Category: Transition Living Lab – Guest lectures

  • Design Pedagogy for Changemaking

    Design Pedagogy for Changemaking

    Malé Luján Escalante, Silvia Grimaldi, UAL:LCC MA Service Design

    So, what do we mean by changemaking? How design research and design practice can catalyse changemaking? And how to teach or train for changemaking via design or using design and creative methods? In this lecture Dr Silvia Grimaldi and Dr Malé Luján Escalante, trying to respond to these key questions for the challenge, using examples to their own practice, and grounded it in the pedagogical principles used at UAL:LCC MA Service Design. We discuss pedagogical principles informed by Design Justice, Bell Hooks, Fraire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Response-able Pedagogy Principles.


    Publications relating to the lecture

    Luján Escalante, M.A., Moffat, L., and Büscher, M. (2022) Ethics through design, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. Here →

    Mortimer, C., & Escalante, M. A. L. (2022). Responsable pedagogy: teaching through Shakespeare in a Higher Education (HE) transnational partnership. Culture and Organization, 28(3-4), 345-361. Here →

    Salinas, Lara and Grimaldi, Silvia and Lujan Escalante, Maria Alejandra and Ali, Hena and Lagedamont, Marion and Prendiville, Alison (2023) Teaching Service Design: pedagogical reflections. In: ServDes 2023, 11-12 July 2023, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here →

  • Doing Multi-Sited Ethnography Research with Refugee Youths

    Doing Multi-Sited Ethnography Research with Refugee Youths

    Transition Living Lab, Guest Lecture Series

    Realisa Darathea Masardi, Department of Anthropology Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

    Dr. Masardi is a lecturer in Department of Anthropology Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. She has extensive experience in doing ethnography research on young people in migrants and refugees’ communities, on youth cultures, and on youths’ social navigations.

  • Weaving the Past, Present, and Future for Refugee Youth in Transit

    Weaving the Past, Present, and Future for Refugee Youth in Transit

    Transition Living Lab, Guest Lecture Series

    Akino Tahir, Resilience Development Initiative, Indonesia

    Dr. Akino Tahir is an independent researcher working on the youth, migration and urban management, affiliated with Resilience Development Initiative (RDI), Indonesia. In 208, she founded RDI’s Urban Refugee Research Group that focuses on the intersection of forced displacement and urban management.

  • Decolonising Design, Design Activism, and Social Change

    Decolonising Design, Design Activism, and Social Change

    Francesco Mazzarella, UAL:LCF Centre for Sustainable Fashion

    Transition Living Lab, Guest Lecture Series

    Francesco is a designer researcher, educator, and activist, striving to plant seeds of hope and change, especially working with marginalised communities. He is a Reader in Design for Social Change, teaching in a number of courses across LCF, UAL, especially on MA Fashion Futures.