This year’s series will consider questions of the most urgent relevance to education and industry in graphic communication design, placing them into social, environmental and historical contexts. How should graphic and communication designers interact with the dominance of the tech sector, particularly as this is intensified through the pandemic? What can graphic design do to make a step-change against racism and coloniality that has a meaningful long-term impact? How is the environmental crisis a crisis of communication?
2. Last years in-person series held in the GCD studios in King’s Cross was interrupted by Covid in March, but you can read more about it here: csmgcd.net/lectures/2019-20
3. In addition to moving online, this years’ series will also follow a new format in which contributors will each present briefly on theme or question chosen together. This will be followed by discussion.