Design Generators

Design Generators is a funding opportunity from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) that supports design-led research projects contributing to the green transition. The programme funds innovative research that combines design-led interventions with arts and humanities methodologies to address environmental sustainability, decarbonisation, circular economies, policy design and regenerative practices. Projects must co-develop interventions with non-academic partners and engage collaboratively with communities or stakeholders. The initiative is part of the wider Future Observatory: Design the Green Transition Programme, delivered in partnership with the Design Museum. The first round focuses on creating interventions within existing systems such as healthcare, food networks, governance structures, and financial infrastructures, with a community-centered perspective using design thinking and creative methodologies to identify leverage points for positive change.