Presentation by Prof. Cameron Tonkinwise (UTS, Sydney)

Public Events during London Design Festival
19 September 2019
London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London.

The Social Design Institute, currently in its pilot year, is a new platform within UAL working across its six colleges. It aims to build on, connect and amplify the research and practice in social design and design for sustainability carried out by UAL’s staff and students, including its award-winning research centres and hubs. Bringing critical and contextual perspectives to research and practice in social design and design for sustainability, the Institute’s inaugural public events, which took place as part of London Design Festival 2019, in association with EMERGENCE – Design School Public Programme at LCC, included a research workshop, panel discussion and keynote by Professor Guy Julier, Aalto University.

Event:
Is social design: political?; utopian?; transformative?; necessary?

Panel:
Adam Thorpe (UAL), Cameron Tonkinwise (UTS, Sydney),​ Rebecca Earley (UAL), Patrycja Kaszynska (UAL and KCL), Daniella Jenkins – Chair (UAL and KCL).

Background:
The panel were invited to each prepare a 10-minute provocation responding to one or more of these questions:​
• Is social design political? To what extent? What follows from this?  ​
• Is social design utopian? What makes it possible/doable and what constrains it?​
• Is social design necessary? Are there any circumstances in which there should not be social design?​
• Can social design be transformative? Does it have the potential to also bring about change?

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