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Dan Lockton | Designer / engineer / researcher
dan@danlockton.co.uk | www.danlockton.co.uk
My aim is to leave the world in a better state than I found it, using expertise from different fields to help create an intelligent, sustainable, worthwhile future.
EDUCATION
Brunel University
PhD Design for Sustainable Behaviour, 2007–present
Brunel Design / Cleaner Electronics Research Group / School of Engineering & Design, Uxbridge, Middlesex
Investigating design techniques for shaping users’ behaviour to improve environmental performance of energy-using consumer products, but also with intended wider applicability in interaction design, system design and ecological psychology. More…
University of Cambridge, Downing College
MPhil Technology Policy, 2004–05
Cambridge-MIT Institute / Taught by Judge Institute of Management, Department of Engineering & Institute for Manufacturing
Examiners’ Letter of Commendation. Innovation management and policy strategy; focus on sustainable energy and environmental technology policy, entrepreneurship, digital rights, intellectual property and new product development.
Brunel University
BSc (Hons) Industrial Design Engineering, 2000–04
Department of Design, Runnymede, Surrey
First Class honours. Intensely multidisciplinary course including workshop programme, manufacturing, materials science, analogue and digital electronics, dynamics, FEA, CAD/CAM systems, graphics and marketing.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance product design and R&D, 2004–present
Clients including Sinclair Research, Tangerine, Mayhem UK and a number of other companies and individual entrepreneurs. Variety of work including design and prototyping of radical future vehicles for Sinclair Research (ongoing), corporate identity strategy and smartphone market segmentation for Tangerine’s Korean and Chinese clients, mechanical design of pharmaceutical packaging equipment, concepts for novelty toothpaste caps, prototyping radio-controlled watercraft and setting up collaborative blogs for other designers.
Freelance writer, 2003–present
Writing mainly on design/technology/innovation, transport design and the motor industry, including 40 commissioned articles for Inventor Resource (2007) and Rebel Without Applause (2003), a comprehensive history of the Reliant Motor Company.
Daka Research (UK) / Sinclair Research, Industrial design engineer, 2002–03
Lightweight transport design. Development of A-Bike, electric vehicles & wheelchair accessories for international markets, including FEA, solid modelling, concept generation and testing, prototyping, competitor analysis, technical investigation, literature production and customer-facing rôles at trade shows.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Brunel University, Part-time demonstrator, 2007–present
Assistance and assessment for Analogue Electronics labs and Environmentally Sensitive Design projects.
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS & AWARDS
Articles
Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. ‘Making the user more efficient: Design for sustainable behaviour’.
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering Vol.1 No. 1, pp. 3-8, March 2008 (preprint version here)
Lockton, D. ‘J.G. Ballard and Architectures of Control’. Lead story for Ballardian.com, January 2008
Lockton, D. ‘Not Purrfect: The Reliant Kitten’. Original Tin magazine, September 2006
Lockton, D. ‘Double-edged sword: The Reliant Scimitar SS1’. Article for Austin-Rover Online, May 2006
Lockton, D. ‘Architectures of Control in product design’. Engineering Designer, March/April 2006 (PDF here)
Plus a major series of articles for InventorResource.co.uk and contributions to the TAXI Design Network and Gown magazine
Books & book chapter
Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. ‘Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a wider context’ in H. Oinas-Kukkonen et al. (Eds.): Persuasive 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5033, pp. 274-278, Berlin: Springer 2008 (preprint version here)
(ISBN 978-3-540-68500-5)
Weightman, C., Lockton, D., Hanson, J.E. et al (Eds.): Good Thinking: Brunel Design 04, Runnymede: Brunel University 2004
(ISBN 1-902316-41-X)
Lockton, D. Rebel Without Applause: The Reliant Company from Inception to Zenith, Minster Lovell: Bookmarque 2003
(ISBN 1-870519-64-7)
Conference presentations
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, July 2008. Presentation: ‘Design with Intent: behaviour-shaping through design’
Persuasive 2008: The Third International Conference on Persuasive Technology. Oulu, Finland, June 2008. Presentation: ‘Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a wider context’
Patent application
‘Backup light for standard lamp fitting’. Filed 14 June 2006, publication number GB2435319
Awards
2008 Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Prize to attend Persuasive 2008 (Brunel University Graduate School)
2007 Ormsby Trust Design PhD Studentship (Brunel University)
2007 Oxford Creativity Assistive Technology/TRIZ Competition, prize-winner for auxetic compression bandage concept
2006 Bosch Technology Horizons Award (Royal Academy of Engineering / Independent), runner-up in writing competition
2006 Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award (Brunel University / Ideas21), winner in Engineering category for Incluminate backup lighting system
2005 Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Award, winner for Wheelchair Drive project
2004 Motion Drives & Controls Award for Engineering in Product Design, winner for Wheelchair Drive project, Brunel University
2000 CIMA / Procter & Gamble Business Management Team Competition, schools’ winner, Exeter School
1999 Young Enterprise South-West / Institute of Directors Award for team entrepreneurship, Exeter School
1998 Arkwright Trust A-level Design & Technology Scholarship, Exeter School
SOME PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Architectures of Control / Design with Intent, Blog, 2005–present
How do people use products, systems and environments? How can designers influence interaction? With over 300 posts investigating aspects of ‘Design with Intent’ and hundreds of comments from readers around the world, the blog has attracted significant interest, with mention in the Guardian and regular syndication by Reuters (via BlogBurst).
- International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, submission reviewer, July 2008–present
- Research seminar ‘Using design to shape behaviour’ given at Brunel University, May 2008
- Oxford Creativity-certified ‘TRIZ Tyro’, 2007
- Cambridge-MIT Institute, 2005: Rapid design and compilation of a graduate directory to support promotion of the Institute’s international master’s programmes
- Presentation on ‘Mergers and acquisitions in the British motor industry’ given to 4th year MEng students at Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, 2005
- Management of Technology & Innovation team consulting project with Cambridge Frequency Standards, 2005: market research & IP strategy for a development in optical frequency standards
- Student representative for MPhil Technology Policy, University of Cambridge, 2004-5 and for all BSc finalists in department at Brunel, 2003-4; Brunel representative on the Institution of Engineering Designers’ course accreditation panel, 2002
- Member of organising team for ‘Good Thinking’, the Brunel Design Show 2004: coordination, directory editor, website editor, publicity & marketing director
- Represented Sinclair Research at REHAcare International Disability Product Exhibition, Düsseldorf, 2002
- Featured on BBC’s The Car’s The Star in 1996 as a young Reliant enthusiast
