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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Service Futures Lab 