Latest Past Events

DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 7 – Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective 

Dr Laura Malinin is Inaugural Director of Nancy Richardson Design Center and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design of Colorado State University. In this presentation, she describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people in co-design processes to improve inclusion and engagement in community programming. The first case involved […]

DoWell Co-Design Lectures Series 2024-2025: Session 6 – The Gallery, Material and Wellbeing

Dr Lynn Setterington and Dr Dena Bagi, DoWell, Manchester Metropolitan University, discuss their gallery-based practices, which aim to improve/maintain the wellbeing of those involved in working with craft materials.  The pair, who practice as an artist-academic and pedagogical designer in the gallery context, will explore material-based engagement methods used in the gallery context. They will […]

DoWell Co-design Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 5 – Designing for children with brain conditions from client initiation to manufacture stages

Designing for children with brain conditions from client initiation to manufacture stages Wednesday 30 April 2025, 3.30-5pm, Online Session Dr Ross Head, University of Wales and Cerebra Innovation Centre, UK Dr Ross Head, is the Design manager for Cerebra Innovation Centre, and is responsible for leading an innovative team of product designers to create beautiful, functional, bespoke […]