Items where Author is "Stead, Michael"

Journal Article

Coulton, Paul and Stead, Michael and Owen, Rebecca (2025) Smarter Repair 2053. The Design Journal, 28 (1). pp. 126-145. ISSN 1460-6925

Contreras Correa, Paulina and Toledo, Ignacio and Perez Ojeda, David and Stead, Michael and Bakırlıoğlu, Yekta (2024) Disruptive Sustainability : Society, Innovation and Futures. Revista Base - Diseño e Innovación, 9 (10): 1. pp. 1-16.

Stead, Michael (2024) More-than-Human Net Zero Futures : Disruptive Participatory Design for A Sustainable Equitable Planet. Revista Base - Diseño e Innovación, 9 (10): 3. pp. 28-43.

Stead, Michael and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Coulton, Paul (2022) The Repair Shop 2049 : Mending Things and Mobilising the Solarpunk Aesthetic. Branch (EIT Climate KIC, Mozilla Foundation, Climate Action Tech, and the Green Web Foundation) (4).

Stead, Michael and Gradinar, Adrian and Coulton, Paul (2020) Must All Things Pass? : Designing for the Afterlife of (Internet of) Things. ThingsCon The State of Responsible Internet of Things Report 2020, 4. pp. 45-52.

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and Lindley, Joseph (2019) Spimes Not Things : Creating A Design Manifesto For A Sustainable Internet of Things. The Design Journal, 22 (Suppl.). pp. 2133-2152. ISSN 1460-6925

Stead, Michael (2017) Spimes and speculative design : sustainable product futures today. Strategic Design Research Journal, 10 (1). pp. 12-22. ISSN 1984-2988

Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings

Stead, Michael and Owen, Violet and Coulton, Paul (2026) Gaming the Eco-system : Designing More-than-Human Game Worlds to Interrogate Unsustainable Systemic Technological Futures. In: Towards Sustainable Game Design : The Game Needs to Change. CRC Press. ISBN 9781032836195 (In Press)

Stead, Michael (2025) Designing Machines of Loving Grace : Futuring Regenerative Digital Technologies. In: From Bytes to Planet : Digital Design for a Low-Carbon Future. Bloomsbury.

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2025) Gameful IoT Repair. In: Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) / Institute of Digital Games :. Digital Games Research Association - DiGRA, MLT. (In Press)

Stead, Michael (2025) The Regenerative AI Practitioner: Thinking and Designing With AI More Sustainably. In: Artificial Intelligence In Creative Industries : Psychological and Social Implications for Creators and the Public. Routledge. (In Press)

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2024) Gamers: Cultivating Sustainable Practices for Electronics Care. In: Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation :. Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.. (In Press)

Primlani, Namrata and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios and Lindley, Joseph and Coulton, Paul and Sailaja, Neelima and Urquhart, Lachlan and Castle-Green, Teresa and Stead, Michael and Lechelt, Susan and Owen, Violet and Dubey, Nidhi (2024) Greetings from Silicon Heaven : Postcards from the IoT Afterlife. In: NordiCHI '24 Adjunct : NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. ACM, SWE. ISBN 9798400709654

Coulton, Paul and Stead, Michael and Pilling, Matthew and Crabtree, Andy and Chamberlain, Alan and Sailaja, Neelima (2024) Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures. In: Mindtrek '24 : Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference. ACM, FIN, pp. 36-45. ISBN 9798400718236

Urquhart, Lachlan and Lechelt, Susan and Terras, Melissa and Sailaja, Neelima and Rezk, Anna Marie and Castle-Green, Teresa and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios and Primlani, Namrata and Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael (2024) Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures : Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas. In: DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference :. ACM, New York, pp. 372-376. ISBN 9798400706325

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2024) Fostering IoT Repair Through Care : Learning from Emotional Durable Gaming Practices and Communities Poster. In: DIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference :. ACM, DNK, pp. 102-105. ISBN 9798400706325

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2024) Fostering IoT Repair Through Care: Learning from Emotional Durable Gaming Practices and Communities. In: DIS Companion '24: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2024 :. ACM, New York. ISBN 9798400706325

Stead, Michael (2023) A Technologically Sustainable, Responsible and Smarter Home. In: Future Home : Trends, Innovations and Disruptors in Housing Design. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032414676

Pilling, Matthew and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and MacPherson-Pope, Thomas (2023) Fixing the Future : Cultivating a Capacity to Repair IoT Devices through Experiential Futures. In: International Association of Societies of Design Research Congress : Life-Changing Design. Design Research Society.

