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Science, Maths & Technology
What are the challenges and opportunities of urban artificial intelligence and robotics?
Formerly the preserve of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) is now increasingly embedded in technologies which underpin everyday life in our towns and cities. Indeed, cities of multiple intelligences which include both artificial and human ones have arrived.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Housing has become the most valuable asset on Earth while people are increasingly going without food and shelter. How can we design for people to have a home, while also regenerating the living systems on which we depend?
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Science, Maths & Technology
Co-design approaches
There are many different approaches, methods and tools that can be used to enable co-design at different stages in the process.
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Science, Maths & Technology
About the Design Hub
Welcome to the Design Hub where you can find out more about design and innovation at The Open University.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Are you a design creative?
As a professional discipline, design is very diverse. It is made up of a wide range of sub-disciplines or design domains that are constantly changing. If you are interested in becoming a designer, you may want to reflect on what kind of designer you want to be.
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Science, Maths & Technology
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
FabLabs are digital fabrication laboratories designed to provide access to skills, materials and technologies for people to transform ideas into products.
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Science, Maths & Technology
Design from the inside
Do you ever find yourself looking at a well-designed object and thinking about how it works, and the ingenuity that it represents?
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Education & Development
Addressing ethical issues in your research proposal
This article explores the ethical issues that may arise in your proposed study during your doctoral research degree.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Learning about the climate and ecological crisis can be very disturbing and overwhelming. We may feel a variety of different emotions often grouped under the umbrella label of eco-anxiety. But what is eco-anxiety and how can we learn to live with the reality of the crisis without falling apart?
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Nature & Environment
Make a bird house
The total area of garden space in the UK is probably greater than that of all the nation's nature reserves. Converting just a small section of your garden into a breeding place for birds can make a small but significant contribution to the survival of bird species.
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Digital & Computing
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
The future of the workplace is continuing to evolve, and digital transformation is accelerating, requiring new digital capabilities, behaviours and understanding. There has been a widening of the digital divide and data shows that in the UK the skills gap is growing with a shortage of people with digital skills. Nearly all jobs have some ...
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Money & Business
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Starting in a new workplace – whether it’s your first 'proper' job after finishing your education, or the next step in developing your career – can be exciting and scary. If it’s a hybrid organisation, and your first day is in a remote location rather than a physical workplace, that can be even more disorientating. This course aims to help you ...