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Gemma Copeland — Digital design, cooperatives, community building, grassroots politics, convivial technology

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I spend my time designing, researching, listening, imagining, prototyping, facilitating, writing, teaching and gardening. I’m a member of Common Knowledge, a not-for-profit worker cooperative. We use design and technology to help social movements build power. I’m also part of the Center for Other Worlds, an interdisciplinary research center for design and art based at the Lusófona University in Lisbon. I’m interested in how design can be used amplify voices, facilitate dialogues, and imagine post-growth futures. gemmacopeland@pm.me Participant, Mobilizing Hearts and Minds course Seminar, Transformative Work as Livelihood MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT Conversation, Radio Robida Topolò, IT with How Melnyczuk Practice Retreat, Community Economies in Action Rovereto, IT Lecture, The Designer as… Faculdade Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, PT Workshops, Community-Led Design Practices BA Graphic Design, Kingston School of Art, London, UK Talk, Politics of De

About Designer, researcher, organiser and educator based in London. I’m a founding member of Common Knowledge , a not-for-profit worker cooperative that uses design and technology to help social movements build power. My practice centres on building infrastructures to foster more creative and resilient movements, and exploring how arts and culture can expand our collective political imagination. I’m on the board of workers.coop , the member-led federation of worker cooperatives in the UK. As part of collectives like Designers + Cultural Workers and Evening Class , I’ve contributed to building

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