Author: Silvia

  • Design|Policy Research Network

    Design|Policy Research Network

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    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…

  • UAL Climate Systems Mapping

    UAL Climate Systems Mapping

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    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…

  • Pluriversal Ways of Knowing Sharing Circle

    Pluriversal Ways of Knowing Sharing Circle

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    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,…

  • Design Methods for Social Justice

    Design Methods for Social Justice

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    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…

  • EDI in the Foundation Industries

    EDI in the Foundation Industries

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    “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…

  • EDI and Inclusive Design

    EDI and Inclusive Design

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    This is a framework for people in any role within a design-driven organisation or within product and digital teams, focussing on both Inclusive Design and on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Designed by Dr Silvia Grimaldi with Veron Lai, Meghana Shailendra and Yini Zheng, together with a group of co-designers, this framework is meant to be…