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As COP21 talks draw to a close and we wait to see a new global agreement on climate change, it seems the perfect time to visit the last in a series of four podcasts exploring the voices and opinions of the UAL student body. Introducing Podcast #4: Solutions. In this final chapter we hear a range of thoughts from students on the possible solutions to climate change. What is needed from government? What responsibility do education institutes have? What is the role of design in

Podcast producer Alix Hayhurst a UAL alumna and a selection of UAL students who contributed to the podcast Today we release Podcast #2: So Much Stuff. UAL students consider the problems related to all the stuff we have and look for ways to consider it and use it in their work. And below, we hear from the podcast producer Alix Hayhurst, a UAL alumna of Fashion Promotion: Broadcast about her thoughts on the topics she talked to current students about. CSF: As a UAL alumni, did

Melting Icemen by Néle Azevedo As the first generation to really understand climate change and the last generation to be able to do something about it students at UAL (and of course the world over) are in a unique historical position. Climate change will affect our future lives, it is already doing so, but, to paraphrase Naomi Klein: Has the future become just a luxury that we cannot afford? The future will reflect what are doing now, and solutions and change in this present

Image by David Buckland, Cape Farewell In the run-up to the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP21) taking place from 30 November to 11 December 2015, in Paris, many are the cultural events that challenge our perspective on climate change, proposing alternative solutions for a sustainable global culture. Nature has been always present in the artistic investigations since the inception of art, but it is in the last decades that the relationship has shifted, calling

Photos by Kate Fletcher I am just back from a few days in Paris at the start of the COP21 negotiations on climate change. I was there as part of an event organised by The Alternative – the new green political platform of Denmark who have 9 seats in the Copenhagen parliament. They event was a jamboree of a thing and part of the activities taking place in the run up to the formal meeting itself. It was billed as a ‘floating political talk show’ and the floating bit was courtesy

Rarely does a day go by at CSF when we do not actively consider the ‘what if?’ of fashion in terms of living well through its practices, cultures and its material elements. Our commitment to act is through our imaginings of what fashion can do so well, in connecting us to each other, to our identities in terms of interests, beliefs and locations, its ability to offer delight, livelihood and confidence. Our commitment is to act through our concerns too, of our current Pied Pip