Dr Dan Lockton
Dan Lockton is a designer and researcher, based in the Netherlands. He is currently Associate Professor of Imagination and Climate Futures at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Netherlands, and runs the Imaginaries Lab, an independent research-through-design studio based in Utrecht—originally established in 2017 as part of Carnegie Mellon University.
Dan’s work centres on tools and methods for participatory (re-)imagining: helping people, together, create and explore possible futures, imagine new ways to live, and understand ourselves and the world around us better, in an age of crises in climate, health, and social inequalities. He was nominated by his students as Best Teacher at TU/e in 2023. Dan is a fellow of the Centre for Unusual Collaborations at Utrecht University and a director and member of the Executive Board of the Design Research Society, one of the leading international organisations for design research. Dan holds a PhD in Design from Brunel University, London, a Master’s in Technology Policy from the University of Cambridge (one of a set of experimental programmes developed by the former Cambridge-MIT Institute), a BSc in Industrial Design Engineering, also from Brunel, and was a Fellow of the UK’s Royal Society of Arts (2008–23).