This event is the collective story of 9 women who have each played a pioneering and pivotal role in building and evolving the field of service design over the last 15 years.
During the evening we will hear from each of them about the contexts they were in when they first developed their thinking and practice, what and who influenced them, and how they see the field evolving now.
As we move from speaker to speaker we’ll see how the baton has been passed, the practice evolved to fit the next context, and the field developed.
This is an opportunity to celebrate some of the people that really pioneered this discipline, paving the way for many of us, and to meet with others who work in the field of service design.
We know that there are many other service designers than can fill a stage for an hour who have helped shape and continue to influence how the service design field develops. We invited our networks to contribute to a map that will tell the wider story and charts how pioneers from genders who may often be in the minority have shaped the practice and acted as role models for others. This map will feature at the event and you can contribute to it here -> https://uscreates.typeform.com/to/xfcMeu
Uscreates, Point People & RSA
The event hosts are a partnership of designers and systems thinkers who like to learn by doing, build networks and spread ideas and practice.
Speakers
Birgit Mager - President of the Service Design Network and holder of the first service design professorship at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Jennie Winhall - leading service design specialist working across three countries and previously Director of Design & Innovation at Participle
Gill Wildman - Co-founder of Plot with an interest in the Internet of Things building on her early work around participation and regeneration
Sophia Parker - author of an early text on public service design (Journey to the Interface) and creator of the first social innovation lab in a local council
Andrea Siodmok - Head of Policy Lab, UK Government and previously headed up Cornwall Council’s Design of the Times programme
Zoe Stanton & Mary Cook - co-founders of Uscreates which uses design and innovation to improve health and wellbeing
Deborah Szebeko - Service Design Director at Philips Healthcare (EMEA) and founding director of thinkpublic, an agency dedicated to using collaborative approach to designing services within healthcare.
Sarah Drummond - Co-founder and managing Director of Snook, an award winning design consultancy working at the forefront of civic, public sector and democratic innovation
Jasmine Thompson - RSA Student Design Award winner
Booking essential: Reserve your place now
This event is suitable for practising service designers, students, and people interested in design applications.
Talks kick off at 6pm.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
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