Journal Article

Gooding, Luke, Knox, Daniel, Boxall, Emily, Phillips, Robert, Simposon, Tracy, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Upton, Rebecca and Shepley, Alec, 2025, Journal Article, Ecological Citizenship and the co-design of inclusive and resilient pathways for sustainable transitions Sustainability. ISSN 2071-1050 (Submitted) Item availability may be restricted.

Phillips, Robert, 2025, Journal Article, HCI opportunities: The Ecological Citizen(s) preferable futures deck HCI International 2025. 0-0. Item availability may be restricted.

Phillips, Robert and Gooding, Luke, 2024, Journal Article, Housing for good: Catalysing ecological citizen(s) a method of designing ‘sustainable conditions’ Cumulus 2025. TBC-TBC.

Phillips, Robert and Galdon, Fernando, 2024, Journal Article, Craft 3.0: Positioning Craft and Design Practice(s) within ‘Reduction’ & Nature-Based Design Whats Around Design, TBC (TBC). TBC.

Gooding, Luke, Gant, Nicholas and Phillips, Robert, 2024, Journal Article, Reimagining homes: How regenerative retrofitting can foster sustainability, ecological citizenship, and resilient communities Cumulus 2025 Ethical Leadership: A New Frontier for Design.

Phillips, Robert and Abbas-Nazari, Amina, 2022, Journal Article, Fostering natural world engagements: Design lessons & issues from, the My Naturewatch training programme Design Issues, 38 (2). pp. 47-63. ISSN 0747-9360

Phillips, Robert and Matsuda, Naho, 2022, Journal Article, Engaging design for ecological citizenship: Informing approaches to human-nature interactions Journal of Design, Business & Society, 8 (1). pp. 39-68. ISSN 2055-2106

Phillips, Robert, 2021, Journal Article, Communal response(s): Designing a socially engaged nature recovery network Disegno, 22 (32). pp. 110-143. ISSN 2064-7778

Phillips, Robert and Gant, Nicholas, 2021, Journal Article, Engaging design: Empowering beyond ‘participation’ for active engagement Research in Art and Education, 2021 (1). pp. 23-49. ISSN 2670-2142

Phillips, Robert, Anderson, Rosie, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Gaver, Bill and Boucher, Andy, 2020, Journal Article, 'Urban & suburban nature interactions', impacts and serendipitous narratives of the My Naturewatch project Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference, 1 (2020). pp. 2109-2118. ISSN 2633-7762

Phillips, Robert, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Tooze, James and Gant, Nick, 2020, Journal Article, Designing for active engagement, enabling resilience and fostering environmental change Journal of Design, Business & Society, 6 (1). pp. 43-70. ISSN 2055-2106

Phillips, Robert and Kaylene, Kau, 2019, Journal Article, Gaming for Active Nature Engagement. Animal Diplomacy Bureau: designing games to engage and create player agency in urban nature. The Design Journal, 22 (Sup1). pp. 1587-1602. ISSN 1460-6925

Phillips, Robert, 2019, Journal Article, Design insights for Socially-led interventions Journal of Design, Business & Society, 5 (1). pp. 7-33. ISSN 2055-2106

Phillips, Robert, Michael, Brown and Sharon, Baurley, 2016, Journal Article, Social Responses to Nature; Citizen Empowerment through Design Journal of Design, Business & Society, 2 (2). pp. 197-215. ISSN 2055-2106

Phillips, Robert, Dexter, Matt, Baurley, Sharon and Atkinson, Paul, 2016, Journal Article, Standard Deviation: standardization and quality control in the mash-up era Disegno, 111 (01). pp. 96-117. ISSN 2416-156X

Tooze, James, Baurley, Sharon, Phillips, Robert, Smith, Paul, Foote, Edwin and Silve, Sarah, 2015, Journal Article, Open Design: Contributions, Solutions, Processes and Projects Design Journal, 17 (4). pp. 538-559. ISSN 1756-3062

Phillips, Robert, Baurley, Sharon and Silve, Sarah, 2014, Journal Article, Citizen Science and Open Design: Workshop Findings Design Issues, 30 (4). pp. 52-66. ISSN 0747-9360

Phillips, Robert, Lockton, Dan and Baurley, Sharon, 2013, Journal Article, Making Instructions for Others: Exploring Mental Models Through a Simple Exercise Making Instructions for Others: Exploring Mental Models Through a Simple Exercise, x (xx). pp. 74-80.

Phillips, Robert, Lockton, Dan, Baurley, Sharon and Silve, Sarah, 2013, Journal Article, Making instructions for others: exploring mental models through a simple exercise Interactions, 20 (5). 00-00. ISSN 1072-5520

Thesis

Phillips, Robert, 2015, Thesis, The Bee Lab kit: activities engaging motivated lay users in the use of open technologies for citizen science activities PhD thesis, Design Products.

