Author: Silvia
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Co-Creating Futures: Service Design in Rural Governance in Pujiang County, Chengdu
Spotlight on Ziwei (Zoey)Lin’s PhD in Progress Project Description This project focuses on the application of service design in rural governance and revitalisation in China, with Pujiang County in Chengdu as the primary field site. Integrating co-design, participatory design, design for policy, and speculative design methods, the project explores how design can empower grassroots governance…
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Design Pedagogy for Changemaking
Design Pedagogy for Changemaking What do we mean by changemaking? How can design research and design practice catalyse changemaking? And how to teach or train for changemaking via design or using design and creative methods? In this lecture Dr Silvia Grimaldi and Dr Malé Luján Escalante, respond to these key questions using examples to their…
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Transition Living Lab UAL: LCC Design School
Image: Student work This is an international collaboration of UAL: LCC and UAL: LCF and two Indonesian Universities. In this challenge MA students responded to a brief to co-create an intervention (workshop, activity, session, etc.) that will be part of the Transition Living Lab, a training program for displaced people interested in becoming change-makers and…
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Making Connections
Updates Join our online co-design here UAL’s People and Culture department and Social Purpose Lab aim to commission a service design review of the infrastructure, processes and systems for informal staff voice at UAL, with a goal of improving the connections between the grassroots energy, ambition and imagination of our staff community and our decision-making…
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UAL Knowledge Exchange Awards
Two projects involving Service Futures Lab members won the Knowledge Exchange Awards at University of the Arts London in September 2024 We won: People’s Prize in the Equity and Diversity category for Transition Living Lab Team: Malé Lujan Escalante, Silvia Grimaldi And: Special Commendation in the R&D Innovation category for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:…
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Design|Policy Research Network
Image: cover of the final report, photo courtesy of Lucy Kimbell The collaborative, cross-disciplinary research network organised workshops and engagement sessions to consolidate and better articulate the emerging relations between research and practice in design and public policy processes. Research contributions include a novel, evidence-based and contextual understanding of the potential for design in relation…
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UAL Climate Systems Mapping
Image: Alice Blencowe, UAL Climate Systems mapping project, Collaborative Mapping Session, 2024 This pilot research project is motivated by the commitment to net-zero emissions in UAL’s Climate Action Plan and UAL’s Strategy 2022-32 and, beyond science-based targets, UAL’s commitment to social purpose and justice. UAL – like all HEIs and organisations – will be challenged…
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Pluriversal Ways of Knowing Sharing Circle
Refugee Transition Network (RTN) – AHRC International Networking Project and The Service Futures Lab, partnered to create a participatory experience that brought together the Lab’s stakeholders, UAL scholars and researchers, NGO’s organisations working in social purpose, refugee partners and participants from the RTN network, PGT students and MA Service Design Alumni, around ideas, music, rituals, magic,…
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Design Methods for Social Justice
The third event in this year’s Service Futures Lab Public Event series is a roundtable discussion chaired by Dr. Silvia Grimaldi, focussing on how we design for social justice. Speakers from industry and academia will present short case studies of their work and explain how they adjusted their design approaches, practices and methods to focus on…
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EDI in the Foundation Industries
“Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI): Future-Proofing Your Workforce” was funded by UKRI through the Transforming the Foundation Industries Network + project (TFIN+). The purpose of the project is to model an approach to EDI learning and development that enables each Foundation Industry (FI) partner to benefit from a uniquely bespoke development package that responds to…
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