The Swinburne University of Technology Faculty of Design invites you to attend a new offering in the Design Perspectives Lecture Series.
Sabine Junginger - From Idea to Action - How Policies Take Shape
Dr Sabine Junginger will outline the three ways in which design practices, methods, and principles apply to the realm of policy and their implications for design and policy.
This is a free public lecture.
When: Thursday 28 July, 2011
Location: Lecture Theatre (PA309) PA Building, Prahran Campus, 144 High Street, Prahran
RSVP: Andrea Streckfuss
Email: [log in to unmask] , Phone: 03 9214 6078.
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From Idea to Action - How Policies Take Shape
Emerging design practices ranging from service design to transformation design point to the ever deeper reach of design practices into different kinds of systems: product service systems, organizational systems, and social systems.
Because policies provide the guidelines that delineate the kinds of services and products, the relationships and the manner of the interactions that are possible, encouraged, or discouraged within any one of these systems, policies are increasingly being recognized as design outcomes. This has significant implications for the study and practice of design and for the study and practice of policy-making. What we see is a shift from policies to policy-making. This brings with it new roles for design in the policy context:
Design professionals continue to have a key role in developing the products and services that are necessary to implement policy-decisions; design researchers and design professionals influence policies by informing policy-makers about their insights into the ways ordinary citizens go about their lives and businesses and their ability to improve their experiences;
More recently, we are witnessing new areas of design practice in which the principles, methods and practices of designing, particularly human-centred design in the ways in which policies themselves are being developed and designed.
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About Dr Sabine Junginger:
Sabine Junginger is a Lecturer at Lancaster University in the UK and a Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. Her work explores the links between the activities of designing, changing, organizing and managing from a human-centred perspective and with a focus on government organizations. In this context, she studies how design principles, methods and practices are being understood in and applied to the realm of policy.
Dr. Junginger earned a PhD in Design at Carnegie Mellon University following an MDes in Communication Planning and Information Design.
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