At what point you can start calling yourself a designer? The discussions about the anxiety about the future of the profession often omit students – people, who will make this future. It is easy to be discouraged from any attempts to introduce changes, when you feel the complete lack of agency. When you are the voice and want to shout, but you feel nobody wants to listen. The subject of improving public space has always been dear to us. We want to tell you about the long way to launching our project The Living Wall – students’ space for graffiti experiments. The story of its execution emphasises many issues, but also provides perspectives and hopes that students will be able to really influence the space in which they study. We attempt to answer questions raised by young creators, who, unsure yet diligent, await the first launches of their own designs. How to efficiently design and implement revolutionary projects in spaces reluctant to change? How to design with little means at your disposal? The Living Wall was launched with the engagement of the students community. As we observed, it was not only the final effect, but also the very process of implementation that influenced the well-being and identification of the community with this newly launched space, the sense of agency and mutual trust. Our conclusion is: Let us launch something sometimes, you will not regret that!
Keywords: young designers, social activism, do it yourself