Storytelling Through Art and Design:
Visualising Racial and
Social Justice
Using Creativity to Drive Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Arts.
A Knowledge Exchange Initiative Exploring Equity Through Creative Practice
"What does racial and social justice
look like through your creative lens?"
This was the provocation at the heart of Storytelling Through Art and Design, a Knowledge Exchange (KE) initiative inviting LCC students and recent graduates (Classes of 2023 & 2024) to share creative responses that visualise social and racial justice.
The open call served as a platform for practice-based knowledge sharing, where illustration, photography, installations, and digital media became tools for expressing lived experience, cultural insight, and critical reflection. The selected works, bold, intimate, and thought-provoking, offered a creative lens into how justice, identity, and belonging are interpreted by emerging artists and designers.
These contributions were publicly exhibited on digital screens across the LCC Information Centre throughout summer 2025, fostering cross-community dialogue and wider engagement with themes of equity and representation.
Developed in collaboration with the LCC Information Centre and the Changemakers Programme, this event was more than an exhibition; it was a collective act of creative resistance, community-building, and transformative learning.
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The in-person event brought together students, staff, and external partners in an open forum for collaborative learning and creative dialogue, including:
- Live knowledge exchange between the LCC Changemakers and the University of Salford’s Equity Ambassadors Scheme, sharing approaches to embedding equity into student experience.
- A hands-on workshop featuring interactive mapping and storytelling activities focused on racial and social justice.
- A student art showcase, celebrating visual storytelling as a method of research and social commentary.
- Opportunities for peer learning, inter-institutional exchange, and cross-disciplinary connection, with plenty of refreshments to keep the energy flowing.
Storytelling Through Art and Design highlights the potential of creative practice to act as a site for knowledge exchange, where ideas are shared, perspectives are challenged, and new understandings emerge through co-created, visual, and embodied forms of learning.
This initiative reflects LCC’s commitment to decolonising education, and to supporting students as critical agents of cultural, educational, and social transformation.
Find out more about UAL, London College of Communication, Changemakers here: https://lccchangemakers.myblog.arts.ac.uk/
Find out more about the equity Ambassadors here: https://www.salfordsu.com/changeandengage/equity-ambassadors/#:~:text=The%20Equity%20Ambassadors%20are%20students,as%20the%20wider%20student%20population.
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