About
Fields is the blog and personal site for Professor Chris Speed, Director of the Regenerative Futures Institute at RMIT University who examine subjects such as temporal design, new value models and more than human research.
Mail Chris here: chris.speed@rmit.edu.au
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisspeed/
Download CV here: https://chrisspeed.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CVSpeedOctober2025.pdf
Chris Speed FRSE is Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures, and Director of the Regenerative Futures Institute at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, where he collaborates with a wide variety of communities and partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt toward becoming a regenerative society.
Chris has an established track record in directing large complex grants and educational programmes with academic, industry and third sector partners, that apply design and data methods to social, environmental and economic challenges. Prior to joining RMIT, Chris was Director for the Edinburgh Futures Institute, involving the transformation of the Old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, a Florence Nightingale hospital in the centre of Edinburgh, into a world leading centre for interdisciplinary teaching, research and innovation.
Chris also led the development and leadership of the Institute for Design Informatics that is home to a combination of researchers working across the fields of design, social science, and data science, as well as the PhD, MA/MFA and MSc and Advanced MSc programmes. His publications are associated with the many collaborative research projects that he has led and been part of that spanned sectors including design research, the digital economy, creative industries, and human-computer interaction.
Chris was Founding Director of the £7.4m Creative Informatics R&D Partnership, one of the nine AHRC funded Creative Industries Clusters in the UK (2018-2024). Chris maintains ties to research projects with partners across the UK and Europe including being a former Co-I to the Next Stage Digital Economy Centre DECaDE led by Surrey with the Digital Catapult (2019-2025).
