PRESENTERS:
Prototyping policy: design in government decision-making
Jocelyn Bailey, is a senior consultant at service design agency Uscreates, where she works with a range of government and public sector clients on strategic design projects. She is also pursuing a PhD through the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s ‘Design Star’ Doctoral Training Programme. Based at the University of Brighton, her research examines and critiques the growing trend of design being used as a strategic and policy tool by governments, to support the development of practice in this field. In 2014 she was a Visiting Scholar at the V&A, working on a project for the AHRC, mapping social design research and practice.
How the world works, are there limits to design?
Anders Ekholm is since 2014 Vice President of the Institute for Future Studies and has a broad experience from the Cabinet Office where he worked in quantitative economics and has among other things been head of research at the Ministry of Social Affairs but also worked at the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labour and Ministry of Education. He has worked with the development and analysis of micro-simulation models, including SESIM model where 300 000 statistically representative individuals live simulated life, with demographics, health, labor, education, taxes and transfers.
From disciplinary design to collective approaches for co-producing social futures
Guy Julier is Professor of Design Culture at the University of Brighton/Victoria & Albert Museum, UK. He has nearly 30 years experience in design education ranging from pre-University teaching to post-doctoral supervision. Formerly a Visiting Professor at the Glasgow School of Art, Otago University and the University of Southern Denmark, he has also advised on design policy to various governmental organisations and led strategy projects on developing design research for the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
He will address the transition from individual, single-disciplinary design education to collective and cross-disciplinary approaches, in particular in the contexts of co-producing social futures.
Experiences from Transdisciplinary design education at Parsons, The New School
Lara Penin is Director of Transdisciplinary Design Graduate (MFA) Program. She is a tenured Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design at the School of Design Strategies. She is a co-founder of Parsons DESIS Lab, a multidisciplinary research lab that works at the intersection of strategic and service design, management, and social theory, applied to sustainable practices and social innovation. In her work she seeks to explore the agency of service design to effect positive social change towards sustainability while bridging the gap between the innovation of design pedagogy and practice to equip designers to play a more transformative role, involving both civil society and the public sector.
Design in an age of uncertainty
Marco Steinberg is the Founder of Snowcone & Haystack a Helsinki based strategic design practice focused on helping governments and leaders innovate.
Prior to that he was Director of Strategic Design at Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund where he established the fund’s strategic design capability. While there, he launched a portfolio of initiatives to address the acute need for strategic improvement in the public sector. Marco believes that there is a solution to the complex challenges that governments, societies and environments face. There is a need to shift from trying to improve the efficiency of past models, to shaping new approaches. Marco has published extensively on design, innovation and public sector transformations. Recent books include “Legible Practises: Six stories about the craft of stewardship” (2013) and “In Studio: Recipes for Systemic Change” (2011).
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