The future of designing and making

The Design and Manufacturing Futures Laboratory is researching and creating the tools and technologies of tomorrow, providing game-changing capability for the design, manufacture, operation and disposal of next generation products and machines.

Active Programmes

These are our currently funded programmes that we are actively researching now.

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Prototwinning

Brokering Additive Manufacturing

DETI

21st Century Prototyping

Industry Partners

Researchers-in-Residence

Other Programmes

These are our other programmes that have finished their funding for the time being. However, we are always keen to discuss options to develop these bodies of work further if there is interest!

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Project Clean Access

PhysiCAD

Language of Collaborative Manufacturing

Projects

Quantum Computer Aided Engineering

City Blocks

Democratising Design

COVID-19: DMF Work

Pro2Booth

CAD Model Refactoring

Mixed Reality Lab Design

Haptics in Engineering Design

Emulating Mass Properties

Negligible-Cost Microfluidics

DETI & Digital Threads

Generative Design

Rapid Manufacture Systems

Non-Identical Digital Twins

Hybrid Prototyping

Anarchic Control Systems

Automated CAD Generation

Visual Information Navigation

Augmented Reality in BIM

Condition Monitoring

Neurocognition of Physical and Digital

Instructiblocks

Automatic Dependancy Detection

3D Printing with Recycled Waste

Design by Annotation

AR Hazard Detection

Transport Poverty Modelling

Gesture-controlled CAD

Physical-Digital Prototyping

If you are interested in any of our projects, either active or not currently active, please contact us for more information.

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Recent Posts

Attending the 30th ICCES 2024 Conference in Singapore

The 30th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Science (ICCES2024) was held from August 3 to 6, 2024, in Singapore. Yan Xu and Weiting Xu attended the conference, delivering oral presentations and presenting two conference papers. The two papers were: Overview of Graph Theoretical Approaches in Medical Image Segmentation Yan Xu, Fengyuan Liu*, […]

Presenting at ICMR24

Aman Kukreja, Christopher Cox and James Gopsill attend and present at the International Conference on Manufacturing Research 2024.

DMF Attends DCC ’24 in Montreal

Design Spaces Workshop On Saturday, a workshop was held about design spaces, exploring what they are and how they differ from solution spaces. This led to an engaging discussion on whether parametric design and generative design are fundamentally different approaches to exploring design spaces or merely increasingly complex versions of the same method. The workshop […]

Visit to Virginia Tech

Earlier in July I was fortunate to go and visit Virginia Tech in the US at the invitation of Associate Professor Tripp Shealy. This followed on from the Design Computing and Cognition conference in Montreal where we presented a paper and ran a workshop on design neurocognition. During the visit, and along with Auron Avinash, […]

Is Seeing Believing? Investigating the influence and interplay of physical and virtual traits on the user perception of Mixed Reality prototypes.

Is Seeing Believing? Investigating the influence and interplay of physical and virtual traits on the user perception of Mixed Reality prototypes. There is a significant drive in Design Research towards creating realistic prototypes for without requiring significant time and funds. Mixed Reality (MR) prototyping may offer a solution to this requirement. New research, due for […]

Presenting at Transdisciplinary Engineering 2024 (TE2024)

James Gopsill presented his paper on Distributed Additive Manufacturing at TE2024.

TURA investigators visit Bristol

From the 21st to the 24th June, I was very glad to host some of the co-investigators (Dr. Aleksandra Kristikj, Dr Giacomo Barbeiri and Associate Professor Freddy Zapata) from our WUN funded, Transdisciplinary Urban Agriculture (TURA) project in Bristol where we progressed work on the project and visited a range of agricultural sites in Bristol […]

Papers accepted to TE2024 & ICMR24

The RiR with the Digital Cataput has produced a couple of papers to articulate the benefits of AIgent supply chains.

DMF Lab at the Design Conference 2024

DMF Lab at the Design Conference 2024 Ten members of DMF Lab recently returned from a successful trip to the 18th International Design Conference (DESIGN 2024) held in Cavtat, Croatia. Hosted by the Design Society, the conference provided a valuable platform for our team to present research and engage with the wider design community. We […]

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