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Considered_ seeks to embed social change and sustainability issues into mainstream marketing and creative practice. This is social design operating at scale… this is social design for the other 90%.

Currently the vast majority of the world’s advertising, design and creative talent is siloed in mainstream practice—working on commercial briefs largely antithetical to social and environmental progress. Research shows that they are eager to use their skills to make a positive difference, but lack opportunities to do so. 

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Students from the University of Chester have been working with a Welsh charity to design integrated behaviour change interventions tackling entrenched social issues in the area.

Two teams of students from the second year ‘Advertising and Society’ course have been working in close partnership with Safer Wales, a Cardiff based charity focussed on “making people feel safer in their daily lives” as part of their BA degree course. The charity, who are currently working on projects tackling domestic violence and hate-crime, answered our ‘Change the World’ call out earlier in the year, recognising the benefit of taking a behaviour change approach to tackling prejudice and domestic abuse in Cardiff.

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