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Report: Ethics in Practice
The ninth social design talk interrogated the (perhaps overlooked) ethical questions prompted by social design practice. Very crudely, social designers, unlike social scientists, are not required to apply the same rigorous analysis to the appropriateness of intervening, or making certain … Continue reading
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Talk 10: Designing for Sharing
Date/ Time Friday 3rd May 6.30 – 8.30pm Speaker Ben Reason, Director, LiveWork Respondent Prof. Iain Borden, The Bartlett UCL Venue Lecture Theatre, E003 Central St Martins College of Art & Design 1 Granary Square, London, N1C 4AA About the … Continue reading
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TALK 9: Ethics in Practice
Date: Wednesday 20th March 7.00pm – 8.30pm Location: The Darryl Forde Seminar Room, Department of Anthropology, 14 Taviton Street, UCL Speakers: Dr Adam Drazin, Co-ordinator MA Culture, Materials & Design, Dept of Anthropology, UCL, Mary Rose Cook, Co-founder and managing director, Uscreates This session will focus on … Continue reading
NEXT TALK: Experience based design, Innovation and the NHS
Social Design Talk 8 Date: Thursday 28 February 6.30 – 8.30pm Location: House of Lords, Committee Room 4A Speaker: Dr. Lynne Maher, Director for Innovation and Design, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Respondent: Yashu Reddy, Healthbox Lynne Maher discusses her experience … Continue reading
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Report: Talk 7, Collaborative Change
Social Design Talk 7 was given by Steven Johnson, Director of Collaborative Change, and co-founder of social design agency The Hub. Steven outlined his ambition to develop a socially engaged ‘collaborative community’ within the creative industries. He began by introducing … Continue reading
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Andrea Siodmok/ Cornwall Council – Report
Q: How can a local council be ten times better without increasing their budget? This was the central question that sparked a new approach to tackling local challenges in Cornwall. The answer: to work with the public in more creative … Continue reading
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Considered Creative: Social Design for the other 90%
Date: 26th November 2012, 6 – 8pm Location: Central Saint Martins, The LVMH Lecture Theatre (E003) Speaker: Steven Johnson, Director, Collaborative Change Respondent: Charles Leadbeater The urgent social, economic and environmental challenges we face demand radical innovation on a global scale. If we … Continue reading
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Next Talk: Embedding Design in Local Government
Date: Wednesday 7th November, 6.30 – 9pm Location: House of Lords, Committee Room 2A Speaker: Andrea Siodmok, Chief Designer, Cornwall Council Andrea is the Chief Designer at Cornwall Council with responsibility for service design and innovation. In this talk Andrea … Continue reading
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Prototyping Social Enterprise: Care4Care – Report
The fifth social design talk focussed on a new social care experiment called Care4Care. The founding idea belongs to Dr Heinz Wolff, and revolves around the concept of creating a care time-bank which pays its members back over generations. Volunteers … Continue reading
