Category: International conferences
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Megatrends and the future of work
Work changes, as it always has After living for the past year and half in unnormal circumstances, the whole world is asking the same question;” what is the new normal and has the work changed permanently and how?” No one has a crystal ball to give the answer, but there are some tools in our…
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Users as Co-designers in Public Services
Too often the approach in the development of public services has been “This system has now been built for you, welcome, please use it”. Lately it has become obvious that to make services sustainable and attractive, this has to be changed. Hence, service design is increasingly applied also in the development of public services. In…
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Aligning strategic foresight in large organizations – Workshop at SDGC
During the Service Design Global Conference (SDGC) arranged in October, a workshop was held around facilitating future visions in large organizations.
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Embracing change at the Service Design Global Conference 2020
The international community, Service Design Network (SDN), founded in 2004, arranged an online conference focusing on service design in October of 2020.
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Innovation and human centered design in the fight against HIV and AIDS
The International AIDS conferece, AIDS2020Virtual was organized 6-10 July 2020. Thousands of scientists, activists, policy makers, people living with HIV and others came together to share the newest information on HIV and AIDS. I attended the virtual conference and in this post I will discuss one of the sessions on human centered design. Innovation has…
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The growing role of design in government
Last week the city of Rotterdam (NL) hosted the latest edition of the International Design in Government Conference. Previously hosted in London (UK), Oakland (USA), and Edinburgh (Scotland), last week’s edition was already the third happening in 2019, suggesting that the interest in the topic is growing world-wide. Hosted officially by Gebruiker Centraal (User Needs…
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Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Empathy?
Disclaimer: These thoughts, opinions, and observations are mine, and mine alone. They are not the thoughts of my fellow Dash team members, only myself. I recently had the immense pleasure of participating in the 2019 Dash Hackathon in Helsinki (organized by the Aalto Entrepreneurship Society – “Aaltoes”) which is the largest design hackathon in Europe. …
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Holacracy – an innovative management practice for organizations
During Gdynia Design Days and Design Talks Business Summit, I had a chance to participate in a workshop about Holacracy run by Ewa Bocian – a partner at Dwarfs and Giants, an innovation company which is organized in a holacratic way and its mission is to help shape the future of work. Source: Harvard Business…
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How design might help business thrive? – Gdynia Design Days and Design Talks Business diary
Gdynia Design Days is a one-week design festival in Poland at the seaside. It offers unlimited possibilities to explore the newest trends and good design practices via exhibitions, speeches, meetings or workshops. Among the events, there is also an extraordinary two-day conference, Design Talks Business, created to discuss the contribution design can make towards business,…
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The key take-aways from POLISHOPA Design Thinking 2019 conference
POLISHOPA is the biggest Design Thinking conference in Poland, two days of interesting lectures and two days of workshops, 16 experts from different fields and 4 speakers from abroad. It was the sixth edition. You can find more details on this page: https://polishopa.pl/ I recommend signing up for the newsletter to get information about the…
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