Designing Digital Culture: Tools for Civic Agency and Collective Futures

Join us to explore how design can be used as a civic tool to question, reimagine, and co-create our digital cultures. We’ll examine how creative practices enable communities to claim greater ownership over the digital spaces, tools, and narratives that shape their lives. 

Speakers will share design-led approaches that support critical digital agency, from building community-driven platforms and infrastructures to rethinking visibility, representation, and identity online. Through community-led and collaborative design, this panel explores how design and creative practices enable citizens to move beyond passive participation and toward active authorship of digital culture.

Hoda Judah Armani, Designer, educator, Founder of Inhouse Records 

Cat Drew, Chief Design Officer at the Design Council
Dee Halligan -  Founder-director of creative lab and social enterprise Forth

Co-hosted by Rob Phillips and Laura Ferrarello, authors of Engaging Design Tools for Design Practices Urging New Forms of Citizenships, this panel will delve into the book’s central themes and their relevance to contemporary design practice.

This event is part of the V&A Digital Design Weekend, a free digital art and design festival taking place on 19, 20 and 21 September.
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A BSL interpreter is available for this event upon request. Please let us know before the start of the event by emailing digitalprogrammes@vam.ac.uk