Playbook : Getting Started with Policy Co-design
Getting Started with Policy Co-design is the result of, and a reflection upon, a specific policy co-design process with the department for Culture in Jalisco, Mexico that took place across 2020-2021....
View ArticleCreating the Future of Public Transportation
How can we learn from and be inspired by innovators in the field of mobility? This is what the core members of the program ‘The Future of Public Transport’ of the Ministry of Infrastructure and...
View ArticleCelebration and contemplation at the Design & Emotion Conference
This year’s Design & Emotion conference at Amsterdam’s Pakhuis de Zwijger was a great opportunity to pause for “Celebration & Contemplation” – this year’s theme. Speakers included renowned...
View ArticleService Design Global Conference 2016
On October 27th-28th, service designers from around the world gathered for the 9th Service Design Global Conference in Amsterdam, returning to the city where the very first conference was held back in...
View ArticleDesign for Europe: Powering Social Innovation
The Design for Europe conference is the main way the European Commission implements its Action Plan for Design-driven Innovation. STBY participated in a session on social innovation, with a...
View ArticleUsing Open Data for Design Research
I attended a workshop at the Open Data Institute in Shoreditch, an organisation with the important mission “to connect, equip and inspire people around the world to innovate with data.” My day-long...
View ArticleHow can design help to address violence against women? – Join STBY at What...
The What Design Can Do 2016 conference in São Paulo is coming up on 13-14 December. As the research partner of WDCD, STBY was asked to lead a breakout session exploring violence against women. We have...
View ArticleParticipatory Painting: A Design Research Method?
The MEDIATIONS Conference took place at the RCA in London, marking the close of the TRADERS project (short for ‘Training Art and Design Researchers for Participation in Public Space’). TRADERS focused...
View ArticleViolence Against Femininity – Can Design Deconstruct Cultural Behaviours?
Violence against women is the quintessential wicked problem: seemingly intractable, culturally specific, and as old as humanity itself. What Design Can Do has begun to tackle it, starting with research...
View ArticleEmpathic Conversations
In this article, we explore our approach to enabling empathic conversations in our design research, between researchers and participants and among the wider client and design teams. Using a case study...
View ArticleMaking bicycle parking easier and faster
STBY helped the city of Amsterdam and Dutch Rail to make the use of indoor bicycle parking facilities more efficient and convenient through the use of new technology. This improvement is essential, as...
View ArticleWhat Design Can Do For The Climate
How can designers tackle a problem as complex as climate change? That was the question we were faced with when we partnered with What Design Can Do to do the research for their Climate Action...
View ArticleThe first 1000 days: design documentaries look through mothers’ eyes
How do mothers monitor the development of their child during its first one thousand days? To answer this broad research question for a multinational FMCG company, STBY carried out research that...
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