20/11/2025
Action is stronger than feeling
‘Doing the Work’, the 2025 St Bride conference, brought some dynamic new personalities to the foreground.
Report by Anoushka Khandwala on the Eye blog.
2025 brings us another St Bride Foundation design conference, but this time with a twist for the design industry stalwart. ‘Doing the Work’ took place on 18 October 2025 and was curated by designer Greg Bunbury, to celebrate diverse creative voices while foregrounding inclusive futures. During a year in which the UK has seen rising anti-migrant sentiment and unthinkably large far-right rallies, the conference served as a renewed call to stand in solidarity with people of colour, writes Anoushka Khandwala.
The speakers were Ricardo Eversley, Harkiran Kalsi, Carolyne Hill, Jodi Hunt and Kingsley Nebechi. I joined the stage at the end of the day to moderate the panel of speakers, and work with the audience to co-create a manifesto that served as a record of our conversation, for use by designers, organisations and institutions that are committed to ‘doing the work’.
First image (above). ‘Doing the Work’ panel, with (L to R) Ricardo Eversley, Jodi Hunt, Kingsley Nebechi, Harkiran Kalsi, Carolyne Hill and chair Anoushka Khandwala.
For the remainder of the review text and captions go to https://www.eyemagazine.com/blog/post/action-is-stronger-than-feeling
Doing the Work was the annual St Bride Foundation Design Conference 14 Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Saturday 18 October 2025.
