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Dr Serena Pollastri

Lecturer in Urban Futures

  1. 2023
  2. Published

    REGARDING MULTI-STIMULI RESPONSIVE MATERIALS IN BIO-INSPIRED HYDRO- ACTUATED BUILDING FACADES

    Khosromanesh, R., Richards, D. (ed.), Blaney, A. (ed.) & Pollastri, S. (ed.), 27/06/2023.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  3. Forthcoming

    Morecambe Bay Timescapes: Drawing together coastal futures that will, may, or could

    Pollastri, S., Earl, J., Edwards, L. & Ilic, S., 5/04/2023, (Accepted/In press) In: TRACEY.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. 2022
  5. Published

    Biodiversity Logbooks: Design for noticing nature at a hyperlocal scale

    Edwards, L. & Pollastri, S., 1/12/2022, In: Artifact. 9, 1, p. 24.1-24.21 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    Yesterday’s visions of tomorrow’s food. A brief history of speculative design and urban food governance.

    Pollastri, S., 20/10/2022, Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance. Moragues-Faus, A., Clark, J. K., Battersby, J. & Davies, A. (eds.). 1 ed. London: Routledge, 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  7. Published

    Morecambe Bay Timescapes: Young People Envisioning Possible Futures of their Coasts

    Pollastri, S., Earl, J., Edwards, L. & Ilic, S., 30/08/2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  8. Published
  9. Published

    Diving in: What will it take for consumers to transition to a circular economy ready-to-cook fish product? Insights from the UK

    Alter, H., Tsekleves, E. & Pollastri, S., 3/07/2022, DRS2022 Bilbao: Design Research Society Conference 2022. Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Sádaba, A. & Lloyd, P. (eds.). Bilbao: Design Research Society, 19 p. 280. (DRS2022 Bilbao: Design Research Society Conference 2022).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  10. Published

    Design for Noticing with the Biodiversity Logbooks

    Edwards, L., Pollastri, S., Pye, L. & Barratt, R., 31/01/2022, Nordes 2021; Matters of Scale: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Design Research Conference, Kolding, Denmark. Brandt, E., Markussen, T., Berglund, E., Julier, G. & Linde, P. (eds.). Kolding, Denmark: Design School Kolding, p. 136-140 5 p. (Proceedings of the Nordic Design Research Conference; vol. 2021).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  11. 2021
  12. Published

    More-than-human future cities: From the design of nature to designing for and through nature

    Pollastri, S., Griffiths, R., Dunn, N., Cureton, P., Boyko, C., Blaney, A. & De Bezenac, E., 22/10/2021, MAB20: Proceedings of the 5th Media Architecture Biennale Conference. de Waal, M. & Suurenbroek, F. (eds.). New York: ACM, p. 23-30 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  13. Published

    Biodiversity Logbooks for an Environmental Pedagogy of Care

    Edwards, L. & Pollastri, S., 23/07/2021, Proceedings of PIVOT2021, Dismantling/reassembling : Tools for alternative futures. Leitão, R. M., Men, I., Noel, L-A., Lima, J. & Meninato, T. (eds.). OCAD University, p. 211-212 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  14. Published

    How Can Digital Education Contribute To A Pedagogy For Environmental Care?

    Edwards, L., Pollastri, S., Barratt, R. & Dean, C., 28/06/2021, IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children. New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 421-426 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  15. Published

    Biodiversity Logbooks: Designing Tools for Seeing Plants

    Pollastri, S. & Edwards, L., 31/03/2021. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  16. Published

    House of cards: fragility and resilience of food systems in a pandemic

    Pollastri, S., 15/02/2021, In: Global Discourse. 11, 1-2, p. 181-183 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  17. 2020
  18. Published

    Design for food and wellbeing in future cities

    Clune, S. & Pollastri, S., 16/09/2020, Designing Future Cities for Wellbeing. Boyko, C. T., Cooper, R. & Dunn, N. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 91-104 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  19. Published

    Sharing in smart cities: What are we missing out on?

