Mcara, Marianne, Prosser, Zoe and Ross, Kirsty (2026) Materialising Ecologies of Intelligences: learning to design with and within more-than-human systems. In: Design Research Society 2026 Conference, 8-12 June 2026, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Mcara, Marianne (2026) Generative AI and the Climate Crisis: materialising AI literacy through design. In: Digital Design for Planetary Care: The Hidden Environmental Cost of the Digital World. Bloomsbury, London.

Mcara, Marianne (2025) Cultural Assets and Vernacular Materials: exploring changing landscapes and sustainable development across Borneo’s craft sector. In: AMPS Heritages 2025, 25-27 June 2025, University of Greenwich, London.

Mcara, Marianne and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers (2025) Engaging Young People in Heritage Contexts: design-led approaches to support collaborative participation within the cultural sector. In: Routledge Handbook of Co-creation and Collaboration in Museums, Heritage and the Arts. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781003222804 (eBook)

Teo, Wendy, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Dewanggamanik, Gamia and Mcara, Marianne (2024) Serumpun: crafts across borders. B. Crafts Atelier, Borneo. ISBN 978-629-98857-0-2

Mcara, Marianne, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Teo, Wendy and Dewanggamanik, Gamia (2023) Impact Report: Cultural Assets & Vernacular Materials: exploring sustainability challenges in the creative economy (SE Asia) through creative practice. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.

Ross, Kirsty, Mcara, Marianne, Chokappa, Anushree, Papanastasatou, Marily, Baumhauer, Caroline, Yegenoglu, Leon, Campbell, John and McGowan, Stevie (2023) Collaborative Futures: Open Citizenship and Data Experiences in Glasgow 2032. Project Report. GSA, Glasgow.

Mcara, Marianne, McHattie, Lynn-Sayers, Dewanggamanik, Gamia and Wendy, Teo (2022) Serumpun: crafts across borders. Borneo Cultures Museum, 3rd December 2022 onwards

Stewart, Lydia, Upsdale, Katie, Ross, Kirsty, Mcara, Marianne, Roche, Hannah and Fong, Amandine (2022) Collaborative Futures: Food Futures 2031. In: Service Design Global Conference 2022, 13-14 Oct 2022, Copenhagen.

Teal, Gemma, Mcara, Marianne, Riddell, Julie, Flowers, Paul, Coia, Nicky and McDaid, Lisa (2022) Integrating and Producing Evidence through Participatory Design. CoDesign, 19 (2). pp. 110-127. ISSN 1571-0882

Ross, Kirsty, Mcara, Marianne and Stewart, Lydia (2022) Glasgow's Food Future(s) Local Neighbourhoods of Social Innovation in 2031.

Ross, Kirsty, McGowan, Stevie, Mcara, Marianne, Moreaud, Mafalda, Fong, Amandine, Hamilton, Heather, Jamieson, Chris, Roche, Hannah, Stewart, Lydia and Upsdale, Katie (2022) Glasgow's Food Future(s) Local Neighbourhoods of Social Innovation in 2031. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.

Mcara, Marianne, Broadley, Cara, Simms, Harriet, Prosser, Zoe and Teal, Gemma (2021) Designing Distributed Community Participation. Project Report. GSA, Glasgow.

Mcara, Marianne and Ross, Kirsty (2021) Collaborative Futures: a pedagogical model for delivering future-focused and citizen-centred design education. In: Cumulus Roma 2021, 08-11 June 2021, Rome, Italy.

Ross, Kirsty and Mcara, Marianne (2021) Glasgow's Future Stories; Social innovation and Participatory Democracy in 2030. Online, January 2021

Mcara, Marianne and Ross, Kirsty (2020) Expanding Studio Boundaries: navigating tensions in multidisciplinary collaboration within and beyond the higher education design studio. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 39 (4). pp. 795-810. ISSN 1476-8070

Mcara, Marianne and McHattie, Lynn-Sayers (2020) Crafting Futures: Inspiring Interdisciplinary Innovation with Young Craft Artisans in Malaysia. Pages on Art and Design, 18. pp. 306-328. ISSN 1972-7887

Mcara, Marianne (2020) ‘Living in a Postcard’: creatively exploring cultural heritage with young people living in Scottish island communities. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 27 (2). pp. 233-249. ISSN 1352-7258

Mcara, Marianne and Ross, Kirsty (2020) Collaborative Futures. In: Speculative and Critical Design in Education: Practice and Perspectives, 8-9 July 2020.

