Colour Literacy Forum #15: Colour in Practice: Expanding Knowledge for a Changing World

The Colour Literacy Forum is a virtual platform featuring presentations and interactive conversations focused on updating and expanding 21st century colour education at the university level. The goal of this global collaboration is to develop a 21st century STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) model that positions colour as a meta-discipline and aligns colour education with current needs in the culture, providing state-of-the-art resources, and offering dynamic networking opportunities for all stakeholders.

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Colour in Practice: Expanding Knowledge for a Changing World

2026 Series, Part 1

As global challenges reshape how we design, communicate, and engage with our environments, colour itself must evolve to meet new social, ecological, and technological demands. The series highlights practitioners, researchers, and thinkers who propose innovative, meaningful, and ethical approaches to colour—grounded in current knowledge rather than inherited conventions.

Each Forum showcases real-world applications that position colour as a strategic, sensorial, psychological, ecological, and systemic tool, demonstrating its impact across materials, spaces, and experiences. Understanding this broader landscape allows us to see colour not simply as an aesthetic choice, but as a force with tangible effects. The series invites participants to question assumptions, explore emerging methodologies, and expand their understanding of colour. In doing so, it redefines colour literacy for today and the future, framing it as a vital, dynamic form of knowledge—one that equips us to navigate a complex, interconnected, and rapidly changing world with insight, responsibility, and creativity.

Forum 15: Designing With Colour -

     Relation, Strategy & Regeneration

The speakers: 

Timo Rieke, Professor of Colour and Surface Design at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim.

Title:  Color as Relation: The End of Substance and the Beginning of Practice

Montaha Hidefi, Color Archaeologist^TM

Title: The Future is Ancient: Why CMF Strategy Needs Color Archaeology^TM

Laura Perryman, MA (RCA), Colour and CMF designer, researcher, and forecaster.

Title: Colour Without Consequence? Rethinking CMF Practice For a Regenerative Future

For full abstracts and speaker bios refer to the Colour Literacy site.