Dr Paul Micklethwaite SFHEA, FRSA
Reader in Design Innovation
I am Research Lead for Design at Manchester School of Art, and currently leading the activation of Manchester Design Factory, an innovation hub in the Design Factory Global Network.
I explore the impact of sustainability agendas on how we think about and do design, via modes of practice which are explicitly social and take design (and designers) into new territories.
Research
Books
Micklethwaite, P., 2021. 'Beyond Recycling', Routledge.
Micklethwaite, P., Chick, A., 2011. 'Design for Sustainable Change', AVA Academia.
Book Chapters
Micklethwaite, P., 2019. 'Design Against Consumerism'. In A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945, pp. 436-456, Wiley.
Micklethwaite, P., 2017. 'Products of the open design context'. In Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Product Design, pp. 514-526, Routledge.
Micklethwaite, P., 2014. 'Immaterial culture? The (Un)sustainability of screens'. In Media and the Ecological Crisis, pp. 19-39, Routledge.
Micklethwaite, P., 2014. 'Immaterial culture?: The (un)sustainability of screens'. In Media and the Ecological Crisis, pp. 19-39.
Chick, A., Micklethwaite, P., 2004. ''Closing the loop' - The role of design in the success of six small UK recycled product manufacturers'. In, pp. 249-262.
Micklethwaite, P., 2004. 'The 'recycled consumer' - Evidence and design implications'. In, pp. 77-90.
Journal Articles
Micklethwaite, P., 2022. 'Sustainable Design Masters: Increasing the Sustainability Literacy of Designers', Sustainability, 14 (6).
Kulnik, ST., Pöstges, H., Townsend, R., Micklethwaite, P., Jones, F., 2019. 'A gift from experience: co-production and co-design in stroke and self-management', Design for Health, 3 (1), pp. 98-118.
Micklethwaite, P., 2019. 'Design Ecology Politics: Towards the Ecocene, by Joanna Boehnert', The Design Journal, 22 (6), pp. 905-909.
Micklethwaite, P., O'Connor, K., Elliott, S., 2019. 'Market as Manufactory. Making Communities', The Design Journal, 22 (sup1), pp. 1267-1285.
Micklethwaite, P., Knifton, R., 2017. 'Climate Change. Design Teaching for a New Reality', The Design Journal, 20 (sup1), pp. S1636-S1650.
Micklethwaite, P., 2015. 'Designing Sustainability: Making Radical Changes in a Material World, by Stuart Walker', The Design Journal, 18 (2), pp. 295-299.
Micklethwaite, P., 2012. 'Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive, by Bas van Abel et al', The Design Journal, 15 (4), pp. 493-496.
Micklethwaite, P., 2011. 'Sustainable Futures--Can Design Make a Difference?', Design and Culture, 3 (2), pp. 239-242.
Micklethwaite, P., 2010. 'Aspirational Sustainability? A Review of Eco Home', Interiors, 1 (1), pp. 151-157.
Massey, A., Micklethwaite, P., 2009. 'Unsustainability: Towards a New Design History with Reference to British Utility', Design Philosophy Papers, 7 (2), pp. 123-135.
Micklethwaite, P., 2005. 'Discussing Art and Design Education: Themes from Interviews with UK Design Stakeholders', International Journal of Art & Design Education, 24 (1), pp. 84-92.
Micklethwaite, P., Chick, A., 2005. 'Remarkable Pencils Ltd: Breaking Out of the Green Niche', Design Management Review, 16 (3), pp. 23-28.
Chick, A., Micklethwaite, P., 2004. 'Specifying recycled: understanding UK architects' and designers' practices and experience', Design Studies, 25 (3), pp. 251-273.