Leon Cruickshank
Professor of Design and Creative Exchange at Lancaster University
Leon Cruickshank is Professor of Design and Creative Exchange at Lancaster University. His research focuses on open, co-design processes and understanding and amplifying the impact of these living projects. These range from the £1.2 million Leapfrog project looking at new forms of engagement and mapping impact to Born Into Care, a codesign project to map the process whereby babies are taken into the care system and separated from their parent(s) at birth.
He is the President of the European Academy of Design and his latest co-edited book ‘Flourish By Design’ published by Routledge and available as an open access publication here - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003399568, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-4635