Author: Silvia

  • Feminist Futures: Health, Work & Spaces

    Feminist Futures: Health, Work & Spaces

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    Image by Team 3 What does it mean to design futures from a feminist perspective? How do we practice design in feminist ways? How are the futures of health, work and spaces reshaped when they are approached from an intersectional and LGBTQ+ inclusive feminist perspective?  For the 2026 Spring and Summer terms, these were the…

  • Feminist Futures: Health, Work, Spaces – Exhibition

    Feminist Futures: Health, Work, Spaces – Exhibition

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    Feminist Futures: Health, Work, Spaces MA Service Design, Design Futures Exhibition Friday 5th June, 4 to 6 PM. Free and open to the public. At the Treehouse in Elephant Park, SE17 1GW

  • Hongyi Zhu

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    Name: Hongyi Zhu PhD Title: Designing Gamified Entrepreneurial Support: A Service Design Tool for Prisoners PhD Abstract My PhD research explores how gamification can be integrated with Service Design and examines the practice potential of this combination within highly constrained carceral environments. The research is grounded in a practical challenge: while employment is widely recognised…

  • Jia Ying Chew

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    Name: Jia Ying Chew PhD Title: The Role of Design in Transdisciplinary Higher Education PhD Abstract:
As complex global challenges resist single-discipline solutions, universities have turned to transdisciplinary approaches — yet we still lack empirical understanding of how to teach these competences effectively. This doctoral study addresses implementation gaps through a two-part enquiry, investigating how design’s…

  • Ziwei Lin (Zoey)

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    NameZiwei Lin (Zoey) PhD TitleFrom Co-design to Co-governance: The Role of Service Design in Supporting Social Governance in Rural China Short abstract:This PhD looks into how service design might evolve from co-design to co-governance in rural China. Rather than focusing on one-time workshops, the study investigates the initial effort required to allow design to enter…

  • Crystal Zhang (Zhang, Lezhi)

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    Name: Crystal Zhang (Zhang, Lezhi) PhD Title:  Design Education for Eco-social Justice: Developing Object-based learning in Classroom Learning and Teaching (Working Title)  Short abstract: This practice-based doctoral research examines how artefacts can be designed and embedded in classroom teaching and learning to support engagement with eco-social justice (ESJ) in higher education (HE). Situated within object-based learning…

  • Centre for SocioDigital Futures Collaboration

    Centre for SocioDigital Futures Collaboration

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    (Repost of Paul Clarke’s blog post from https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/01/21/design-futures-and-collaborating-with-london-college-of-communication-watch-our-new-film/) In 2025, the Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF) at Bristol University collaborated with MA Service Design at London College of Communication (LCC), setting briefs for students on the Design Futures unit. The outcomes were presented in an exhibition in London, June 2025, which showcased a diverse range of speculative prototypes that explored emerging sociodigital challenges through the lens of critical service design. We have also produced a short film about the…

  • Co-Creating Futures: Service Design in Rural Governance in Pujiang County, Chengdu

    Co-Creating Futures: Service Design in Rural Governance in Pujiang County, Chengdu

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    Spotlight on Ziwei (Zoey)Lin’s PhD in Progress Project Description This project focuses on the application of service design in rural governance and revitalisation in China, with Pujiang County in Chengdu as the primary field site. Integrating co-design, participatory design, design for policy, and speculative design methods, the project explores how design can empower grassroots governance…

  • Design Pedagogy for Changemaking

    Design Pedagogy for Changemaking

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    Design Pedagogy for Changemaking What do we mean by changemaking? How can design research and design practice catalyse changemaking? And how to teach or train for changemaking via design or using design and creative methods? In this lecture Dr Silvia Grimaldi and Dr Malé Luján Escalante, respond to these key questions using examples to their…

  • Transition Living Lab UAL: LCC Design School

    Transition Living Lab UAL: LCC Design School

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    Image: Student work This is an international collaboration of UAL: LCC and UAL: LCF and two Indonesian Universities. In this challenge MA students responded to a brief to co-create an intervention (workshop, activity, session, etc.) that will be part of the Transition Living Lab, a training program for displaced people interested in becoming change-makers and…