Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying – Why “Design for Death” is Tricky?

This chapter will try to address the gap in knowledge of how ‘design’, which is about pragmatic arrangements that can be envisioned and created, can be a space that can facilitate autonomy for end-of-life and assisted dying decisions in the context of ‘sanctity of life’ discourses. Of course, legally binding advanced health care directives (to refuse treatment) are not per se ‘assisted dying’, even if it is an end-of-life decision that is legal in the UK. It is also one that can leave some individuals with no other choice, when medical treatment is stopped, than to starve to death

Innovate Inside: Towards Creative Prison Industries

Innovate Inside: Towards Creative Prison Industries is a pilot project and a six day co-creation workshop named “Design Thinking for Creative Prison Industries” which was conducted at Sabarmati Central Prison, Ahmedabad, with a group of 20-30 inmates and a Design Team from the National Institute of Design (NID). This was part of a collaborative research project between NID and the Design Against Crime Research Centre (DACRC), Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). This publication gives a glimpse of the workshop conducted, its experience and learnings whilst providing some information about Design Against Crime and the development of inmate resilience

Open Design and Manufacturing: UAL Overview

A report on UAL research and KE activity as part of the Open Design and Manufacturing Knowledge Alliance between HEIs, Makers and Manufacturers to boost Open Design & Manufacturing in Europe 2017-2020