Event: The limits of design. London, November 11

[Lucy Kimbell]

Organised by Saïd Business School and London College of Communications


The limits of design: Designing for security and sustainable development

Weds 11 November 7-9pm
London College of Communications
Elephant and Castle SE1

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For over a decade, design professionals have been extending their  
remit from the design of objects and buildings to the design of  
services, systems and environments. Their "design thinking" is now  
being imported to business school curricula. Magazines such as  
Business Week are promoting design-led  innovation as essential for  
business. But businesses are not the only contexts that designers are  
now working in. In the most recent developments, a UN agency has  
worked with service innovation and design consultancy live|work.  
International design and innovation consultancy IDEO has produced a  
Human-Centred Design Toolkit for NGOs. Public service design group  
Participle has co-designed solutions to the challenges of ageing with  
older people themselves. One of them is a new social enterprise  
called Southwark Circle, now up and running and supported by  
Southwark Council. The NHS is bringing experience-based design to its  
service design and development. At a time when design thinking is  
reaching way beyond the design profession, it's time to take stock  
and ask: Is design thinking the way forward for solving complex  
"wicked" problems such as security and development? Can designers  
really design anything they turn their hands to? Are there limits to  
design thinking and, if so, what are they?

Speakers include Derek B Miller and Lisa Rudnick (Security Needs  
Assessment Protocol, United Nations Institute for Disarmament  
Research), Daniel Dickens (Southwark Circle), Sir Michael Bichard  
(Institute for Government/Design Council), Alison Prendiville (London  
College of Communications) and Lucy Kimbell (Saïd Business School,  
University of Oxford)




Lucy Kimbell
Clark Fellow in Design Leadership
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Park End Street
Oxford OX1 1HP



Blog: Design leads us where exactly? http://
www.designleadership.blogspot.com

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