Design in Development and Emergency Practice

Designing within the emergency and development context requires a deep understanding of the complexity of actors and agents in addition to the physical domain. The module aims to equip students with an understanding of the potential role of design and possible approaches they might take to engaging in this complex context. The intention is to support students on their journey to becoming reflective practitioners, rejecting prescribed solutions and instead building the skills to listen, learn, adjust, and adapt in the conditions of complexity and uncertainty typical of the contexts in which development practitioners work. 

Using Forensic Architecture’s approach to analyzing events, students explored contexts of their choice, and developed videos to represent this information. Based on this foundation, theoretical frameworks were then applied and design proposals developed which responded to the analysis. The proposals range from participatory engagement plans, mapping of various stakeholders and how they might engage through drawings and representation of possible outcomes spatially, to temporary installations.

  • Melissa Kinnear

  • Ubada Muti

    Annika Grafweg

    Supriya Akerkar

    Bill Flinn

    Charles Parrack

    Zoe Jordan

    Scott Sworts

    Yasmeen Lari

  • Priya Addanki

    Rayappan Chockalingam

    Justin Collins

    Kuhu Gupta

    Mohammed Haj Salih

    Tanya Haldipur

    Dinesha Kanagasundaram

    Adlina Marsya

    Kirra Mccollum

    Adrian Mpanga-Sempa

    Mihaela Petkova

    Sumaiya Shameem

    Claudia Vesga

    Jamillatul Zakariah

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