Gathering in London for our first training week
In November 2024, the UAL Doctoral School was buzzing for a week as over 40 people including doctoral students, academics and partners gathered for the first training week of CoDesign4Transitions.
The week consisted of a busy programme of keynotes, panel events, workshops, Q&As, sense-making, open-mic, and social sessions with contributions from staff across UAL including speakers Dr Matt Malpass (CSM), Dr Adriana Cobo Corey (CSM), Dr Victoria Odeniyi (Decolonising Arts Institute), Dr Anna Troisi (Creative Computing Institute) and supervisors in the network along with colleagues from the Transition Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, recent CSM PhD graduate Dr Daniella Jenkins from University of Bristol, specialist transition design co-operative Holon from Barcelona as well as other collaborators. Outputs from the network will be shared in an online knowledge base, two international conferences, policy briefings and other media between now and the end of 2028.
Professor Lucy Kimbell at Central Saint Martins, who co-leads the network and programmed the London training week said, “It was exciting for the network to come together in person to start exploring what a new research field will be to use design to respond to the collective challenge of climate transitions in a context of contestation and need for citizen-centred innovation.”
Story adapted from the UAL website