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Understanding ‘public design’ in government
Academics associated with Fieldstudio Design contributed to the UK Government’s Public Design Evidence Review published today. First, engaged in late 2023, a small team worked collaboratively and across disciplines to do a rapid review of academic and grey literature to answer a set of questions about design in government. Then, engaged in summer 2024, a…
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Delivering executive education in design in government
Lucy Kimbell delivered one of five days delivered by Said Business School, University of Oxford, for a cohort of civil servants from Jordan as part of the Jordan Future Leaders Programme led by programme director Mark Clark MBE. Integrating concepts and insights from recent research in the field, with many practical activities, this session enabled…
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What is public design?
For the past year, we have been working closely with teams across the Civil Service and wider public sector in the UK as part of a project to clarify the nature and outcomes associated with ‘design’ in the UK government. The UK Public Design Review was initiated in 2023 by the cross-government Policy Design Community…
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Supporting the UK’s national Public Design Review
Leading academics deliver study for UK Public Design Review
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Facilitating the Artist Citizens Jury to examine artistic research in higher education
Artists Nina Wakeford and Elizabeth Price led the first Artist Citizens Jury to intervene into current debates about artists and artistic research in higher education. Lucy Kimbell was the facilitator for the jury, formed of 12 UK-based artists who engaged with 8 expert witnesses who gave testimony over two days at the Centre for Contemporary…
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Air Pollution Toile included in London Design Biennale 2023
The Air Pollution Toile by Lucy Kimbell is a concept for wallpaper that responds to air pollution in the immediate area. Originally commissioned by Modern Art Oxford and shown there in the exhibition Future Knowledge in 2018, it was selected for inclusion in a showcase of work by researchers at University of the Arts London…
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Supporting process re-design for a university impact service
Sector – Higher education Client – Queen Mary University of London The challenge – How can a university process better support academics to achieve impact through their research? Activity – We are supporting a team at QMUL to substantially re-design a process to increase the quality and diversity of academic applications to funding to lead…
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