The Design Council and the Department of Health in the UK have recently initiated a national design challenge ‘Designing for Patient Dignity’. STBY was asked to contribute to the exploratory research that defined the design briefs in the call for proposals.
Tag Archives: design documentaries
How sticky research drives Service Design
October 29, 2009 – 12:03 am
At the 2009 Service Design Network conference in Madeira, Bas presented a paper with Andreas Sommerwerk of Deutsche Telekom AG. The title is “How sticky research drives service design,” and the paper was also written by Indri Tulusan of Spur and Julia Leihener, co-director with Andreas of the Creation Center in Berlin. The paper tells [...]
Training in Design Documentaries
July 29, 2009 – 8:15 am
As part of the Executive Master Course in Information Management at the University of Amsterdam, Bas Raijmakers coordinated a series of lectures and workshops on Design Documentaries. After an inital introduction and a briefing session, 12 students from both industry and government organisations worked in groups on developing their own Design Documentary.
Creative methods for community involvement
April 16, 2009 – 3:14 pm
Our contribution to the Heartlands project inspired a group of community regeneration officers of Kerrier District Council to invite us to share our knowledge and experience on ways to involve local communities in regeneration projects.
International Service Design Northumbria 2008
April 4, 2008 – 7:47 pm
Bas presented at the ISDN03 conference in Newcastle about design documentaries as a method to discover what matters to people. All presentations can be downloaded from the Northumbria University Design School website. Bas’s presentation can be downloaded here (PDF, 4,3Mb).
Bas Raijmakers
December 3, 2007 – 1:11 pm
Bas Raijmakers is creative director at STBY, and along with Geke, one of our founders. Like all of our senior design researchers, Bas has been involved with a wide range of different service design projects. He is particularly involved with much of our video work, having developed the ‘Design Documentary’ format himself in his PhD [...]
Designing Across Boundaries
September 1, 2007 – 1:18 pm
With 11 Sao Paulo-based and 9 London-based designers we were involved in a Design Challenge at Villiers Highschool in Southall, London. The goal was to design a product or service for the school, in close collaboration with a group of their students, using video as a material to do research and cardboard as a material to explore the concepts.
Poster Design Documentaries
June 27, 2007 – 2:08 pm
by Bas Raijmakers. He summarised and visualised his PhD thesis in this poster that was printed at the occasion of the graduation Show at the Royal College of Art in 2007. The image was modeled after a drawing in his sketchbook that he made when he was exploring different structures for the thesis during writing. [...]
PhD thesis Design Documentaries
June 25, 2007 – 9:21 pm
by Bas Raijmakers. Completed in 2007 at the Royal College of Art, Design Interactions, London, UK. (PDF, 4,7 MB)
Design Documentaries
June 1, 2007 – 1:15 pm
Design documentaries are a new, visual way of bringing everyday life into design processes, as a source of inspiration. This method is used in the early stages of design processes, when designers want to discover what matters to the people they are designing for.