Posted by Pivot Admin, 27.05.2013
Data is not useful until it becomes information. Turning raw numbers into a visual representation can help us understand meaning and connections much more quickly.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 24.05.2013
Cities are complex systems with many different networks, which must be managed by people and automated systems. We are becoming more connected through technology using smart phones, GPS or social networks to improve our experience of the city. It is a two way process.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 24.05.2013
The Studio in Dublin City Council has partnered with the Institute without Boundaries - IwB (Toronto), Dublin Institute of Technology (Mountjoy Square), and Design 21C to work on 'The Dublin Project’, with the theme of ‘Innovation in Public Services for the 21st Century City’.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 22.05.2013
For the past two years the Studio have been working to identify suitable data and prepare it for release in ‘open’ or machine readable formats. The amount of information we generate through provision of city services has been quite an eye-opener. . Many are surprised that others would be interested in our data at all. We need to build awareness of the value of our data as a raw material by improving data literacy and knowledge management practices among staff.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 20.05.2013
Last Friday, Bryan Boyer & Justin W.Cook of Helsinki Design Lab were in Pearse Street library as guests of DCC Studio and the Department of Public Sector Reform to talk about their strategic design approach to public service challenges in Finland. Dublin was the last stop on their world tour to mark the windup and share their insights over the five years of Design Lab.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 15.05.2013
While public sector reform is debated at length in the media and elsewhere, very little attention has been paid to the role that design can play. Dublin City Council has initiated a design Studio, bringing together a team of people from a variety of backgrounds to apply design thinking to public services and city challenges.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 02.05.2013
Over the last two weeks on PivotDublin we have read how Ireland is ageing, representing one of the greatest challenges and opportunities of our times. There is an international recognition that we will have to transform our cities into more age-friendly places. In today’s last post, I describe a preventive health project based in St James’ Hospital that will use existing community resources to effect this change in our part of the city.
Posted by Pivot Admin, 18.04.2013
What are the biggest design challenges that Ireland will face over the next 20 years? Peak oil? Global warming? Exiting the bailout? Most blogs and futurists occupy themselves with these and other resource-related questions. However, there is a change happening all around us - and to each of us - which is set to transform Irish society in a way that will affect every facet of Irish life: Ireland, and each one of us, is ageing. Not only are we ageing, but we are moving from the countryside into the cities. Since 2006, the number of people over 65 in Ireland has increased by 15%: over the next 20 years, the proportion of the population over 65 will double from 11% today (the lowest in the EU) to the European average of over 20%.