Dirty Hands: Tobias Revell
Tobias Revell is an artist, designer, researcher and educator from London specialising in futures and technology through critical practice.
He is Design Futures Lead at Arup where he leads the Foresight team in delivering large-scale strategic futures and sustainability projects for internal and external clients and developing futures literacy across the firm.
He specialises in the use of design approaches to deepen engagement, enhance the quality of outcomes and question underlying assumptions in tackling complex problems. He exhibits, writes and lectures internationally on futures, art, design, technology and imagination.
The event will take place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 05:00 PM in 1.J30 - Immersive Arts Space, Toni Areal.
Dirty Hands is an invitation to explore new ways of working—ways that are hands-on and reflective, experimental and critical, proactive and self-aware, deeply rooted in practice. It embraces contradiction, the tension between creation and consequence, and the need for design to evolve.
This lecture series explores the entangled relationships between design, ecology, technology, and society. It highlights the urgent need for approaches that bridge the gap between planetary limitations and human action.
We invite thinkers and makers to navigate these uncertainties with us—to get their hands dirty, share their practice, and rethink what design can and can't do.
