Category: Social Justice
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Design Pedagogy for Changemaking
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…
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Transition Living Lab UAL: LCC Design School
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…
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Making Connections
Updates Join our online co-design here UAL’s People and Culture department and Social Purpose Lab aim to commission a service design review of the infrastructure, processes and systems for informal staff voice at UAL, with a goal of improving the connections between the grassroots energy, ambition and imagination of our staff community and our decision-making…
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UAL Knowledge Exchange Awards
Two projects involving Service Futures Lab members won the Knowledge Exchange Awards at University of the Arts London in September 2024 We won: People’s Prize in the Equity and Diversity category for Transition Living Lab Team: Malé Lujan Escalante, Silvia Grimaldi And: Special Commendation in the R&D Innovation category for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:…
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Design Methods for Social Justice
The third event in this year’s Service Futures Lab Public Event series is a roundtable discussion chaired by Dr. Silvia Grimaldi, focussing on how we design for social justice. Speakers from industry and academia will present short case studies of their work and explain how they adjusted their design approaches, practices and methods to focus on…
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Good Help for Families in Camden After Covid
Camden Family Changemakers was a co-design project carried out in 2021 between Camden Council’s family services team, parents and family members residing in Camden, London College of Communication (LCC) MA Service Design and MA Data Visualisation students, two MA Service Design alumni, five academic staff members, the Service Futures Lab at LCC and the UAL’s Public…
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EDI in the Foundation Industries
“Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI): Future-Proofing Your Workforce” was funded by UKRI through the Transforming the Foundation Industries Network + project (TFIN+). The purpose of the project is to model an approach to EDI learning and development that enables each Foundation Industry (FI) partner to benefit from a uniquely bespoke development package that responds to…
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EDI and Inclusive Design
This is a framework for people in any role within a design-driven organisation or within product and digital teams, focussing on both Inclusive Design and on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Designed by Dr Silvia Grimaldi with Veron Lai, Meghana Shailendra and Yini Zheng, together with a group of co-designers, this framework is meant to be…
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Co-design your place Erasmus+
The programme prepares young people (<30) to be changemakers, designers and leaders in regenerated areas. During 18 months of intensive, educational and practical workshops, we designed and implement two services supporting the urban renewal by social inclusion, created a publication and a handbook, and hosted a conference and workshops. Project Handbook: Grimaldi, S. et al.…
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Pharma Factory
This EU Horizon 2020 project is a collaboration involving five biotech SMEs and four academic institutions across Europe. The LCC team, led by Prof. Alison Prendiville and including Dr. Silvia Grimaldi, Dr. Rosie Hornbuckle and Dr. Lara Salinas from UAL and SFL, worked with St George’s University on the public engagement work package, using participatory…
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