I attended the Royal Society of Art’s Traveling Pantry workshop today in Glasgow designed by Fellows Tessy Britton and David Gauntlett to test whether giving ideas, methods and tools to small groups of people can encourage them to start new community projects. This post shares what we created in one of the workshops when Tessy [...]
This is just a quick post to share. I have used storyboarding a few times in different workshops with different people and the one thing that sticks with me using this activity is people’s hesitancy to draw (click here for an explanation of storyboarding). Hearing people say things like ‘I’m not artistic, you do the [...]
When I started my PhD the idea I was looking into was – what if young people in the leaving care service were able to visualise their future? Would this help them with the planning process they go through before they leave care? Would this help their workers identify areas that they could better support [...]
For me service design is about looking at the process of service delivery with service users and providers, identifying where and when people come into contact and how those interactions could be improved to meet people’s needs and expectations. However it’s not only about researching and identifying where improvements could be made, but also prototyping [...]
One of the things I keep on bumping up against as I have been conducting my research are my own ideas, assumptions, preconceptions and expectations about what I will find, they best way to go about answering a particular problem, how I am reading a text etc. In order to acknowledge this I’ve taken a [...]
As part of my Masters in Research in Art and Design I created a cultural probe with the support of the Liverpool Biennial. A cultural probe is a set of simple artifacts (such as maps, postcards, cameras, or diaries) that are given to people so they can record specific events, feelings or interactions in their [...]
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