Join us on Thu 2 April for our next Designing Sustainable Worlds hybrid seminar at Norwich University of the Arts—we'll be joined by Josie Chambers from the Urban Futures Studio @utrechtuniversity and Sarah de Villiers from Architecture at Norwich. All welcome! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-sustainable-worlds-art-and-architecture-of-reimagining-futures-tickets-1986079948590

Our speakers will explore how artistic methods & architectural practice can intersect with imagination through a critical justice lens.

Please register to get Teams link, or join us in person in #Norwich

My first Wordpress blog post was 20 years ago today https://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2005/11/16/welcome/#more-2 



That blog—boosted by links from sites such as BoingBoing (thanks @pluralistic !) led to so many opportunities, a PhD, a job in the US, basically my whole career in academia.

Join us online on Wed 22 Oct for 'Creative Futures in Education'. We have three amazing speakers: educator-researchers engaging with #futures:

↠ Grace Turtle (Monstrous Futurities, Sandberg Inst)
↠ Christian Petersen (Norwich University of the Arts)
↠ shobhan s (Purdue University & slowstudio)

All welcome! Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/designing-sustainable-worlds-tickets-1794840108079 (choose "Please select this ticket type if you are a member of the Norwich alumni community or an industry partner")

If you're in #Utrecht, come along on Friday 26 September for the launch of the Library for Transformative Play @utrechtuniversity —

Play with materials and methods designed to help you…

- Surface worldviews
- Facilitate collective imagination
- Stay with the trouble
- Unmake systems
- Embrace ambiguity

… in settings ranging from classrooms to societal dialogues.

More info / register: https://unusualcollaborations.ewuu.nl/agenda/playing-with-the-trouble-library-launch/

26/09/25, 12:00–14:00
The Playground, Vening Meinesz C Building
Utrecht University

What are the “growing pains” of designing for sustainability and transitions?

Our "Troubling Transitions" track for Design Research Society #DRS2026 in Edinburgh (8-12 June 2026) is open and we'd really welcome your perspectives https://drs2026.thedrs.org/10-2-troubling-transitions

Abstracts: 31 Oct; papers: 14 Nov