The Redesign Youth Futures team
This exciting initiative was made possible by the University of the Arts London’s Strategic Priority Fund. It is made up of a partnership with key individuals including Alison Frater, Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, Lorraine Gamman and Adam Thorpe of the Design Against Crime Research Centre, Shane Carey and Louis Edwards of Reprezent, whose initial insights prompted the partnership and project delivery with help from John Poyton of Redthread. Also Jocelyn Bailey of the Social Design Institute and Henrietta Ross of the MA Data Visualisation course at University of the Arts London, plus Kate Marlow and team at Here Design.
Our partners
Join us
By visualising the complex, interrelating factors that lead to youth violence, we’re bringing a creative approach to the problem. We’re informing multi-agency working, so people can engage with this information in more effective ways.
Are you ready to share this experimental perspective and help us take it further? Join us in making sense of the statistics and help redesign the future of young lives.
We’re looking for data justice and research partners to help inform our approach. We’re particularly interested in those with robust qualitative and quantitative data sets, as well as any significant information that lends itself to being visualised and/or is linked to future action, including possible research funding applications.
Contact
Prof Lorraine Gamman
l.gamman@csm.arts.ac.uk
+44 (0) 7956 803 723
Further information
Want to find out more? Here is a list of other initiatives by University of the Arts London and their partners.
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Art Against Knives
Set up in response to the unprovoked stabbing of Central Saint Martins student Oliver Hemsley in 2008, this project instigated a dialogue between London’s creative community and some of the inhabitants of the most deprived London boroughs.
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Making For Change
Established by the Ministry of Justice and London College of Fashion, UAL in 2014, the project started in a women’s prison and aimed to provide participants with professional skills and qualifications within a supportive environment.
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CUT
Engaging young people through fashion, making clothing against knife crime in Waltham Forest. Part of London College of Fashion’s ‘Making for Change’ initiative.
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EastSide Story
Part of the inaugural Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture celebrations, the project enabled young people through youth coaching to co-create, develop and perform an original piece of theatre.
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TrashCAN
A scheme from Central Saint Martins (CSM) with Youth in Camden via Somers Town Youth Centre (STYC), teaching young people technical skills and entrepreneurial techniques by selling products made from waste.
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If You Met Our Family - Press release (Word 964KB)
A film by Central Saint Martins BA Fashion Communication & Promotion students to raise awareness of the important work of the Somers Town Youth Club improving the lives of 11-19 year olds in the area.