Engaging With Design, a Confessional

Engaging with Design: A Confessional, Morning Session

The interactive morning session explored the value design can bring to public sector activity in terms of policy development and service delivery. It introduced some successfully completed projects as case studies including a co-design project with 2,000 participants for Lancaster City Council, led by ImaginationLancaster. Building on this, the group honestly explored the best (and worst!) experiences that the participants in the session have had with design and designers in public services, this was used to build a framework for productive engagement with designers.

Engagement through Design, Afternoon Session

This interactive session was aimed at people in the public services who work with groups (community groups, stakeholders or colleagues/groups of others within public services themselves). Here ImaginationLancaster introduced a series of approaches, techniques and tools that could be either used directly in workshops or consultation events or can be adapted to fit the particular needs of participants attending the Engagement session. The aim here was to explore practical, grounded and easily implemented ideas.

Reports from the workshops are available to download