Evolving Stories

At 'Evolving Stories', engage with thought-provoking installations, interactive elements, and immersive storytelling. Witness how design can bridge gaps, challenge societal norms, and create a more connected, compassionate world.

This showcase brings together twelve projects from four UAL courses: MA Global Collaborative Design Practice, BA Interior and Spatial Design, Graduate Diploma Graphic Design and Graduate Diploma Textile Design, each demonstrating how design can narrate compelling stories and inspire meaningful change.

It delves into critical social, ecological, and political issues, pushing the boundaries of traditional design methodologies. The exhibition highlights the collaborative efforts of students, staff, and experts, addressing themes such as climate justice, social isolation, ecological awareness, and cultural dialogue. Each project emphasises the importance of community engagement and interdisciplinary approaches in crafting solutions to contemporary challenges.

Visitors will encounter projects that explore feminist storytelling for climate justice using digital knitting and augmented reality, reimagine public toilets to highlight their social and political significance, create learning tools incorporating other organisms, foster environmental literacy and mental wellbeing among children, and urban habitats that encourage multi-species engagement and ecological connectivity.

Other projects address social isolation through workshops that galvanise collective action and community representation, facilitate cross-cultural and intergenerational dialogue through mindful making and innovative methods for improving patient-clinician communication, with tools that externalise pain into physical forms, enhancing empathy and pain assessment.

The exhibition also features gamification to revitalise traditional crafts, engaging tourists and supporting local artisans and trauma-informed design initiatives aim to strengthen support networks for those facing poverty.

‘It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with’ (Introduction to Ursula K Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Donna Haraway)

Join Carrier Bag Climate (title riffing off and in homage to Ursula K Le Guin's Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction) a workshop that explores feminist storytelling for climate justice. It is a collaboration between the staff and students from the Graduate Diploma Textile Design and Graduate Diploma Graphic Design courses at UAL (UK) and The Rodina (NL) who specialise in design for environmental crises.

In your one-hour slot, you will identify feminist strategies in the form of more than human perspectives and approaches to storytelling in ecofictions by Season Butler, Rachel Carson, Heather Davis, and Donna Haraway. You will apply your learning in the context of the climate emergency, investigating related social, ecological, and political phenomena. Each participant will develop a story, using a visual language of abstract shapes that helps promote a critical awareness of the climate emergency!

Book your tickets here

Slots10:00-11:00 |11:00-12:00 |12:30-13:30 |13:30-14:30

5 participants per slot

Host or Publisher Camberwell College of Arts, UAL