CCRI Seminar Series – ‘Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School’ with Layla Gharib (CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design)

Please join us on Wednesday 17 May between 1300-1400 for our next CCRI-wide seminar as part of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute Seminar Series, where we will be hearing from CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design Layla Gharib.

Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School

This talk will explore speculative workshopping as a world-building research method for assembling decolonised futures in the context of design education. Drawing upon a series of participatory workshops that explored decolonised futures for design education, this presentation will deconstruct the workshop process and reflect on how speculative workshops can be used as a research method to deal with problematic histories and propose hopeful futures.

Through this discussion, we will explore the opportunities and challenges of speculative workshopping as a world-building research method, including its potential to create new narratives and possibilities that are grounded in diverse perspectives and ways of knowing. We will also reflect on how this method can be used to assemble decolonised futures for the design school, including the importance of engaging with local communities, amplifying alternative knowledge systems, and fostering collaborative and reciprocal relationships.

Ultimately, this talk will think critically about the role of research methods in creating more equitable and sustainable futures for design education and beyond.

CCRI Seminar Series – Workshopping Otherwise: Decolonisation, Alternative Realities, and the Design School with Layla Gharib (CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design)
Wednesday 17 May, 1300-1400
Held online
If you’d like to come along please contact ! RIS Culture & Creativity RI Enquiries.

All images courtesy of Layla Gharib.

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Layla Gharib

Layla Gharib is a designer/ thinker/ researcher/ educator and PhD(er) who’s research focuses on the assembling of decolonised, caring futures for design education. Her research is founded upon collective, community driven, participatory approaches that work towards imagining alternative realities.

Layla is a CCRI PhD Candidate based in the ADMRC/Art & Design.

 

 

 

 

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About the CCRI Seminar Series

We are currently relaunching our successful seminar series, continuing the regular insights into our researchers and the research we do in the Culture & Creativity Research Institute we explored with our previous C3RI Seminar Series.

If you are interested in giving your own seminar about your research or would like to volunteer to hold a seminar session more geared towards staff development, please let us know at ! RIS Culture & Creativity RI Enquiries. You can find out about future seminars on the CCRI Impact Blog pages for 2022-2023.

It is our aim to record our research seminars and we will make recordings available shortly afterwards on the staff intranet, in order to create an archive of our speakers and seminars.