Service Lab: Designing for the climate crisis

Our current system is broken, both environmentally & socially. We need a collective rethink about what it means to be a human living on Earth, and how we treat our planet and each other. It is our collective responsibility as citizens and designers to do our part to spark urgency and influence conversations, commissioning, design, and delivery towards addressing the climate crisis head on, through the development of our practice.

Together, Lucy & Becky will talk about the growing #designandclimate community that works to figure out how we as designers can adapt our existing tools and processes to make them more sustainable. Do they need to be replaced with new ways of working altogether? What might this look like and how can we prototype them? This is a rallying call to join the movement. The planet can't wait.

Speakers bios:
Lucy is a service designer at Snook where she works to make the world more human by designing sustainable services that value people & planet. Together with her colleagues Ness, Zoë and Izzy, Lucy founded the #designandclimate community that aims to incorporate the environment at every stage of everything that is 'designed’ and collectively shift our design practice to one that is more conscious and inherently sustainable.

Becky is Policy Lab's service & communications designer. Studying at the Royal College of Art in 2017 she co-founded SustainLab RCA to provide a cross-disciplinary space to encourage critical and ethical thinking about the role of artists and designers into the 21st Century. This theme has always guided her work, which she is now seeking to thread into her role in government and the design community.

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