My son’s drawing of ‘safe.’

A positive feedback loop creating a "vicious cycle" via Marco Te Brömmelstroet

Innovations that people once feared: • TV • Wifi • Cars • Radio • ATMs • Phones • Bicycles • Elevators • Railroads • Airplanes • Electricity • Computers • Anesthesia • Telephones • Photography • Printing press • Reclining chairs • Even... jazz music

As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity *everything* requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.

📢Exciting opportunity klaxon📢 We’re on the lookout for design researchers who can bring their skills, energy and creativity to an expanding portfolio of human-centred design and research projects Social Finance UK.🧵(1/4)

Looking forward to presenting our case study for designing ethical friction Social Finance UK to promote refugee safety and choice SDinGov govservicedesign.net/programme/ethi… w/ Camilla Devereux is not here anymore + Georgia Hill linkedin.com/in/georgia-hil…

Refugee matching service had to respond very quickly to huge numbers of displaced people #sdingov

Introducing friction to improve safety in refugee matching: providing information, training and person-to-person processes rather than fully automated matching #sdingov

Having worked on the NICS team delivering the Homes for Ukraine scheme it was great to attend Social Finance UK chat on how they used “ethical friction” to deliver additional value in their design of the Reset matching service. Powerful example of the value of #behaviouraldesign

#SDinGov Day1-brilliant talks, impactful case studies with themes encompassing barriers, friction, empathy, designing in dark. Enjoyed hearing abt services designed around crisis/emergency, recent ones around providing the right homes for Ukraine in the UK. So much to reflect!

Strong keynote out the blocks on day 2 at #SDinGov - When designing services, start with people covered by the 9 protected characteristics in the Equality Act. If you design for the 20% you’re more likely to include other underrepresented groups. Shabira

"What if we measured true success not by the amount of money you have but by the amount of human energy you unlock, the amount of potential you enable? If that were our metric, our world would be a different place" Jacqueline Novogratz

We're inviting partners to join a funding proposal to scope and test a holistic view of social care need built around an individual. socialfinance.org.uk/insights/build…

People are more likely to care about an issue if they understand it. 💭 They’re more likely to support action and change if they see how and why a problem happens, and what could be done to solve it. That's why explanation is our friend. When explaining, try to:

Academic researchers have been working with design researchers to support innovation in #socialcare. What happens when different research traditions meet? New SSCR blog by Juliette Malley and Jessica Kyriacou on three challenges of an interdisciplinary approach ⬇️ sscr.nihr.ac.uk/when-design-re…

We are looking for members to join our Race Equity Advisory Group. Ideal candidates will have experience working on race equity in a range of contexts, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a drive to make a difference through supporting the work we do. socialfinance.org.uk/careers/curren…

Join us at the Westminster Insight Multi-Agency Information Sharing for Child Protection Conference on 27 Feb. 🔎 Tom Rintoul on how to set up data sharing with local partners. 🔎 Camilla Devereux is not here anymore & Jessica Kyriacou on overcoming cultural barriers to data sharing. westminsterinsight.com/conferences-an…

What matters to us in Croydon — researching how 'systems change' is seen and understood locally, link.medium.com/DqbAllvHoKb blog by Jessica Kyriacou whom we engaged to facilitate focus groups in the South Norwood area. Check the Findings Report here: bit.ly/3XlLFSH Turf Projects