Professor Paul Coulton
Professor of Speculative and Game DesignResearch Overview
Paul is the Chair of Speculative and Game Design within Imagination and the School of Design. His practice uses research through design to create experiential futures which deliberately mix a present experience with a speculative future that are concretised by combining immersive scenarios with artefacts produced as design fictions or speculative designs. His work has helped establish a particular form of Speculative Design; Design Fiction, as a research method exploring futures for areas such as the Internet of Things and Artificial intelligence. His current research focusses on more-than-human design to expand design approaches so that they play greater consideration to human and non-human actants within the complex assemblages in which new product and services exist particularly in relation to sustainability and climate change.
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Speculative Design, Critical Design, Design Fiction, Design Futures, Design as Rhetoric, Game Design
01/11/2023 → 01/04/2024
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01/04/2023 → 30/06/2024
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01/08/2022 → 31/03/2025
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01/04/2022 → 28/02/2023
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12/04/2021 → 31/03/2022
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01/11/2020 → 23/01/2025
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01/02/2020 → 30/06/2020
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01/09/2019 → 30/09/2023
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01/08/2019 → 01/05/2021
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01/01/2019 → 29/10/2019
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01/11/2018 → 30/04/2019
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05/02/2018 → 04/08/2018
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28/02/2016 → 31/08/2019
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01/02/2016 → 31/03/2018
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01/10/2013 → 31/03/2016
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01/05/2013 → 31/01/2017
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29/04/2013 → 31/12/2014
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09/01/2012 → 30/06/2017
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01/11/2011 → 30/04/2015
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01/01/2007 → 31/12/2009
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Imagination Lancaster
MSF PhDs Cohort 2 (2019/20)
Materials Science Institute PhD Student, MSF PhDs Cohort 2 (2019/20)
- Imagination Lancaster
- More than Human
- School of Design