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We are hosting a digital series in collaboration with Chatham House, our partners for Design In An Age of Crisis. These sessions investigate how radical design ideas can shape HEALTH, WORK, ENVIRONMENT and SOCIETY in the run up to London Design Biennale 2021. Join our a panel of experts in engaging with the crisis we face, and explore how design communities can respond, while highlighting projects from our gallery of submissions.
Tune in to these Sessions below
Redesigning Society: Radical design ideas for inclusive and equal societies
27 April, 13.00-14.00 GMT
With so much unconscious or unspoken bias in design, taking a more humanity-centred and participatory approach to design will help to empower all members of our society – across divides of race, gender, ability and age. In this event we’ll ask, if design thinking can be focused on helping the most vulnerable or marginalized members of society, could we end up with the best design outcome for everyone?
Redesigning for the Environment: Radical design ideas to build greener economies and communities
23 March 2021, 13.00-14.00 GMT
Radical design thinking can deliver transformative policies and ideas to build a more environmentally sustainable world, from increasing biodiversity in our landscapes and localities to creating new more sustainable materials. Innovations can disrupt food production methods, waste systems and transport systems to name a few.
In this virtual event, Oksana Bondar, Director of Design, Biohm; Daniel Raven-Ellison, National Park City Founder, Center for London and Professor Peter Rees, Professor of Places and City Planning, UCL, The Bartlett School of Planning, Faculty of the Built Environment addressed what radical design ideas could protect our environment and build resilience in the face of the diverse and bigger shocks to come from the climate and biodiversity crises.
Redesigning Work: Radical design ideas to reshape work and wellbeing
23 February 2021, 13.00-14.00 GMT
At this event, Ana Yang was joined by Professor Jeremy Myerson, Director, WORKTECH Academy & Helen Hamlyn Chair of Design, Royal College of Art, Nasim Köerting, Head of Design at The Office Group and Federica Saliola, Lead Economist, Jobs Group, World Bank.
Watch as they approach questions around the future of work: how can design thinking create work that is more people-centred? What new systems or business models could emerge?
Redesigning Health: Radical design ideas to keep us healthy, now and in the future
26 January 2021, 13.00-14.00 GMT
In this virtual talk, Ana Yang was joined by Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio, plus Emma Ross and Professor David Harper from Chatham House. Watch their discussion on how design has responded to the immediate health crisis brought about by COVID-19.
They addressed questions like, how can we move from illness to wellness? How can great design thinking play an important role in improving our health and wellbeing?
Redesigning the Future: Radical design ideas from the next generation
25 May 2021, 13.00-14.00 GMT
The final event in the run up to the London Design Biennale will bring together a panel of influencers, experts and young people to ask, how do we design the future we want? With a mixture of in-person and online attendance, the event will culminate in a preview exhibition at Chatham House of some of the most exciting submissions that could reshape our future.
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