Designing spaces / exhibitions with neurodiversity in mind constitutes an intrinsic aspect of inclusive design. This project offers an opportunity for final year students from BA Interior & Spatial Design and from BA Graphic Design to collaboratively engage with these important questions in a live project, supported by industry experts with a focus on public wayfinding and inclusive design, such as Rebecca Adda, Inclusive Design specialist at Buro Happold. This proposal encourages Third Year students from BAGD and BAISD, and particularly those identifying as neurodiverse, to co-create a sensory map of the CCW Peckham Road graduate show exhibition 2026. Longer term this resource would enable other courses to map their individual shows.

Civic Fellowship working with our partners, Citizens UK and the South East London Anchor Institution Network, to develop a Research or Knowledge Exchange proposition which addresses inequalities in health through the lens of insecure housing in South London.

Camberwell College of Arts has been selected to join a group of 12 civic university partnerships as part of the National Civic Impact Accelerator (NCIA) Action Learning Programme (ALP), launched by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE) and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). A dynamic 18 month action learning programme working on a range of challenges, including: how to measure the impact of civic partnerships; how to develop equitable partnerships which realise mutual benefit; how to find meaningful ways to involve communities and citizens in decision making, and how to work with communities to address the climate agenda.

Beyond the Visual: Blindness and Expanded Sculpture

Dr Ken Wilder (University of the Arts London Reader in Spatial Design) and Dr Aaron McPeake (MA Interior and Spatial Design at Camberwell College of Arts) have been awarded an AHRC Research Networking grant for a 14-month research project commencing 15 November 2021. The research network will act as a forum for the discussion of non-sighted modes of beholding art, within the context of situated forms of contemporary art practice. It will question how a shift in the aesthetic engagement afforded by hybrid (intermedia) forms of contemporary art opens up new engagements for the partially sighted and blind community. The network aims to develop a deeper understanding of the spatial and curatorial possibilities of such forms of engagement, and their potential application beyond the world of contemporary art. It will facilitate an exchange of ideas that engages interdisciplinary thinking on the phenomenology of the non- or partially-sighted engagement of art. Crucially, it will engage the blind and partially sighted community and organisations that promote cultural opportunities for this audience, and those within institutions enacting policy around inclusion and access to (and the design of) museum/gallery environments. But it will also draw upon disciplinary insights from: cognitive science and psychology (i.e. non-sighted spatial orientation, and the interdependence of perceptual systems); the philosophy of art (the ontology of art and the aesthetics of reception); art and design practice (sighted and non-sighted artists making work where the engagement extends beyond the visual); theoreticians engaging critical disability studies. The project’s partners are Tate, Henry Moore Institute, VocalEyes and Shape Arts. Outcomes include three themed workshops, a symposium, and an edited book organised around themes emerging from the network discussions.

Research and Development award to: 1. Provide a literature review on current and emerging technologies within the construction industry to support EPSRC/H2020 bids; 2. Concept a production line for manufacturing rapid on site construction for a selection of various house designs; 3. Create a discrete event simulation model to develop the most cost effective design with ability to use scenario planning to select a cost effective manufacturing facility and design an assembly jig that will facilitate autonomous house construction.

"TRADERS focuses on developing and testing a framework of methodologies on which art and design (A&D) researchers can rely when working on public space projects in participatory ways. This framework is transferable and aims to enhance the potentials in A&D practices to contribute creatively in processes of urban and branch-related change. The framework will inform and will be informed by a toolkit. For coherence in the training, Hasselt-Genk will be the anchor case area on which the ESR researchers work together. TRADERS will cooperate with Z-OUT: a centre of expertise on art, design and architecture in relation to public space. To assure the adequacy of an A&D research project, five complementary research foci are covered that correspond to the methodological framework and entail innovative research topics on participation for public space: Intervention (KHLIM (research group Social Spaces, Media, Arts & Design Faculty i.c.w. LUCA)), Play (UGOT), Multiple Performative Mapping (DAE), Data-mining (RCA) and Modeling in dialogue (CHALMERS). A sixth focus will be on the development of a meta-framework allowing these research foci to communicate and collaborate (KU Leuven). To bundle the strengths of different disciplines to commonly approach other non-A&D disciplines and sectors, every participant will work in a partnership with a public or private organization, offering a research and training environment to the researcher and ensuring that his/her research project has a practical and use-oriented focus. TRADERS contains a training program consisting of, a.o.: supervised involvement in six research/training projects at the host organizations with shared activities in Training-through-Research Synergy weeks, collaboration for the research/training with stakeholders and branches that represent future employers, collaboration with various researchers and enterprises from different countries, network-wide research training and Complementary Skills Training at Summer Schools, conference and secondments to associated partners."