Welcome to INCLUDE+, a network dedicated to exploring and fostering social and digital environments where everyone can thrive. From 2022 to 2027, this five-year program aims to build a robust knowledge community addressing inequalities in digital society.
ABOUT IN+ NETWORK
IN+ ART Iterations explores digital equity and the implications of INCLUDE+ Principles. Our initiative seeks to co-examine what digital equity means for artists and the communities they engage with.
MEET OUR IN+ART COMMUNITY
Our research and community practice spans algorithmic social justice, responsible and inclusive digital innovation, digital civics, and health. We strive to understand how wellbeing, precarity, and civic culture interplay with broader structural inequalities and how these are experienced and navigated by various communities.
HORIZON SCANNING OUTCOMESIN+ Network News
Living labs: meeting in the gaps
Exploring the value of living labs as a meeting point for people and organisations, while challenging the idealisation of living labs as a neutral space.
Containing the impact of living labs
Are living labs a useful apparatus for continuing the legacy of the INCLUDE+ network following the project’s conclusion in five years’ time? In this post, my aim is to show how a living lab’s limitations positively define the shape of its impact—if a living lab can be anything, how can you be sure your living lab becomes something?
Five lessons for meaningful conversations: learning from co-creation in design
In this blog post, I’ll share how you can create space for meaningful conversations, learned in the context of co-creation.
Lab4Living is a living lab in Sheffield working alongside communities to develop solutions in design, healthcare and creative practices. I spent some time with Joe Langley, lead Research Fellow, and Ursula Ankeny, Design Researcher and PhD student, at the lab’s space in Sheffield city centre.
Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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