Author: Silvia

  • Hongyi Zhu

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    Name: Hongyi Zhu PhD Title: Designing Gamified Entrepreneurial Support: A Service Design Tool for Prisoners PhD Abstract My PhD research explores how gamification can be integrated with Service Design and examines the practice potential of this combination within highly constrained carceral environments. The research is grounded in a practical challenge: while employment is widely recognised…

  • Jia Ying Chew

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    Name: Jia Ying Chew PhD Title: The Role of Design in Transdisciplinary Higher Education PhD Abstract:
As complex global challenges resist single-discipline solutions, universities have turned to transdisciplinary approaches — yet we still lack empirical understanding of how to teach these competences effectively. This doctoral study addresses implementation gaps through a two-part enquiry, investigating how design’s…

  • Ziwei Lin (Zoey)

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    NameZiwei Lin (Zoey) PhD TitleFrom Co-design to Co-governance: The Role of Service Design in Supporting Social Governance in Rural China Short abstract:This PhD looks into how service design might evolve from co-design to co-governance in rural China. Rather than focusing on one-time workshops, the study investigates the initial effort required to allow design to enter…

  • Crystal Zhang (Zhang, Lezhi)

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    Name: Crystal Zhang (Zhang, Lezhi) PhD Title:  Design Education for Eco-social Justice: Developing Object-based learning in Classroom Learning and Teaching (Working Title)  Short abstract: This practice-based doctoral research examines how artefacts can be designed and embedded in classroom teaching and learning to support engagement with eco-social justice (ESJ) in higher education (HE). Situated within object-based learning…

  • Centre for SocioDigital Futures Collaboration

    Centre for SocioDigital Futures Collaboration

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    (Repost of Paul Clarke’s blog post from https://sociodigitalfutures.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/01/21/design-futures-and-collaborating-with-london-college-of-communication-watch-our-new-film/) In 2025, the Centre for Sociodigital Futures (CenSoF) at Bristol University collaborated with MA Service Design at London College of Communication (LCC), setting briefs for students on the Design Futures unit. The outcomes were presented in an exhibition in London, June 2025, which showcased a diverse range of speculative prototypes that explored emerging sociodigital challenges through the lens of critical service design. We have also produced a short film about the…

  • Co-Creating Futures: Service Design in Rural Governance in Pujiang County, Chengdu

    Co-Creating Futures: Service Design in Rural Governance in Pujiang County, Chengdu

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    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…

  • Design Pedagogy for Changemaking

    Design Pedagogy for Changemaking

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    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…

  • Transition Living Lab UAL: LCC Design School

    Transition Living Lab UAL: LCC Design School

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    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…

  • Making Connections

    Making Connections

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    Making Connections is a 9-month research project exploring how staff voice can be more effectively embedded into decision-making and governance at the University of the Arts London (UAL). Conducted between January and September 2025, the project was commissioned by UAL’s Social Purpose Lab in collaboration with the People & Culture Group, and delivered by the…

  • UAL Knowledge Exchange Awards

    UAL Knowledge Exchange Awards

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    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:…