Exploring Social Design Principles

A workshop led by the Social Design Institute exploring 12 principles of Social Design.

*Please note the new date and time of this workshop: 2-3.30pm, Thursday 31 March 2022. If you can no longer make this event, please cancel your place or email [email protected]*

The goal of this workshop is to support discussions, argumentation and conceptual development in the area of social design - a nascent field of inquiry and practice.

In this workshop, we will share and discuss the twelve principles of social design created by UAL's Social Design Institute with researchers and practitioners at UAL and beyond. This discussion will act as a starting point for an exploration of features and goals of social design, with a particular focus on the relationship between social design and ideas of ‘the social.’ The motivation behind the principles is to establish a formalised structure which allows us to dig deeper.

Participants will have the opportunity to bring their own case studies and examples to see how the twelve principles can be adapted to practice. The purpose of the workshop is to get feedback, test the principles and improve them, and ultimately - to influence the direction of the emerging field of social design.

Further details:

Participants are invited to bring a social design project case study (either one of your own, or one you know well), which would be used to test the principles. If you are interested, please email Gabriele at [email protected] by 12 noon on Monday 21 March, including the title of the project and a one-paragraph outline. We will notify you whether your project has been selected ahead of the workshop and you should then be ready to talk about it for 5 minutes (we can accommodate up to 4 projects).

You are welcome to participate without sharing a case study, but please note that this is an interactive workshop and participation will be encouraged.

Capacity is limited to 25 people.

All participants will receive a copy of the principles in advance of the workshop.

Speakers:

Dr Jocelyn Bailey is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Social Design Institute of the University of Arts London. Her experience encompasses both practice and research on the borders between design and government (from policy development to service delivery). She ran the All Party Parliamentary Group for Design, and the Design Commission (2008-2013), co-authoring a report on design and public services (Design Commission 2013); followed by work for cultural and creative consultancy the Burns Owens Partnership, and social design agency UScreates, leading research, design, innovation and strategy work with a variety of clients across the public and third sector. Alongside this she co-curated the Social Design Talks series, examining the emergence of the social design field, and was co-investigator on ‘mapping social design research and practice’ for the AHRC (Armstrong et al 2014). She holds a BA in Architecture from the University of Cambridge, an MA in History of Art from Birkbeck College, and a PhD in Design with the University of Brighton.

Dr Patrycja Kaszynska is Senior Research Fellow at Social Design Institute, UAL and Research Associate at Culture, King’s College London and Research Affiliate at New College of the Humanities at NorthEastern. She is interested in value, valuation and evaluation, in particular in relation to the arts, culture and design and in the context of policy decision-making. She was Project Researcher for the AHRC Cultural Value Project (2012-2016), Project Manager for the Cultural Value Scoping Project (2016-2017) and is Principal Investigator for the Scoping Culture and Heritage Capital research (2021-2022) – a multi-disciplinary research project aiming to build a decision-making system for valuing culture and heritage capital in the context of government funding allocation.

Dr Christian Nold is lecturer in design at the Open University. His focus is inventing and analysing new models and technologies for collective representation. In the last decades he created large-scale public art and design projects such as the widely acclaimed ‘Bio Mapping’, ‘Emotion Mapping’ and ‘Bijlmer Euro’ that have been staged with thousands of participants across sixteen countries. He has written numerous books and journal papers including the widely recognised ‘Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self’.