What could Regenerative Research Futures look like? Complex social and environmental challenges require complex interdisciplinary teams that can collaborate across multiple research methods to impact positive change. If the current PhD model supports individual research excellence, what would a collaborative, practice based, life-long research programme look like?

This workshop, facilitated by Royal Society of the Arts Oceania Director Philipa Duthie and Chris Speed, Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures, invites PRS participants to reimagine new models of working that flip the value of learning from the attainment of personal qualifications, to participation and collaborative learning within ecological, social and economic grand challenges.

Facilitators

Philipa Duthie is the Oceania Director of the RSA, a global social change orgaisation working to unite people and ideas in collective action to regenerate our world. A life-long learner, researcher, convenor and story-teller, Philipa has spent the last 3 years engaging audiences around regenerative futures.

Chris Speed FRSE, FRSA is Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, where he collaborates with a wide variety of communities and partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt toward becoming a regenerative society. Chris has an established track record in directing large complex grants and educational programmes with academic, industry and third sector partners, that apply design and data methods to social, environmental and economic challenges.

The DSC Doctoral Research Conference brings together the College's three existing symposia – Practice Research Symposium (PRS), Urban Futures Symposium and Social Change Symposium – to create a shared space for innovation, sustainability and resilience aligned with the theme of regenerative futures.