Industry Project Researcher, PI/RCA VOICE Project

SCHOOL/AREA: School of Communication

SITE: White City, London, United Kingdom

FTE: 0.6

Founded in 1837, the Royal College of Art is the world’s largest community of postgraduate art and design students. It is also the oldest art and design university in continuous operation and has been ranked as the world's number one art and design university for a remarkable nine consecutive years, according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023 – the worldwide survey of academic and industry opinion.

Purpose of the Role

Activities: To support the Principle Investigator (Camille Baker) with the 30 month EI funded project to explore Valorising Artist-Led Innovation Through Citizen Engagement (VOICE). Mixed methods approach: build evidence through engagement activities and evaluate outcomes.

VOICE proposes a distinct approach framed as ‘artist-driven’ interventions to enable multi-stakeholder communities to engage in dialogue but also collaborate for co-designed green and digital solutions to remedy regional or local challenges related to environmental and ecological sustainability and leading to a more resilient ecosystem. Formulated as Art-Technology-Society Interactions (ATSI), these initiatives will form the backbone of artist-led interventions as platforms for dialogue, knowledge exchange and transfer among the key players/stakeholders in the VOICE ecosystem. 

Concern-driven technology design and critical making, strengthen communities’ uptake and diffusion of innovations while instigating a wider impact towards positive change in social, economic and environmental orders. Civic involvement through dialogue and participatory design are at the same time considered as building blocks of the emerging trend for responsible innovation. To that end, VOICE focuses on engaging communities in understanding complex issues in matters related to environmental and ecological sustainability and co-design solutions through artist-led interventions. As a result, the VOICE project aims at capacity building, dialogue, knowledge valorisation and transfer practices in relation to three interconnected Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) topics, i.e., SDG11, SGD 12, and SDG 17 (https://sdgs.un.org/goals )

The Industry Project Researcher will be expected to work closely with the consortium partners INOVA+ - INNOVATION SERVICES, SA (INOVA+), STICHTING WAAG SOCIETY (WAAG), UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN (UCD) FUTURE FOCUS21C EDU (FF2C), EURICE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND PROJECT OFFICE GMBH (EURICE), RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SERVICES DOO ZA USLUGE (RISE), and BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON (BUL).

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