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.