Welcome to Design Factory Manchester

Design Factory Manchester is an innovation hub at Manchester School of Art. It is a vehicle for practitioners, researchers, and students to drive sustainable development in communities within and beyond the city.

Below are our three current research themes. These are being activated via the projects featured in the menu above. If you’re interested in collaborating, please reach out to us by email.

Stockport Creative Campus

An Arts Council funded project working with creative businesses and social enterprises to actively develop sustainable ways of collectively thriving by applying design thinking and doing to community and place-based regeneration.

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Co-operative enterprise for sustainable innovation

Exploring the potential of alternative modes of enterprise to enable more sustainable modes of innovation, including collaboration with Co-operatives UK.

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Creative climate action

Exploring how designers and the design industries can collectively respond more meaningfully and effectively to the challenges of climate change and its ecological and social crises, via increased sustainability literacy and more confident climate action.

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