Journal Article

Gooding, Luke, Knox, Daniel, Boxall, Emily, Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 and Phillips, Robert, 2025, Journal Article, HCI opportunities: The Ecological Citizen(s) preferable futures deck HCI International 2025. 0-0. (Submitted) Item availability may be restricted.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 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. ISSN TBC (Submitted)

Gooding, Luke, Gant, Nicholas and Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 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. (Submitted) Item not available from this repository.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 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. ISSN x

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 (In Press)

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, Royal College of Art.

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 (Submitted)

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 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 (Unpublished) 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

Gaver, Bill, Boucher, Andy, Brown, Dean, Matsuda, Naho, Molinera, Jen, Ovalle, Liliana, Sheen, Andy, Vanis, Mike, Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 and Panneels, Inge ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7668-0546, 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, 18-22 Nov 2024.

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

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, 15-17 May 2024. (Submitted)

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, 29 Jun - 01 Jul 2024.

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, 24-26 May 2024.

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, 05-07 Dec 2023.

Galdon, Fernando, Hosker, Harry, Eliot, William, Garcia, Hugo, Tsiganchuk, Anna, Wang, Shaoyu, Fantini van Ditmar, Delfina and Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 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, Milan, Italy, 09-13 Oct 2023.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 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, USA, 2-4 Nov 2022.

Bofylatos, Spyros ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6743-2081, Amaral, Carla ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9223-7739, Hodson, Elise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8878-1355 and Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, 2023, Conference or Workshop, Design, systemic change and navigating sustainable impacts at Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD12, Georgetown, Washington DC, USA, 06-20 Oct 2023.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, Meron, Alon, Nussey, John and Hashemi-Nezhad, Bahbak, 2022, Conference or Workshop, Stork interaction(s) for, ‘digitally sustainable societies’ at CWUAAT: Design for Sustainable Inclusion, Cambridge, UK, 27-29 Mar 2023.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, Gant, Nicholas, Jordan, Melanie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2969-5489, Teasley, Sarah, Ramster, Gail ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8864-7105, 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, 26 Jun - 01 Jul 2022. Item availability may be restricted.

Hall, Ashley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4142-6879, Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, Fantini van Ditmar, Delfina, Chapman, Jonathan and Tooze, James, 2022, Conference or Workshop, Design dematerialisation: Opportunities through reduction at DRS 2022: Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, 27 Jun - 03 Jul 2022.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064, Tooze, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8416-4760, Smith, Paul and Baurley, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1760-759X, 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, 24-29 Jul 2021.

Phillips, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-6064 and Gant, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9685-3571, 2020, Conference or Workshop, Engaging design: Empowering beyond ‘participation’ for active engagement at VII Art of Research Conference, Espoo, Finland, 3-4 Dec 2020. (In Press)

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, 6-31 July 2019.

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, May 4–9, 2019.

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, 08-20 Apr 2019.

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, 1 - 2 November 2018.

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, 16-19 Jun 2014.

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, 26 Apr - 01 May 2014.

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, 21-26 Jul 2013.

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, 17-19 Apr 2013.

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.