Smart D8 is a smart district and urban demonstrator to address health and wellbeing challenges with citizens and service providers in the Dublin 8 district. Context Studio worked with the consortium partners to assist in defining their strategy for the coming programme through the application of strategic design.
Designing a Consultation Process for Disabled Persons Organisations
Service Design | Dublin City Council
Context Studio has been working with Dublin City Council and Disabled Persons Organisations (DPOs) to co-design the way that the council consults on decisions affecting disabled people’s lives. Our work included pilot projects to test the process to ensure its sustainability, and a review of that trial (or prototype) to capture learnings.
Service Design for Digital Transformation of Patient Services
Service Design | Irish Heart Foundation
Developing a comprehensive understanding of how current patient services operate at the national stroke and heart charity, and designing an optimum future for those services, with teams empowered by digital technology.
Designing a Marketplace for Smart City Solutions
Service Design | Open & Agile Smart Cities
The term “Smart City” may now be more than a decade old, but cities across the world are struggling with digital transformation and the application of new technologies.
Coaching Product Discovery at Cookpad
Coaching & Mentoring | Cookpad Global Inc.
Context Studio joined Cookpad at their global headquarters in Bristol to work for three months with product squads and their designers bringing human centred design and innovation to the heart of product discovery.
Service Design Mentorship at the Department of Justice
Coaching & Mentoring | The Department of Justice
The Department of Justice is the first government department in Ireland to establish a dedicated Service Design & Customer Insights (SDCI) team. Established in 2018, the team is comprised of 10 civil servants and is part of the Change, Technology and Innovation function of the Department.
Service Design for Patient Support Services
Service Design | Irish Heart Foundation
Context Studio worked with Irish Heart Foundation to help build a better understanding of patient support services, and to examine the needs of patients, volunteers and staff.
Accelerating Danish Startups with a Design Mindset
Workshop Design & Facilitation, Coaching & Mentoring | The Innofounder Graduate programme for Danish Design Center
What can a little service design, design research, and strategic design lend to the startup world? It turns out, a design mindset can be the founder’s best friend…
Designing an Innovation Strategy for the Justice Sector in Ireland
Workshop Design & Facilitation | The Department of Justice
We assisted the Department of Justice in the co-creation of an Innovation Strategy for the Justice Sector in Ireland, a sector comprised of a myriad of agencies, bodies, services, and third party organisations, all striving to deliver a safe, fair, and inclusive Ireland.
“Live Learning” Service Design for Cork County Council
Service Design | Cork County Council
Cork County Council is the second largest local authority in Ireland, and the largest, based on its geographical area. Context Studio worked with their service design team in early 2022 using a service design approach in the redesign of the intranet presence for the Corporate Services directorate of Cork County Council.
Atlantic Tide – Researching Ireland’s Design Economy
Design Research | Institute of Designers in Ireland
Atlantic TIDE (Transforming Ireland’s Design Economy) saw us engage with design businesses, enterprise support agencies and significant industrial enterprises who may use design services across the Atlantic region to hear of their experiences, ambitions, challenges, and needs, all with an aim to understand how the future of the design sector may be supported.