UTS Design: Cameron Tonkinwise x Lucy Kimbell

Prof. Lucy Kimbell in conversation with Prof. Cameron Tonkinwise

on Design | Futures | Policy | Politics 

Designers design futures. Futurists design designs. Designers help policy designers. Policy makers design futures. Educators create social futures through students. How can the creative design of futures help or even challenge policy makers as they (re)design policies? Is this a future that could be designing design education?

Professor Lucy Kimbell (Contemporary Design Practices, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London) convenes the Policy Futures Studio at CSM. Her research explores service design, social design and design for policy. She is co-director of the international Sustainable Transitions through Democratic Design Doctoral Network funded by the EU Marie Curie programme and led the Design and Public Policy Research Network funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. An innovator in post-graduate education, she taught design on the MBA at Said Business School, University of Oxford for 15 years, delivered executive education in design thinking and service design, and helped set up the MBA at Central Saint Martins. She is serving on REF 2029 Sub-panel 32: Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory.

Professor Cameron Tonkinwise (Design Studies, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney) is an international expert in design studies and transition design. He writes and speaks extensively on the power of design to drive systems-level change to achieve more sustainable and equitable futures.His expertise has reshaped traditional thinking around how designers should be educated, and he has established Design Studies programs at the Parsons The New School for Design (New York), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and UTS, among others, that have transformed international design curricula. He has written a number of influential articles on design thinking, design ethics, design research and speculative design.

6.15pm for a 6.30pm start

Architecture Foyer is Level 5, directly behind the lifts

UTS Building 6, 702 Harris Street Ultimo.

The talk will be recorded, please RSVP to be emailed a link after the event.

This event is the first in a series of conversations, workshops and barstool lectures presented by UTS School of Design interrogating the opportunities, challenges, and responsibilities of Design in uncertain times.