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Featured Speaker
Integrative Design: Design for social impact
Geoff Mulgan, Director, Young Foundation
How are design methods being used to address social problems? What new skills do designers need to learn to become useful for social innovation? This talk will look at experiences from around the world, at the lessons from the work of programs such as EMUDE in Europe, the work of companies like IDEO globally, and the growing engagement of service design companies in UK public services. And it will set out what “integrative design” could mean for the future.
Biography: Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation, one of the world’s leading centers for social innovation, social enterprise and public policy, with a 50-year history of creating new organizations in the public, private, and nonprofit sector, as well as pioneering ideas in fields as varied as aging, education, healthcare and poverty reduction.
Between 1997 and 2004, Geoff held various roles in the UK government, including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit, and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. Previously, he was the founder and director of the think tank Demos. He has also been chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a lecturer in telecommunications; an investment executive; and a reporter on BBC TV and radio. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL, Melbourne University and the China Executive Leadership Academy, a board member of the Work Foundation, the Health Innovation Council and the Design Council, and chair of Involve. He has served on many task forces and commissions, including most recently the European Union 2025 program, the UK Government Commission on reducing health inequality, and the Atomium Culture program linking 25 of Europe’s top universities and media organizations. He is chairing a Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland. He has worked with many governments around the world, ranging from China and New Zealand, to Australia, Canada, France, Denmark and the European Commission, and has lectured in over 40 countries.
His most recent book is ‘The Art of Public Strategy: mobilising power and knowledge for the common good’’ (Oxford University Press, 2009). Other books include Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (Penguin, 2006) and Connexity (Vintage and Harvard Business Press, 1998). His books have been translated into many languages including French, German, Malay, Turkish, Greek, Norwegian, Romanian, Chinese and Swedish.
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