Design Informatics Research Seminar Series is Back!

We are delighted to announce our upcoming research seminars, open to anyone, and taking place at the Institute for Design Informatics and kicking off this Winter/Spring.

Most will take place in Inspace, Design Informatics public facing venue, but there will be some changes, so please check individual event venue details closer to the time. Details of the seminars will be released on this website the week before the event. So do check back regularly for speaker updates.  

Seminars usually feature works-in-progress or new projects exploring design, data and technology from different perspectives. We encourage speakers to share new methods and techniques that use data in design/creative processes in innovative ways, and/or look at the agency, autonomy and power of data in how we design systems and experience the world. 

This series seeks to bring together local, national and international research community members, creating an open environment for anyone to get involved in current research discussion and debate. 

We are delighted to announce Michelle WesterlakenImpact Fellow at the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium and our first Speaker to kick of things off next month. This series will take place February – May 2025, more speakers to be announced soon. 

 

We look forward to seeing you there! 

Seminar Speakers

Michelle Westerlaken  [remote speaker] 

Impact Fellow at the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium 

Talk Title: Vital Biodiversity Systems: Reconnecting Ecological Relations within Digital Data Technologies 

Date: Thurs 5 Feb, 2026  

Time: 16:00-17:00  

Location: Inspace, 1 Crichton St, EH8 9AB