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A year in designing for service: 2010

This time last year I said something like service design was now pretty established. So what do I say a year later? Avoiding any single metaphor I could it's a little bit firmer, a bit bigger, a bit...

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MBA Entrepreneurship Project workshops 2011

This year, I have again run workshops for MBA students doing the core Entrepreneurship Project(EP) at Said Business School. The EP presents students with some important challenges- how to explore an...

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Making Crafting Designing, 2011

Image: Dials showing different levels of near real-time twitter activity in several locations, British LibraryThis is a short summary of the MakingCraftingDesigning symposium held in February at the...

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Guest post: Derek Miller: Design Ethics for International Peace and Security

IntroThis is a guest post by Derek Miller, founder of the Policy Lab and senior fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). The Policy Lab provides research and design...

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Service design performances at Parsons DESIS Lab, March 2011

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Design innovation workshop, Philadelphia

In March I co-facilitated the four-day Design Challenge 2011 for students at Temple University, Philadelphia, with James Moustefellos who with Youngjin Yoo directs the Center for Design + Innovation...

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Physical Bar Charts at TEDGlobal 2011

My participative installation Physical Bar Charts will be installed at TEDGlobal 2011 in Edinburgh for the duration of the four-day conference in July. This is the eighth time I have made the piece,...

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Five things people designing solutions to social problems should know

Designers are now working in a range of contexts that are quite different to what many of them were educated for. Some are designing public services, others work on humanitarian or development...

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Physical Bar Charts at TEDGlobal 2011

Today at TED Global...by Lucy Kimbell. Video timelapse edited by Kiersten Nash; timelapse data grabbed with help from Mike Femia of TED.My Physical Bar Charts were installed at TEDGlobal 2011 in...

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Recent publications

Here are some of my recent publications in peer-reviewed journals. Some of them have been years in the making, a combination of major life changes (having a child, serious illness, moving house three...

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Physical Bar Charts in Declining Democracy

My Physical Bar Charts will be part of the group exhibition Declining Democracy at the Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina in Florence. DECLINING DEMOCRACYRethinking democracy between utopia and...

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Behave: New services to change travel behaviours

Why do people use cars for short journeys when there are more sustainable alternatives?Behave: New services to change travel behaviours from Lucy Kimbell on Vimeo.This short film proposes new service...

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Physical Bar Charts in Declining Democracy, Florence

My Physical Bar Charts installation is currently at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, part of the group exhibition Declining Democracy at the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea, open until January 2012....

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Why I'm joining the Young Foundation as head of social design

Sketch of service ecology by my MBA students during a collaboration with MDes students from London College of CommunicationIn January I’m taking up a new role as head of social design at the Young...

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The Object Strikes Back: An interview with Graham Harman

A few months ago I did an interview with philosopher Graham Harman who is Associate Provost for Research Administration and Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo.The author of...

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New artwork in the Glitch festival at RUA RED, Dublin, opening tomorrow

I've made a new version my LIX Index performance index and made a new gallery work for the Glitch festival at RUARED, the South Dublin Arts Centre, in Tallaght, which opens tomorrow.When I have photos...

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Untitled (I measure therefore I am)

I made a new piece of work for a group show with the title Experimenting with Clouds, currently at RUA RED gallery at the South Dublin Arts Centre.Here's the piece and below are a few shots showing how...

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Talk at Design Academy Eindhoven next week

I'm doing a talk at Design Academy Eindhoven in their Design Debates series next Thursday 28 September, co-organised by MU, Onomatopee, Krabbedans, Alice, Capital D, CRISP and Premsela.Jan Boelen, head...

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If only there was more data…: Creating evidence to prove the value of Design

(Originally posted 26 March 2012 on socialdesignpractice.wordpress.com)Take a moment and look up from the device with which you are reading this and look around you. That device and its software, the...

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Why a design dinner in Oxford in 2012?

On Thursday evening, around twenty people will gather for a dinner in Oxford. Curated by Phil Clare and Caroline Bucklow of the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team in Research Services at the University...

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Design and design thinking in public services

Design Commission Inquiry into Redesigning Public ServicesEvidence from Lucy KimbellSession 11.10.2012This is an edited version of the comments I made giving evidence to the Design Commission Inquiry...

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Before empathy: Keynote at Design Research Conference, IIT Chicago

Before empathyLucy KimbellDesign Research Conference, IIT ChicagoOctober 2013  There is a trick some speakers do, that tries to build empathy in their audience. They share a personal story. They offer...

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Some futures for art and design higher education institutions, 2020

In February I gave the keynote at the Ukadia conference of specialist art and design higher education institutions (the transcribed version will follow). In it, I summarised the drivers of change...

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Honorary Fellow address at Arts University Bournemouth

27 June 2014Lucy KimbellArts University BournemouthIs this your first graduation ceremony? Mine too.When I graduated from my first degree, I found myself to be awkward and gauche. I was not at ease...

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Studios for Society – Why Design and Art Schools are Resources for Societal...

Some notes on experimentation in art and design included in a publication that accompanied the launch of CSM Public at Central Saint Martins, London, January 2016.Illustration: Holly Macdonald from...

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