Book Section

Panneels, Inge, Phillips, Robert and Dhakal, Saurav, 2025, Book Section, In Our Hands: Nepali nature inspired climate solutions in the Anthropocene In: Saad, Qassim, (ed.) Futuring Craft: The Value of Craft: Conference Proceedings:. IOTA, Perth, Western Australia, pp. 232-247. ISBN 9780645218237

Phillips, Robert, Alexander, John, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Gooding, Luke, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Shepley, Alec, Simpson, Tracy, Simmons, Tom and West, Sarah, 2024, Book Section, Beyond co-production: Design as a means of evoking agency through ecological citizenship Cumulus 2024:. Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest., TBC-TBC. ISBN 978-952-7549-02-5, 978-952-7549-03-2

Phillips, Robert and Fantini van Ditmar, Delfina, 2022, Book Section, (Design) Notes from tomorrow: Positioning design practice within paradigms of ‘reduction’, toward craft 3.0 TBC:. Adocs Verlag, Berlin. ISBN TBC Item availability may be restricted.

Martindale, Sarah, Ben, Bedwell, Phillips, Robert and Pedros, Micaella, 2017, Book Section, “Proof in the Pudding”: Designing IoT Plants for Wellbeing Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems:. ACM, New York, US, pp. 529-540. ISBN 978-1-4503-4922-2 Item not available from this repository.

Book

Phillips, Robert and Ferrarello, Laura, 2025, Book, Engaging design; Tools for design practices urging new forms of citizenships EPFL / Chicago Press. Item availability may be restricted.

Gaver, Bill, Boucher, Andy, Brown, Dean, Matsuda, Naho, Molinera, Jen, Ovalle, Liliana, Sheen, Andy, Vanis, Mike, Phillips, Robert, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Gowing, Beki and Anderson, Rosie, 2021, Book, My Naturewatch Camera Amazon, London. ISBN 9798740714431

Phillips, Robert, 2019, Book, FutureKind: Design by and for the People Thames & Hudson, London. ISBN 9780500519790 Item availability may be restricted.

Conference or Workshop

Phillips, Robert and Panneels, Inge, 2024, Conference or Workshop, Designing systems of systems: Connecting resources and mapping assets for ecological citizen(s) at 5th ESP Europe Conference ​​​​​​ Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health, Wageningen, 2024-11-18 - 2024-11-22.

Phillips, Robert, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Gooding, Luke, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Shepley, Alec, Simmons, Tom, West, Sarah, Wright, Joanna, Anderson, Amber and Price, Daniel, 2024, Conference or Workshop, Preferable, contextual and sustainable… climate futures for Ecological Citizen(s) at DRS 2024 Boston, Resistance, Recovery, Reflection, Reimagination, Boston, 2024-06-24 - 2024-06-28.

Gooding, Luke, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Shepley, Alec, Phillips, Robert, Simmons, Tom and West, Sarah, 2024, Conference or Workshop, What do we mean: the language of design for sustainable practices at Preferences of Design, Budapest, Hungary, 2024-05-15 - 2024-05-17.

Phillips, Robert, Wilshire, John, Hodson, Elise, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Gooding, Luke, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Shepley, Alec, Simpson, Tracy and Simmons, Tom, 2023, Conference or Workshop, Design futures, ecological citizenship & public interest technologies = HCI regenerative interaction opportunities …? at 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Washington DC, USA, 2024-06-29 - 2024-07-01.

Shepley, Alec, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Gooding, Luke, Heald, Karen, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Phillips, Robert, Simmons, Tom and West, Sarah, 2023, Conference or Workshop, People, place and purpose: Place-based approaches to ecological citizenship at Nineteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society Art for Sustenance, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea, 2024-05-24 - 2024-05-26.

Shepley, Alec, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Gooding, Luke, Heald, Karen, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Phillips, Robert, Simmons, Tom and West, Sarah, 2023, Conference or Workshop, People, place and purpose: Place-based approaches to ecological citizenship at Local Cultures – Global Spaces Communities, People and Place, New York, Hong Kong, Melbourne, 2023-12-05 - 2023-12-07.

Galdon, Fernando, Hosker, Harry, Eliot, William, Garcia, Hugo, Tsiganchuk, Anna, Wang, Shaoyu, Fantini van Ditmar, Delfina and Phillips, Robert, 2023, Conference or Workshop, Bio-Brutalism; five case studies framing the emergence of new raw aesthetics at the intersection of material regeneration, environmental design, and crafts at IASDR 2023 Life-Changing Design, Milano, Italy, 2023-10-09 - 2023-10-13.

Phillips, Robert, West, Sarah, Shepley, Alec, Baurley, Sharon, Simmons, Tom, Pickles, Neil and Knox, Daniel, 2023, Conference or Workshop, Defining ecological citizenship; Case-studies, projects & perspectives; analysed through a design-led lens, positioning ‘preferable future(s)’ at Design For Adaptation, Cumulus Detroit 2022, Detroit, 2022-11-02 - 2022-11-04.

Bofylatos, Spyros, Amaral, Carla, Hodson, Elise and Phillips, Robert, 2023, Conference or Workshop, Design, systemic change and navigating sustainable impacts at Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD12, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA, 2023-10-06 - 2023-10-20.

