SERVICE DESIGN RESEARCH

EXPLORING, CO-CREATING, EMPOWERING

WORKING FOR SOCIETY

WE RESEARCH AND APPLY SERVICE DESIGN AS AN EXPLORATORY, CO-CREATIVE AND EMPOWERING APPROACH TO ADDRESS ISSUES OF SOCIETAL CONCERN.

Current highlights

WHERE IS DESIGN IN GOVERNMENT?

Organisational models drawn by managers and designers working in NYC Government Between January and June 2019, Fanny Giordano – the Ph.D. fellow of our lab – visited Parsons DESIS Lab in NYC. She worked with the Service Design Studio to develop a method to explore...

SPECIAL EVENT: POLITICS OF THE EVERYDAY IN THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY

Social innovation and design for resilient sustainable cities: how to amplify and accelerate the process of change? On September the 11th, we are happy to welcome Ezio Manzini at the Service Design Lab to give an inspiring talk. This afternoon will start with Ezio...

The Service Design Lab visits Cumulus Rovaniemi 2019 conference in Lapland

In May 2019, Nicola Morelli and Kirsten van Dam from the Service Design Lab traveled up north to see the midnight sun and to visit the Cumulus Conference. We were invited to present our paper titled “A preliminary review of the concept of circular economy in design...