Joseph Lindley
Senior Research FellowResearch Overview
I run Design Research Works, this is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship which aims to understand, gather evidence about, and promote leadership for Design Research. I'm particularly interested in the role that Design Research plays in understanding rapidly-changing relatonships between individuals, society, and technology.
PhD Supervision Interests
Through my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship my Design Research Works group participates in a wide range of research projects. My work has three main themes 1. Show the world what it can gain from Design Research. 2. Use innovative Design methods to conduct groundbreaking research exploring the impact of Artificial Intelligence. 3. Drive forward More Than Human Design helping to understand how to design a better future. Some recent projects include: - Ryelands AI Lab, where we are pioneering AI education in a primary school. - Permission to Muck About, a feature length documentary film including interviews with some of the world's leading design researchers. - Shadowplay, an immersive installation and collaboration platform using physical movement as a way of controlling generative AI - Seeing with Sound, using computer games to understand how to enhance accessibility for the visually impaired. - Fixing the Future, a multi-institution project exploring the right to repair and smart devices. - Responsible AI Licensing, an international group working to create licences to support open source but responsible sharing of AI innovations. I aspire to offer affiliative and democratic leadership to both my team and my field. My vision is to promote the value of design research, particularly focusing on how it can be used to help technology make the world a better place. I am an open collaborator and am always willing to share what I know and why I'm interested in it. If you would like to discuss how we can work together or find out about any of the initiatives I am involved with, then please reach out to me.
Selected Publications
The Ultimate Measure of Success for Speculative Design is to Disappear Completely
Lindley, J., Green, D. 14/04/2022 In: Interaction Design and Architecture(s). 51, p. 32-51. 20 p.
Journal article
Communicating the Value of Design Research
Lindley, J., Mason, Z., Green, D.P., Sturdee, M., Berger, A., Coulton, C., Dore, M. 3/07/2022
Conference contribution/Paper
More-Than Human Centred Design: Considering Other Things
Coulton, P., Lindley, J.G. 4/07/2019 In: The Design Journal. 22, 4, p. 463-481 . 19 p.
Journal article
Design fiction as world building
Coulton, P., Lindley, J.G., Sturdee, M., Stead, M. 23/03/2017
Conference contribution/Paper
Design Research and Object-Oriented Ontology
Lindley, J., Akmal, H., Coulton, P. 24/01/2020 In: Open Philosophy. 3, 1, p. 11-41. 31 p.
Journal article
Researching AI Legibility Through Design
Lindley, J., Akmal, H.A., Pilling, F., Coulton, P. 25/04/2020
Conference contribution/Paper
All Publications
FLF: The Next Generation: Design Research for the 21st Century (renewal)
24/01/2025 → 23/01/2028
Research
Supporting ‘Good’ Adoption of Generative AI
13/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
Research
Shadowplay
15/11/2023 → 20/11/2025
Research
Exploring Generative AI with Primary School Children
01/09/2022 → …
Research
E3: Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT
01/08/2022 → 31/03/2025
Research
RBOC N+ - Resilience Beyond Observed Capability
21/03/2022 → 20/03/2025
Research
Co-designing audio games with the blind and partially sighted community
18/02/2022 → 17/06/2022
Research
Trust Me? (I’m an Autonomous Machine)
12/04/2021 → 31/03/2022
Research
FLF: The Next Generations: Design Research in the 21st Century
01/11/2020 → 23/01/2025
Research
E3: AHRC Design Fellowships: Challenges of the Future 2020
01/02/2020 → 30/06/2020
Research
PETRAS 2 - Uncanny AI (UncanAI)
01/08/2019 → 01/05/2021
Research
Augmented Humanity: Does the Human Enhance the Machine or the Machine Enhance the Human?
01/01/2019 → 29/10/2019
Research
Cyber Security of the Internet of things
28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
Research
Design Fiction: The Movie Joe Lindley
01/02/2016 → 31/03/2018
Research
Exploring Generative AI for performance with Klanghaus
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Light Up Lancaster 2024
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Regenerative Design, AI, and More-Than-Human Agents
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Design, Knowledge, and the Future… and Permission to Muck About
Invited talk
New ways of knowing
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Design, Fiction, and Permission to Muck About
Invited talk
Re-Imagining Design Pedagogy
Invited talk
DRS 2024 BOSTON
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Gender, culture, identity, and well-being in the digital age
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Department for Education Roundtable on AI and Digital
Government
Policy Roundtable for AI
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Acquiring and losing knowledge
Invited talk
AI Music and Early Onset dementia Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Cheshire East Chamber of Commerce AI for Small Businesses
Other
Imagination Now & Next at the Festival of Futures
Symposium
The future is a work in progress Exhibition at the Festival of Futures
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Imagination Now & Next at the Festival of Futures
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
AI Summit North West
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
AI Futures
Symposium
Designing an Atlas of RtD
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Designing an Atlas of RtD
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Designing an Atlas of Rtd
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Research through Design Jamboree 2022
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
TAS All Hands Meeting Exhibition 2022
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
DRS 2022 Bilbao
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
More-than-Human: A creative fuel, or short-term fad for design?
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Seeing with sound: play test and co-design workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Mozfest
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Introduction to Design Fiction as World Building
Invited talk
Design Research: The Revolution will (sort of) be Televised
Invited talk
Design…. Research…. AI-ght?
Invited talk
Not-Equal Summer School Social Justice and the Digital Economy
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Flourishing in Organisations: Why the Ultimate Success for Design Research is to Disappear
Invited talk
Human-Data Interaction through Design
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Consequences, Schmonsequences! Considering the Future as Part of Publication and Peer Review in Computing Research
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
more-than-human centred design: ghosts in the machine
Invited talk
The ESRC Festival of Social Science
Festival/Exhibition/Concert
Definitional Dualism of AI and the Dangerof ‘Responsibility by Design’
Invited talk
Machine Learning and place-making 2020
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Uncanny AI Iconography Workshop
Other
Creative Visions: Seeing Through Digital Eyes
Invited talk
Never Alone: Living With the Internet of Things
Invited talk
TIPS by Design – Building a Community of UK TIPS Researchers – 2018
Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Vice Chancellors Prize for Participatory Research: Co-designing audio games with the blind and partially sighted community
Prize (including medals and awards)
Inspire Award
Prize (including medals and awards)
Best paper award for: Responding to Generative AI Technologies with Research-through-Design: The Ryelands AI Lab as an Exploratory Study
Other distinction
- Evaluation
- Imagination Lancaster
- More than Human
- School of Design
- Security Lancaster
- Security Lancaster (Sociology)