Design Action was a digital showcase and events programme that took place at London College of Communication. The work celebrated creative activism and highlighted the work of LCC’s Design School, as students and staff anticipated new futures in an uncertain world.
In the wake of the global pandemic, LCC's Design School tested their Manifesto against the shifting requirements of a changed world.
Design Action featured a range of projects and work in progress from the School’s dynamic and collaborative community. It questioned cultural, technological and disciplinary boundaries and confronted the social, systemic and ecological challenges of our time.
Ian Carr’s U-Turn is an audio-visual graphic work which focuses on the literal and abstract nature of ‘the u-turn' as a concept, its place within the creative process, and the ways in which it can be seen as an act of protest and ultimate move to a new front.
Discovered Spaces is a collaboration between MA Interaction Design Communication students on the theme of ‘Connection’. With a hybrid participatory format of both on- and offline elements, the work explores new ways to stay connected while relearning the possibilities of interaction design and ways its relevancy can evolve during times of crisis.
Developed in Microsoft Teams, made in bedrooms and photographed on windowsills and kitchen tables, In the course of time is a group portrait of makers in isolation as 2 technicians and 9 students from LCC create a remote publication in Lockdown.
Design Action is part of London Design Festival.
Postgraduate Shows takes place from 14 November – 16 December, with the first exhibition paying tribute to the memory of Professor Paul Lowe.
BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design graduate Christian Schmitz talks about his experience of designing the Shows 2024 identity.
Peter Roden and Marion Bisserier created Fungal Flourishes out of mycelium structures, creating a tile collection that was exhibited at Shows 2024.
Muskeen Liddar and Jinxiu Chen represented LCC at London Design Festival 2023 with their projects Sound, Chaos and the Sky and Microplastic In The Thames River.
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