision is for increasing the value of design whilst reducing costs, enabling the society to benefit from high quality environments and products that are supportive of users needs and activities. This vision will be achieved through scholarly research and industrial engagement. More specifically, the potential of design innovation, collaboration, co-design and lean strategies to improve design and production processes and products will be examined.

Objectives

• To advance theory and methods of design and of cognate areas
• To undertake solution-driven research with a global reach, addressing current challenges and enabling ideas to flow across disciplinary boundaries
• To produce outcome driven, internationally leading research outputs of relevance, impact and rigour
• To become an external relations centre for strategic partnership building, developing networks for collaboration in research and teaching, sharing expertise nationally and internationally

Contact

Please get in contact with us if you have any questions about our research or undertaking postgraduate research in the School of Arts and Humanities.

Head of Department (Design and the Built Environment) Professor Patricia Tzortzopoulos: P.Tzortzopoulos@hud.ac.uk

For further information on how to apply for research degrees or to check the progress of a current application please contact our Research Manager, Emma Bowden: E.Bowden@hud.ac.uk