Refugee Transition Network (RTN) – AHRC International Networking Project and The Service Futures Lab, partnered to create a participatory experience that brought together the Lab’s stakeholders, UAL scholars and researchers, NGO’s organisations working in social purpose, refugee partners and participants from the RTN network, PGT students and MA Service Design Alumni, around ideas, music, rituals, magic, stories, theatre of the oppressed, and movement, all with a critical emancipatory twist.
The event celebrated the end of the AHRC networking project by sharing lessons learned from the journey of imagining transition actions in the context of displaced populations, across UK and Indonesia.
The event opened a discussion that considers lived experience, creative practices and epistemological diversity as ways to, not just, disrupt academic colonizing systems of knowledge, but also, as catalysers of political activation and spiritual connection.
“For young people arriving in London alone without networks, contacts or knowledge of our systems or customs, it’s incredibly important to be connected with wider civil society, to meet people outside of their own environment and to feel that people care for them and value their contributions. Therefore getting to take part in an educational process that they wouldn’t otherwise have known about, and having their contributions acknowledged and remunerated was a really positive experience for them and for Revoke collaborating with HE organisations for first time”.
Partners: AHRC Refugee Transition Network, UAL MA Service Design
Credits:
Contribution from our critical friends:
Dr Malé Luján Escalante – UAL:LCC MA Service Design, Service Futures Lab
Dr Akino Tahir – Resilience Development Initiative
Lizzie Harrison – University of the West of England
Vivienne Kuh – University of Bristol
Marion Lagedamont – UAL:LCC Design School, Service Futures Lab
Dr Bruna Ferreira Montuori – UAL:LCC MA Design for Art Direction
Drum Works
Students & Alumni from UAL:LCC MA Service Design
Thank you to the young people from Revoke, who hosted the event and participated.
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