NEWS

SDN ACADEMY: UPCOMING LIVE COURSES

Join one of the SDN Academy’s upcoming live courses to advance your professional development with new insights and tools. These high quality service design courses are delivered by experienced and SDN-accredited trainers, and the successful completion of courses is recognised with a certificate from the SDN Academy.

Learn more about the courses and sign up at www.sdn-academy.org/

SAVE THE DATE: SERVICE DESIGN DAY ON 1 JUNE 2021

Service Design Day was launched in 2016 and is a day dedicated to service design enthusiasts - a worldwide event to bring together people from different backgrounds and disciplines. Together, we celebrate service design, raise awareness and create impact in the world around us.

Block your calendars on June 1 and use this day to organise your online activities that can include webinars, workshops, Slack discussions, social media campaigns and more for and around the people and places that can benefit from your services. We look forward to seeing you online on June 1 and celebrating all the great work the service design community is doing to help transform our world for the better— together. Stay tuned for details at www.service-design-network.org/ sdday

Take part via social media using #SDDay21 and #ServiceDesignDay and help raise the profile of our practice.

2020 SIR MISHA BLACK AWARD WINNER

We at the Service Design Network are excited to announce that our very own Prof. Birgit Mager is the recipient of the 2020 Sir Misha Black Award. This award honours those who have demonstrated distinguished service in design education, as showcased via Birgit’s unrivalled work as the first-ever professor of service design at Cologne University of Applied Sciences.

Congratulations Birgit on a well-deserved recognition of your pioneering—and on-going—role in embedding service design within design education. Learn more at www.mishablackawards.org.uk/ medal/mager

THE FUTURE OF SERVICE DESIGN

Dive into articles, comics, inspirations and provocations in the The Future of Service Design, a report generated by conversations with the global service design community, as well as experts and pioneers of the industry. Discover the emerging issues for the still young, yet maturing practice. Enjoy the playful and manifold perspectives, while browsing through this landscape of highly relevant prospects.

Download the report at www.academia.edu/ 44459133/The_Future_of_ Service_Design

SAVE THE DATE: THE SDN’S VIRTUAL CONFERENCE KICKS-OFF IN OCTOBER 2021

The SDN is excited to welcome you once again to our virtual conference, taking place 21-22 October 2021. Did you join us for our online event in 2020? In that case, you know that we will feature an impressive array of speakers and workshops that will inspire, challenge and energise your practice, whether you are early-on in your service design journey or a seasoned practitioner. Opportunities to make new contacts and connections that will serve you well in your on-going career pursuits will add another level of value to your experience.

You do not want to miss out!

While details are still in the works regarding our conference line-up and ticket offers, you can stay connected through our various social media channels, Slack, and of course, the SDN Insider newsletter, which delivers those important updates directly into your inbox.

We look forward to seeing you online in October!