Speculative Urban Futures

To develop novel design methods that encourage the key reforms required to align urban-focused design with climate demands and challenges of the 21st century To imagine and speculate, through nove...

To develop novel design methods that encourage the key reforms required to align urban-focused design with climate demands and challenges of the 21st century To imagine and speculate, through novel design methods, other possible and preferable worlds To create new (and strengthen existing) partnerships in the field of design education and to forge interactions between designers and experts from related disciplines To disseminate the methods to be adopted by other institutions

3 multiplier events to share intellectual outputs at each key stage of the project The development and implementation of the 5 pilot projects, each focusing on a different methodology and subject in specific European urban contexts The testing and refinement for replicability of the pilots at partner institutions as part of their curriculum Organised events in local contexts in collaboration with citizens, politicians, enterprises and pertinent others

New design methods and approaches - tested across numerous locations and contexts and published under an open education format Impacts on design education and curricula in the European context and beyond Impacts on local communities through out-reaching events Impacts on other academic disciplines through collaboration on the pilots The publication of dissemination material including the pilot packages, edited book and various digital media such as the project website