this cookbook is a collection of recipes for action. there are proposals, provocations, prompts, and other calls to action. 

ideas for humanity:
a cookbook for planetary health

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common design studio is an international collaborative design project, involving students and staff from rmit university melbourne and vietnam as well as london college of communication / university of arts london and elisava, barcelona. the studio seeks to address non-trivial issues that connect participants in different parts of the world through a concern for planetary health. we explore positive futures made possible through knowledge sharing and design as a means of action.

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the studio shares the the capacity of design to bring together global communities to collaborate on sustainable design futures. the proposals are framed as a cookbook of recipes that can incite positive collective action and encourage creative resistance.

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for several years the studio has engaged students and lecturers from rmit university (melbourne), london college of communication (london), rmit university vietnam and elisava (barcelona) along with industry and research experts.

 

for 2025 data: beyond numbers showcases student and staff work from the Common Design Studio that investigates the role and impact of DATA in contemporary life; how we use data, how DATA is used to shape our behaviour and world, and how we might move into sustainable, ethical futures with growing dependence and responsibility for the huge amounts of DATA that now exists around us.