Making Our Sustainable, Circular & Regenerative Design Future

<p>How do designers and researchers make sense of the climate crisis, and find a way to survive and flourish, in the face of extreme challenges? <br /><br />In this talk, Professor Becky Earley reflects on key projects and moments from across her 30-year career; signposting how making, materials and meaningful change align in ways that offer real agency and impact in a range of contexts.</p><ul><li>This talk is free to book and is open to Arts University Plymouth staff, students and the general public.</li><li>This talk will be online, via Zoom.</li><li>A link to the Zoom will be sent to attendees once booking is completed.</li><li><strong><strong>Length of talk:</strong></strong> 45mins with 15min Q&amp;A.</li></ul> <p><strong><strong><br /></strong></strong></p> <p><strong><strong>About Becky</strong></strong></p> <p>In the simplest of terms, Becky is an artist and educator, concerned with the climate crisis. She has taught at UAL since 1996 and is currently Chair of Circular Design Futures. She is known as a pioneering research leader, having led three research groups / centres between 1999-2022. She also co-founded World Circular Textiles Day 2050, in 2020.<br /><br />Becky makes work using textiles that explore clothing that challenges exiting systems and behaviours. She expands on design practice research approaches to explore ideas around circular materials, clothing use and end-of-life innovations. She is also interested in different forms of intelligence and how we can use it as artists and designers, to support resilience for human life on earth. Becky conducts her research using two main methods: alone, or in collaboration in the studio, on new materials, prototypes products, or services; or in workshop contexts where she facilitates sessions using talks and tasks, supported by novel tools. She also enjoys writing, presenting, making podcasts and curating exhibitions.</p> <p>At the core of Becky’s work today remains a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and her projects, processes and products all reflect these concerns, and seek to offer new knowledge and perspectives, for other creative leaders to embrace.</p> <p><a href="http://www.beckyearley.com/" title="http://www.beckyearley.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong><strong>www.beckyearley.com</strong></strong></a></p> <p>This talk has been sponsored by <a href="http://makingfutures.org.uk/" title="http://makingfutures.org.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Making Futures</a>™, Arts University Plymouth's research platform that seeks to situate material knowledge and cultures at the centre of the many critical issues facing global consumer society, including how we might move beyond mass consumption towards an inclusive, regenerative economy capable of supporting social well-being and enabling more resilient communities.</p>