Dr Rob Potts
Lecturer
I am lecturer in Creative Digital Design at School of Digital Arts (SODA) at Manchester Metropolitan University. I have a cross-domain and post-disciplinary approach to research focusing on collaborative innovation and a broad specialist practice profile.
As a creative director and studio practitioner, I consult on design projects, make innovative films and interactive experiences. Through research and practice, I am motivated to explore collaboration across boundaries in creative environments and critical territories, expanding the thresholds of learning, design and leadership.
Research
Journal Articles
LINDLEY, J., SHARMA, D., POTTS, R., 2015. 'Operationalizing Design Fiction with Anticipatory Ethnography', Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, 2015 (1), pp. 58-71.
POTTS, R., SHARMA, D., LINDLEY, J., 2015. 'Shared Ethnography of Shared Cities', Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, 2015 (1), pp. 88-104.
LINDLEY, J., SHARMA, D., POTTS, R., 2014. 'Anticipatory Ethnography: Design Fiction as an Input to Design Ethnography', Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings, 2014 (1), pp. 237-253.
Conference Papers
Potts, R., 2017. 'Design education at the Boundary', The 12th European Academy of Design Conference, Sapienza University of Rome, 12/4/2017 - 14/4/2017, in The Design Journal Supplement: Design for Next. Proceedings of the 12th European Academy of Design Conference. Sapienza University of Rome, 12-14 April 2017, 20 (Supplement 1), pp. S4263-S4280.
Abel, P., Hemment, D., Li, S., Schliwa, G., Devitt, J., Trueblood, C., Woods, M., Islamoglu, G., Devitt, L., Tynan-O'Mahony, F., Raikes, R., Fox, M., Thomson, C., Vazquez, A.D., Lindley, J., Macdonald, J., Maxwell, D., Walsh, V., Sherriff, G., Jennings, K, 2015. 'Re-writing the City: Negotiating and reflecting on data streams', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 147-156.
Lindley, J., Potts, R., 2014. 'A Machine. Learning: An example of HCI prototyping with design fiction', in Proceedings of the NordiCHI 2014: The 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational, pp. 1081-1084.