In Spring 2021, permaculture designer Anna Locke and I ran a project for the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, Sussex. Citizens are Designers was delivered as part of their Care and Citizenship programme. We produced a shareable design resource, an easy-to-use design tool to help members of the local community become designers for local, […]
Social change
Cultural probes as discursive objects
Making as a design practice is a successful way of engaging participants in dialogue about specific topics. I have developed a workshop based around ‘reciprocity’ (between humans and non-human worlds) as a specific concept within commons/-ing. Participants are given clear instructions for making a kaleidoscope from materials provided. They are asked to collect small items […]
Design as Future Making
Historically design has pushed humans further from nature and seen nature as utilitarian. As Tham states, design has been the instrument that distinguishes humans from nature.1 Today, designers are working on design with nature practices that help ‘people develop a sense of treasuring nature’.2 More importantly designers should be working collaboratively with other disciplines and […]
Speculating… from my lockdown window
During the first national lockdown I was set a project by one of our lecturers. The tasks was to create a single piece of work based on a view from a window. I chose to reimagine the view from my garden as a large-scale urban forest garden. The diagram below shows a 7 acre space, […]