GOOD19: a different type of gathering
People interested in the transformative power of design research around the world gathered at the GOOD19 Conference in Londen on the 27th of July. GOOD19 was the …
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Providing Research Support for the Affordable Credit Challenge
STBY worked with Nesta and HM Treasury to scope the problem statements and orchestrate partnerships for the recently launched Affordable Credit Challenge.
The Subspecies of Design Researcher
As a design research agency, STBY has worked with design researchers of many shapes and sizes. While the role of ‘design researcher’ becomes more common and recognised as a formal position in many different types of organisations, it’s worth reflecting on how we all work and the unique skills and attitudes needed in different settings.
Making do and getting by with the climate
More and more members of Spring House in Amsterdam are involved in climate related projects. Does their increasing knowledge about the climate influence their …
Two STBY cases in This is Service Design Doing
The practitioners’ handbook: This is Service Design Doing, applies service design in the real world. It includes short descriptions of some of the core service …
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.....
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.…
Discovering new opportunities for financial services
STBY was asked by a Dutch financial institution to carry out design research to support the creation of new service concepts in relation to housing. Our exploratory…
Art and cutting-end technology as means to evidence injustice
How to use art and new-media as a mean to collect and articulate the evidence of social or ecological injustice? New technologies such as 3d modelling and advanced…
Paper: Learning and practicing in service design
At the ServDes2018 in Milan, the global academic Service Design conference, Bas Raijmakers was invited to be Chair of the Learning & Practicing track, with …
Paper: Imagining speculative care and support futures
MyFutures was a 2-year academic-public-private project (2016-2018) to create services and tools that take the future thinking and making skills of designers …
Can a robot become your best friend?
There is no escape: our futures will be more and more digitalised. What position are you taking towards the fast growing digital world we live in? While technology…