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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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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 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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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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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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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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EDI and Inclusive Design
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…
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