design generators
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- Design researchers working on sustainability
- Arts and humanities research teams
- Projects partnering with non-academic organisations
- Must be grounded in arts and humanities
- Co-developed with a non-academic partner
- Awards of £150,000 to £200,000
Design Generators fund innovative, design-led research projects that contribute to the green transition. The programme seeks to generate new arts and humanities-based approaches that harness design to address environmental sustainability, decarbonisation, circular economies, policy design and regenerative practices.
Funding will be provided to:
co-develop interventions with a non-academic partner to assist sustained impact beyond the life of the grant
engage collaboratively with communities or stakeholders, ensuring relevance and responsiveness to lived experience
promote green transition-supportive behaviour change, either through deliberative policymaking and (de)regulation or through ‘nudging’
highlight the value of academic design research in addressing real-world, locally relevant challenges arising along the journey to net zero and a green economy