Overview:
Values Driven Innovation
The role of the designer has transformed over the last quarter century from designing innovative artefacts to devising systems, and services as wel as conceiving strategic and policy options for industry and the public sector. This has led to a corresponding evolution, if not a revolution in the capacities. knowledge and skills required to address a more ambitious agenda. In this talk we will explore the growing contribution of design to tackle complex systemic, even wicked problems, not only by design professionals but also by professionals and executives from other disciplines skilfully applying a designerly and values led approach to innovation. The issues of our time - climate change, the threats to biodiversity, social justice and the geopolitical crisis - demand innovative new approaches to the design of policy, governance and delivery. De Leon will argue that a values driven, interdisciplinary approach to innovation is required and illustrate this through examples of initiatives such as the Terra Carta Design Lab, conceived by His Majesty, King Charles III and Sir Jony Ive, and the UN and UNESCO supported Design for Good Alliance.
Speaker bio:
Dr Nick de Leon is the Academic Lead for the Terra Carta Design Lab, an initiative created by HM King Charles III with Sir Jony Ive, that harnesses the power of design in the service of people, planet and nature. He is an expert in Service and Systems Innovation and founded the Service Design department at the RCA, the largest of its kind worldwide. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Art, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Royal Commission for the 1851 Exhibition and a founder of the UN supported alliance - Design for Good, a collaboration of Global Corporations that engages hundreds of designers worldwide to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to joining academia, he had a corporate career in Design, R&D and Business at IBM.
