How can we work with materials and people in ways that reinforce our values and messaging?

Particularly when engaging in creative activism the ‘how’ is as important as the ‘why’. This series of workshops considered what strategic approaches to practice can be adopted to foreground ethical considerations that help to communicate a message when producing creative work as a form of protest.

This series of 3 discursive and hands-on sessions commissioned by UAL SU, focussed on collaborative working and the production of a series of outcomes relating to the climate emergency, exploring the challenges, inconsistencies and opportunities presented by creative activism whilst developing a varied skill-set and deeper connections amongst cohorts of MA and PhD students from across the University. The installation Illegal World Factory, 2025 is the resultant outcome.

Disperse dyed lettering, hessian and cotton from CSM refuse, bamboo borrowed from 3D design programme

Collaboration credit: Marija Kadelburg
Photography credit: Mati Grancia