Design for Policy - Breakfast Event

In 2012 the Civil Service Reform Plan challenged the UK Civil Service to professionalise its policy making. This resulted in new skills and creative tools, including design methods, being brought into the policy process.

Two years on a growing community of top civil servants and innovators is using design to strengthen how policy is developed and implemented in the UK. Policy teams in national and local governments all over the world are also becoming interested in design.

This high-level panel event will bring together leading practitioners and launch Design for Policy, the first book charting the use of design in public policy. Design for Policy is published by Gower and edited by Christian Bason.

Speakers

• Mike Anderson – Head of Policy Profession and Director General, Strategy, Immigration and International, Home Office
• Christian Bason – CEO, Danish Design Centre
• John Mathers – CEO, Design Council
• Will Reynolds – Head of Policy and Administration, ASRU, Home Office
  
• Ellie Runcie – Director of Future Programmes, Design Council
• Dr. Andrea Siodmok – Head of the Policy Lab, Cabinet Office
  

This will interest

• Civil servants in policy roles interested in innovation methods
• Service and strategy designers
• International delegates involved in design and policy

You will learn about

• How design is being introduced into policy
• UK and international case studies
• Design methods

The event is part of Design for Europe, more here.