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Design Assembly & CreativeMornings AKL

October 5, 2011penny Leave a Comment

  As part of (re)acquainting myself with the Auckland design scene I was glad to catch both the Design Assembly’s Spring 2011 Conversations and the launch of Auckland’s CreativeMornings series last week. The Design Assembly event (organised by Louise Kellerman) was an evening event hosted at… Continue Reading →

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Sustain/Create

September 23, 2011penny 1 Comment

Last night I attended the first Sustain/Create event at AUT. Sustain/Create is a series of public discussions co-presented by the School of Art + Design and the ST PAUL St Gallery which aim to investigate the role of design in… Continue Reading →

design research, social design

Co-design: some principles, theory and practice…

May 17, 2011penny 2 Comments

I recently had the pleasure of teaching a workshop on co-design techniques at UTS as part of their new Design Masters program. The term co-design refers to a range of things and is a philosophical and political approach to design… Continue Reading →

design research, participatory design, presentation

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This blog covers work, thinking and experiences on participatory design, social design and design research by Penny Hagen. I help organisations take a collaborative and participatory approach to the design and implementation of new processes, policy, strategy, services and initiatives. The opinions shared here are solely my own

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