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Carlotta Allum

Carlotta Allum

Carlotta Allum is a practitioner, researcher and director and founder of the arts charity Stretch that works with prisoners and vulnerable groups in society. Her research is with the Design Against Crime Research Centre and Socially Responsive Design Hub who invited...

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Communicating Change

Communicating Change

Presencing Institute (PI), based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Centre for Organisational Learning, is an action research organisation focussed on systems change challenges using participative and awareness-based methods.   A core method developed...

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Fostering learner agency

Fostering learner agency

I recently attended 3 days of training at Huntington Research Schools on 'Metacognition and Self-regulated learning', based on the new guidance report published by the Education Endowment Foundation.   The training was very effective in developing my...

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Design Facilitator

Design Facilitator

In Sept 2018 I attended the Design4Health conference at Lab4Living – Sheffield Hallam University. This conference has been running for the last 8 years – its aim being to explore ‘how design practice and processes meet the challenges of health and wellbeing in the...

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Designing Circular User Behaviours (DCUB)

Designing Circular User Behaviours (DCUB)

Designing Circular Users Behaviours (DCUB) is a research project that explores the potential of experiential design in activating Circular Economy frameworks and policies (technical systems), in order to enable consumer goods brands to create products, services and...

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Konstantinos Chalaris

Konstantinos Chalaris

Konstantinos is an educator, design researcher and practitioner, bridging academic research and industry practice with a particular interest in sustainable design.   Konstantinos has been practising architecture and design since his graduation from the Royal...

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Another Land

Another Land

  (Image: Jane Madsen, Running at the Edge)   5 April – 29 June 2019   Private View 4 April 2019 6.30pm – 8.30pm   Kingston Museum Wheatfield Way Kingston Upon Thames KT1 2PS   Another Land is an exhibition and events programme, devised and produced by...

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