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Transformative Services and Transformation Design

Daniela Sangiorgi's widely cited 2011 paper in the International Journal of Design on service design as a driver of organisational and social change.

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  • An edited academic collection on the theory and future of designing for services, bringing together researchers from the field's main university groups.

  • Author of The Service Organization, writing about how large organisations need to change to deliver good services.

  • One of the first dedicated service design consultancies, founded in London in 2001, with studios in Europe and South America and a long record of published thinking.

  • An English-language master's in Milan that treats products, services and systems as one design problem. One of the longest-running programmes of its kind.

  • A team in the UK Cabinet Office that brings design, data and ethnography into policy making, and writes openly about how.

  • The Systemic Design Association's annual symposium, held in several locations at once and online, bringing together systems thinking and design practice.