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World Design Congress 2025

This September, the World Design Congress 2025 is being held at the Barbican Centre, London. The theme of the event is Design For Planet. The...

Flood Resilience, Community Voices, and a Panoramic Perspective

Flood Resilience, Community Voices, and a Panoramic Perspective

The Open University's Research Image of the Month for June 2025 highlighted the research of PhD student Claude Nsobya, based in the School of...

Durability and Innovation

Durability and Innovation

School of Engineering and Innovation researcher Professor Claudia Eckert was recently invited to deliver a keynote talk at the International...

Digital 3D Modelling Through Touch

Digital 3D Modelling Through Touch

School of Engineering and Innovation researcher Lisa Bowers is leading efforts to ensure that The Open University is at the...

Sustainable Garment Mending

Sustainable Garment Mending

Ismay Mummery is a final year PhD student in the School of Engineering and Innovation. Her research considers how to increase garment mending by...

Methods as a Form of Engineering Knowledge

Methods as a Form of Engineering Knowledge

Methods comprise a significant part of the knowledge engineers are taught and that they use in professional practice. However, methods have been...

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Engineering Applications of Honeycombs

Honeycombs have long been known to offer interesting properties, such as low mass-weight ratio, energy absorption, and mechanical and acoustic...

To Touch is To Know – Haptic Inquiry for Primary School Citizen Science

To Touch is To Know – Haptic Inquiry for Primary School Citizen Science

School of Engineering and Innovation researcher Lisa Bowers is co-author on a recent paper which introduces a new approach to citizen...

Building a Collaborative Economy around Place

Building a Collaborative Economy around Place

On 8th May 2025, E&I academics Theo Zamenopoulos, Vera Hale, and Katerina Alexiou co-hosted an event with The Glass-House Community Led...

Co-production and Community Involvement in Flood Risk Management

Co-production and Community Involvement in Flood Risk Management

Over recent decades, flood risk management has often involved communities adopting decentralised and people-centred approaches. This includes...

Transport Innovation, Complexity, and Resilience

Transport Innovation, Complexity, and Resilience

Work by researchers in the School of Engineering and Innovation has informed recent horizon scans on Transport Innovations and Transport System...

The Cross-Pollination Approach

The Cross-Pollination Approach

Researchers in the School of Engineering and Innovation published a collaborative paper reporting insights from their work supporting co-design...