Knowledge Exchange

Pluriversal ways of knowing: A sharing circle

Lead by: Malé Luján Escalante

In partnership with the UAL:LCC International Office, AHRC Refugee Transition Network and Service Futures Lab

Dr Akino Tahir – Resilience Development Initiative
Lizzie Harrison – University of the West of England
Vivienne Kuh – University of Bristol 
Marion Lagedamont – UAL:LCC Design School, Service Futures Lab
Dr Bruna Ferreira Montuori – UAL:LCC MA Design for Art Direction
Students & Alumni from UAL:LCC MA Service Design  
Drum Works  
Thank you to the young people from Revoke, who hosted the event and participated.

This was a participatory experience that brought together UAL scholars and researchers, NGOs working in social purposes, refugee partners and participants from the RTN network, PGT students and MA Service Design Alumni. We gathered around ideas, music, rituals, magic, stories, theatre of the oppressed, and movement, all with a critical emancipatory twist.  

The event celebrated the end of the AHRC networking project by sharing lessons learned from the journey of imagining transition actions in the context of displaced populations, across UK and Indonesia. 

We celebrated Pluriversal Ways of Knowing methods opening a discussion that considers lived experience, creative practices and epistemological diversity as ways to not just disrupt academic colonizing systems of knowledge, but also, as catalysers of political activation and spiritual connection.

This event ignaugurates the Pluriversal Ethics strand of research at IsITethical integrating past projects and catalysing collaboration for our next endeavours!