Co-Lead by: Malé Luján Escalante and Ella Britton, UAL:LCC Design School

A UAL collaboration between LCC: MA Service Design and LCC: MA Design for Social Innovation and Sustainable Futures in partnership with Inner Development Goals Network, London Community and Kiranjot, consulting on spiritual and embodiment dimensions. Inspired by Utopia as Method, this brief invites Masters students to form collaborations with more-than-human systems and co-create tangible new design tools that:

1) Challenge design-thinking conventions.

2) Enhance/Mobilise/Activate IDG framework with an emphasis on nature engagement, spiritual connection and pluriversal—rather than universal—approaches.

These are tools that invite the spiritual, political, pleasurable, embodied, and material futures. These will be useful and convivial tools to support the changemaker’s inner work in the context of degrowth and will be tested and exhibited within the IDGN community (and beyond!)

Practice is informed by the following bodies of work:

• Utopia as Method
• Prefigurative Futures
• Pluriversal Approach: thinking-feeling with the bodies
• More-than-human System Thinking
• Kundalini Yoga

Read the full brief here A matter of inner work