🏴Runner, Researcher, Design Coach | Policy Design Futures | Rural Digital @Digi_Citizens✨
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Grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this and for this accessible framing of the roles of design in policy-making, hopefully helpful for current as well as next gen designers navigating policy 🛠️
Our new report on Design and Policy features profiles of the work of the brilliant @jenballie, Jocelyn Bailey, @emmablomkamp @Cazmosis, Daniella Jenkins, @Maristotle, @brimorga, Marzia Mortati, @lxalinas, Natasha Trotman, Frederico Vaz. Check it out: arts.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf…
Reflecting on 2023 and the role that I have played as a #designresearcher exploring the conditions to support new and experimental ways of working in goverment-linkedin.com/posts/marionlea…
Looking forward to sharing some stories this week!
Next week's DI seminar welcomes @Maristotle who will share ideas about merits and challenges for designers positioned in policy using her design research practice examples on Rural Broadband & Farming.
📅Thu 2 Nov
⏰4-5pm
📍Zoom/@InspaceG
🎟️edin.ac/49d15w2
#Inclusivedesign win of the week! Scottish country dance gets a 21st Century etiquette makeover - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-6…
Policy Fellowships programme @RAEngNews inspires policymakers to think differently and to use engineering and systems thinking to frame complex and #wickedproblems, and design resilient solutions, to apply ➡️ raeng.org.uk/policyfellowshi…
Introducing the Ecological Intelligence Agency 🌿🧠🧪
"An AI that is necessarily ecological.. .giving voice to (and recognition of) unheard communities and our under consulted more-than-human companions"
by @Superflux @DefraGovUK @PolicyLabUK
superflux.in/index.php/work/…
Yes!
Gentle reminder: there are still tickets left for my virtual Dataviz Drawing Class on 27 + 28 Sept!
Learn custom visualisation methods offscreen, using simple drawing materials in a ‘new and improved’ workshop I’ve been refining over the summer!👇
eventbrite.co.uk/e/679870820…
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The call for papers for our @DRS2024 track is OPEN! Welcome to submit if this sounds like you! ❤️
Happy to be co-chairing this track together with my colleagues @sboschg, @francescoleoni_ @Pamelavillalv_D @federicovaz @luchogarcia94 @NataliaVillaman Silvia Pau & @mybeatrix!
📢Paper call @DRS2024 Track 9 “Designing Policies in the Space between Institutions and Experimental Government Practices” chaired by one of our hosts @sboschg + @francescoleoni_ @Pamelavillalv_D @federicovaz @luchogarcia94 @NataliaVillaman Silvia Pau & @mybeatrix
⏰Due Oct. 13!
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🌍 How can we empower communities through research? Discover the secrets to community-led prosperity and research at our event this Thursday! Join us and unlock the path to shifting power buff.ly/44qyv7s @jennilloyd @hallima_khan1 @danfjones72 @laurabunt @ouishare
In the mode of translating our online co-design training to an in person style for a policy basecamp course coming up, looking forward to being in the room again but trying to troubleshoot what to bring in! Tips for translation?!
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Interested in citizen-led prosperity? Curious about community-based research? Join us on 6 July for an enlightening session where we'll dive into the strategies behind citizen-led initiatives! buff.ly/3NPSaZ7 @rebeccaeligon @thepaulprobert @alisonmc_f @pwc_publicservices
What is Faraoyść?
Faraoyść is a portmanteau neologism, that describes the moment when oppression appears to be coming to an end and a liberated world feels within reach. faraoysc.webflow.io/#faces - in a dynamic digital academic paper form #designjustice
Summer comes to Sutherland..pilgrimage trip inspired by @DuncanWChisholm 🎵 youtube.com/watch?v=xcvfIbJC… (and no midges!)
