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GEMMA COPELAND

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Gemma Copeland


ABOUT

I am an Australian designer based in London. 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

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 * GitHub
 * Twitter
 * Instagram


CURRENT AND UPCOMING

 * 07.2024
   
   Workshop, Liberatory Technology for Movement-Building
   New Organising Conference, Nottingham, UK
   with Multitudes Co-op and GFSC

 * 07.2024
   
   Keynote, Power in Transformation
   By Design and By Disaster conference, Bozen-Bolzano, IT


PREVIOUSLY

 * 06.2024
   
   A Cooperative Conversation
   post-office, Amsterdam, NL
   with Georgia Kareola, Bryan Wolff and Paprika Xu

 * 02.2024
   
   Lecture, Models and Methods
   Kingston School of Art, London, UK

 * 2024–2024
   
   Course, Design, Non Design
   Design Lusófona Lisboa, PT
   with Eva Gonçalves

 * 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
 * Alex Worrad-Andrews
 * 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


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