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 →