Events

Student registration for the Service Design Conference 2010 is open now!

Opening the doors to the Service Design professionals of the future, the registration for students to the Service Design Conference 2010 is open now! Tickets can now be bought here at a reduced price for the two conference days. Please be aware that student tickets are only availible in a limited number (maximum 60).

Registration to the student workshop days (11th&12th) will open within the next week!

Braintwister

Date: 
Friday, July 9, 2010 - 18:00 - 23:00
Location: 
Graz
Austria


Be part of the most powerful brainstorming in Graz, Austria on July 5th!
The target groups for this event are creatives from the fields of design and graphics, PR and advertising, multimedia, music, fashion, film, photography, architecture, media, consulting and training, research and science and arts of all kinds. Anyone can join! Introduce yourself and your work, find like-minded people, contribute ideas and learn from the methods of other disciplines.

1st Karlsruhe Summer School on Service Research

Date: 
Sunday, July 18, 2010 (All day) - Thursday, July 22, 2010 (All day)
Location: 
Karlsruhe
Germany
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The event will bring together international experts in the field of Service Research with PhD Students, young scientists and practitioners from industry. Through lectures, tutorials and social events, the Summer School will provide a forum for participants to discuss and learn about Service Research.

As part of the Karlsruhe Service Summer, the summer school is furthermore associated with a set of other events, in particular the 2nd Karlsruhe Service Summit on July 23rd.
 

2nd Karlsruhe Service Summit

Date: 
Friday, July 23, 2010 (All day)
Location: 
Karlsruhe
Germany
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The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) invites experts from industry and academia to discuss the next steps towards a service-led economy. The Service Summit will address the latest topics in Service Research, presented by renowned speakers. In accordance with the interdisciplinary approach of KSRI, the 2nd Karlsruhe Service Summit focuses on the multiple fields within Service Research, in particular economics and service technologies.

IA Conference 2010 | Service. Design. Thinking.

Date: 
Friday, May 14, 2010 (All day) - Saturday, May 15, 2010 (All day)
Location: 
Cologne
Germany
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The annual German IA Conference will this year be held in Cologne on May 14/15. The theme of this year's conference is "Service. Design. Thinking." It looks at how to create benefits that really make a difference to the user, that are perceived as being innovative and thus strengthen the product’s or service provider’s brand in the long.

ServDes.2010 ExChanging Knowledge

Date: 
Wednesday, December 1, 2010 (All day) - Friday, December 3, 2010 (All day)
Location: 
Linköping
Sweden


The Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation, ServDes, is the premier research conference within service design and service innovation. This year’s venue is Linköping, Sweden. Within three days the focus will be set on the growing need for research on service design.
 
Call for contribution:

Laurea University of Applied Sciences: Service Innovation & Design Seminar

Date: 
Friday, April 16, 2010 (All day)
Location: 
Leppävaara
Finland

„Tools for Creating a Service Culture“ is the topic for this one day seminar on April 16, 2010. It is hosted by the Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Leppävaara, Espoo, Finland. The program will contain interesting and timely lectures and interactive parallel sessions. You are welcome to join Laureas third annual seminar!
Find more info and the registration form here.

thinkpublic: Premiere of Playmakers at the Sheffield Internatonal Documentary Festival

Playmakers, the latest project from thinkpublic’s media department, was premiered in November at the Sheffield International Documentary Festival. The project, in association with NESTA and Hide&Seek, documents the emerging field of pervasive games and explores the relationship between play, public space and new technology. The film is a thought provoking insight into 21st century forms of play. The film will be screened at a series of events in the UK and worldwide before being launched online with a Creative Commons license in 2010.

Funky Projects create We Sell Smoke

Funky projects have recently celebrated the first edition of We Sell Smoke, the first of a series of Service Design, strategic creativity and design thinking centred workshops designed by the agency to stir up innovation. These are specialised events with a guest editor and different people related to the topic of each session. For the first event Julia Schaeper attended as a special guest to talk about ‘Service Design and health’, with the objective of looking into the innovation possibilities focused on people within the health environment.

Service Design Network Germany

We are happy to announce that the Service Design Network Germany has come alive!
We want to bring Service Design on the top of the agenda of  policy makers, industry, institutions, media, academics and professionals. We want to channel the energy of Service Designers in Germany in order to let Service Design grow successfully!

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