The overall aim of this interdisciplinary project is to enhance our understanding of the complex human-environment interactions in sanitation systems and their sustainability outcomes in rapidly developing countries. This can contribute knowledge and best practices to improve human well-being, which is the overall focus of the Sustainable Development agenda.
This project developed a DEAS focused prototype model for Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) integration in Greater Manchester (GM).
The aim of this project is to further develop innovative technologies for connected autonomous vehicles to accelerate adoption of driverless vehicles and allied technologies in the UK. This project will introduce innovative technologies to operate connected autonomous cars in a platoon formation from Stockport directly to the arrivals terminal at Manchester Airport.
CityVerve was a £10m investment from The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to demonstrate the Internet of Things in Manchester City Region. The CityVerve Project aims to test better services using the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. The Internet of Things adds sensors and data analysis to urban equipment like streetlamps, vehicles or home heating equipment. These ‘smart’ improvements will help deliver more personal, efficient and flexible products and services.
DACAS is an ESRC funded Strategic Network.
It was part of the Urban Transformations (UT) program coordinated between 2015 and 2020 by Professor Michael Keith from the University of Oxford, showcasing research on cities. The UT portfolio included over 120 research projects that engaged with the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly urban world.
2012-25From Old Moat to the Ageing in Place PathfinderSpatial action planning The Ageing in Place Pathfinder is producing the most recent iteration of the implementation of co-produced neighbourhood action planning developed across a series of age friendly city and community…
This project explored the use of data analysis and representation to understand the spatial implications of structural discrimination across Stockport Borough.
This chapter explores how contemporary process philosophy enables construction of design epistemologies and practices better able produce, ‘a plausible connection between architecture and the social’ (Rem Koolhas).
This chapter sets out key theoretical findings of research into spatial inclusion, articulating philosophical aspects of a Spinoza inspired – ‘expressionist’ - design and research methodology.
This chapter brings to an international audience the underpinning theoretical and methodological approaches to the design and implementation of whole system place-based public health interventions across the life course.