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Design Guides, Frameworks & Toolkits: A Working Resource List

May 24, 2012penny 1 Comment

One of my recent projects has been the development of a (soon to be available) participatory design framework for Youth Mental Health Promotion research developed in collaboration with the Inspire Foundation and the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre in Australia. As part of prior… Continue Reading →

design research, participatory design, service design

8 Themes from Service Design 2012 #SD12

May 17, 2012penny Leave a Comment

Some organisations and practitioners have been effectively practicing Service Design for years. However in terms of its profile as a design practice Service Design is still in its infancy in Australia and New Zealand. As such it was great to be… Continue Reading →

design research, service design

Sustain/Create

May 11, 2012penny Leave a Comment

  Tonight was the second Sustain/Create held at the St Pauls Gallery, AUT. Three speakers, Michael Trudgeon of VEIL, Colin Meurk of Landcare Research and Xavier Meade of Wintech spoke on how we might create and nurture the relationships to ecology… Continue Reading →

design research, social design, sustainabilty

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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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