Project Type: The Collective Curriculum >

Sept 14 2019>Scarlett Chetwin, Grace Lister and Aoife O’DohertyProtest Press.  “We are a collective which tries to champion design for good. We started this at Uni, and we wanted it to be a space for people to be creative, have opinions about current topics and use creativity to better the world in some way” This…

Sept 15 2019>Pierre Shaw and Kishan San School of Speculation. “We set up as a design school to democratise critical design. Critical design methodology is design that doesn’t produce affirmative things, and doesn’t serve the needs of capital… “ This session became a game based on a future scenario of London in 2023. The aim…

Sept 16 2019>Akvile Terminaite, Debbie Poon, and Michael TsangRCA, Information Experience Design “We feel that active listening is critical, not only in the design process, but in all our lives. The internet has driven us into these pockets and echo chambers of opinion. We want to expand people’s methods of listening and understanding others.” This…

Sept 16 2019>Ronnie and MariamGlobe and Bangabandu Primary Schools. “We wanted to give adults a chance to remember what it felt like to be really creative” This session invited adults who are strangers to each other to sit inside a Creative Potential Time Machine, and share moments of their creative past with two primary school…

Sept 17 2019>Katie IraniOpen. “OPEN draws on decolonial methods to explore our emotional positions in art and design praxis, and how our world views translate. We (re)think individual positions in terms of diversity, difference of experience, self-care, respect and positionality. ” This session used different text prompts as a starting point for a collective conversation,…

Sept 17 2019>Anne Pordes Bowers. “There is a growing need to democratise and decolonise future-gazing, to create visions informed by the full plurality of human experience and to challenge the power disparities and inequalities that are so often perpetuated. The global norths commitment to rationality dominates a narrative where technology plays a central role in…

Sept 18 2019>Deborah Szebekothinkpublic. “Modern Lifestyles have caused many of us to lose touch with the natural world, disconnecting us from our planet, the other species and each other.” This session was a Guided Sound Meditation using a gong. Inviting people to lay on the floor and visualise their connection and relationship to the natural…

Sept 18 2019>Sam Parkin “After reading – The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins – I got interested in the role design is playing in the age of the Anthropocene” This session talked us through the rise of rational thinking from the Industrial period, how this…

Sept 19 2019>Alice Osborne “This activity is designed to help people explore what it means to care, and understand their responsibility to care as a designer. I believe that design is one of the most powerful tools we have in shaping our world. That space for creativity and imagination and possibility is critical to help…