The final event to celebrate the Design Star Centre for Doctoral Training has begun! First a tour of Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Thanks to Naomi for picking out the highlights and to Polly for booking the trip Design Star CDT Brighton Museums Polly Harte

Design Star event workshop: Set-up for the Materialities workshop with Berta Ferrer Andres Architect of Books Design Star CDT

Workshop in full flow for Design Star, at Lighthouse Brighton Design Star CDT Architect of Books Lighthouse

Beautiful objects created at the workshop today, telling many different stories, and pushing the meaning of the ‘materiality’ of the book. Thank you everyone! Design Star CDT Architect of Books Lighthouse

Making notes so I don’t have to! Thanks B Baumgartner-Cohen for writing on the walls! We will have a perfect summary of our CDT’s final event Lighthouse Arts and Humanities Research Council

Talks themed around ‘environment’ from Rui on ‘Design for Ocean’, Katarina on ‘Co-designing plastic waste ontologies’ Design Star CDT KRAALDesignedisposal

Scott presenting on ‘Route setting as embodied design practice’ Design Star CDT

Sally chairing our next Q+A with Rui, Katarina, and Scott Design Star CDT KRAALDesignedisposal

Delicious lunch for our final event, provided by RealJunkFoodBrighton who have taken into consideration all of our dietary requirements- thank you Lighthouse for sorting this out

David, discussing his research on ‘Automated indifference’, how making complex systems seem simple or automatic, can often hide the labour and consumption of resources Design Star CDT

Suzanne, presenting her ‘storytelling as a research method’ Design Star CDT

Liam explaining their ‘Co-designing forests’ approach and work with Forestry England Design Star CDT @legs_ohagan

Trespassers will be celebrated! @legs_ohagan telling us how he and the lovely Bella get the research done (and how climbing over walls is also research)

Tom presenting ‘Buttons, books, bombs and body cameras: Some reflections on using design things in police research’ Design Star CDT

Our final talk of the event: Jenna discussing ‘Amateur filmmaking as a practice of neuroqueer refusal at the intersection of queer knowledge learning disability’ Design Star CDT

Final Q+A, chaired by Sally, discussing vehicles for collaborating, archival material + storytelling, objects as a tool for discussion + revelation, and working with public bodies in design research. Fascinating talks, thank you to all contributors! Design Star CDT

A quick thank you to #brighton for being so polite with its weather - some of us have been in the sea 🌊

The nibbles have arrived - thanks RealJunkFoodBrighton they are delicious, and Lighthouse for suggesting RJF

And with that, our final event is winding down. Our Director Eric Kindel gave thanks to all who have helped, collaborated and supported along the way, with special thanks to Sue Walker who led the CDT from 2014 until 2022 most wonderfully

Thanks to Lighthouse and RealJunkFoodBrighton for hosting and catering the Design Star CDT event so wonderfully. Highly recommend them both if you’re looking for a venue!