Paper: Transformative Learning as Impact in Social Innovation
Measurable impact is an often expected and required outcome of innovation programs, and yet is particularly challenging for trying to understand social impact.…
social innovation
Prototyping Clean Energy Futures
In a workshop hosted by STBY during the Service Design Days in Barcelona on the 5th and 6th of October 2018, we prototyped ideas for new service concepts in response to the What Design Can Do Clean Energy Challenge.
Streetlab – conflict of interest or celebration of diversity?
In the past year, we have immersed ourselves in the ways in which Amsterdam’s cyclists and pedestrians experience the streets. Our research was commissioned…
Designing ‘collaborative encounters’
STBY hosted a second edition of the book club, featuring Ezio Manzini’s ‘Design, When Everybody Designs’. In this book the author captures 30 years of experience…
Importance and complexity of evidence on impact
An interesting article on the Nesta blog by Patrick Taylor this week got me thinking about measuring the impact of service design projects. This is a subject that …
DIY toolkit – 1 year old
The DIY toolkit we created with Nesta and Quicksand last year has just passed its first birthday. And what a year it was! Since its launch the website has had 350.000…
DIY Toolkit
Initiated by Nesta and made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation, STBY and Quicksand have edited and designed the DIY Toolkit. DIY stands for ’Development Impact and You’. The toolkit is primarily meant for practitioners in international development.....