Julia Costa Carneiro is the Research Lead at Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) and has over fifteen years of experience in designing place-based transition, encompassing public engagement, urban practice, and civic innovation. Her knowledge and experience is deeply rooted in in social movements in Germany, alongside studies in social and political conflicts, both of which inform her approach to organising change. Central to this is a commitment to developing transdisciplinary pathways for local transformation, with a focus on systems change, situated experimentation and transdisciplinary learning.

Currently Julia leads on the actualisation of KWMC’s Bristol Living Lab and works on co-designing collective investigations and arts-based interventions that support just, regenerative, and solidarity futures as well as the democratisation of urban development.