DesignScience is a design and education agency aimed at encouraging interaction between design (as distinct from art) and science.

Despite big advances in science communication in recent years, the role of design and visual communication in this field has been neglected.

By applying design to science and science to design, DesignScience aims to develop an ongoing feedback system that reveals innovative ways of working across these two fields.

This guide is supported by the Wellcome Trust as part of a portfolio of activities to help researchers engage the public. It provides an introduction to essential design concepts and helps researchers think about how … Read more

Following feedback from the engineers involved in the BSA’s Strictly Engineering workshop, DesignScience produced this online resource for scientists and engineers on how to design a poster.

This concise, online publication includes tips about … Read more

Litmus Paper went down a storm!’ – Ashley Kent, Cheltenham Science Festival Manager

DesignScience is working with Cheltenham Festivals to produce Litmus Paper – a series of newspapers published to coincide with each of Read more

The British Science Association has started a new public engagement project with engineers called Strictly Engineering.

The project challenges engineers from a variety of disciplines, from both academia and industry, to design a poster that … Read more

Lecture Theatre G34, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Live discussion organised by Beautiful Science

Chair: Stephen Webster, Director of Science Communication at Imperial College
Panelists: Catherine McDermottAnne Odling-SmeeErica Read more

This workshop is about algorithmic thinking – how to think in ways that draw on mathematical concepts to create computational procedures that can be expressed as computer programs. And then run to get results. We … Read more

With support from National Centre for Research Methods

Speakers: Geraint Rees, Stephen Curry, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Joel Gethin Lewis

Chair: Leonora Oppenheim

Geraint Rees
Professor Geraint Rees is the group … Read more

Anne Odling-Smee addressed a predominantly science and especially biology-related audience at the Linnean Society’s 2011 Christmas lecture.

The impassioned response from an audience with little or no prior knowledge about design, reinforced our theory that … Read more

DesignScience held a mini-workshop in preparation for its launch debate in November 2011. Science Communicators from Imperial College collaborated with MA Commmunication Design students from Central Saint Martins to make a live experiment that could … Read more

DesignScience’s inaugural panel discussion in London’s Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons saw a group of scientists and designers present their thoughts on:
1. How is science communicated to the wide variety of … Read more