Equitable Communities of Health in the Climate Era: Designing Future Experiences Exhibition
An exhibition of two futures-focused courses undertaken at the Glasgow School of Art’s School of Innovation & Technology in partnership with the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre and the Satellite Applications Catapult organisation.
ARC Public
Date: Thursday 05 February 2026 - Thursday 12 February 2026
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Category: Exhibitions
An exhibition of two futures-focused courses undertaken at the Glasgow School of Art’s School of Innovation & Technology in partnership with the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre and the Satellite Applications Catapult organisation.
These two courses explore equitable health and ecologies of intelligence through the design of speculative future worlds and communities which envisage new personal, population, public, and planetary experiences in ten year’s time.
Future Experiences
This BDes Product Design course is a live, collaborative project which partners with the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre.
This year’s project brief is entitled ‘Equitable Communities of Health in the Climate Era’. It explores societal contexts collaboratively and individually through team-work and engagement with an expert community of practice, to design experiences which envisage how people might live and work in the near future. this course encourages students to generate knowledge collaboratively and use design practice as a form of creative and evidence-based speculation.
Collaborative Futures
This MEDes Product Design course explores a collaborative approach to designing for society; a contemporary, trans-disciplinary creative practice which equips students with the analytical, strategic, collaborative, and creative skills valued by design industry and organisations involved in engaging with the future of how we live and work together.
This year’s project brief speculates on how satellite technology could play a meaningful role in responding to the challenges of nature restoration. Utilising ecologies of intelligence, the connected insights from people, nature, technology, and data, the work imagines new approaches to restoring and protecting ecosystems, while also considering new possibilities for living and working within the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park in 2035.
To join us for an associated talk with collaborator Nicol Keith, come along to our next ARC Conversations on 28 February. This is also an opportunity to see the exhibition and hear from those who contributed to its making.
This exhibition is open daily from 09:00 - 17:00, excluding weekends.