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Playbook : Getting Started with Policy Co-design
Getting Started with Policy Co-design is the result of, and a reflection upon, a specific policy co-design process with the department for Culture in Jalisco, Mexico that took place across 2020-2021....
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Getting Started with Policy Co-design
We have recently completed the Innovation for Culture project alongside British Council Mexico and Cultura Jalisco with the aim of exploring future policy options and opportunities for the state of...
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Innovation for Culture in Mexico
Joined by various other partners and coordinators, including the British Council Mexico, Aura, Birds of Paradise and advisors from the Policy Lab UK and Design Council UK, STBY recently concluded an...
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Designing our research deliverables
Last year we had an interesting discussion at STBY about how we design our research deliverables. The conversation was inspired by a presentation from Joanna Rutkowska, where she presented a toolset...
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The books we read
At STBY we all love to read. Reading widely is not only pleasurable in itself, it also enables us to learn new things which often helps us to excel in our work. As design researchers we are often...
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Catalysts: Thoughts on Design Research for Meaningful Change
Creatives, designers and researchers often find themselves in the role of ‘Catalysts’ in complex change processes. This might be in projects commissioned by clients or partners or in self-initiated...
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Catalysts: A Reach Network collaboration
In collaboration with partners from the Reach Network for Global Design Research we published: Catalysts, Thoughts on Design Research for Meaningful Change. The essays in the publication do not...
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Reflections on our series of published books
Our latest publication Catalysts: Thoughts on Design Research for Meaningful Change is part of a series of books. It is the fourth book about design research we published over the years. What do the...
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Towards Better Digital Inclusion (Part 2)
STBY contributed as a research partner for a nation wide project ‘Tel Mee Met Taal Experimenten’ initiated by the Dutch Institute of Image and Sound (Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid). The...
View ArticleHow we learned about what drives donations
We’re working for a mental health charity who wants to know what they can do better for millennials as donors, and to encourage them to engage more with the work the charity does. They came to us with...
View ArticleLet’s talk about meaning and purpose rather than impact and results
When we are asked to present our work and talk about the ‘results’ and ‘impact’ of projects we work on, it is often difficult to pinpoint and demonstrate. I’d like to make a case for embracing an...
View ArticleCollaborating on research with a dispersed client team
We’re working with a start-up client who is expanding quickly. They have a successful product but wanted help with launching in another country and finding opportunities for new products. They like to...
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