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Disegno Design Stories London Podcast @ the Royal College of Art

A live recording of "How women might move design forward and engender social change through creative practice", a panel discussion recorded at the Royal College of Art in London on 19 Sept 2024. The panel was part of Design Stories London, a collaboration between London’s Royal College of Art and Warsaw’s SWPS University, supported by the British Council and Polish Cultural Institute London

Disegno is an international journal dedicated to long-form writing and photography around design.

The journal covers all design fields, exploring the political, social, environmental and industrial impact of the discipline. It is published biannually.

Disegno also runs “Disegno Podcasts”, spotlighting ‘Conversations from across design’.

This podcast episode is a live recording of How women might move design forward and engender social change through creative practice, a panel discussion recorded at the Royal College of Art in London on 19 September 2024.

The panel was part of Design Stories London, a collaboration between London’s Royal College of Art and Warsaw’s SWPS University, supported by the British Council and Polish Cultural Institute London. It was hosted by Disegno’s editor-in-chief Oli Stratford, and featured Alicja Bielawska, a visual artist and assistant professor at SWPS; Ewa Klekot, a professor of anthropologist with SWPS; Joyce Yee, a Professor of Design and Social Innovation at Northumbria School of Design; and Teal Triggs, a professor, historian and writer around graphic design at the Royal College of Art.

This podcast was made for the RCA and SWPS University.

Listen to the podcast episode HERE

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