Design
Grant-funded research projects:
2009: Co-proposer and Project Coordinator: Scottish Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS): 'Designing Environments for Life'
http://www.instituteforadvancedstudies.org.uk/Programmes/DesigningEnvironments.aspx
2007-2008: Co-developer and named network participant; AHRC funded 'Product Designing Network'
http://www.productscotland.com/
2005-2008: Invited participant - ESRC funded 'Explorations in Comparative Anthropology of the Line'. Principal Investigator: Prof. Tim Ingold.
Research expertise:
User-centered and social scientific approaches to sustainable design.
Qualitative frameworks and ethnographic research methods for design.
Product Development expertise:
Project Management; Creativity methods; User and Culture Research; User-Centered Design; Manual prototyping; Digital Prototyping; Design for Manufacture.
My research activity is concerned with the extension of sustainable design knowledge beyond the traditional, quantitative, system modelling approaches that currently exist. The new knowledge is concerned with developing new qualitative, user-centered approaches to sustainable design that are informed by original empirical research and theories and methodologies from anthropology, science and technology studies and the cognitive sciences.
2008: Invited to University of Southern Denmark to speak on inter-disciplinary working and new approaches to sustainable design research.
2005 and 2007: Invited to co- develop and deliver The Royal Academy of Engineering's 2005 and 2007 'Summer School for Teachers of Engineering Design' - supported by the Design Council, Institution of Engineering Designers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
2006: Invited contribution: Anusas, M (2006) Experiences of ecological emotion. Engage newsletter, November 2006, 12-20. Available from: http://www.designandemotion.org/society/engage/newsletters.html [Accessed 20 November 2006].
2006: Invited to chair session of 5th Conference on Design and Emotion 2006, 27-29 September 2006 Gothenburg.
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2004-present: Lecturer, University of Strathclyde.
2003-2004: Lecturer, The Glasgow School of Art.
2001-2002: Design and R&D consultant, Buro Happold, London.
1999-2001: Design Lecturer (0.2), The Glasgow School of Art.
2000-2001: Product Development Manager, Cullen Packaging Ltd, Glasgow.
1998-2000: Design and R&D consultant, Anusas Design and Development, Glasgow.
1997-1998: Research Assistant, Glasgow Caledonian University.
My teaching activity is concerned with the education of skills and knowledge for product design and development in commercial contexts. This teaching is active across UG and PG modules within DMEM. Areas of specialist teaching: project management; drawing methods; creativity methods; user-centered design; user and culture research methods; brand design; architectural product design; consumer product design; inclusive design; sustainable design; manual prototyping; digital prototyping; design for manufacture.
Involvement in KTPs:
I am an academic advisor on user-centered design issues for a range of KTPs with Scottish SMEs.
Previous clients: Rynex Engineering Ltd.
Current clients: JRG Group; AB Services.
Anusas, M. (2006) Attachments to nature: design and eco-emotion. In: Karlsson, M.A. et al, ed. 5th Conference on Design and Emotion 2006, 27-29 September 2006 Gothenburg. Sweden: CD publication.
Anusas, M (2006) Experiences of ecological emotion. Engage newsletter, November 2006, 12-20. Available from: http://www.designandemotion.org/society/engage/newsletters.html [Accessed 20 November 2006].
Anusas, M. (2006) Creativity in mass-education contexts. In: Rothbucher, B. et al, ed. Educating Designers for a Global Context?, 6-8 September 2006 Salzburg. Essex: Hadleys Ltd., 265-270.
