LISTEN: How can research-based design support communities?

Mimi was invited to speak on the ArtsEmergency podcast The Emergency Room, to share her insights on how research-based design can better reflect communities.

In this interesting hour-long discussion, we discuss: the role research plays in our projects (both formally and informally), the steps we take to involve community members as co-creators and co-researchers, who holds authorship of projects and how you return power to communities, and finally our advice to emerging creatives who want to integrate research into their work in ethical and responsible ways.

It was also lovely to be invited by my previous mentee Louis Shepley. In the depths of 2020, Louis joined Get It Done on a work placement, where he supported our then current work with Manchester Central Foodbank, creating a library of experiences of food poverty and insecurity and dispelling misinformation about foodbank usage.

It's been such a joy to follow Louis' career over the past five years, achieving a first class degree in Architecture and being nominated for awards!

Listen here: Spotify /// Apple podcasts