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CoDesign4Transitions
international
research

CoDesign4TransitionsSustainable Transitions through Democratic Design

principal investigator / project leader
Karol Murlak
Ph.D. / Associate Professor

designer, researcher, and lecturer

Full bio
project value: PLN 12,069,064 (EUR 2,682,014 )
funding source: European Research Council Executive Agency – European Commission
discipline: art studies, social sciences
location: Warsaw
duration: 2024 2025 2026 2027

The goal of the project is to understand how prototyping and testing of different solutions on a small scale can help solve social conflicts that arise during adaptation to climate change. Additionally, the project provides development opportunities for Early Stage Researchers.

Project No.: 101120074

Project Objectives

The CoDesign4Transitions project offers interdisciplinary learning opportunities for ten Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) in areas such as participatory design, co-design, sustainable design, service and systems design, democratic innovation, and climate transitions. The project will help the doctoral students to develop competencies indispensable for designing new approaches and their empirical verification through collaboration with the university’s local community.

The goals will be achieved thanks to a training program that includes collaboration with experts from academia and beyond. The network of experts includes the 6 grant beneficiaries from the academia and 13 Associate Partners from 9 countries, who provide advanced training in areas such as general knowledge as well as design and social sciences skills. ESRs will undergo training at the partnering universities, members of the network as well as internships at non-academic organizations.

The grant will enable SWPS University to begin research collaboration with the best European design universities, such as the Politecnico di Milano and Central Saint Martins, and the Central Saint Martins College, which is a part of the University of the Arts in London. We are delighted with this success, because this is the first grant of that magnitude at the Institute of Design, but we also know that this success would not be possible without cooperation with our partners – the team lead by Professor Mikołaj Cześnik from the Institute of Social Sciences, and without the experience of SWPS University’s Office for Research and the Office for Research Analytics.

The goal of the project is to understand how prototyping and testing of different solutions on a small scale can help solve social conflicts that arise during adaptation to climate change. Two doctoral students who, thanks to the grant, will soon begin their studies at our Interdisciplinary Doctoral School will explore this topic in close cooperation with the City of Warsaw.

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    designer, researcher, and lecturer
    First and last name
    Karol Murlak
    Academic degree or title
    Ph.D. / Associate Professor
    City
    warszawa
    Discipline
    fine-arts-and-art-conservation
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    Institute of Design
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    Ph.D. / Associate Professor Karol Murlakdesigner, researcher, and lecturer
  • Methodology

    The 4-year research and training program consists of three research phases, including prototyping, materialization and visualization as well as facilitating system changes. These research projects are complemented by two implementation phases: project management and communication as well as dissemination and implementation of the newly gained knowledge.

    Consortium members

    Associate partners

    Research team

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    Specialization
    sociologist and political scientist, specializes in analysis of political systems
    First and last name
    Mikołaj Cześnik
    Academic degree or title
    Ph.D. / Associate Professor
    City
    warszawa
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    political-science-and-public-administration
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    Ph.D. / Associate Professor Mikołaj Cześniksociologist and political scientist, specializes in the analysis of poitical systems
  • Wszołek, Mariusz
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    Specialization
    communication design researcher, design theoretician.
    First and last name
    Mariusz Wszołek
    Academic degree or title
    Ph.D. / Associate Professor
    City
    wroclaw
    Position
    profesor uczelni
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    Faculty of Law and Communication in Wrocław
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    Ph.D. / Associate Professor Mariusz Wszołekcommunication design researcher, design theoretician.
  • Practical application of results

    The key element of the project is to provide public institutions, businesses and public good organizations with solutions indispensable to achieving carbon neutrality, which they committed to by signing the Paris Agreement. The goal will be reached thanks to experimentation, using prototypes of solutions that will help to lower the risk of failure, and will provide tangible and visual evidence, which will engaging stakeholders in the development, testing, assessing and modifying the solutions.

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