Sailaja, Neelima and Castle-Green, Teresa and Coulton, Paul and Stead, Michael and Lindley, Joseph and Urquhart, Lachlan and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios (2023) UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. In: UbiComp/ISWC 2023 Adjunct - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing : UbiComp/ISWC '23. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, pp. 802-806. ISBN 9798400702006

Stead, Michael (2023) Sustainability : Designing for a Technological Utopia or Dystopia? In: Flourish By Design :. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032507682

Stead, Michael and Pilling, Matthew and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Coulton, Paul (2023) The Repair Shop 2049: Co-Designing Sustainable and Equitable Transitions for Smart Device Repair with and for Local Communities. In: 5th Product Lifetimes And The Environment Conference Proceedings : PLATE 2023. UNSPECIFIED, FIN.

Thorp, James and Lechelt, Susan and Soares, Luis and Gorkovenko, Katerina and Speed, Chris and Stead, Michael and Dunn, Nick and Richards, Daniel (2023) Towards Sustainable Internet of Things Objects : Design Strategies for End-of-Life. In: Design for Adaptation Cumulus Conference Proceedings Detroit 2022 :. Cumulus Conference Proceedings, 9 . Cumulus, USA, pp. 622-639. ISBN 9798218079017

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and Pilling, Franziska and Gradinar, Adrian and Pilling, Matthew and Forrester, Ian (2022) More-than-Human-Data Interaction : Bridging Novel Design Research Approaches to Materialise and Foreground Data Sustainability. In: Academic Mindtrek 2022 - Proceedings of the 25th International Academic Mindtrek Conference :. ACM, FIN, pp. 62-74. ISBN 9781450399555

Thorp, James and Richards, Daniel and Dunn, Nick and Stead, Michael and Gorkovenko, Katerina (2022) OSKARRR : Data-driven Design Speculations For The Future of Domestic Waste. In: [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes : Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2021). Springer, Singapore, pp. 2821-2835. ISBN 9789811944710

Blaney, Adam and Richards, Daniel and Gradinar, Adrian and Stead, Michael (2022) Prototyping Circular Materials Based on Reprogrammable Matter. In: [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes : Proceedings of the 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR 2021). IASDR: Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research . Springer, Singapore, pp. 3239-3252. ISBN 9789811944710

Pilling, Matthew and Stead, Michael and Gradinar, Adrian and Remy, Christian and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas (2022) Preparing to Repair : Using Co-Design and Speculative Design Methods to Explore the Future of IoT Right-to-Repair with Citizens and Communities. In: Cumulus Detroit 2022 : Design for Adaptation. Cumulus.

Pilling, Franziska and Stead, Michael and Gradinar, Adrian (2022) The Prometheus Terminal : Worlding Games for the Adoption of Sustainable Datafication and Cybersecurity practices. In: Cumulus Detroit 2022 : Design for Adaptation. Cumulus.

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2022) Sustainable Technological Futures : Moving beyond a One-World-World perspective. In: NordiCHI 2022 : Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference. ACM, DNK. ISBN 9781450396998

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2022) A More-than-Human Right-to-Repair. In: DRS2022 Bilbao: Design Research Society Conference 2022 :. Design Research Society, ESP. ISBN 9781912294572

Stead, Michael and Blaney, Adam and Gradinar, Adrian and Richards, Daniel and Bayar, Sanem (2021) Design for Terra-Reforming : Prototyping Environmentally Responsible Socio-technical Futures. In: 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design : Safe Harbours for Design Research. UNSPECIFIED.

Stead, Michael and Gradinar, Adrian and Coulton, Paul and Lindley, Joseph (2020) Edge of Tomorrow : Designing Sustainable Edge Computing. In: Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2020 :. Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2020, 1 (Situat). Design Research Society, Brisbane, pp. 88-110. ISBN 9781912294374

Lechelt, Susan and Gorkovenko, Katerina and Soares, Luis and Speed, Chris and Thorp, James and Stead, Michael (2020) Designing For The End of Life of IoT Objects. In: DIS: Designing Interactive Systems 2020 :. ACM, NLD, pp. 417-420. ISBN 9781450379878

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and Lindley, Joseph (2019) The Future Is Metahistory : Using Spime-based Design Fiction As A Research Lens For Designing Sustainable Internet of Things Devices. In: IASDR 2019: Design Revolutions. International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 :. UNSPECIFIED.

