On 18th February 2022, Matt Hawthorn, co-lead of CivicLAB Research Group at University of Derby, chaired a panel discussion on the role of creative placemaking, the importance of co-design and innovation as an approach to engage young people with museums, civic pedagogy, design, artist and cultural practice, and issues around protest and justice.
CivicLAB is an interdisciplinary research group centred on participatory culture, creative dialogue and experiential design for social impact. Researchers and practitioners in the Lab amalgamate a diverse span of creative practices and perspectives across the arts and social sciences to contribute to this burgeoning field of enquiry, interrogating, extending and redefining the value of creative practice to the public sphere.
On the panel:
