The Institute for Design Informatics 2026 Showcase – 12 June 2026

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A one-day pop up showcase on our research exploring the future of design, data and its implications on society and the world. We fabricate, fabulate and confab - and our exhibition weaves and knits together the fabric of our work at the Institute for Design Informatics.

12 June 2026

Inspace
1 Crichton St, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Plan your visit

About the showcase

Design
+ data

The Institute for Design Informatics brings design and data together to create a world that is socially just, where people live well, have agency and autonomy, and are able to adapt and transition how they live to ensure the planet flourishes.

When & where

One day,
30 projects.

Date

12 June 2026

Location

Inspace
1 Crichton St
Edinburgh EH8 9AB

Plan your visit

Showcased

30 projects

01 Quiet Algorithms Studio Atlas 02 Material Memory K. Okafor & R. Lin 03 Civic Threads Loom Collective 04 After the Forecast M. Iqbal 05 Soft Infrastructures B. Carrington 06 Other Worlds, Other Maps DI Year 2 07 Sensing Commons A. Fraser 08 Weathering Data Field Lab North 09 Public Things R. Menon 10 Care Signals E. Hughes & T. Saleh 11 Kinship Machines Data Civics Studio 12 Threshold Archives M. Duarte 13 Prototyping Trust Trust Futures Group 14 Urban Drift Index N. Campbell 15 Embodied Ledgers L. Zhang 16 Listening Infrastructures Sonic Futures Unit 17 Repairing Prediction J. Narayan 18 Signals for Otherwise Futures Literacy Lab 19 Commons Interface H. MacLeod 20 Plural Sensors DI PhD Collective 21 Data Loam Soil Systems Studio 22 The Consent Table Participatory AI Group 23 Night Garden Protocols P. Reid 24 More-than-Human Metrics Ecologies of Data Lab 25 Algorithmic Allotments K. Byrne 26 Neighbourhood Models Civic Modelling Studio 27 Synthetic Folklore O. Sinclair 28 Low Carbon Interfaces Green UX Group 29 Patchwork Governance M. Ali & S. Grant 30 Living Dataset Open Things Lab

RSVP

Ticket and programme details can be linked here when booking information is available.

Questions? Email fabric@designinformatics.ed.ac.uk.