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...
View ArticleMBA 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleDesign 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...
View ArticlePhysical 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,...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticlePhysical 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...
View ArticleRecent 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...
View ArticlePhysical 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...
View ArticleBehave: 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...
View ArticlePhysical 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....
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleUntitled (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...
View ArticleTalk 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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleDesign 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...
View ArticleBefore 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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleHonorary 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...
View ArticleStudios 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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