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2017) Old, Sick And No Health Insurance : Will You Need A Permit To Use Your Homemade Health Wearable? In: DIS '17 Companion Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems :. ACM, Edinburgh, pp. 101-105. ISBN 9781450349918

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2017) HealthBand : campaigning for an open and ethical Internet of Things through an applied process of design fiction. In: Cumulus REDO Conference 2017 Proceedings :. UNSPECIFIED, DNK, pp. 696-706. ISBN 9788793416154

Coulton, Paul and Lindley, Joseph Galen and Sturdee, Miriam and Stead, Michael (2017) Design fiction as world building. In: Proceedings of Research through Design Conference 2017 :. UNSPECIFIED, GBR, 0-0.

Stead, Michael (2016) A Toaster for Life : using design fiction to facilitate discussion on the creation of a sustainable Internet Of Things. In: Proceedings of Design Research Society Conference 2016 :. Proceedings of DRS 2016, 8 . Design Research Society, GBR, pp. 3049-3068.

Sturdee, Miriam and Coulton, Paul and Lindley, Joseph and Stead, Michael and Akmal, Haider Ali and Hudson-Smith, Andrew (2016) Design fiction : how to build a Voight Kampff machine. In: CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems :. ACM, USA, pp. 375-386. ISBN 9781450340823

Burnett, Dan and Gradinar, Adrian and Porter, Joel and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and Forrester, Ian (2015) Physical playlist : bringing back the mix-tape. In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015 : 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bamberg, Germany, September 14-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . Springer, DEU, pp. 72-78. ISBN 9783319227221

Contribution to Conference

Stead, Michael (2025) Appropriate AI by Design : Nurturing Sustainable, Trustworthy and Responsible AI Futures. In: Sustainable AI Conference 2025: Shaping Sustainable AI and its Futures, 2025-09-16 - 2025-09-18, Bonn Sustainable AI Lab / Institute for Science and Ethics / Universität Bonn. (In Press)

Stead, Michael (2025) Reimagining Design Education to Engender Sustainable and Inclusive Futures : Developing More-than-Human Design Pedagogy. In: Sustainability in Design Education Symposium 2025, 2025-03-26 - 2025-03-27, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).

Stead, Michael (2024) Designing Sustainable IoT Futures. In: ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2024, 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-05, IT University.

Stead, Michael (2024) More-than-Human Making : Crafting Pedagogic Engagement Tools to Accelerate Sustainable Technology Transitions. In: ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2024, 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-05, IT University.

Stead, Michael (2024) More-than-Human Making: A Design Conjecture. In: ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2024, 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-05, IT University.

Boniface, Christopher and Castle-Green, Teresa and Coulton, Paul and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios and Dubey, Nidhi and Lechelt, Susan and Owen, Violet and Primlani, Namrata and Sailaja, Neelima and Stead, Michael and Terras, Melissa and Urquhart, Lachlan and Lindley, Joseph (2024) ICT4S 2024: What Might A More Sustainable Internet of Things Look Like Zine. In: ICT4S 2024: ICT for Sustainability 2024, 2024-06-24 - 2024-06-28, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Biørn-Hansen, Aksel and Bates, Oliver and Černá, Katka and Christopersen, Gina and Guillén Mandujano, Lupita and Campo Woytuk, Nadia and Tuli, Anupriya and Persson, Lina and Penzenstadler, Birgit and Manojlovic, Vesna and Ashcroft, Alice and Detko, Zoe and dos Santos, Rodrigo and Boniface, Christopher and Castle-Green, Teresa and Coulton, Paul and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios and Dubey, Nidhi and Lechelt, Susan and Owen, Violet and Primlani, Namrata and Sailaja, Neelima and Stead, Michael and Terras, Melissa and Urquhart, Lachlan and Cowlishaw, Tim and Bornes, Laetitia and Smith, Marcia Tavares and Abels, Sandra and Çelik, Leman and Laser, Stefan and Sørensen, Estrid and Werner, Lynn and Mann, Samuel and Karetai, Mawera and Reynolds, Patrice and Crescenzo, Jon and Alshaigy, Bedour and Pollock, Ian (2024) Liminal Excavations : A Zine that Explores Alternative Visions, Ideas and Critiques on the Topic of Sustainability and ICT. In: ICT4S 2024: ICT for Sustainability 2024, 2024-06-24 - 2024-06-28, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Stead, Michael (2023) Sustainable Transitions for HCI : Technologies, Fictions and Futures. In: 2023 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023-04-23 - 2023-04-28, Congress Center Hamburg (CCH).

