Overview
Visualising Justice is a student-led creative platform developed through the LCC Changemakers programme. It explores how art, design, storytelling and lived experience can make questions of racial and social justice visible, discussable and open to reimagining.
Bringing together creative practice, student-led enquiry and knowledge exchange, Visualising Justice creates spaces for students to explore issues that matter to them, not simply as participants, but as creative practitioners and knowledge producers.
Across 2025/26, the enquiry moved through exhibition, dialogue, making, student-led research and cross-institutional exchange.
Online Symposium
Exhibition & Symposium
Storytelling Through Art & Design: Visualising Racial and Social Justice brought together exhibition, storytelling and dialogue to explore how creative practice can make experiences of justice, identity and inequality visible.
Student artworks became starting points for enquiry and conversation, enabling lived experience and perspectives that can sometimes remain marginal within institutional spaces to be encountered through creative practice.
The Visualising Justice Symposium extended these conversations by bringing together students, staff and partners from different institutions to exchange ideas around social justice, co-creation, student partnership and inclusive education.
Here, creative practice became both a means of expressing experience and producing knowledge.
Open Call
“The artworks gave the event a deeper meaning, as we were able to see the artists’ expression of self through their individual experiences.”
Fidelis Ejike-Ume
Student Curriculum Partner
London Metropolitan University
Zine-making Workshop
Part 1.
Dialogue
Reflection
Storytelling
Experimentation
Co-creation
Reflection
Storytelling
Experimentation
Co-creation
Wall Project
Visualising Justice
Symposium
Symposium
Artists-in-Conversation & Creative Workshops
Visualising Justice moved beyond exhibition by inviting students to actively shape the encounter.
Through Artists-in-Conversation, students engaged directly with creative practitioners to explore the experiences, ideas and processes behind their work. Student-led creative workshops, including zine-making, created further opportunities to respond through making, storytelling, dialogue and experimentation.
Rather than asking students simply to participate in conversations about social justice, these spaces enabled them to contribute to the ideas, interpretations and creative knowledge being produced.
Part 1: Artist in Conversation
Shaneika Asare Simms / Mabel Wynne / Lita (Lituole) Wei / Eve Wysocki
“Rather than treating participants as passive recipients, the symposium validated personal narrative,
open dialogue and lived experience
as essential methods of knowledge production.”
Hui Xu
Student Curriculum Partner I London Metropolitan University
open dialogue and lived experience
as essential methods of knowledge production.”
Hui Xu
Student Curriculum Partner I London Metropolitan University
“It challenged my assumptions about what ‘counts’ as legitimate outputs in higher education and highlighted the potential for more diverse and student-led approaches to sharing ideas and experiences.”
Jessica Hoarau
Student Partnerships Coordinator I London Metropolitan University
Jessica Hoarau
Student Partnerships Coordinator I London Metropolitan University
Part 2: Zine Workshop
Sharing Justice
Changemakers as Knowledge ProducersChangemakers shared the projects, enquiries and interventions they had developed throughout the programme, reflecting not only on what they created
but what they learned through the process.
Through presentations, case studies, creative outputs and knowledge exchange,
students developed ways of documenting and communicating their practice
so that learning could travel beyond the original project.
This exchange also extended beyond LCC through collaboration with student partnership communities at SOAS University of London
and London Metropolitan University, creating opportunities
to encounter different approaches to co-creation,
social justice and student-led practice.
Changemakers became not simply participants in a programme,
but authors of their own practice and contributors to wider conversations
about student partnership and creative enquiry.
but what they learned through the process.
Through presentations, case studies, creative outputs and knowledge exchange,
students developed ways of documenting and communicating their practice
so that learning could travel beyond the original project.
This exchange also extended beyond LCC through collaboration with student partnership communities at SOAS University of London
and London Metropolitan University, creating opportunities
to encounter different approaches to co-creation,
social justice and student-led practice.
Changemakers became not simply participants in a programme,
but authors of their own practice and contributors to wider conversations
about student partnership and creative enquiry.
Supporting
Creative Futures
The Creative Futures Fund recognises the intellectual,
creative and emotional labour involved in socially engaged student practice.
Through small creative awards, professional documentation, artist profiles
and public-facing outputs, the fund helps remove barriers to participation
while supporting students and recent graduates to develop their portfolios
and extend the visibility of their work beyond the university.
It reflects a simple principle at the heart of Visualising Justice:
If students are recognised as creative practitioners
and knowledge producers, their contribution should also be supported, documented and valued.
Visualising Justice 2025/26 was funded by:
- LCC Climate Racial and Social Justice Fund
- LCC College Education Team, Student Journey
- UAL Central Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Fund
2025/26 LCC Changemakers
(1) Chiara Portinari
(2) Slavi Kaloferov
(3) Chaitanya Tiwari
(4) Lucy Coney
(5) Hanjun Shi
(6) Sara Keserovic
(7) Anoushka Badola
(8) Farid Tan Bin Hasyim Tan
(9) Fitri Sukardi
(10) Kevin J Brazant - LCC Changemakers Coordinator+
Collaborator:
Joy Baek - LCC Information Centre Advisor
London Metropolitan University:
Student Curriculum Partners
(1) Hui Xu - Student Curriculum Partner
(2) Vrajesh Dave - Student Curriculum Partner
(3) Fidelis Ejike-Ume - Student Curriculum Partner
(4) Jessica Hoarau - Student Partnerships Coordinator
SOAS University
Bridging the Gap Student Leaders
(1) Naomi Bahru - Student Leader
(2) Ndihokubwayo Monga
(3) Kevin Boboto
(4) Germa Tsion Tekle
(5) Tamar McPherson - Student Success Officer