Ross, Kirsty and Mcara, Marianne (2020) Collaborative Futures: Glasgow’s Future Citizens 2030.

Mcara, Marianne (2019) Modelling Experiential Knowledge Ethically: an artefact-based approach to visually documenting a participatory design process with young people. International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38 (3). pp. 583-598. ISSN 1476-8062

Mcara, Marianne (2018) Work/ Life: Exploring equality and inclusivity around how people work and live in Moray. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.

Mcara, Marianne (2018) Blending Participatory Video and Direct Animation; an experimental approach to Participatory Design. In: NERD2GO Conference: New Experimental Research in Design, 15–16 June 2018, Hildesheim, Germany.

Johnson, Michael, Smith, Madeline, Smith, Paul and Mcara, Marianne (2018) Leapfrog Evaluation Report. Project Report. Imagination Lancaster and The Glasgow School of Art.

Mcara, Marianne, Smith, Paul and Johnson, Michael (2018) Leapfrog: Community Engagement Challenges Exhibition Sharing approaches and tools for bringing people together, exchanging ideas and making stronger, more active communities. The Glasgow School of Art, 05-08 Feb 2018

Mcara, Marianne and Smith, Paul (2017) Leapfrog: Be Included: co-designing tools for person-centered evaluation of services for adults with learning difficulties. Project Report. imaginationLancaster and The Glasgow School of Art.

McAra, Marianne and Smith, Paul (2017) Leapfrog: Stories of Impact; co-designing tools that support new volunteers to transition into a new role and to articulate the impact of their volunteering. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster and The Glasgow School of Art.

Mcara, Marianne and Smith, Paul (2017) Leapfrog: Tackling Loneliness and Isolation; Tools to support social enterprises to share practice and to engage in conversation with service users. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster and The Glasgow School of Art.

Broadley, Cara and Mcara, Marianne (2017) Leapfrog Summer School 2017 Report: Exploring Community Engagement for Research: Power, Impact, & Collaboration. Project Report. Leapfrog.

Smith, Paul, Mcara, Marianne, Broadley, Cara and Johnson, Michael (2017) Leapfrog: Peer-to-peer Community Engagement. Project Report. ImaginationLancaster and The Glasgow School of Art.

Mcara, Marianne, Smith, Paul and Johnson, Michael (2017) Co-designed Tools: what happens after? A Leapfrog Dissemination Event. Creative Campus, Forres, June 2017

McAra, Marianne (2017) Participatory design with young people: exploring the experiential, relational and contextual dimensions of participation. PhD thesis, The Glasgow School of Art.

Mcara, Marianne (2016) Sustained Engagement to Create Resilient Communities: How a Collaborative Design Approach can Broker and Mobilise Practitioner–Participant Interaction. International Journal Of Art and Design Education, 35 (3). pp. 369-376. ISSN 1476-8062

Mcara, Marianne (2016) Bonding through Designing; how a participatory approach to videography can catalyse an emotive and reflective dialogue with young people. In: DRS 2016: Design + Research + Society: Future-focussed Thinking, 27-30 Jun 2016, Brighton, UK.

Mcara, Marianne and Broadley, Cara (2015) Wellbeing by Design: Creativity and Collaboration in Practice-based Inquiry – Project Report. Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art.

Mcara, Marianne (2015) Animating through Animation. Scottish Justice Matters: Poverty, Inequality and Justice, 3 (3). p. 15. ISSN 2052-7950

Broadley, Cara and McAra, Marianne (2014) Triumphs and Tensions in Informal Design Interactions: Confessions of a Designer. In: 19th DMI: Academic Design Management Conference Design Management in an Era of Disruption, 2–4 September 2014, London, UK.

Broadley, Cara and McAra, Marianne (2013) Making, using and interpreting design probes: how subjective is participation? In: DRS // CUMULUS – Design Learning for Tomorrow: Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD, 14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway.