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Gemma Copeland

About

I’m an Australian designer, researcher and educator based in London. I primarily work as a member of Common Knowledge, a not-for-profit worker cooperative that uses design and technology to help social movements build power. Through my practice, I explore how design can be used to enable people to organise themselves, amplify marginalised voices, facilitate dialogues, and imagine post-growth futures.

I’m on the board of workers.coop, a UK-wide federation of worker cooperatives, and am part of the Center for Other Worlds, an interdisciplinary research centre for design and art based in Lisbon. As part of collectives like Designers + Cultural Workers and Evening Class, I’ve contributed to building support structures for precarious workers.

I’ve worked as a graphic and interactive designer in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Australia. I’ve held teaching positions at Central St Martins, London College of Communication and Design Lusófona Lisboa, and have given talks and workshops at institutions like the University of Cambridge, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, HBK Braunschweig, Kingston School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and Parsons School of Design.

Contact

gemmacopeland@pm.me

Current and upcoming

  • SeminarTransformative Work as Livelihood
    MA Eco-Social Design, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, IT

  • Lecture
    UWE Bristol Graphic Design, Bristol, UK

Previously

Recent work