Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Bringing data into the design studio; and design into data projects: by Cat Drew, Dr Lucy Kimbell & Stephen Bennett A couple of weeks ago, we took part in a ‘data studio’: an experimental workshop hosted at an arts university …
Andrea Siodmok shares her thoughts from the back of an Uber, on how experiencing innovation is much better than just being told about it.
Six months after graduating from an MA in design from London College of Communication (LCC), I was fortunate enough to be invited for dinner with the Vice Chancellor of my university (UAL) and the Head of my College (LCC). As …
...in two stages. The first is related to their opinion about the problem data science is trying to solve. Therefore we need to engage with people through the wider lens...
I’m off to speak at Open Data Manchester this evening about both how open data and open working can make better policy. I thought I’d share some of the tools...
Policy Lab and the Social Investment & Finance Team asked MA students studying Service Design at the Royal College of Arts to grow the social investment market in new ways. This is what they came up with.
I'm now over half-way through my time in Policy Lab, on loan from the Treasury to learn, employ and ultimately bring back new and innovative policy approaches. During my time at the Treasury I've learned a lot, about how policy …
...person we work with or user we talk to teaches us something new. We’re keeping hooked into fresh thinking and learning by collaborating with students in other universities. The RCA...
...specific to the topic, e.g. ‘things that will encourage people to travel by train’ or ‘things that will discourage people to travel by train’. Or you could set some more...
One strand of the Open Policy Making agenda is about using a broader range of evidence to inform policy. For example the What Works centres were set up to enable policy officials to access research and make use of it …