Coulton, Paul and Stead, Michael (2022) Alien Futuring : shifting perspective from a one-world-world to a world of many worlds. In: Swiss Design Network Research Summit, 2022-10-27 - 2022-10-28, Zurich University of the Arts.

Coulton, Paul and Stead, Michael (2022) Alien Futuring. In: Stories4Policy:, 2022-07-05 - 2022-07-06, Lancaster University.

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and Lindley, Joseph (2019) Spimes Not Things : A Design Manifesto For A Sustainable Internet Of Things. In: EAD Conference, 2019-04-10 - 2019-04-12, University of Dundee.

Stead, Michael (2015) Spimes and speculative design : sustainable product futures today. In: Anticipation 2015, 2015-11-05 - 2015-11-07, University of Trento.

Taylor, Rebecca and Stead, Michael and Dunn, Nick and Boyko, Christopher (2014) Participatory citizens and hybrid cities : imagining green spaces in Manchester's Northern Quarter. In: The UrbanIXD Symposium, 2014-09-25 - 2014-09-26, Telecom Italia Future Centre.

Book/Report/Proceedings

Carr, Emily and Dossett, Stuart and Stead, Michael (2025) Making the Connection : Ending Digital Exclusion With Reused Devices. Green Alliance. ISBN 9781915754486

Stead, Michael (2024) CASE STUDY: Dealing with Electronic Waste (AHRC IAA Generation Fix) : How does Arts and Humanities Research Influence Public Policymaking? Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) . Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN), Durham University.

Urquhart, Lachlan and Stead, Michael and Sailaja, Neelima and Paris Darzentas, Dimitrios (2024) EPSRC Fixing the Future Annual Report 2024. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh.

Stead, Michael and Pilling, Franziska and Gradinar, Adrian and Ian, Forrester (2022) SUSTAINABLE X SECURE EDGE : Design Guidelines for Future Data-Driven Edge-IoT Devices and Services. PETRAS Research Centre of Excellence (EP/S035362/1), Lancaster.

Thesis

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2020) Spimes : A Multidimensional Lens for Designing Future Sustainable Internet Connected Devices. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Artefact

Stead, Michael and Owen, Violet and Kwon, Nuri and Michalec, Ola and Coulton, Paul (2024) EnergyMaster Game V2. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Kwon, Nuri (2024) Design Sustainable AI activity booklet V1. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Kwon, Nuri and Owen, Violet and Michalec, Ola and Coulton, Paul (2024) EnergyMaster Game V1. [Artefact]

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Joshi, Nishad and Patel, Uzair (2024) Pet Tap V2. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Owen, Violet and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Joshi, Nishad and Patel, Uzair (2024) Re:Play V2. [Artefact]

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Joshi, Nishad and Patel, Uzair (2024) RepairLand V2. [Artefact]

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael (2024) Pet Tap. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Owen, Violet and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas (2024) Re:Play. [Artefact]

Owen, Violet and Stead, Michael (2024) RepairLand. [Artefact]

Benjamin, Jesse and Stead, Michael (2024) Assembly. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Owen, Violet and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Joshi, Nishad and Patel, Uzair (2024) ROBB·E the Robot GenFixer Pendant. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Pilling, Matthew and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas (2023) The Repair Shop 2049 LED Badge Soldering Kit. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Pilling, Matthew and Coulton, Paul (2023) Tales from the Edge of Reality. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Pilling, Matthew and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas (2022) The Repair Shop 2049: Opening Salvo. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Pilling, Franziska and Pilling, Matthew and Coulton, Paul and Gradinar, Adrian (2022) Edge of Reality game experience. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2022) Synchron Toaster for Life: 1st Gen. [Artefact]

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2022) Synchron Toaster for Life: Product Launch Catalogue - Autumn. [Artefact]

Gradinar, Adrian and Stead, Michael and Pilling, Franziska (2021) Edge of Tomorrow: Prometheus Terminal. [Artefact]

Other

Stead, Michael and Macpherson-Pope, Thomas and Patel, Uzair and Joshi, Nishad (2025) Re:Play - The Purposefully Broken Games Console. The Making Rooms.

Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul (2022) ‘Liberate the tractors’: the right to repair movement that’s regaining control of our devices. The Conversation.

Townsend, Beverley and Hyde, Richard and Lindley, Joseph and Stead, Michael and Coulton, Paul and Lisinska, Justyna and Moffat, Luke and Reza Mousavi, Mohammad and Ramchurn, Gopal and Shukla, Paurav and Williams, Jennifer (2022) Connected Tech: Smart or Sinister?: A Call for Evidence from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport. UNSPECIFIED.