The Blueprint #15
This week is a short version; a collection of links I've came across over the last few weeks I found interesting and wanted to share.
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Hi! I haven’t sent anything for over a month now, and the reason is that I’m heads down into work, heads down into another article which I keep on re-writing 🙃 and just life. However, I stumbled on some interesting news and content, which I wanted to share and felt it was a good way to just say hi. So, hi 👋
Before we start: for people in the UK, a petition is going around to call the governement to recognise the State of Palestine. It can be signed until the 30th of May
→ For all UK residents & nationals, on the parlementiary petition website.
There also is a list of organisations to boycott
→ Access on BDS movement
[Keynote – Decolonising Service Design] Frederick Van Amstel invites to consider the analogy of front-stage & back-stage in a keynote at the SDN Next Gen Conference 2024. The key point is that through this analogy, we’re perpetuating the exploitation of other to deliver a service to end customers. Think Amazon’s Just Walk Out in recent news.
→ Watch on their website (13 min)
[Community marketplace] Abalobi is a fish marketplace launched in Cape Town, that connects local fishers with restaurants. The marketplace supports local economy, helps Cape Town restaurants to provide locally sourced fresh fish, and help improve the life of fishers.
→ Read on the Guardian
[Service Design Blueprint] Anna van der Togt of Livework studio has shared an article off the back of their webinar about ways to incorporate the Planet perspective in the blueprint. At the scale of a system, blueprints are quite shallow. They fail to consider the impact of decisions beyond the experience and operations. Adding a Planet swim lane is a good call to start thinking of the impact decisions can have through behaviours (over consumptions, waste, etc.), and operations (strain on resources, pollution, etc.)
→ Read more on LinkedIn
[Agency Transformation] Made Tech’s Head of Interaction & Service Design Daniel Healy has published a nice article one the activities the company is undertaking to consider the impact of the services they design on the planet, and the ways they can reduce it.
→ Read on Made Tech Blog
I’m a freelance service designer who helps public and private organisations intervene to mitigate the impact of the planetary crisis on humans and vice-versa.
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