Institute for Design Innovation Speaker Series
The Institute for Design Innovation has organised a Speaker Series to bring together a mix of academics and practitioners discuss issues relating to design innovation.
Designing the Commons Seminar Series
This seminar series is organised by the Institute for Design Innovation, Loughborough University London as part of the ‘Counter-Framing Design‘ project.
The concept of the commons is mutable and its relevance in the age of digital capitalism hotly contested. Yet, at the onset of the COVID crisis, new commons emerged that responded to frontline struggles in crucial and urgent ways – through the formation of solidarity networks, digital knowledge commons to contest hegemonic digital infrastructures and support mutual aid, alongside community groups who acted to reclaim decaying public spaces in the face of physical distance measures. At the same time, concepts of commons emerge in new visions of the Welfare state (Cottam, 2020)*, that risk being jeopardised by idealist interpretations thereof. Conceiving the commons as a shared collective practice, this interdisciplinary seminar series will focus on these issues and debates to unravel the relevance of commons today, through the lens of design.
Upcoming events
Date | Time | Title | Speaker | Room |
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26 November 2020 | 10am-11.15am |
Commoning Care in Grassroots Maker Communities |
Dr Cindy Kohtala (Aalto University, FI) |
MS Teams |
3 December 2020 | 10am-11.15am |
Designing the Cultural Commons |
Dr Torange Khonsari (Director of Public Works) |
MS Teams |
10 December 2020 | 10am-11.15am |
Undoing Optimization: Seeking solidarity through the commons |
Dr Alison Powell (Ada Lovelace Institute) |
MS Teams |
17 December 2020 | 10am-11.15am |
Design and Changing Institutions: The Case of Commonfare |
Dr Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University, Denmark) |
MS Teams |
Past events
Date | Time | Title | Speaker | Room |
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21 November 2019 | 10am-11am |
Sexuality and the (de)stabilising power of algorithms |
Prof Kate O’ Riordan (University of Sussex) |
LDN.3.23 |
10 December 2019 | 1pm-2pm |
Changing Everything – Can Metadesign do this? |
Professor John Wood (University of Wales Trinity St. David) |
Future Space |