From walks and talks to workshops, seminars, exhibitions and activations, explore our archive of the Carnival of Crisis programme which took place over the Autumn Term 2021.
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CARNIVAL BASECAMP
BASECAMP was a temporary action, production and reflection space taking over The Street at the heart of CSM during COP26
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Entangled Futures: Microplastics Lab
Hosted at Grow Lab at CSM Entangled Futures start with a shift of perspectives, exploring the micro-world of plastic
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Climate Emergency Roundtable: Culture as Cornerstone
In response to the COP26 Climate Summit: staff and students from UAL and GSA, guests from across the Higher Education and Cultural sectors discuss three topics over two afternoons
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Drop-in Workshop: Embodied Values
Clare Farrell, CSM Short Courses tutor & co-founder of XR joined us for an informal drop-in workshop repurposing textiles for our Carnival Parade
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Carole Collet, Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures and Director of Maison/0
Design Museum: Design with the Living
How do we design for a planetary emergency? This two-day symposium discussed how designing with and for living systems can shape our future.
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It's Freezing in LA x Carnival of Crisis
IFLA! publishes bright writing that sheds new light into environmental concerns and ideas, enlivened by vibrant illustration
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Collecting in a Climate Crisis
What are the ways in which institutions have been collecting activism?
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Maria Roy Deulofeu, MA Material Futures, Central Saint Martins
Change Agents: Canopy Market Takeover
The Climate Emergency Network, Post-Grad Community and Not Just a Shop have teamed up to put on a 3-day market at Kings Cross Canopy Market
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Do The Green Thing: Creativity vs the Climate Crisis
Pentagram Partner and Do The Green Thing co-founder Naresh Ramchandani will lead a discussion on the evolution of DTGT’s work
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Fungi as a Method Workshop
What if non-anthropocentric strategies could help build a healthier future?
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Maison/0 Breakfast drop-in with Carole Collet
Sustainable Futures & Director of Maison/0, Carole Collet hosted a drop-in regenerative design surgeries at CSM
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Pentagram Workshop: Poster Power
This hands-on workshop asked participants to cut, paste and protect the planet with their very own climate crisis protest poster
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Research within Crisis: Doctoral research responses to climate emergency
UAL doctoral researchers share their research-in-progress related to ecology, sustainability and climate justice
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Entangled Futures: Tuning In To Soil
Syncing the rhythmic interrelationships within the microcosm, soil becomes a relevant contemporary character in a story of ecology
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Regenerative Design: Can design become an act of caring?
How do we leverage the agency of creativity to help regenerate our biodiversity, climate and communities
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Image credit: Lauren Vaughan
not just a shop presents: Creative companies with a conscience
How to start and grow an ethical product or making business and what you should consider in the production-to-market journey.
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Parade for Climate Justice!
On Wednesday 10 November, all of UAL's colleges took part in t in a show of solidarity and unity parading for climate justice
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Forest Talks: Competition
Exploring how justice and fairness are influencing the way we treat nature and forests in the climate negotiations
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Crafting New Social Economies
At this online roundtable, we explored: how can we craft new social economies and mobilise creative action in an age of emergency
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Embodying Local Knowledges Symposium
With the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis spreading worldwide, we continue to rethink how to coexist with other living beings on Earth
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Entangled Futures: The Value Behind The Land
How can Philosophy, Decolonising Geography, Art and Conservation expect not one but a complex of ethical values when conceiving the Land
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Design at Analapa, Photography by Marie Stenton
Waste-me-not Symposium
The LCF PhD Research Hub question: Can waste be permanently designed out of the fashion lifecycle?
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Entangled Futures: Ecofeminism Reading Group
Ecofeminism reading group is an opportunity to educate ourselves on the power behind the patriarchy when it comes to the planet
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Climate Emergency Interactive
Post COP Climate catch-up
UAL students and staff come together to create an interactive film about the climate emergency
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Circular Economy Amsterdam
World Circular Textiles Day
UAL’s Centre for Circular Design (CCD) marking World Circular Textiles Day
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Living Systems Lab: Rewilding Art & Design
Introducing different ways that living systems principles can enable us to explore new creative models
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© 2021 Walking Forest
Walking Forest: a collaborative ten-year artwork
The first of The Glasgow School of Art's year long series 'Close Of Play: Climate Emergency and Creative Action
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Satellite image showing a deforested territory in Amazonia. Google Earth, 2021.
Planetary Health — a creative sanatorium
The creative sanatorium is a series of linked sessions exploring the discourse of Planetary Health
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Looking through the agapanthus (Chelsea Physic Garden) by Charlie Hopkinson
Planetary Health — a creative sanatorium
The creative sanatorium is a series of linked sessions exploring the discourse of Planetary Health, with meetings online and in-person
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Entangled Futures: The Plastisphere
Adventure expedition to the materiality of plastics from the roots of its Anthropogenic synthesis to the eco-social narrative of its journey
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Art for the Environment: Conversation, with Veronica Sekules and Rebecca Faulkner
Art for the Environment: In Conversation with Veronica Sekules and Rebecca Faulkner
Art for the Environment: Conversation, with Veronica Sekules and Rebecca Faulkner
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Image by John Lang, COP26 explainer infographic, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit.
LCC Climate Advocates Present: UNDERSTANDING COP AND POWER
An interactive debate in which we will explain & share ideas and thoughts about COP & the role of governments & institutions
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Nexus Architecture © Studio Orta
'Being Human’ keynote: Professor Lucy Orta and Professor Ramia Mazé
Close Of Play: Climate Emergency and Creative Action
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Challenging Times: Urgent Work / Radical Networks / Immediate Spaces
Focusing on the climate emergency and how it intersects with issues of race
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Spatial Practices Forest Talks: Wilderness
What happens if we listen to the Forest? Spatial Practices Forest Talks
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Entangled Futures: Mapping an ecological mind
Imagine a future by mapping the current ecological change at a wide range of levels, dimensions, backgrounds, and experience
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Power Pack: Climate Emergency, by Jacob V Joyce and Rudy Loewe, 2021. Design by Shining Studio. Serpentine Education. Photo: Mike Din
Challenging Times: The Challenge to the Climate Movement from the Global South
Challenging Times is a series of online talks from the Culture and Enterprise Programme at Central Saint Martins
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Entangled Futures: Eco-anxiety Talking Circle
Eco-anxiety is a non-judgemental and free of expression talking circle that encourages support among students' well-being
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Research at the Manifest Data Lab, (photograph Tom Corby, 2020)
Ask a Climate Scientist: COP, Science, Culture and Politics
Catastrophic climate change is here NOW. Meet some of the scientists that have been working behind the scenes to inform discussions at COP26
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Book Presentation: Meaningful Stuff: Design that Lasts
The School of Design's Jonathan Chapman presented his book, "Meaningful Stuff: Design that Lasts