Designing money: how can we do it better?

This workshop will look at conventional currency design, and reveal some truths about the pieces of paper that we carry in our pockets but perhaps don’t pay as much attention to as we should. When we free ourselves from what we think money has to look like, how far can we go?

Tom Shakhli is General Manager at The Brixton Pound.

Charlie Waterhouse is a designer who has worked with The Brixton Pound.

Nigel Dodd (@nigelbdodd) is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at LSE.

This event is part of Resist: Festival of Ideas and Actions, a campus-wide 3-day festival taking place at LSE from Wednesday 28 to Friday 30 September 2016 hosted by the Department of Sociology at LSE. Through a vibrant array of events including public discussions, film screenings, workshops, soapbox debates and art exhibitions, the festival aims to draw a wide audience into the distinct ways in which the theme of resistance has been interpreted and understood within academic research, the arts, grassroots activism campaigns, student debate and mainstream politics. For more information on the festival visit Resist: Festival of Ideas and Actions, the facebook page and follow the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #LSEresist. 

This project is supported by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.