Phillips, Robert, Meron, Alon, Nussey, John, Hashemi-Nezhad, Bahbak, Groves, Lucy and Phelps, Matt, 2022, Conference or Workshop, Stork interaction(s) for, ‘digitally sustainable societies’ at CWUAAT: Design for Sustainable Inclusion, Cambridge, UK, 2023-03-27 - 2023-03-29.

Phillips, Robert, Gant, Nicholas, Jordan, Melanie, Teasley, Sarah, Ramster, Gail, Gaudion, Katie, Spragg, Katie, Franklin Stewart, Hannah and Brimfield, Mel, 2022, Conference or Workshop, Engagements2 as ‘HCI Material’: Propagating community agency, through embedded technologies at HCI International 2022: 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Online, 2022-06-26 - 2022-07-01. Item availability may be restricted.

Hall, Ashley, Phillips, Robert, Fantini van Ditmar, Delfina, Chapman, Jonathan and Tooze, James, 2022, Conference or Workshop, Design dematerialisation: Opportunities through reduction at DRS 2022: Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, 2022-06-27 - 2022-07-03.

Phillips, Robert, Tooze, James, Smith, Paul and Baurley, Sharon, 2021, Conference or Workshop, Modular approach to designing 3D printed products: custom HCI design and fabrication of functional prod-ucts at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCII 2021: HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems, Washington DC, USA, 2021-07-24 - 2021-07-29.

Phillips, Robert and Gant, Nicholas, 2020, Conference or Workshop, Engaging design: Empowering beyond ‘participation’ for active engagement at VII Art of Research Conference, Espoo, Finland, 2020-12-03 - 2020-12-04.

Phillips, Robert, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Tooze, Robert, Gaver, W, Boucher, Andy, Orville, Liliana, Sheen, Andy, Brown, Dean, Matsuda, Naho and Vanis, Mike, 2019, Conference or Workshop, Design and Deploying Tools to ‘Actively Engaging Nature’ at HCI International 2019, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2019-07-06 - 2019-07-31.

Gaver, William, Boucher, Andy, Vanis, Michail, Sheen, Andy, Brown, Dean, Ovalle, Liliana, Matsuda, Naho, Abbas-Nazari, Amina and Phillips, Robert, 2019, Conference or Workshop, My Naturewatch Camera Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design at CHI 2019, May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2019-05-04 - 2019-05-09.

Phillips, Robert, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Gaver, W, Boucher, Andy, Orvalle, Liliana, Sheen, Andy, Brown, Dean, Matsuda, Naho and Vanis, Mike, 2019, Conference or Workshop, Encouraging Young People to Engage In Their (Immediate Backdoor Nature), Through Cinemas at Depot Cinema Lewes, Lewes, 2019-04-08 - 2019-04-20.

Phillips, Robert and Roberto, Fraquelli, 2018, Conference or Workshop, Design Research in Professional Practice: Contextual Empathy, The Indian Train Network at Insight 2018, Ahmedabad, India, 2018-11-01 - 2018-11-02.

Phillips, Robert and Baurley, Sharon, 2014, Conference or Workshop, Exploring Open Design for the application of Citizen Science; a toolkit methodology at Design Research Society, Umea, 2014-06-16 - 2014-06-19.

Phillips, Robert, brown, michael, Blum, Jesse and Baurley, Sharon, 2014, Conference or Workshop, Testing a Grassroots Citizen Science Venture Using Open Design, “the Bee Lab Project” at CHI, Toronto, 2014-04-26 - 2014-05-01.

Phillips, Robert, silve, sarah and Baurley, Sharon, 2013, Conference or Workshop, Open design: non‐professional user‐designers creating products for citizen science, a case study of beekeepers. at HCI, Las Vegas, 2013-07-21 - 2013-07-26.

Phillips, Robert, silve, sarah and Baurley, Sharon, 2013, Conference or Workshop, The practical maker: investigating the definitions and requirements of and exploring the motivations behind bespoke making. at Crafting the Future, Gothernburg, 2013-04-17 - 2013-04-19.

Art or design object

Phillips, Robert, Baurley, Sharon, Boxall, Emily, Gooding, Luke, Knox, Daniel, Nordmoen, Charlotte, Pullen, Jude, Shepley, Alec, Simpson, Tracy, Simmons, Tom, Upton, Rebecca and West, Sarah, 2024, Art or design object, Ecological citizen(s) preferable futures deck

Show, Exhibition or Event

Phillips, Robert, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Gaver, William, Boucher, Andy, Vanis, Michail, Sheen, Andy, Brown, Dean, Ovalle, Liliana and Matsuda, Naho, 2018, Show, Exhibition or Event, Wakehurst workshop, My Naturewatch

Phillips, Robert, Abbas-Nazari, Amina, Gaver, Robert, Boucher, Andy, Vanis, Michail, Sheen, Andy, Brown, Dean, Ovalle, Liliana and Matsuda, Naho, 2018, Show, Exhibition or Event, "The Wildlife of Lewes" My Naturewatch Film Trailer, The Depot Cinema

Other

Wilshire, John V, Phillips, Robert, Shupak,, Lizzie and Thornton, Andy, 2023, Other, Where the light gets in https://smithery.com/, Sussex.