Reflections on education, skills and forecasting futures
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...
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...
...methods. This course is for policy makers interested in integrating people’s lived experience into policy design and who would like to learn about how film ethnography, co-design or speculative design...
...human-materials thinking, is ‘Walk in Search of the Commons’, which aimed to activate women to manage urban spaces for themselves. “I created a walking practice for women in my local...
...interrogate what people in a particular region, organisation or job role, for example, think about particular topics - whilst participants remain anonymous using Pol.is data to derive detailed personas for...
Today marks 75 years since Winston Churchill’s government set up the Council for Industrial Design, a new organisation to inspire confidence and promote design as a means to kick-start Britain's...
Starting a new job invokes an unusual combination of emotions. You experience an unnatural capacity for enthusiasm, along with jolts of vulnerability. Welcome to a slightly unsettling period of life...
...world’s first Policy Designer - as lobbied for by former ‘labber’ Laurence Grinyer. So combining design and policy is at the heart of Lab, and I wanted to share some...
Last Monday, the Prime Minister announced £20 million funding for local areas to test new approaches to preventing homelessness. These will draw on the insight and ideas that Policy Lab...
...randomised control trials didn't work for her but how they could work for others. 3. Transforming Digital John Fitzpatrick is 7 weeks into redesigning Civil Service Learning using the new...
...backgrounds more generally and how many different routes can lead to a team that mixes policy and design. For the last three years I have spent my time cycling in...