Transition Living Lab

International Collaborative Student Challenge

Lead by: Malé Luján Escalante, Chris Mortimer, Akino Tahir

This is an international collaboration of UAL: LCC and UAL: LCF and two Indonesian Universities. In this challenge MA students responded to a brief to co-create an intervention (workshop, activity, session, etc.) that will be part of the Transition Living Lab, a training program for displaced people interested in becoming change-makers and creative-activists in their own communities.

Students, working in teams, were invited to apply creative and designerly methods and themes from their own MA courses into co-creating an upskilling intervention. These interventions followed the ethos of learning-by-doing, and they were intended to be participative, engaging, hands-on and applied.

The briefs explored the following priorities:

  • Design System Innovation Framework (Extended double diamond)
  • Transition Design
  • Utopia as Method
  • Pluriversal Approaches

This Challenge is part of the pedagogical agenda of the Refugee Transition Network, an AHRC international Networking Project that explore Transition Design in the context of displaced population.

This initiative was supported by LCC: International Office.

Partners and Projects

Guest Lectures

Workshops and Inititives

Conferences and Exhibitions

Awards

  • UAL Knowledge Exchange Awards

    UAL Knowledge Exchange Awards

    Malé Luján Escalante, UAL:LCC Design School Transition Living Lab was honoured by receiving the UAL People’s Award for excellence in their knowledge exchange work in the category ‘Equity and Diversity’. This reassured us in our endeavours and was a cause for celebration, especially for our refugee participants.