Team
Based across the Royal College of Art, University of Sheffield or Walsalls’s MindKind Projects, we are a team of multidisciplinary designers and researchers with backgrounds in service design, policy design, participatory art, community solidarity movements, human rights, design for disaster and social innovation to name but a few!
Emily Boxall
Royal College of Art
Design Associate
Emily Boxall is a multi-disciplinary designer, maker and researcher focused on the power of people and communication to design for a better future. With a focus on social equality, social innovation, experimentation and collaboration, her work aims to tackle some of the biggest issues our society and planet faces through a positive perspective to motivate actual change.
After working as a knitwear designer for 5 years, she quit the fashion industry to focus on using design as a tool to motivate positive societal and environmental shifts. Since graduating from MA Material Futures at Central Saint Martins in 2020, she has worked as a freelance designer and consultant working on a range of projects, from designing sustainable luxury materials for LVMH, to working with policy makers in the UK government as part of the design team at Policy Lab.
Qian Sun
Royal College of Art
Principal investigator
Anna Jorgensen
University of Sheffield
Co-investigator
Sureya Gulzar
The MindKind Projects
Co-investigator
Madeline Dowd
Royal College of Art
Project co-ordinator
Amy Corcoran
Royal College of Art
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Yichao He
University of Sheffield
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Emily Boxall
Royal College of Art
Design associate
Nina Cutler
Royal College of Art
Design associate
Arif Yusop
Royal College of Art
Student design support