links
Design:
Service Design Research Initiative – consolidate existing knowledge and supporting the growth of a service design research community.
Picnic – a platform for creativity and innovation in Amsterdam.
Desis Network – design for social innovation and sustainability
UX cards – overview of different concept / method cards used by designers
Dundee:
Hoolywood productions – Never before has a website captured the imagination of so many Dundonians in such a short space of time!
Economics:
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) – an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being.
Engagement / about:
Community engagement – techniques, case studies, how-to guide – The Scottish Government
Community planning website – helping people shape their cities, towns and villages.
The guide to effective participation -a guide for community activists and professionals seeking to get people involved in social, economic and environmental projects and programmes.
Planning for Real® – a community planning model that helps shape neighbourhoods and communities.
Engagement / case studies:
Get Go Glasgow – how Social Design is helping to co-create a Social Enterprise within the Wyndford community in the North of Glasgow.
Food and agriculture:
Food studies – features the voices of volunteer student bloggers from a variety of different food- and agriculture-related programs at universities around the world.
Inspiration:
Ger O’brien: The Attic
Nick Tobier - everyday places – on a quest seeking out and concocting events with an air of the unexpected, and the out of place.
Arabeschi de Latte – experimenting with new design concepts relating to food
Dustin O’hara – built a time machine when he was 8
Open Space:
Living Streets - putting people first
Greenspace Scotland - working with a wide range of local and national partners to support the planning, development and sustainable management of greenspaces.
Design Trust for Open Space – improving public space for New Yorkers
Raumlabor – a new approach to urbanity
Open Futures, still here to be claimed – an ongoing research that investigates large vacant urban areas
Urban Tactics – encouraging the participation of inhabitants at the self-management of disused urban spaces
