In 2021, our partners Chatham House will host a series of events investigating how radical design ideas can shape HEALTH, WORK, ENVIRONMENT and SOCIETY in the run up to London Design Biennale. The events will bring together a panel of experts to discuss the crises we face, how the policy and design communities can respond, and showcase select submissions. Register now to join the conversation, free and open to all.

Redesigning Health: Radical design ideas to keep us healthy, now and in the future
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 13.00-14.00 GMT

Great design thinking can play a major role in improving our health and wellbeing and strengthening our resilience to illness. It can provide us with the information we need to keep healthy and enable access to healthcare for all. Innovations in design can improve health through the objects we use every day, the societies in which we live and the systems and supply chains through which we receive treatment. 

In this virtual event, a panel of designers and policy experts will come together to discuss how design has responded to the immediate health crisis brought about by COVID-19, the broader role it can play in shaping health outcomes, and the role of policy in bringing about innovations in how we better design systems for everyone’s health benefit.

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Redesigning Work: Radical design ideas to reshape work and wellbeing
Tuesday, 23 February 2021, 13.00-14.00 GMT

COVID-19 has challenged long-standing assumptions about working life. Not only have there been huge shifts in where people work, but also the types of work that are most valuable to society. As working practices are in flux, design can reshape what we want from work in the 21st century and how work and life are organized. In this event we’ll ask, how can design thinking create work that is more people-centred, and what new systems, organisations or business models could emerge?

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Redesigning for the Environment: Radical design ideas to build greener economies and communities
Tuesday 30 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 we’ll ask, 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? 

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Redesigning Society: Radical design ideas for inclusive and equal societies
Tuesday 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?

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Redesigning the Future: Radical design ideas from the next generation
Tuesday 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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