{"id":444,"date":"2019-02-07T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/coproduction\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-05-13T13:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:02:20","slug":"on-being-human-exhibits-at-fire-starter-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/coproduction\/2019\/02\/07\/on-being-human-exhibits-at-fire-starter-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"On being \u2018human exhibits\u2019 at Fire Starter launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Myself and Ali Jones from Iriss set off on a cold January morning to celebrate the launch of ;Firestarter Festival 2019. Fire Starter Festival is a two-week festival of collaborative learning events, illuminating creative, disruptive and innovative ways in which we can all transform ourselves, our organisations and the wider system. The theme was \u2018designing\u2019 and we had been asked to come along to be \u2018human exhibits\u2019 as part of the launch at the V&A Dundee, which was very exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Iriss is often engaged in design processes which can be described as service design, communication design or even product design. We basically use design thinking as a tool and a methodology to improve outcomes. What is consistent across all Iriss design-focused projects is the values that underpin them – and this is what we wanted to get people to think about as part of our activity at the Firestarter launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event set out to ask: \u2018How do we design public services for love, compassion, dignity and kindness?\u2019 First off we heard from future generations commissioner for Wales, Sophie Howe, who outlined similarities between the Scottish and Welsh approaches. She provided an insight into her role as future generations commissioner and gave us food for thought around designing for future generations. It was then time for the \u2018human exhibits\u2019 so we moved to our designated \u2018hiding\u2019 spot in the museum where we \u2018froze\u2019 (no easy task!) and waited for participants to stumble across us as they wandered around the V&A\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n