Speculating on the Future of Rail
...help develop DfT’s vision for rail, working out where the public would want us to go, and where they would not. Although the links between culture and rail might seemed...
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Policy Lab at the Service Design Fringe Festival 2016
...excerpts of ethnographic films we made to help policy-makers at the Department for Transport understand the needs and behaviours of rail passengers and asked them to note down any new...
Exploring the evidence
...find somewhere warm to spend the day if you are a rough sleeper, or taking a train journey for our new Future of Rail project. We’ll take photos and document...
Lab Long Read: Human-centred policy? Blending ‘big data’ and ‘thick data’ in national policy
...of artificial intelligence and the internet of things. The ever-growing zettabytes of data can reveal a lot, providing a (sometimes real time) digital trail capturing and aggregating our individual choices,...
Reflections on education, skills and forecasting futures
...co-design speculations with stakeholders about the Future of Rail, thinking about a variety of futures where rail is varying degrees of digital, privatised and/or devolved, and where cities are varying...
Imagine a new mindset: the policy designer
...DCLG is looking at how we answer the needs of homeless people and prevent them becoming homeless in the first place, and our future of rail project with DfT is...
Open ideas days: the products
...to create a supportive road, rail and internet environment for business. York’s Rubic North: utilising existing spaces and leveraging technology better to allow flexible working. Community empowerment ideas Sheffield’s resilient...
Looking back at 12 years of policymaking
...increasingly engaging with users and frontline staff, like with passengers for our future of rail project. Whereas we used to consult people once we had a fairly firm idea in...
From best practice to next practice
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Dr Andrea Siodmok, Posted on:
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Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques, Start the week, Thought Pieces
...(see Vasant’s recent blog on futures 'in the sky' and Cat’s on the future of rail). We can use the past to predict the future, but we can’t ever fully...