Rachel Clarke

Rachel is a design researcher and practitioner based at University of the Arts London. She combines visual communication with qualitative research, performance and storytelling on issues of climate change, sustainability and social inequality. She has exhibited work internationally and co-authored research papers across design research, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social sciences. She is member of the Climate Emergency Network at UAL, and recently co-edited ‘Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation’ with Sara Heitlinger and Marcus Foth in 2024 with Oxford University Press. She was advisor for the Department for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs’s Futures Advisory Group between 2022-2025. Example projects include urban soil data kits for citizen scientists to understand environmental quality and health inequalities (funded by NERC), designing more-than-human data interactions in the smart city (funded by EPSRC), and exploring young Palestinians’ responses to housing working with UN Women representatives (funded by the British Academy).