Future Communities is a project that invited students from Chelsea, Camberwell and Wimbledon colleges at the University of the Arts London to form groups and collaboratively invent relationships, practices, things, places that represent alternative future communities. Responding to existing inequalities and social injustice students documented their progress on group-authored blog pages. Studying courses across art and design the students’ responses to the future could take any approach across these broad subject matter.

Students first formed interdisciplinary groups based on shared interests in provided themes: AI and Technology, The Environment, Groups and Communities, Art and Culture, Political Action and Architecture and Housing. Each group then set about developing speculative ideas that responded to these themes.

The project is funded by the UAL Equality Diversity and Inclusion Fund. It was initiated and coordinated by Sidney Hope, Academic Support Lecturer at University of the Arts London (contact: sidney.hope@arts.ac.uk).