Thanks for visiting my website

Posted on 2nd March, 2011 by Simon

Following a career in media technology I now divide my time between design research and photography.

My design work focuses on methods of human-centred innovation and the application of design thinking and methods in healthcare. There is more on the latter on the website of User-centred Healthcare Design, where I principally work. Also see the research section of this site for the innovation material and a list of publications.

I am also a published photographer and my work includes landscape, architecture and travel. See the photography section of this site for a selected portfolio, galleries and information on picture sales.

Finally, I’m a bit of a rubbish blogger, but I occasionally post the odd piece of news or share some idle musings below.

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Online discussion on Critical Design

Posted on 2nd September, 2011 by Simon

I’ve been invited to participate in a live discussion on the Design Research Network website entitled Before and After Critical Design. For more information and to contribute to the discussion, see their website.

I contributed a session topic on Critical Design outside The Gallery.

Before and After Critical Design, flyer

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Journal Article on Digital Mementos

Posted on 10th March, 2011 by Simon

I’ve had an article published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies on the work I did on digital mementos during my PhD. It’s part of a special issue on designing for reflection on personal experience and describes the work I did with my colleague Daniela Petrelli (who is the second author) where I used critical artefact methods to design ideas for the digital equivalent of mementos with groups of would-be users. See my publications page for bibliographic details and a link to download the paper from ScienceDirect.

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Presentation at 2010 CLAHRC Knowledge Exchange Event

Posted on 4th February, 2011 by Simon

Mark Cobb and I from User-centred Healthcare Design presented on “Co-designing Better Health” at this event in October 2010. The video is now available online through vimeo.

Dr Simon Bowen & Rev Mark Cobb, User-Centred Healthcare Design, Knowledge Exchange Event, Oct 2010 from CLAHRC SY Core Team on Vimeo.

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A to Z lecture, slides and interview

Posted on 15th February, 2010 by Simon

I gave a guest lecture on my use of critical artefacts for participatory innovation in Belgium last week. The nice people at Social Spaces have kindly made the slides available online and there is a short teaser interview with me available online through YouTube.

Thanks to everyone in Hasselt for making me feel so welcome, especially Liesbeth Huybrechts and Helena Bijnens.

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