The Labs Spotlight: Industry-Facing Research and Knowledge Exchange Shaping

Discover how Ravensbourne University's Labs are transforming industry-facing research and knowledge exchange into real-world innovation.

Join us for an exclusive series of free Spotlight presentations where you'll meet our researchers and practitioners driving groundbreaking work across emerging technologies, creative media, urban development, education and social innovation.

The Labs represent a new model of university knowledge exchange and research, one that moves beyond traditional academia to tackle genuine challenges facing contemporary industries and societies. Rather than isolated disciplinary silos, these platforms bring together researchers, students, industry partners and communities to create collaborative research environments where knowledge exchange becomes a catalyst for change.

Whether you're interested in how AI is reshaping creative media production, the ethical integration of emerging technologies in business, innovative approaches to inclusive urban design, evidence-based education transformation or digital solutions to complex social challenges, there's a Lab whose work will inspire and inform your thinking.

What You'll Discover

• Audio-Visual Media Lab: Explore how emerging technologies—from AI to immersive production workflows—are transforming creative media practice and production
• Emerging Technology, Business and Social Purposes Lab: Understand how organisations can adopt technology responsibly to deliver genuine social and economic value
• Collaborative Observatory for Architecture and Cities (COAC+): See how digital innovation, community collaboration, and regenerative design are reshaping urban development
• Learning Lab: Discover evidence-based approaches to inclusive pedagogy, AI-assisted learning support, and transforming education globally
• Digital Hack Lab: Learn how systems thinking and digital innovation create sustainable solutions to complex societal challenges

Info: Dr Orson Nava talk will reflect on the ongoing impact and dissemination activities for his research films ‘The Building’ and ‘DISTERRA’. These include conference presentations, film festivals and a recent screening/panel discussion at Ravensbourne University. He will also discuss his plans to adapt another existing film (‘A Viable Candidate’) into a new research project that uses the ‘micro-drama series’ format to examine the notorious ‘Spy-Cops’ scandal of 1980’s and 1990s, when government agencies illegally infiltrated various political organisations across the UK

Info: Sustainable fashion choices across contexts: how country of origin, gender and propensity to spend shape youth engagement

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