CRAIG JEFFCOTT
Phd MA MSc
RESEARCHER + DESIGNER
I am a transdiciplinary speculative designer and researcher from Scotland, based in Portugal. I specialise in storytelling design games, diverse and more-than-human design, collaborative and liveable futures, and speculative design for community biodiversity activism.
Portfolio
STRANGE STRANGERS IN STRANGE LANDS PLAYSET
2026
Through games, storytelling and design activities, this playset allows communities to imagine and design more biodiverse futures for their local environment.
SPECULATIVE DESIGN
GAME DESIGN
DESIGN RESEARCH
DESIGN PROTOTYPING
PHD PROJECT
ECOLOGICAL DESIGN FRAMEWORK
2023
This framework for speculative design provides an approach to designing and imagining futures in a sustainable and equitable, ecology-centred way.
DESIGN RESEARCH
SPECULATIVE DESIGN
PHD PROJECT
PATIENT PARTNERS
2017
A service design project to improve how patient partners are able to play a role in clinical decision making in cancer care. I designed a card deck to guide and structure a workshop with patient partners and hospital staff, and developed a service prototype.
DESIGN RESEARCH
SERVICE DESIGN
DESIGN PROTOTYPING
THE ROYAL MARDSEN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
THE INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH
CITIZENS OF NOWHERE : DESIGNING FOR DEEP TIME
2016
A speculative design project exploring the socio-politics of designing for distant futures through an imagined mission to seed the galaxy with earth-bound life. This was presented as an archaeological exhibition of a possible future.
DESIGN RESEARCH
DESIGN PROTOTYPING
SPECULATIVE DESIGN
MA INTERACTION DESIGN PROJECT
LOCALS MEET TOURISTS
2016
A research project and service design workshop for tourism professionals in Barcelona. This workshop explored how tensions between local people and tourists could be eased through more sensitively designed tourism services.
DESIGN RESEARCH
DESIGN PROTOTYPING
SERVICE DESIGN
DESIGN WORKSHOPS
DREAMKERS INNOVATION STUDIO
PROTOCOL
2012
A prototype of an integrated system to help laboratory scientists share tacit and embodied knowledge about laboratory techniques and practices.
DESIGN RESEARCH
DESIGN PROTOTYPING
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
INTERACTION AND UX DESIGN
MSC LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES PROJECT
SKILLS
2011
A blog-based transferable skills website for cancer research PhD students, designed to deliver a plurality of viewpoints on key skills just when it is needed.
DESIGN RESEARCH
DESIGN PROTOTYPING
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
INTERACTION AND UX DESIGN
INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH
NHS LONDON