    Boyko, C., Pollastri, S., Coulton, C., Dunn, N. & Cooper, R., 15/04/2020, Routledge Companion to Smart Cities. Willis, K. S. & Aurigi, A. (eds.). 1st ed. Oxon / New York: Routledge, p. 241-253 13 p. (Routledge International Handbook).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  20. 2019
  21. Published

    “All You Can Eat”: Prototyping Speculative Food Futures

    Tsekleves, E. & Pollastri, S., 10/04/2019, In: The Design Journal. 22, Sup1, p. 2209-2213 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. 2018
  23. Published

    ImaginationLancaster: Open-Ended, Anti-Disciplinary, Diverse

    Cooper, R., Dunn, N., Coulton, P., Walker, S., Rodgers, P., Cruikshank, L., Tsekleves, E., Hands, D., Whitham, R., Boyko, C. T., Richards, D., Aryana, B., Pollastri, S., Escalante, M. A. L., Knowles, B., Lopez-Galviz, C., Cureton, P. & Coulton, C., 12/2018, In: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. 4, 4, p. 307-341 35 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Nanhai Food Stories. Edible Explorations of a Place in Transition

    Pollastri, S., Lujan Escalante, M. & Meng, T., 31/10/2018.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  25. Published

    The Future of Community and Values

    Dunn, N., Boyko, C. & Pollastri, S., 15/10/2018, 47 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  26. Published

    Envisioning Urban Futures as Conversations to Inform Design and Research

    Pollastri, S., Dunn, N. S., Rogers, C., Boyko, C. T., Cooper, R. & Tyler, N., 08/2018, In: Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning. 171, 4, p. 146-156 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. 2017
  28. Published

    Dataset of the livability performance of the City of Birmingham, UK, as measured by its citizen wellbeing, resource security, resource efficiency and carbon emissions

    Leach, J. M., Lee, S. E., Boyko, C. T., Coulton, C. J., Cooper, R., Smith, N., Joffe, H., Büchs, M., Hale, J. D., Sadler, J. P., Braithwaite, P. A., Blunden, L. S., De Laurentiis, V., Hunt, D. V. L., Bahaj, A. S., Barnes, K., Bouch, C. J., Bourikas, L., Cavada, M., Chilvers, A., & 18 othersClune, S. J., Collins, B., Cosgrave, E., Dunn, N., Falkingham, J., James, P., Kwami, C., Locret-Collet, M., Medda, F., Ortegon, A., Pollastri, S., Popan, C., Psarikidou, K., Tyler, N., Urry, J., Wu, Y., Zeeb, V. & Rogers, C. D. F., 12/2017, In: Data in Brief. 15, p. 691-695 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Envisioning urban futures: from narratives to composites

    Pollastri, S., Boyko, C. T., Cooper, R., Dunn, N. S., Clune, S. J. & Coulton, C. J., 6/09/2017, In: The Design Journal. 20, Suppl. 1, p. S4365-S4377 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  30. Published

    How sharing can contribute to more sustainable cities

    Boyko, C. T., Clune, S. J., Cooper, R., Coulton, C. J., Dunn, N. S., Pollastri, S., Leach, J. M., Bouch, C., Cavada, M., De Laurentiis, V., Goodfellow-Smith, M., Hale, J., Hunt, D., Lee, S., Locret-Collet, M., Sadler, J. P., Ward, J., Rogers, C. D. F., Popan, C., Psarikidou, A., & 21 othersUrry, J. R., Blunden, L., Bourikas, L., Buchs, M., Falkingham, J., Harper, M., James, P., Kamanda, M., Sanches, T., Turner, P., Wu, P., Bahaj, A., Ortegon, A., Barnes, K., Cosgrave, E., Honeybone, P., Joffe, H., Kwami, C., Zeeb, V., Collins, B. & Tyler, N., 29/04/2017, In: Sustainability. 9, 5, 16 p., 701.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    Visual conversations on urban futures: understanding participatory processes and artefacts

    Pollastri, S., 2017, Lancaster University. 366 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  32. 2016
  33. Published

    The little book of sharing in the city

    Boyko, C. T., Coulton, C. J., Pollastri, S., Clune, S. J., Dunn, N. S. & Cooper, R., 8/12/2016, Lancaster: Lancaster University. 42 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  34. Published

