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Hits & Near Misses: Design and Innovation at WorkSafe Victoria
SDNOW X SDM: Pre-conference Series (September)
19/09/2019
SDNOW4
14/11/2019 - 16/11/2019
Design & Ethics #5 2019: Designers Anonymous – A community of care
Third Thursday #28 2019: Facilitating meaningful conversations
Third Thursday #27 2019: The Power of Ridiculous Fun
Q&A Panel Discussion on Service Design 2011
Third Thursday #25: How I got my first Service Design Job
Design & Ethics #6 2019: What is data-driven design?
Kate McEntee, Jess Bird, Yoko Akama
Design & Ethics #4 2019: Innovation in Not-for-profit: The invisible influence of power
Leander Kreltszheim
Design & Ethics #3 2019: How does time and relationships matter in human-centred design?
Yoko Akama
Design & Ethics #2 2019: Preparing to design with Indigenous peoples
Yoko Akama
Design & Ethics #1 2019: Conflict Camp
27/2/2019
SDNOW3
07/12/2018-08/12/2018
Design and Ethics #5 2018: Designing with (not for) Indigenous Peoples.
Lisa Overton
Design and Ethics #5 2018: Designing with (not for) Indigenous Peoples
26/09/2018
Third Thursdays #24 2018: Transitions in theory and practice
18.10.18
Third Thursday #23 2018: Play for Innovation
16/08/2018
Design and Ethics #3 2018: Equity-centred Design – for design practitioners who work with people
Kate McEntee
Design and Ethics #2 2018: Communities of Care and Contest
Ryley Lawson & Jaskaran Singh Bawa
ServDes2020 Theme: Tensions | Paradoxes | Plurality
Yoko Akama
Design and Ethics #3: Equity-Centred Design Workshop
30/07/2018
Third Thursday #22 2018: Sustainability Strategies for Enterprise
19/07/2018
Third Thursday #21 2018: Every product is a service -Product Anonymous
21/06/2018
Design and Ethics #2: Communities of Care and Contest
14/06/2018
Design & Ethics #1 2018: Is ethics in design just a professional question?
Yoko Akama
Design & Ethics #2 2018: Can we reach a shared view of design ethics?
03/05/2018
Third Thursday #20 2018: Designing Experiential Brands
17/05/2018
Third Thursday #19 2018: Traversing the path between Design and Business
19/04/2018
Third Thursday #18 2018: – Drawing for Service Design
15/03/2018
Third Thursday #17 2018: What’s Next for Service Design (in) Melbourne?
22/02/2018
Third Thursday #16 2018: Confessions of a purist
21/12/2017
Third Thursday #15 2018: Inclusive and universal design
19/10/2017
Design & Ethics #3 2017: Design and Spirituality?
27/07/2017
Service Design Now
24/11/2017
Third Thursday Service Design Chats # 14
20/09/2017
Third Thursday Service Design Chats # 13
17/08/2017
Design & Ethics # 2 2017: Discussion on ‘Dark Matter’
27/07/2017
Third Thursday # 12 2017: Discussions on a maturing profession
20/07/2017
Third Thursday # 11 2017: Stories from the in house design team
22/06/2017
Third Thursday #10 2017: Gendered spaces
25/05/2017
Design & Ethics # 1 2017: “This Human”
11/05/2017
Third Thursday Service Design Chats # 9
20/04/2017
Future Audience
05/05/2017
UX Australia 2017
08/08/2017 - 11/08/2017
Service Design Global Conference 2017 Madrid
02/11/2017 - 03/11/2017
Roundtable Discussion: Building capacity in Service Design
22/03/2017
Global Service Design Award 2017
06/06/2017
Third Thursday # 8 2017: Transdisciplinary work
16/03/2017
SDM contribution to the public sector
15/03/2017
Education
Third Thursday # 7 2017: What does the future look like?
16/02/2017
Third Thursday # 5 2016: Strategic Design
08/12/2016
Third Thursday # 4 2016: Service Design from another perspective
17/11/2016
Digital Ethnography Summer School
13/02/2017 - 18/02/2017
Service Design Canberra 2016
22/11/2016 - 23/11/2016
Global Sustainability Jam Melbourne 2016
04/11/2016-06/11/2016
Third Thursday # 3 2016: Tackling complex issues
20/10/2016
Third Thursday Service Design Chats # 2
22/09/2016
Third Thursday Service Design Chats # 1
18/08/2016
Service Design Hong Kong 2016
29/09/2016 - 30/09/2016
What I learnt in my first year (or so) as a Service Designer
30/06/2016
Third Thursday 2016: Model versus Model
05/05/2016
Sarah Drummond: Innovating public services through design
30/03/2016
ServDes 2016
24/05/2016 - 26/05/2016
Huddle Design Fest 2016
08/03/2016 - 23/03/2016
Workshop: Evolving organisations: Building customer centricity
10/03/2016
UX Australia 2016: Proposals
18/03/2016
Service Design 2016 Conference
21/03/2016 - 22/03/2016
Global Service Jam Melbourne 2016
26/02/2016 - 28/02/2016
Meld Studios Open House
19/02/2016
SDM Christmas Drinks 2015
16/12/2015
Global Sustainability Jam 2015
30/10/2015-01/11/2015
Books
Service Design Global Conference 2015
02/10/2015 - 03/10/2015
ServDes Conference 2016: Call for Papers
29/09/2015
Panel: Leading the Business of Art and Design
23/09/2015
APCHIUX 2015: Call for participation and papers
30/09/2015
Tight Shorts: Transitions to Service Design
15/09/2015
Workshop: How to rapidly develop personas to co-create value opportunities
02/09/2015
Global Service Design Award 2015
15/07/2015
UX Breakfast Book Club with Indi Young
25/06/2015
Cyclehack Melbourne 2015
19/06/2015 - 21/06/2015
Breaking into the International Service Design Community: Tales from Australia to Berlin
17/06/2015
4th Korean Conference on Service Design (KCSD)
27/05/2015
Design for Business: Research Conference
12/05/2015 - 13/15/2015
Toolkits
Customer Experience 2015
08/05/2015
Good Design Awards: Service Design
20/03/2015
Valuing Design: mapping design impact and value
by Joyce Yee, Hazel White & Lindsey Lennon
Global Service Jam Melbourne 2015
27/02/15 - 01/03/15
Huddle Design Week
24/02/15 - 27/02/15
Industry Mingle: Isobar
19/02/2015
Journals
February UX Bookclub
10/02/2015
Scaffolding Innovation through Human-Centred Design
by Jacqueline Wechsler
The role of mindset in user centred design
by Zaana Howard & Simon Lawry
Embodying, enacting and entangling design: a phenomenological view to co-designing services
by Yoko Akama & Alison Pendriville
DESIAP: From Things to Services
05/02/15 - 06/02/15
Warts-and-all: the real practice of service design
by Yoko Akama
ServDes.2014 Service Futures
09/04/14 -11/04/14

