MUO-E8043 - Design for Government, Lecture, 27.2.2023-31.5.2023
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Topic outline
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W1 01.03 Reading Discussion: Design for Policy
Focus: Understand the context and the discourses; different fields, backgrounds, interests, expectations and ideas (policy studies, public administration, public innovation, design).
Guiding questions: What do you understand by ‘design in the public sector’ or ‘design for policy’? What kind of challenges and potentials are mentioned in the video and literature?Everyone:
And choose one:
Additional readings (optional):
W2 08.03 Demos Helsinki Case presentation
- Ch 1. “Need for a new future-oriented model of governance” in Anticipatory Innovation Governance Model in Finland by OECD https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/a31e7a9a-en/1/3/1/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/a31e7a9a-en&_csp_=66eaf255f965fffb910ef76b7d20883d&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book
- Foresight and policymaking: lessons from Singapore and Finland https://demoshelsinki.fi/2022/09/26/foresight-policymaking-singapore-finland/
W3 15.03 Reading Discussion: Systems thinking
Focus: To understand the potential of systems thinking when combined with design in the public sector, helping to understand complexity and uncertainty.
Guiding questions: How is systems thinking contributing to designing in the public sector? How is this different from other traditional understandings in government?References:
- Meadows, D. H. (2008). Why systems surprise us. In Thinking in systems: A primer (pp 86-110). Chelsea green publishing.
- Meadows, D. H. (2008). Systems traps…and opportunities. In Thinking in systems: A primer (pp 111-144). Chelsea green publishing.Additional readings (optional):
Siodomok, A. (2020) Integrated Policy: A UK Perspective. Presentation at The policy community conference. Ottawa, Canada. https://player.vimeo.com/video/401449271 (oral presentation video min.36 Government as a System) https://policyconference2020.ca/en/agenda.html (slides)
W5 29.03 Reading Discussion: Design activities and methodsFocus: Understand the activities and methods of design in the public sector and how to make sense of them (how to explain them, how to show what has value, etc.).
Guiding questions: What methods and activities can design bring to the public sector? What value do these provide at the policy-making stages?Reading 1 (assign two team members):
Reading 2 (assign two team members):Additional readings & resources:
- Bailey, J., & Lloyd, P. (2016). The introduction of design to policymaking: Policy Lab and the UK government. In Proceedings of the Conference of Design Research Society (pp. 3620-3633). Brighton, UK: Design Research Society
Resources from the Social Design Institute from the University of the Arts London. Specially: video of the event “Critical research perspectives on design for government” https://www.arts.ac.uk/ual-social-design-institute/events and the recording of the Symposium on Practice Research: Definitions, Contexts, Futures 19-20 May 2022 particularly Panel 6 “Futures for practice research in social design - Opportunities, challenges and demands” https://www.arts.ac.uk/ual-social-design-institute/events
- - (Period V Reading list) - -W7 26.04 Reading Discussion: Design interventions
Focus: We will follow a World Cafe/Workshop format to gain knowledge and cover many design methods and interventions for you to choose from.
Guiding questions: What value do these bring in the context of policy change? What are the pros and cons of these methods in your project?Everyone:
Reading 1 Scenarios (assign one team member):
Vesnic-Alujevic, L., Stoermer, E., Rudkin, J., Scapolo, F., Kimbell, L. (2019) The Future of Government 2030+: A Citizen-Centric Perspective on New Government Models. EUR 29664 EN. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2019. ISBN 978-92-76-00165-2 doi:10.2760/145751, JRC 115008. NOTE: YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ IT ALL. Please focus on the following: Chapter 3 (Pay attention to how did they develop scenarios? What information are the scenarios based on?), Chapter 4 (skim through the scenario examples, pay attention to the information included and the thinking/imagination they elicit), Chapter 5 (Pay attention to how scenarios were used, skim through the concept examples), Chapter 7 & 8 (Pay attention to the value of scenarios in government and policy-making).
Reading 2 Behavioural design (assign one team member):
Reading 3 Experiments (assign one team member):
Annala, M., Kaskinen, T., Lee, S., Leppänen, J., Mattila, K., Neuvonen, A., Nuutinen, J., Saarikoski, E., & Tarvainen, A. (2015). Design for government: Human-centric governance through experiments. Retrieved from https://www.demoshelsinki.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Design-for-Government-%E2%80%93-Governance-through-experiments.pdf
Reading 4 Generative ideas (assign one team member):
Additional readings & resources:
Podcast: UCL Urban Lab Lectures. “Laboratories as a New Mode of Urban Governance” by Andrew Karvonen (about urban experiments) https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/andrew-karvonen-laboratories-as-a-new-mode-of-urban-governance
Podcast: Design in Transition/Diseño en transición (ENG/SPA). Three-episode miniseries hosting the Designing Policy Network. The first episode of the miniseries is available: Ep26 Ahmee Kim & Francesco Leoni: Designing for Policy [ENG].
W8 03.05 Policy experiments lecture pre-reading
- Applying Behavioural Insights to Organ Donation: preliminary
results from a randomised controlled trial: https://www.bi.team/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Applying_Behavioural_Insights_to_Organ_Donation_report.pdf
- Random Assignment Evaluation Studies: A Guide for Out-of-School Time Program Practitioners: https://cms.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/Random-Assigment-Evaluations.pdf
- The Finnish basic income experiment – ”a foolish and outrageously expensive travesty”? https://tutkimusblogi.kela.fi/arkisto/3316
W9 10.05 Reading Discussion: Development and validation
Focus: To continue developing the understanding of the instruments and choice of type of interventions for the proposals, now by focusing on identifying leverage points.
Guiding question: How do you understand where to intervene?
Everyone:W11 17.05 Reading Discussion: Proposals
Focus: To understand how to explain the proposal, not only through text but also with regard to how the reports are produced and their formats (parts, graphic design, etc.).
Guiding question: What can we learn from these examples?Reading 1 (assign two team members):
Reading 2 (assign two team members)
Additional readings & resources (optional):
Keynote Debate DRS 2018: “Social and public: exploring changing contexts of design research and practice through the intersections between design for policy and social design”. Moderated by Dr. Simon O'Rafferty, Debate Participants: Dr. Andrea Siodmok & Dr. Ramia Mazé. http://www.drs2018limerick.org/participation/keynote-debates
Podcast: Diseño y diáspora. Episode 379. Design for Policies (UK/Finland/Sweden). An interview with Ramia Mazé. (The podcast has many episodes in Spanish about innovation labs and designers working in government. Some of those interviews are part of a publication https://disenoydiaspora.org/libros/diseno-y-laboratorios-de-innovacion-2do-libro/)
Podcast: Design for society, PoGoSIG (Policy and Governance Special Interest Group from the Design Research Society), episodes 2 and 3 with Michael Howlett and Christian Bason.