“The great project for design is to help people decarbonise their lives”

Adapting Together Symposium Film

Adapting Together: How can we all play a part in climate action?’ was a symposium for equitable climate action at Lancaster University in a collaboration between ImaginationLancaster – Lancaster University’s design-led research lab – and Future Observatory – a national programme for design research supporting the UK’s response to the climate crisis at the Design Museum.

With case studies from Lancashire, London, Birmingham and Bristol – spanning e-waste and repair, community housing, civic placemaking and grass-roots, collective action – and inviting expert, local responses to those case studies, we asked how we might respond equitably to the climate crisis. The symposium film asks the speakers to ask why equity matters when it comes to climate action and presents examples of design research, environmental and community led, collective action across the UK.

Speaker details are listed below the film. Read more about the symposium by reading Read Future Observatory’s report on the symposium here:

Speakers

• Akil Scafe-Smith, Co-founder of RESOLVE Collective
• Amahra Spence, Co-founder and Creative Director of MAIA 
• Cher Potter, Curatorial Director of Future Observatory at the Design Museum
• Danielle Purkiss, Research Fellow at the UCL Plastic Waste Innovation Hub and Institute of Making
• Immy Kaur, Co Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE
• Irtiza Nasar, Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London’s Creative Computing Institute 
• Jo Bambrough, Co Founder of Good Things Collective
• Professor Jennie Popay, Director of Lancaster University’s Centre for Health Inequalities Research
• Justin McGuirk, Chief Curator of the Design Museum and Director of Future Observatory
• Laurie Peake, Director of Super Slow Way
• Mark Davies, Chief Executive of Lancaster City Council
• Melissa Mean, Director of We Can Make
• Dr Mike Stead, Principal Investigator of ImaginationLancaster’s The Repair Shop 2049
• Professor Nick Dunn, Executive Director of ImaginationLancaster and Chair of Urban Design at Lancaster University
• Dr Serena Pollastri, Principal Investigator of Lancaster University’s Morecambe Bay Timescapes

This symposium is funded by Research England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which are both part of UK Research and Innovation.

Film by Wash Studio https://www.washstudio.co.uk/