 

2045 community members (and growing)

Yoko Akama
Tristan Cooke
Erin Tan
Kristy Leversha
Shawn Chen
Lisa Overton
Georgina Lewis

The SDM committee (click photo for their profiles) are a group of passionate volunteers and are keen to hear your ideas and feedback in order to better support and build capacity in this community.

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Membership is free – but there are some paid events and workshops. Events are hosted at various public and private venues. SDM welcomes any ideas, contributions, facilitation and participation from all of its diverse membership.

Contribute

Would you like to help organise events? Do you have an article or case study you’d like to share? Are you an agency that would like to get involved with the service design community? Anything else we can help with?

We’re always looking for contributors to Service Design Melbourne, contact us at hello@servicedesign.net.au

About

The purpose of Service Design Melbourne (SDM) is to foster and support knowledge sharing on human-centred approaches and outcomes of design through invited speakers, workshops and informal conversations. It is a non-commercial network, focusing on building a community of interest and practice in this area to actively create a space for idea exchange and learn about projects, challenges and opportunities in Australia. It practices and promotes collaboration and collegiality across diverse fields in design, marketing, management, digital technology as well as the academic, business, government and public sectors. In doing so, it aims to provide exposure to and promote the contribution of a holistic approach to Service Design, which includes social innovation, human-centred design and systemic design thinking, that can benefit the public at large.

SDM is facilitated by a committee of passionate individuals. The committee rotates continually as new members join and others exit. In this way, we retain knowledge of the ‘past’ and inject ‘fresh’ ideas into the community.

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