Future Now: Collaboration in Action brings together students to make, design, experiment and develop creative projects in
association with partner organisations in Sheffield.

Our collaborative learning model with external businesses and organisations allows us to explore the potential of the future of design in a real world setting. Working across art and design programmes and with regional industry partners, students engage with creative learning in new ways. Working with external partners gives students the opportunity to professionalise their work and to see the relevance of it in the real world and beyond their programs.

Future Now projects value critical and creative thinking, collaboration and experimentation, while exploring important issues facing our present and future. Future Now projects embrace the collaborative curriculum as students explore new ways of working and thinking, outside of their disciplinary boundaries. Working beyond their discipline enables students to think differently about the way in which they apply their knowledge and the ways in which they creatively work with others. Future Now projects foster new friendships, contacts and networks. This year Future Now projects are focused around 5 themes from the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The themes are: Gender Equality; Good Health and Wellbeing; Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Responsible Consumption and Production and Zero Hunger.

This exhibition celebrates the work of our student community as they collaborate between programmes and with external companies and organisations.
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Our Industry Partners and Project are:
The Green Estate Community Interest Company: Urban Resilience
Kitlocker: Extending the Life Cycle of Team Kit
St Luke’s Hospice: Finding Quality in Waste
Advanced Food Innovation Centre (AFIC), Dr Hongwei Zang, Co-Director (Academic) of the AFIC: Alternative Protein Sources + Waste-to-Food.
The SPAACE Programme, Dave Hemborough, SHU Research Fellow – Knowledge Exchange, Advanced Wellbeing Centre (AWRC)
Chris Dayson, Professor of Voluntary Action: Promoting Green Social Prescribing  Amongst Children and Young People
Dr Rebecca Mawson, School of Medicine and Population Health: Removing Contraceptive Health and Education Barriers
Cemetery Road Baptist Church, Mike Green: Congregational Future