Past projects
- A Movement in the Making
Filmmaking for social impact, with UAL Climate Emergency Network.
- Culture Box
Promoting social interaction and public health through the arts in the time of Covid-19 – with Exeter University
Learn more about Culture Box.
- Creative Community Commissions
With Citizens UK: matching creatives with grass roots organisations
- Traces: Stories of Migration
Film and publication - with Lucy Orta, David Betteridge, Nathalie Abi-Ezzi and Fair Acre Press
Traces: Stories of Migration
- The Rusalka Effect: Opera, Ecology and Community Engagement
With the Royal Opera House
Rusalka at the Royal Opera House
Past events
- Experiments in Non-Linear Narrative
with Google Arts & Culture Lab
Panel discussion exploring how new platforms and emergent technologies offer innovative narrative possibilities
- Creative Producer Impact Lab
with Doc Society
4 days of intensive training exploring how Doc Society's impact methodologies might be adapted to art, design and performance
- Earth Quest: Your Ecological Adventure
with Barbican Centre
As the Our Time on Earth exhibition came to a close, an eco-inspired journey across the Barbican centre showed how creativity can contribute to climate action. 10 free interactive installations and activities curated by the UAL Climate Emergency Network activated the site to inspire, challenge and mobilise.
- Cultural Policy for Social Purpose webinar
with World Cities Culture Forum
Chaired by Justine Simons OBE, Deputy Mayor for Culture and the Creative Industries, with Ruth Mackenzie CBE.
Public webinar on how cultural policies and programmes are tackling deep-rooted social, economic and environmental challenges. Global city leaders shared innovative projects with the chance to discuss their design and impact and learn more about how culture can help to deliver on the urgent priorities that cities around the world are facing.
- Cultures of Welcome storytelling workshop
with Citizens UK
Launch Event
14 October 2022, Linbury Foyer, Royal Opera House, London
With thanks to our pilot season partners and contributors:
Arts Council England, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Barbican Centre, Citizens UK, Create4Glasgow, Culture&, Culture and Creative Industries Unit, Greater London Authority, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Doc Society, Fair Acre Press, Foundation for Future London, Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, Google Arts & Culture Lab, Little Amal, LocalGlobe, London Arts and Health, Making for Change, National Activity Providers Association, National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Nesta, Royal Literary Fund, Royal Opera House, Sabir, September Publishing, UAL Climate Emergency Network, UAL Decolonising Arts Institute, UAL Social Design Institute, University of Exeter, Watson Little, World Cities Culture Forum.
Pilot season team
Ruth Mackenzie – Launch Director
Kate Keara Pelen – Head of Creative Projects
Natasha Mays – Creative Producer
Sarah Cook – Operations Manager