Ideas for humanity: A cookbook for planetary health

Background: Global Design Studio is an ongoing strategic international partnership between RMIT School of Design, University of the Arts London and Elisava, Barcelona. For 2021 this studio investigated new design pedagogy through the concept of ‘Ideas for Humanity: A Cookbook for Planetary Health’. This design studio, and the resulting exhibition, conducted research into what international intensive design studio pedagogy allows in an ongoing manner with multiple partners and students (Grover, Emmitt & Copping 2020). The studio was selected for Melbourne Design Week and Barcelona Design Week in 2021. Contribution: Global Design Studio requires design students to work in collaborative international groups to respond to pressing global issues; climate, equity, innovation. The studio provides a peak experience for student designers through their collaboration with internationally-based peers in a synchronous intensive studio which engages them with the conditions of future design practice. The studio is facilitated by multiple staff members and guest lecturers providing and sharing their experience, knowledge and cultural specificity. The Global Design Studio is a student design studio enabling students’ international collaboration to respond to real world issues through design. It is also a studio investigating, and producing, the future of design pedagogy and interdisciplinary practice through long term international partnerships. Significance: ‘Ideas for humanity: A cookbook for planetary health’ was selected as part of the NGV Melbourne Design Week 2021 curated by Timothy Moore and the National Gallery of Victoria. The studio was also selected for Barcelona Design Week and exhibited at the Roca Gallery, Barcelona. The Barcelona Design Week (BDW), is the annual event on design and creativity in Barcelona and a member of the World Design Weeks network, of nearly 40 design festivals around the world on design and creativity fields.