Climate Emergency

Our work involving disaster preparedness, climate resilience and sustainability involves a place-based and community-based approach. We believe that such complex challenges require the inclusion and empowerment of local communities, in order to truly develop effective and sustainable solutions.

Societal Readiness Framework

Purpose SoRA is a framework to support reflexive assessment and improvement of Societal Readiness. SoRA has been created in collaboration with experts, innovators and policy makers. The assessment consists of four dimensions that relate to carbon reduction, social justice, social good and alignment with preferable future systems. SoRA facilitates alignment with carbon reduction targets, better…

UAL Climate Systems Mapping

Image: Alice Blencowe, UAL Climate Systems mapping project, Collaborative Mapping Session, 2024 This pilot research project is motivated by the commitment to net-zero emissions in UAL’s Climate Action Plan and UAL’s Strategy 2022-32 and, beyond science-based targets, UAL’s commitment to social purpose and justice. UAL – like all HEIs and organisations – will be challenged…

Climate Emergency Visual Action Plan

Purpose Climate Emergency Action Plans are highly complex, involving multiple actors from across sectors. The most immediate challenge, to enable collaboration both inside the local government and with external organisations, is to communicate the multiple lines of actions and operational objectives. This information is held in different parts of the organisations, and in documents with…

UAL Climate Studio

UAL Climate Studio is a 6-months collaboration between three UAL colleges to develop an urban network of citizens, organisations and government to support collaborative place-based climate action.

PNK Garden

PNK Garden is a local gardening project in South London, on a land that had previously been disused for over 30 years. PNK Garden is fully independent, self-managed, self-funded, shared and free to access.

CoDesign4Transitions

CoDesign4Transitions is a four-year doctoral network (2024-28) that brings together eight universities in seven countries (Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK) who will recruit and supervise a cohort of 13 transdisciplinary Doctoral Candidates (DCs).

Paint & Plant

A series of community events to support cross-pollination between UAL student communities and local communities.