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.

 

This year’s (2026) Common Design Studio 
overarching theme is ‘Home’. We’ll work to 
delve into the deeper, more-than-human 
aspects of home; social, cultural, political 
and environmental, that shape our lives, 
influence our daily habits and functions 
and underlie our inter-relationship with 
the planet and its other occupants