ImaginationLancaster is an open and exploratory design research lab that investigates emerging issues, technologies and practices to advance knowledge and develop solutions that contribute to the common good. It conduct applied and theoretical research into products, places and systems – using innovative strategies that combine traditional science and social science methods with the practice-based methods arising from the arts.
STAFF RESEARCH INTERESTS Dr Pragya Agarwal (Design): User-centred design, space
and place, spatial semantics and ontologies, socially- relevant design, ubiquitous and ambient design, future cities, navigation and movement, mapping and GIS.
Professor Elaine Aston (Theatre Studies): Contemporary plays and performances by women; gender theory and performance; feminist theatre practices; representations of women in 19th-century theatre; performance analysis.
Dr Bruce Bennett (Film): Film theory, Georges Bataille, James Cameron, economics of film production, Hollywood cinema, blockbusters, science fiction cinema, early cinema, recent Chinese and Japanese Cinema
Gary Bettinson (Film): Film aesthetics, Hong Kong cinema and Asian filmmaking, American independent and mainstream cinema. Dr Neil Boynton (Music): Composition, video, interactive systems and new media; 20th-century music and theory, especially the works of Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.
Professor Rachel Cooper (Design): Design management and policy; new product development; design in the built environment; urban regeneration, socially-responsible design, and design against crime.
Dr Leon Cruickshank (Design): Innovation and design engagement, going beyond participatory design, especially in the emergence of the citizen designer, democratized innovation and mass creativity; developing new processes and methods for designers to facilitate citizen led applications of design thinking and methods.
Gerry Davies (Art): Contemporary drawing practice; political and environmental Diasporas; the city and situationist drawing, contemporary British artists’ sketchbooks.
Martyn Evans (Design): Design thinking; design-led futures; design management; design strategy; design and branding; product design and development; scenario planning; trend forecasting; practice-based design research; product semantics
Frank Dawes (Enterprise): Entrepreneurship education for the creative industries; creative leadership learning and development; business support for the creative industries.
Matt Fenton (Theatre Studies): Media in performance, performance writing, site-sensitive performance, arts management, venue programming, cultural policy, directing.
Dr Alan Marsden
Alan Marsden completed a PhD on psychological approaches to music analysis at Cambridge University, and has since pursued research involving computers and music. He is editor of the Journal of New Music Research. With the support of an AHRC research-leave award he recently completed the first software to successfully make Schenkerian analyses by computer. He and Andrew Quick (Theatre) are in receipt of an AHRC grant to establish a Digital Arts Innovation laboratory in the new LICA building.
“This is an exciting time for Music research. New technologies enable us to examine questions in music theory and musicology with high precision and open minds, and allow listeners to encounter music in novel ways. In my own work I seek to found music theory on a rigorously tested basis, not only as an intellectual exercise, but also to allow the creation of new and intelligent computer-music tools. These will allow students to learn more effectively, listeners to engage with music in depth, and composers to work with musical materials in novel ways. Boundaries are falling all around: between ‘classical’ and ‘popular’, between history, analysis and aesthetics, and between creative work and scholarship.”
John Fox (Theatre Studies): Installations, celebratory events, ceremonies for contemporary rites of passage; performance and perception in an ecological context; vernacular art; woodcuts, collagraphs, drawing, enamelling and whirligigs.
Dr Nick Gebhardt (Music): Jazz, American popular music, ideology and the state.
Dr Charlie Gere (Art): The cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to art and philosophy.
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