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UAL Climate, Racial and Social Justice Principles
In both the UAL Strategy and the UAL Climate Action Plan, we have committed to ensuring that our students’ skills are set within an ethical framework which addresses issues of social, racial and climate justice. UAL Staff and Students have co-designed a set of five principles​ to define and guide this work across the institution.
UAL Climate Glossary
Co-designed by staff and students, the UAL Climate Glossary represents a shared base of knowledge and language relating to the climate. We’ve included and mapped key terms used in climate discussions and provided basic definitions to enable further research.
You can use the glossary to develop your own knowledge. However it has also been designed for use with students. It is not intended to be definitive or complete. We encourage you to take it, use it, expand it and adapt for your own contexts.
UAL Climate Justice case studies
A number of case studies of existing practices for Climate Action were recently published as part of the UAL Climate Action Plan. Read more about:
- a brief set by Centre for Sustainable Fashion for the LCF Collaborative Challenge Unit students that challenged them, and others, to meet some of the changes or radical adaptations that need to be made amidst the climate emergency
- how CCW staff used the Embedding Climate, Racial and Social Justice Framework to guide a course’s reapproval process
- a new BA at LCC that explores the complex narratives of Climate Justice
- a new MA at CCW that facilitating climate action through collaborative design practice
- a centre at LCF is shaping the field of Fashion Design for Sustainability
- students at CSM, who are learning from the forest
- staff at LCC are embedding eco-social design practice in the curriculum
- technical staff identifying improvements in workshops/technical facilities
- a research project at CSM is creating a bio-based colouring system for fashion and textiles