Service Robots – here to help?
A thought sparked by the publication ‘Our work here is done: Vision of a robot economy‘, edited by Stian Westlake from Nesta: Discussions around robots…
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Creative conversations: returning to Heartlands
STBY recently returned to Heartlands, reprising our role as inclusive design consultants at this large-scale regeneration project in Cornwall.
Eldery lives at home with PuntExtra
How can service design bring people together? One frustration some people experience when trying to improve a service is the amount of different organisations …
Launching the Inclusive Technology Prize
STBY worked with Nesta, the UK's innovation charity, to create an 'explanimation' for the launch of their Inclusive Technology Prize.
Service Design for Local Government
Our project with the City of Amsterdam is featured on the national online knowledge sharing site for civil servants operated by KING. The project helped the local…
Don’t you design chairs anymore?
The first issue of the CRISP magazine ‘Don’t you design chairs anymore?’ was launched at the design review session on 24/04/13. It focuses on issues concerning…
Heartlands Idea Generation Workshops
As part of our long-time involvement in the Heartlands project in Cornwall as inclusive design facilitators, we organised a series of workshops to generate ideas and conversations about the futures use of some of the new buildings.
Heartlands Inclusive Design review
For the Kerrier District Council in Pool, Cornwall we conducted an inclusive design review. They had recently completed the masterplan stage of a large-scale and complex urban regeneration project, and wished to evaluate this process from the perspective of inclusive design principles before they embarked on the detailed design stages.
Heartlands User Forums
Early July we organised five User Forums for Heartlands, the regeneration project in Cornwall we work for as Inclusive Design facilitators all year in 2008.
User-Centered Design across development stages
For the University of Amsterdam STBY facilitated a series of workshops with students, lecturers and system operators to inform the iterative development of its new Electronic Learning System (ELO).
Remote services for older people
For a consortium of public sector organisations in The Netherlands STBY is working on a user-driven innovation proces aiming to develop new remote services that support older people to live independently at home. Moving to a retirement home is not something most older people are looking forward to. Luckily nowadays, it is possible to get a lot of care and support at home. Remote services have a potential to offer people a maximum of flexibility and independence. In every stage of this project people from the target group, older people and their carers, have been involved in order make sure the team works with their perspective firmly in mind.
Designs of the Time 2009
STBY has been selected in the panel of senior design project managers for Designs of the Time 2009 (Dott09), the new user-led design initiative planned for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.