Cameron Tonkinwise - Service Design & Social Complexity
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We are delighted to welcome Professor Cameron Tonkinwise to our March meetup. Professor Tonkinwise's work explores the intersection of service design and complexity. In this talk, he'll examine the question: What is the role of service design in attending to social complexity?
He proposes three ways that service design can 'pattern' toward complexity: by creating spaces for negotiating services and how they begin and end; by gift giving as a way of signalling a bracketing of the service arrangements; and by modelling attending to social complexity.
If you want to read up in advance, you can find notes on the talk on Cameron's LinkedIn page or at Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/401565803_Some_notes_on_Service_Design_and_Complexity
Bio
Professor Cameron Tonkinwise teaches Service Design and researches Sustainable Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). His expertise has reshaped traditional thinking around how designers should be educated, and he has established Design Studies programs at the Parsons The New School for Design (New York), Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and UTS. Cameron has been a leading voice in the emerging practice of Transition Design, enabling human-scale designers to facilitate systems-level change toward more equitably sustainable societies. His collection of essays on the philosophy of design, How Designing Happens, will be published by Bloomsbury next year.
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This event will be recorded. The event link will be published on meetup.com 1 hour prior to the event.
Please note the time slot- this is an late afternoon event for those of you on EST (3:00 pm to 5:00 pm).