    Resonances: listening tools for transcultural storytelling

    Valsecchi, F., Pollastri, S., Tassi, R. & Chueng-Nainby, P., 28/06/2016, Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference 2016. Lloyd, P. & Bohemia, E. (eds.). Design Research Society, 5 p. 557. (Proceedings of DRS 2016).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  35. Published

    Visual conversations on urban futures: participatory methods to design scenarios of liveable cities

    Pollastri, S., Cooper, R., Dunn, N. S. & Boyko, C. T., 26/06/2016, Proceedings of Design Research Society Conference 2016. Lloyd, P. & Bohemia, E. (eds.). Design Research Society, Vol. 4. p. 1677-1695 19 p. (Proceedings of DRS 2016; vol. 4).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  36. 2015
  37. Published

    Design visualisation

    Pollastri, S., 5/11/2015, The Bloomsbury encyclopaedia of design. Edwards, C. (ed.). London: Bloomsbury Academic

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  38. Published

    Storyboard

    Pollastri, S., 5/11/2015, The Bloomsbury encyclopaedia of design. Edwards, C. (ed.). Bloomsbury Academic

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  39. Published

    Visualisation

    Pollastri, S., 5/11/2015, The Bloomsbury encyclopedia of design. Edwards, C. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNEntry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  40. Published

    Lancaster as a sharing city: an interdisciplinary exploration and thought experiment

    Pollastri, S., Cooper, R., Boyko, C. T., Clune, S. J., Dunn, N. S. & Coulton, C. J., 4/06/2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  41. Published

    Diverging utopias: designing conversations on futures and cities

    Pollastri, S., 06/2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  42. 2014
  43. Published

    A visual history of the future

    Dunn, N., Cureton, P. & Pollastri, S., 25/09/2014, London: Foresight Government office for Science, Department of Business Innovation and Skills, HMSO, Foresight land use futures. 142 p. (Foresight: Future of Cities)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  44. Published

    Living in the City

    Urry, J. R., Birtchnell, T., Caletrio-Garcera, J. & Pollastri, S., 2014, London: Foresight Government office for Science, Department of Business Innovation and Skills, HMSO, Foresight land use futures. 39 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  45. 2013
  46. Published

    Connecting rural-urban to promote social innovation: branding//desis 2011 design summer camp

    Pollastri, S. & Valsecchi, F., 2013, Design harvests: an acupunctural design approach towards sustainability. Lou, Y., Valsecchi, F. & Diaz, C. (eds.). Sweden: Mistra Urban Futures, p. 188-197 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  47. Published

    Methodology: ethnographic research approach and prototyping approach

    Pollastri, S. & Valsecchi, F., 2013, Design harvests: an acupunctural design approach towards sustainability. Lou, Y., Valsecchi, F. & Diaz, C. (eds.). Sweden: Mistra Urban Futures, p. 98-107 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  48. Published

    TianTian: Mobile Sustainable Marketplace Between Rural and Urban China: A project by StudioTao funded by Nokia Research Centre, Beijing 2011

    Pollastri, S. & Valsecchi, F., 2013, Design harvests: an acupunctural design approach towards sustainability. Lou, Y., Valsecchi, F. & Diaz, C. (eds.). Gothenburg: Mistra Urban Futures, p. 264-270 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  49. Published

    Virtual hub: building an open platform for collaboration

    Pollastri, S. & Valsecchi, F., 2013, Design harvests: an acupunctural design approach towards sustainability. Lou, Y., Valsecchi, F. & Diaz, C. (eds.). Mistra Urban Futures, p. 224-227 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  50. 2012
  51. Published

    Design harvests: design world exhibition

    StudioTao, 2012

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsExhibition

  52. 2010
  53. Published

    Volunteered geography as a driver for community-based services

    Pollastri, S., 05/2010, Human cities: celebrating public space. Goličnik Marušić, B., Nikšič, M. & Corier, L. (eds.). Stichting Kunstboek, Vol. Brussels. p. 41-45 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

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