Category: Toolkits

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This is an EDI project funded by the Design School at London College of Communication.

Lead by: Malé Luján Escalante

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This tool guides a process of collaborative ritual design to embody values for responsible design research and practice. In which each value is danced following a choreography co-created by participants in the context of a sharing circle, following a ritual structure.   

Participants would need to bear in mind the details of their project proposal and/or plan. This framework is based on decolonizing values and invites designers to tap into the shared somatic experience to feel with their bodies, and step by step, the importance of contesting unfair power structures.  

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Radical Emancipatory Values – Instructions

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Radical Emancipatory Values – Cards

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. This is an EDI project funded by the Design School at London College of Communication.

Lead by: Malé Luján Escalante

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IsITethical Cards supports designers and teams to EDI and ethical self-assessment. The cards can be played as collaborative (team or pairs) activities.  

Players would need a real project proposal and/or project scope that easily identify project stakeholders, partners, participants and/or beneficiaries.  

Players will map out EDI and ethical values on the activities of the project: what they think is important at this stage for responsible practice – considering people, things, places, spaces, information, narratives and language.

With the objective of creating a context-specific ethical impact framework for the project the cards guide designers to:  

• Reflect
• Prioritize
• Identify
• Discuss

This tool can be used to scope at the beginning of the project but also encourages mid-project reflection and evaluation after the end of the project.  

IsITethical? Cards were developed as IsITethical framework and tool for supporting collaborative ethical impact assessment in the context of Public Safety Communications Europe. The tool has been widely used and iterated in research and consultancy in the industry context, and in academic knowledge exchange. It was adapted for pedagogical use and supported Design and Social Innovation for students and projects.  

London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.

Lead by: Gerarda Tolino, Malé Luján Escalante, Rachel Clarke

United Creatives is a team activity designed to foster empathic communication among Art & Design students in collaborative practices through an interactive learning method. The activity supports students to build essential skills for collaborative leadership by applying an approach inspired by the nonviolent communication method.  

By transforming communication into a practice of empathy, United Creatives aims to equip students with skills to:

• Navigate conflict with positive intention
• Giving constructive feedback
• Fostering an inclusive collaborative team

This tool was developed by Gerarda Tolino, supervised by Dr Malé Luján Escalante and Dr Rachel Clark from UAL: LCC Design School. In Partership with lectures and students from BA Design for Art Direction and in collaboration with Ceri Buckmaster an expert NVC mediator and facilitator. This is an EDI project funded by the Design School at London College of Communication.