The service design network put on a service design tools and methods workshop on Wednesday April the 18^th and what an awesome turn out we got! RMIT’s building 88 was used in Elizabeth Street which is usually inhabited by the industrial design department. I was good to see so many students there. Along with all of the fresh faces we had the usual suspects attend and some groups from industry. All in all lots of laughter was had, tools learnt and hopefully more friendships and…

Actually I was in the second row (next to Janine, as a matter of fact), but I could see everything at the presentation held at Huddle last Wednesday evening.  Janine has already written a post about the evening which is great, because I struggle to read my own handwriting, but I want to share some of the notes I took.

Fabian talked about his PhD research into the visualisation techniques used in service design.  When he started his research, there were few people researching in the…

Sharing Abundance is the brainchild of Juliette Anich who is exploring alternative food systems as part of her PhD at RMIT in Melbourne.

Sharing abundance is a is a viable, local food system involving mutual exchange of fresh produce and labour in a fun, sociable way. Inspired by seeing so much perfectly beautiful fruit being allowed to drop from trees and rot on footpaths, alleyways and backyards, Sharing Abundance was…

Last Wednesday evening 21 March I attended the Service Design Network Melbourne event at Huddle Design offices to hear Fabian Segelström from Linköping University, Sweden speak on Service Design.



I arrived at the same time as the pizza man and was quickly ushered upstairs. I was pleased to see familiar faces including Fabian. He had been one of the active mentors at the Global Service Jam 2012 when I was there. I saw some other faces from Huddle including Cam, our host, Josh, Cat,…