New year, new Design Informatics website!
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our brand-new website! For many years now, as the Institute for Design Informatics (IDI) has been growing and evolving, we have been planning to renew our online presence.
Launching the new website has come with the opportunity to re-envision how we present ourselves, our research, our teaching and our multitude of engagement activities, including our Inspace events.
Our Research section is now organised in seven Research Groups. These groups collectively convey the different topics and themes that we are focusing our research on, with each group bringing together collectives of academics, post-docs, PhD students and visiting researchers who are collaborating on multiple live projects. We also used this as an opportunity to update the new website with over 100 new projects that had not been added to the old website, with all the intentions to keep this new site up to date as new projects come on stream! You can see our projects by visiting the individual research groups, or by looking at our Project Archive (take a deep breath for this one though, we have a lot of projects..).
The Study section showcases and introduces our Masters Programmes (MA and MSc) and our PhD opportunities. In recent years, the number of PhD students affiliated with IDI and working and collaborating with IDI members has grown significantly. This is also reflected in our new website, together with our new UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training on Designing Responsible NLP. With a reserved section on student-relevant news, we are also trying to provide a touchpoint for current and prospective IDI students.
We also used the launch of the new site to tell the Story of Design Informatics over the last decade or more. We recount how it started as a small research group that formed a Centre (larger than a group!) and more recently an Institute (even larger than a Centre!). We also reflect on the impact of colleagues who were critical to establishing Design Informatics, as well as our physical relocation to the Bayes Centre and our stewardship of Inspace. Inspace now plays a central role in our public engagement and collaborative work with creative practitioners and artists and as you explore the new site you may notice that we have also refreshed the Inspace brand as part of updating of our vision for the space and the work it enables.
The new website is an ongoing activity – with new projects, profiles and Master’s programme related news to follow soon. However, we are very pleased to reach the moment where we can make this new site live.
So then … please take a look around the site! Explore who is affiliated with us. Take a look at our Research and our Specialist Areas of Expertise. Suggest our Master’s to a friend. Read some AI generated summaries of our Research Outputs. Look at our Story. Oh, and let us know if you encounter any problems by completing this form!
Finally, getting the new site online and adding the hundreds of pages of new content has been a huge and, at times, very time-consuming project. We must thank Emma Pirie and Sabrina Carter for all their efforts in making this happen, and to Evan Morgan – our eternally patient institute research software engineer – for all the technical and infrastructure work in the background.
