Author: Lara Salinas
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Design in Local Government Playbook
Dr Lara Salinas has been awarded an AHRC Innovation Scholar grant to advance design excellence in the public sector. Lara will be seconded to London Borough of Camden’s Strategy and Change team, from where she’ll collaborate with the national Local Government Service Design Network to co-create a Design in Local Government Playbook. Research question Playbook…
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Societal Readiness Framework
Purpose SoRA is a framework to support reflexive assessment and improvement of Societal Readiness. SoRA has been created in collaboration with experts, innovators and policy makers. The assessment consists of four dimensions that relate to carbon reduction, social justice, social good and alignment with preferable future systems. SoRA facilitates alignment with carbon reduction targets, better…
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Climate Emergency Visual Action Plan
Purpose Climate Emergency Action Plans are highly complex, involving multiple actors from across sectors. The most immediate challenge, to enable collaboration both inside the local government and with external organisations, is to communicate the multiple lines of actions and operational objectives. This information is held in different parts of the organisations, and in documents with…
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Good Help for Families in Camden After Covid
Camden Family Changemakers was a co-design project carried out in 2021 between Camden Council’s family services team, parents and family members residing in Camden, London College of Communication (LCC) MA Service Design and MA Data Visualisation students, two MA Service Design alumni, five academic staff members, the Service Futures Lab at LCC and the UAL’s Public…
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Service Design – Historical frames and contemporary issues by Professor Alison Prendiville
1st February 2024, London College of Communication, London. Starting with a historical lens this lecture will explore the nature and emergence of service to contextualise key developments that have come to define it. Different perspectives on service design will then be presented to explore its role and contribution to contemporary challenges. This first talk from…
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UAL Climate Studio
UAL Climate Studio is a 6-months collaboration between three UAL colleges to develop an urban network of citizens, organisations and government to support collaborative place-based climate action.
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PNK Garden
PNK Garden is a local gardening project in South London, on a land that had previously been disused for over 30 years. PNK Garden is fully independent, self-managed, self-funded, shared and free to access.
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Design futuring with Government Digital Service
Partners: Government Digital Service (UK Cabinet Office) Date: 2023 Funder: Government Digital Service (UK Cabinet Office) Team: Dr Lara Salinas Marion Lagedamont Digby Usher Laura Yarrow (GOVUK) Marina Filliba (GOVUK) Publications: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/20978/ Find out more: https://insidegovuk.blog.gov.uk/2024/09/05/how-gov-uk-is-supporting-new-ideas-and-helping-the-next-generation-of-service-designers/
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CoDesign4Transitions
CoDesign4Transitions is a four-year doctoral network (2024-28) that brings together eight universities in seven countries (Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, UK) who will recruit and supervise a cohort of 13 transdisciplinary Doctoral Candidates (DCs).
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Paint & Plant
A series of community events to support cross-pollination between UAL student communities and local communities.
Service Futures Lab 