This two‑day workshop explores the potential ecological and social value of art and design education, and asks how creative learning in all its forms can become more open, more collective and more connected to the world around us. Together, we’ll experiment with what a design school could be when it opens itself up – beyond institutional walls, across ages and backgrounds, and into the public spaces where knowledge is already being made and exchanged. Through collaborative tools, playful experimentation and real‑world testing, we’ll imagine and build our own DIY design school, one that reflects the futures we want to learn our way into.
Ella Britton leads the MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures at London College of Communication, where she cultivates a community of creative practitioners exploring design as a cultural, ethical and political practice. Her work champions participatory methods, ecologies of care and imaginative action. She is also developing practice‑based research on the relationship between Primary School art education and Higher Education. – She has previously been a research resident at the V&A, investigating how design strategy can shape the future of cultural and educational institutions. During this time she founded the Collective Design School, experimenting with new models of collectivism in both formal and informal learning.
DAY ONE
- We will work together on envisioning and re-imagining the role of an Art and Design School in our current world
- Using some creative tools, we will define a series of principles from which we will create and structure a new curriculum, and approach
- We will develop DIY ideas for how we will 'pop-up' our new school in the Magistrale of our university
DAY TWO
- We will go out into the Magistrale of HSBI's main building and open-up our design school
- Exploring new ways of exchanging and building knowledge
- The workshop on the second day is public and open to visitors
Zielgruppe: Studierende, die am Seminar »Zine for Future« teilnehmen, sowie Besucher:innen des Workshops in der Magistrale des HSBI Hauptgebäudes (2. Tag)
Räume:
- 1. Tag: FB Gestaltung, R 143
- 2. Tag: Magistrale HSBI Hauptgebäude
