Bella Day
- Associate Lecturer
- Communication MFA
Bella is a Creative Director working in the social purpose and sustainability spaces. She specialises in playful co-creation methods, public engagement, design anthropology, and communication.
Bella teaches the MFA Communication, combining her skills in social purpose advertising with her practices in contemporary art curating and creative education.
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Research Interests
Bella researches playful co-creation methods for social impact, with an emphasis on epistemic justice. Her transdisciplinary work centres play and the state of collective enchantment as participatory research approaches which support collectives of people to ‘say the unsayable’ about their experiences of adversity and trauma.
Practice
Bella works for clients including Save The Children, UK Government, The Coop Foundation, Young Minds and NHS to create advertising campaigns about social and ecological topics.
Awards
- Winner, Save the Children “Orianna” Children’s Champion Award, 2024
- Finalist, EMEA Purpose Awards, 2022
- Finalist, EMEA Purpose Awards, 2020
- Winner, Hearts for the Arts National Award, 2018
- Runner Up, National Lottery Arts Project of the Year, 2017
- Finalist, National Lottery Arts Project of the Year, 2016
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Day, Eloise Belladonna. (2024). The Uses of Enchantment: Playful design tools that evoke ‘the unsayable” for teenagers with lived experiences of loneliness. Design Research Society. (forthcoming) https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.185
Day, Eloise Belladonna. (2024). 'Case Study: Lonely, Not Alone'. In: Children and Young People's Participation in Health Promotion: A Global Mapping of Understandings and Practices. UNESCO. (forthcoming)
Malone, Eloise Belladonna. (2017). The Cold Truth: Art as Fulcrum for Recovery and Change. Journal of Social Work Practice. https://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2017.1305340