Leeds Service Jam | part of Global Service Jam 2013
1 – 3 March 2013
Join us for a time of experimentation, collaboration and learning.
Open to the whole community of Leeds…
here’s a sneak peak at what we’ve done before. Learning by doing!
Here’s who we’ll be joining this year Locations Map
For this year…
Start: Friday 1 March 6pm
Finish: Sunday 3 March 5pm
Supporting and supported by:
The Make ‘Owt Series http://hebeland.com/blog/make-owt
Our amazing Venue:
Duke Studios http://www.duke-studios.com/
“On 1 March 2013, people who are interested in service and using a design-based approach to problem solving and creativity will meet all over the globe. In a spirit of experimentation, co-operation and friendly competition, teams will have 48 hours to develop brand new services inspired by a shared theme. On Sunday at 3pm, they publish them to the world.
In Leeds, the Jam will run at the creative co-working space Duke Studios, as part of the Make’Owt series, funded by Leeds City Council through Leeds Inspired. We provide the venue, materials, and service design resources for inspiration. All we need is you – and some magical collaboration. What will you design in 48 hours?
This is a chance for the community of Leeds to take a fresh look at design and how we can use it for developing better services in the city. It’s a contribution to making ours a growing community of innovation and creative thinking at a time when cuts threaten work and life in the city.
Whether you consider yourself a designer, a student, a manager, an entrepreneur, or just one voice in a very big crowd. It is a chance to ‘learn by doing’ outside of our usual working environments.”
“On the first weekend of March 2013, people interested in service and customer experience will meet at locations all over the globe.
They will be designers, students, academics, business people, customers, mums, kids and grand-dads. In a spirit of experimentation, innovation, co-operation and friendly competition, teams will have less than 48 hours to develop and prototype completely new services inspired by a shared theme. At the end of the weekend, their collection of brand new services will be published to the world.”
Adam Lawrence, Co-founder of Global Service Jam, Nuremberg, Germany
This is a chance for the community of Leeds to take a fresh look at design
and how they can use it for developing better services in the city, through service design. Whether they consider themselves a designer, a technocrat, a manager, an entrepreneur, or just one voice in a very big crowd. Everyone will be welcome, they just need to be interested in making services better and have an open mind to learn something new, bring some ideas to share, collaborate with others on the day and be happy with a little ambiguity in the process. It is a chance to ‘learn by doing’ outside of our usual pressured working environments. It is relevant to all sectors, public and private… Mercedes do it, The Alzheimer’s Society do it, Orange do it, Kent County Council do it. It’s a contribution to making Leeds a growing community
of innovation and creative thinking at a time when cuts threaten
work and life in the city.
Kathryn Grace, Co-organiser of Leeds Jam
We provide the venue, materials,
service design resources for inspiration…
all we need is you… and some magical collaboration.
What will you design in 48 hours?
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