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Skip to main content Skip to contrast setting GEMMA COPELAND * Thinking * Writing Gemma Copeland ABOUT I am an Australian designer based between Lisbon and London. I’m interested in design justice, self-organisation and grassroots politics. I spend my time designing, researching, listening, imagining, prototyping, facilitating, writing, teaching and gardening. Through my practice, I explore how design can be used to enable people to organise, amplify marginalised voices, facilitate dialogue, and imagine post-capitalist futures. I primarily work as part of Common Knowledge, a not-for-profit worker cooperative that uses design and technology to help social movements build power. We collaborate with a broad range of political organisations who are imagining and building radically different futures, using our digital expertise to multiply their impact. Collaboration is at the heart of my practice. I’m part of the Center for Other Worlds, an interdisciplinary research centre for design and art based at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. As part of collectives like Designers + Cultural Workers and Evening Class, I’ve contributed to building support structures for precarious workers. I’ve worked as a graphic and interactive designer in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Australia. I’ve held teaching positions at Central St Martins and London College of Communication, and have given talks and workshops at institutions like the University of Cambridge, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, HBK Braunschweig, Kingston School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design. CONTACT gemmacopeland@pm.me * Arena * Mastodon * GitHub * Twitter * Instagram CURRENT AND UPCOMING * 02.2024–05.2024 Course, Design, Non Design Design Lusófona Lisboa, PT with Eva Gonçalves PREVIOUSLY * 02.2024 Lecture, Models and Methods Kingston School of Art, London, UK * 12.2023 Seminar, Transformative Work as Livelihood MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT * 09.2023 Participant, Mobilizing Hearts and Minds course The ReImagining Value Action Lab * 07.2023 Conversation, Radio Robida Topolò, IT with How Melnyczuk * 07.2023 Practice Retreat, Community Economies in Action Rovereto, IT * 03.2023 Lecture, The Designer as… Faculdade Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, PT * 02.2023 Workshops, Community-Led Design Practices BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK * 11.2022 Talk, Politics of Design SuperHi * 10.2022 Symposium, The Forest Multiple University of Cambridge, UK * 09.2022 Conversation, Good Times Bad Times Rotterdam, NL * 08.2022 Discussion, Means of Organisation The New Centre * 06.2022 Lecture, Building Collective Sovereignty Weizenbaum Conference, Berlin, DE * 05.2022 Workshops, UnFound Accelerator 2022 UK * 03.2022 Lecture, Worker Cooperatives BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK * 02.2022 Conversation, Design & Politics Rhode Island School of Design, US * 08.2021 Interview, Caps Lock * 07.2021 Article, How to Run a Design Sprint * 05.2021 Workshops, UnFound Accelerator 2021 UK * 04.2021 Panel discussion, What Next? Central Saint Martins, London, UK * 03.2021 Lecture, Core 2 Interaction Studio Parsons, New York, US * 01.2021 Interview, General Intellect Unit * 01.2021 Workshop, The Reciprocal Studio, MA Graphic Media Design London College of Communication, UK with Sonia Turcotte * 2020–2021 Associate Lecturer, BA User Experience Design London College of Communication, UK * 09.2020 Panel discussion, The World Transformed London, UK * 06.2020 Discussion, (How) do we (want to) work (together) (as (socially engaged) designers (students and neighbors)) (in neoliberal times)? as part of UVW-DCW * 03.2020 Talk, Designing the Future Space4, London, UK * 03.2020 Teach-out, Designers & Cultural Workers need a union, too LCC picket line, London, UK as part of UVW-DCW * 02.2020 Workshop, Internet Health Report London College of Communication, UK * 2018–2020 Evening Class London, UK * 2020 Associate Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication Design Central Saint Martins, London, UK * 12.2019 Talk, Dissenting Ephemera MayDay Rooms, London, UK * 11.2019 Talk, Design's Agency HBK Braunschweig, DE * 10.2019 Interview, Digital Tools for Self-Organised Change Nebula * 10.2019 Workshop, Building Alternatives Hurra Hurra festival, Halle, DE as part of Evening Class * 09.2019 Residency, La Foresta Rovereto, IT * 08.2019 Residency, Casa Sasso Vairano, CH * 2017–2019 Future Corp London, UK * 05.2019 Workshop, Internet Health Report Ravensbourne University, London, UK * 02.2019 Interview, Perpetual Beta & Post-Capitalist Desires Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, US as part of Evening Class * 02.2018 Interview, Creative Lives in Progress * 2015–2016 Vandejong Amsterdam, NL * 2012–2015 LUST The Hague, NL * 2010–2011 MDes, Design Futures Queensland College of Art, AU RECENT WORK * Solidarity Knows No Borders * Platform * In Deep Water * Smart Forests Atlas * The Architecture Lobby * Border Forensics * Future Natures * After Progress * Airsift * Game Worker Solidarity Project * Transform Your Work * Claim the Future * Progressive International * StopWatch * La Foresta local network FRIENDS AND COLLABORATORS * Agorama Server Co-op * Alex Piacientini * Benjamin Earl * Brave New Alps * Carvalho Bernau * Evening Class * Feminist Open Source Group * Hannah Blows * How Melnyczuk * Ilyanna Kerr * Linsey Rendell * MayDay Rooms * The New Design Congress * Paprika Xu * Piper Haywood * Rectangle * Robbie Blundell * Sonia Turcotte * Sam Baldwin * Yuli Serfaty DETAILS This is a static site built with Eleventy and Arena by Piper Haywood and How Melnyczuk. If you’re interested, you can check out the Github repo. It is set in Standard Book by Bryce Wilner. Your data isn’t collected when using this site. 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