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Envisioning future practices and institutions for just climate transitions

To investigate and integrate studies of co-design, curation, systems innovation and climate transitions to understand the potential for citizen co-creation. To design, produce, test and critically assess creative media outputs envisioning and articulating future practices and institutions for climate transitions for use in citizen engagement projects (practice research). To synthesise results and produce a conceptual framework for designers, businesses, government and civil society organisations using creative approaches. Expected results: Validated visual or media prototypes of future practices and institutions for climate transitions, with accompanying analysis.

This doctoral project will include mixed approaches of qualitative research, literature review, case study analysis, surveys, interviews, co-design workshops, data analysis, conceptual framework development, prototype development, validation of framework, practical recommendation development. MOME and the CoDesign4Transitions network will support the DC to obtain and develop skills required to conduct this research.

CHORA (Netherlands) (3 months) with mentor Emilia Lischke to explore opportunities for using creative, visual, spatial, three-dimensional, interactive methods to propose and explore future innovation spaces and practices for just climate transitions.
Democratic Society (Belgium) (6 months) mentor Elizabeth Calderon to share, test and evaluate the creative visual or media artefacts developed through practice research within a community deliberation project within DemSoc’s activities.