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A Habitat of Planetary Ecologies for Sustainable Futures (HoPE Nexus)

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Welcome to the HoPE Nexus, a vibrant initiative at the forefront of sustainable development and innovative research. HoPE Nexus stands for Habitat of Planetary Ecologies and embarks on a mission to harmonise insights from the past, actions from the present, and possibilities for the future. Driven by the University of Warwick and an ensemble of dedicated partners, this initiative zeroes in on addressing crucial issues such as climate change, economic inequalities, and resource-based governance. Through an interdisciplinary approach, HoPE Nexus offers participants opportunities to engage in activities like serious games, AI-driven simulations, and virtual field trips, enhancing their understanding and capability to devise adaptive governance models. By merging global strategies with local knowledge and encouraging decolonial perspectives, we aim to rethink environmental governance and design forward-thinking solutions. Together, we invite students, experts, policymakers, and communities alike to join in crafting resilient and sustainable futures.

Connected Community Activities

Upcoming activities: Coming soon.
Past activities

How to get involved?

Students and educators: please contact the Warwick Local Facilitator, Dr Mélina Delmas (melina.delmas@warwick.ac.uk).

Connected Community Members

Co-lead: Jane Webb (UW). Email: Jane.A.Webb@warwick.ac.uk: Coming soon.
Co-lead: Elena Korosteleva (UW). Email: Elena.Korosteleva@warwick.ac.uk: Coming soon.
Co-lead: Adela Glyn-Davies (UW). Email: Adela.Glyn-Davies@warwick.ac.uk: Adela is the Head of Design Studies and an Associate Professor at Design and Global Sustainable Development BASc (Hons), at the University of Warwick.
Adela Glyn-Davies is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and designer specialised in systems and interactions. Her work is process responsive, which challenges the applicability and adaptability of the following disciplinary practices: audio-visual interactive code, projection mapping, data mapping and radical cartography, product (tangible and intangible), site installation, traditional and digital graphics and experimental video. The focus of her work lies in exploring systems through their imbalances and mismatches in the context of inclusivity and long-term relatability, which seeks methods for the exploration and capturing of overlooked, often neglected and excluded data. Her professional and personal practice captures the intersections of high tech and emerging technologies with primitive and radical processes, towards new sense-making in design complexity.
Co-lead: Bryan Brazeau (UW). Email: B.Brazeau@warwick.ac.uk: Coming soon.
Co-lead: Marta Guerriero (UW). Email: M.Guerriero@warwick.ac.uk: Marta Guerriero is Associate Professor and International Partnerships Coordinator in the Global Sustainable Development Department at the University of Warwick. She is also Thematic Lead (Economic Sustainability) of Warwick’s ‘Sustainable Cities’ Global Research Priority. She is an applied economist with interests in development and environmental economics. She approaches her research and teaching in an interdisciplinary manner, also incorporating aspects of social and environmental policy, political economy and development studies. During her academic career, she has taught several modules focusing on sustainable development issues and collaborated with a range of UK and international stakeholders in the field.
Co-lead: Feng Mao (UW). Email: Feng.Mao@warwick.ac.uk: Coming soon.
Co-lead: Vangelis Pitidis (UW). Email: Evangelos.Pitidis@warwick.ac.uk: Coming soon.
Co-lead: Hita Unnikrishnan (UW). Email: Hita.Unnikrishnan@warwick.ac.uk: Coming soon.
EU Partner: Julia Sexas (UNL). Email: mjs@fct.unl.pt: Coming soon.
EU Partner: Bostjan Kenda (UL). Email: Bostjan.Kenda@aluo.uni-lj.si: Full Professor of Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Graduated in Editorial graphics at IED, Milan, Italy. Also teaches visual communication at the Faculty of Architecture and at the Faculty of Computer Sciences.
Founder and partner of studiobotas, a graphic design studio which concentrates on book design and signage in public space.
In 2017 chaired the commission for the national design strategy document.
From 2017 to 2019 Vice-rector for Art and Creativity at University of Ljubljana, from 2013 to 2017 Dean of Academy of Fine Arts and Design, from 2011 to 2013 Head of Department of Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
Botas Kenda is cooperative in promoting practice-based research and design driven doctorate through CA²RE, ADAPT-r(PRS) and Doctorate Programme in Art at University of Ljubljana.
EU Partner: Dominique Sciamma (CY). Email: dominique.sciamma@cyu.fr: Director and Dean of CY School of Design @ CY Cergy Paris Université FRANCE
President of APCI (France Design promotion Agency)
Holder of a Bachelor with honours in Mathematics and a Master's Degree in Theoretical Computer Science and after an eclectic career within international companies, Dominique is the creator and Director of the first ever design school in a university (CY Cergy Paris University) which welcomed its 130 first students in September 2021. He previously lead and directed Strate School of design for 7 years until September 2020, transforming it into the 1st French private design school. Before leading Strate, he successively created and led its "Intelligent Systems and Objects" department and its research activity.
Always surfing on new technologies, he successively worked as an AI researcher, software developer, marketing director, head of an AI business unit in Singapore, strategist (for Bull), head of a complex problem solving team, multimedia marketing (for EDS), electronic editor (for La Tribune economic newspaper), multimedia author, CMS author (as an independent digital consultant), before passionately investing on Design pedagogy.
A prominent figure in the design ecosystem in France, Dominique is a determined promoter of transformative design, through his actions, words and writings. As president of APCI, the main French design promotion association, he played a very active role in the Design National Conference (2019) for the implementation of a national design policy. He is a board member of the French National Design Council.
Global Partner: Guy Midgley (SU). Email: gfmidgley@sun.ac.za: Coming soon.
Global Partner: Filia Garvaldis (MU). Email: Filia.Garivaldis@monash.edu: Coming soon.