Engineering future generations

The vision of the Engineering Future Generations project has been to develop a set of future-facing, real-world and socially responsible behaviours, mindsets and practices to enhance and focus the curriculum within Cardiff School of Art and Design. A core focus has been upon the development of communities of practice to ensure that the work has a legacy and continues beyond the 3 years of the project. Our visiting professor, Robert Hopkins, has helped to develop these communities working across the school with all 13 undergraduate programmes with our academic and technical teams resulting in the establishment of new research and practice communities, student facing projects and research projects. This collective work has informed the schools’ recent periodic review which has enabled us to capture the practices within dedicated spaces of a genuine Futures Generations Curriculum.