Issue Two Futurity

For the past year, as the School of Design, we have taken a Futurity approach to anticipating the future of a design school. To do this, we have taken time to understand and learn from our historic past, which has influenced our present, enabling us to shape our future. The projects on show in this special issue are an edited collection from the School of Design Postgraduate Show 2024, and embrace the idea of looking ahead with a positive mindset to consider future possibilities, and developments. These have been completed in a variety of contexts, that has required foresight, and a focus on future events and conditions resulting in thoughtful outcomes. Central to this are the themes of Ethics, Making, Community and Culture. These have been at heart of our design conversations and have stimulated proposals and narratives that have explored who we are, how we got here and where we are going next.