School SOS was founded in 2019 by Kishan San and Pierre Shaw to aid the development of critical, social, active and political design practice. Today, the organisation is made up of a network of like minded thinkers and do-ers, including, cutting edge practioners in the fields of art and design, world leading academics and internationally reknowned loved art galleries and museums oragnised towards repoliticising and activiating the field of design.

School SOS runs a number of initiatives around ethics, access and education in design, including:

  • Accesible lectures, workshops and courses for young people from marginalised backgrounds
  • Support for nascent practioners in the feilds of active design
  • Ethics workshops / CPDs for existing architecture and design offices

We have organised and delivered lectures, workshops and courses internationally, including at:

We have collaborated with a number of world leading activists, advocates and active practioners, including:

SOS-XX (Flagship Course)
SOS-XX Final Show
SOS-XX WIP Show
Workshops
20-08-2022
3D Animation
SOS Saturdays
18-08-2022
3D Animation
13-08-2022
Game Engines
SOS Saturdays
12-08-2022
Game Engines
06-08-2022
Photogrammetry
SOS Saturdays
04-08-2022
Photogrammetry
01-08-2022
18-05-2022
Climate Crime (?) III and Photogrammetry
06-10-2021
2D Animation
29-09-2021
Game Engines
22-09-2021
3D Animation
01-09-2021
Data Visualisation
25-08-2021
Photogrammetry
22-03-2021
High Street or the Highway and Photogrammetry
04-02-2021
Climate Crime (?) II
21-01-2021
Climate Crime (?) I
18-08-2020
Performance with
GREENPEACE UK
SOS-20
07-08-2020
3D Animation
05-08-2020
Creative Coding
29-07-2020
Creative Coding
20-05-2020
Gift of Points
27-02-2020
High Speed Uber
04-02-2019
Sewage Works!
15-09-2019
Apple City II
29-07-2019
Performance with
The Rodina
22-06-2019
Apple City I
15-06-2019
Platform Wars II
22-02-2019
Platform Wars I
Technical Workshop
Ethics Workshop
Ethics and Technical Workshop
Lectures
24-08-2022
17-08-2022
10-08-2022
Helen Hester
03-08-2022
12-08-2022
Design Methodologies II
10-11-2021
28-10-2021
21-10-2021
14-10-2021
30-09-2021
16-09-2021
08-09-2021
02-09-2021
20-04-2021
13-04-2021
06-04-2021
SOS so far again again …
20-01-2021
SOS so far again …
03-12-2020
SOS Readings
21-11-2020
SOS so far …
18-08-2020
06-08-2020
Forensic Architecture
03-08-2020
Sophie Lewis
08-07-2020
Nick Srnicek
12-08-2022
Design Methodologies I
06-08-2019
03-08-2019
03-08-2019
29-07-2019
29-07-2019
29-07-2019
02-04-2019
School as a Nexus
29-07-2019
Fields of Amissibility with
Professor David Vine
Ines Weizman
Forensic Architecture
Lecture given by School SOS
Lecture developed and organised by School SOS
Press
06-05-2021
Urgent Pedagogies
20-04-2020
Blackhorse Workshop Blog
08-11-2019
Blueprint Magazine
08-08-2019
Citizen Mag
14-05-2019
E-Flux Architecture
14-05-2019
KooZA/rch
27-07-2018
Bisley