Deborah Szebeko of Think Public
Deborah runs a service design company Think Public for the public sector (mainly health), and also started to do a PhD to reflect more on her work practice. One of her Think Public projects is called...
View ArticleCarla Cipolla: Design and Innovation for Sustainability
Carla is from the Politecnico di Milano and recently completed her PhD on the EMUDE case-studies of bottom up innovative practices of ordinary people. An example of such a case-study is the living room...
View ArticleInternational Service Design Northumbria 2008
Bas presented at the ISDN03 conference in Newcastle about design documentaries as a method to discover what matters to people. All presentations can be downloaded from the Northumbria University Design...
View ArticleGirls and Glossies
Press release by Spunk//STBY on a recently completed study among 15-16 year old girls. (Spunk//STBY is a joint venture for research specifically focused on issues regarding young people in The...
View ArticleCBBC cross-media consumption
Together with London-based innovation consultancy Radarstation, we worked on an ethnographic research for CBBC, exploring the cross-platform media consumption of 7 and 8 year old children. We used...
View ArticleHeartlands Idea Generation Workshops
As part of our long-time involvement in the Heartlands project in Cornwall as inclusive design facilitators, we organised a series of workshops to generate ideas and conversations about the futures use...
View ArticleKeynote and workshop at Co-Design Live
Bas has been invited to speak at the Co-Design Live conference in Utrecht on 11 December, organised by dr Remko van der Lugt at Hogeschool Utrecht. Bas will deliver a keynote, followed by a workshop on...
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Creating design briefs on patient dignity
The Design Council and the Department of Health in the UK initiated late 2009 a national design challenge ‘Design for Patient Dignity‘. STBY was asked to contribute to the exploratory research that...
View ArticleServices to support complex decision making
In collaboration with Broca & Wernicke, STBY investigated the complex decision making processes within hospitals on the application of surgical treatments. We interviewed people throughout the...
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Co-creating education
In the early stages of developing a new international master course, the University of Tilburg was interested in a series of empathic conversations with students to explore some first ideas and...
View ArticleInnovation Lecture 2009
On 8 December Geke was one of the round-table moderators at the annual Innovation Lecture, organised by the Dutch Ministery of Economic Affairs. The topic of this most recent Innovation Lecture was...
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Design for society
To celebrate its 15th anniversary, The Waag Society in Amsterdam organised a ‘Socratic Conversation on Design for Society on 15 December. Bas was one of the guest speakers invited to take part in this...
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Charging up around the world
How do people around the world charge their mobile devices? How do they use electricity in their households, and how do they think about their energy usage? Together with all the partners in the Reach...
View ArticleService Design Talks 20/1
On 20 January we will be getting together again to discuss another recently published and interesting book related to Service Design. This time it’s Tim Brown’s new book ‘Change by Design’. A must read...
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Tools for tomorrow’s public policies
About sixty representatives, researchers, sociologists and creatives met up at La Boate, in Marseille, to invent tools for tomorrow’s public policies, and imagine the future of the 26 french regions....
View ArticleCall for papers on Service Design
The academic journal Behaviour and Information Technology has accepted to publish a special issue on ‘Services and Human-Computer Interaction: New Opportunities’. A call for papers, explaining the...
View ArticleNext Service Design Network conference in Berlin
Bas was invited to sit on the Programme Board of the next Service Design Network conference (SDNC10) and took part in a first meeting in Koeln this weekend. Others in the board are: prof. Birgit Mager,...
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Reach: Global Design Research Network
Reach is a network of highly skilled and experienced companies around the world with a deep expertise in design research. Our experience in both design and customer research enables us to seamlessly...
View ArticleNew website Service Design Netwerk Nederland
We finally managed to sit down together for a day and compile a coherent website for the Dutch Service Design Network. The design had been prepared by EdenSpiekermann for a while already, but we were...
View ArticleLaura Pandelle
Laura is a talented and very committed design student at ENSCI-les Ateliers in Paris. She worked with us on various projects as a design researcher. She has assisted the UK research team with tasks...
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