Using design futures, scenario writing, visioning, workshop design
Evisioning the future of kinship care
Using design futures, scenario writing, visioning, workshop design
Evisioning the future of kinship care
Using design futures, scenario writing, visioning, workshop design
Evisioning the future of kinship care
Using design futures, scenario writing, visioning, workshop design
Evisioning the future of kinship care
Using design futures, scenario writing, visioning, workshop design
Evisioning the future of kinship care
The challenge
An estimated 200,000 children are growing up in kinship care in the UK. Support for kinship carers and their children varies across the country, however many carers find that the help on offer isn’t enough and they often find themselves practically, financially and/ or emotionally struggling.
In light of this Grandparents Plus, a major UK kinship care charity, decided to hold an event to move the current conversation around kinship care forwards. They wanted attendees to think beyond existing systems and structures (such as adoption or fostering) and create a future model specifically designed for kinship care.
Workshop photos
The approach
Combining creative tools, kinship care research and expert insight in the room, the workshop supported participants to work through a design-led process to co-create ideas and solutions to current and future kinship care challenges. The workshop process took participants through 3 stages which included:
1) Empathising: Bringing kinship care families, their situations, needs and challenges to life with participants
2) Prioritising: Identifying and prioritising the key challenges and opportunities facing kinship care families
3) Ideation & Synthesis: Developing new ideas and solutions to some of these challenges.
The challenge
An estimated 200,000 children are growing up in kinship care in the UK. Support for kinship carers and their children varies across the country, however many carers find that the help on offer isn’t enough and they often find themselves practically, financially and/ or emotionally struggling.
In light of this Grandparents Plus, a major UK kinship care charity, decided to hold an event to move the current conversation around kinship care forwards. They wanted attendees to think beyond existing systems and structures (such as adoption or fostering) and create a future model specifically designed for kinship care.
Workshop photos
The approach
Combining creative tools, kinship care research and expert insight in the room, the workshop supported participants to work through a design-led process to co-create ideas and solutions to current and future kinship care challenges. The workshop process took participants through 3 stages which included:
1) Empathising: Bringing kinship care families, their situations, needs and challenges to life with participants
2) Prioritising: Identifying and prioritising the key challenges and opportunities facing kinship care families
3) Ideation & Synthesis: Developing new ideas and solutions to some of these challenges.
The challenge
An estimated 200,000 children are growing up in kinship care in the UK. Support for kinship carers and their children varies across the country, however many carers find that the help on offer isn’t enough and they often find themselves practically, financially and/ or emotionally struggling.
In light of this Grandparents Plus, a major UK kinship care charity, decided to hold an event to move the current conversation around kinship care forwards. They wanted attendees to think beyond existing systems and structures (such as adoption or fostering) and create a future model specifically designed for kinship care.
Workshop photos
The approach
Combining creative tools, kinship care research and expert insight in the room, the workshop supported participants to work through a design-led process to co-create ideas and solutions to current and future kinship care challenges. The workshop process took participants through 3 stages which included:
1) Empathising: Bringing kinship care families, their situations, needs and challenges to life with participants
2) Prioritising: Identifying and prioritising the key challenges and opportunities facing kinship care families
3) Ideation & Synthesis: Developing new ideas and solutions to some of these challenges.
The challenge
An estimated 200,000 children are growing up in kinship care in the UK. Support for kinship carers and their children varies across the country, however many carers find that the help on offer isn’t enough and they often find themselves practically, financially and/ or emotionally struggling.
In light of this Grandparents Plus, a major UK kinship care charity, decided to hold an event to move the current conversation around kinship care forwards. They wanted attendees to think beyond existing systems and structures (such as adoption or fostering) and create a future model specifically designed for kinship care.
Workshop photos
The approach
Combining creative tools, kinship care research and expert insight in the room, the workshop supported participants to work through a design-led process to co-create ideas and solutions to current and future kinship care challenges. The workshop process took participants through 3 stages which included:
1) Empathising: Bringing kinship care families, their situations, needs and challenges to life with participants
2) Prioritising: Identifying and prioritising the key challenges and opportunities facing kinship care families
3) Ideation & Synthesis: Developing new ideas and solutions to some of these challenges.
The challenge
An estimated 200,000 children are growing up in kinship care in the UK. Support for kinship carers and their children varies across the country, however many carers find that the help on offer isn’t enough and they often find themselves practically, financially and/ or emotionally struggling.
In light of this Grandparents Plus, a major UK kinship care charity, decided to hold an event to move the current conversation around kinship care forwards. They wanted attendees to think beyond existing systems and structures (such as adoption or fostering) and create a future model specifically designed for kinship care.
Workshop photos
The approach
Combining creative tools, kinship care research and expert insight in the room, the workshop supported participants to work through a design-led process to co-create ideas and solutions to current and future kinship care challenges. The workshop process took participants through 3 stages which included:
1) Empathising: Bringing kinship care families, their situations, needs and challenges to life with participants
2) Prioritising: Identifying and prioritising the key challenges and opportunities facing kinship care families
3) Ideation & Synthesis: Developing new ideas and solutions to some of these challenges.
FOR LUTON COUNCIL
The outcome
GrandParents Plus will be using the event outputs to guide how to spend their time and resources over the coming years. As no formal model for kinship care currently exists, the seven model principles and fourteen ideas created by participants will be used as a starting point for developing a future, national kinship care model.
The outcome
GrandParents Plus will be using the event outputs to guide how to spend their time and resources over the coming years. As no formal model for kinship care currently exists, the seven model principles and fourteen ideas created by participants will be used as a starting point for developing a future, national kinship care model.
The outcome
GrandParents Plus will be using the event outputs to guide how to spend their time and resources over the coming years. As no formal model for kinship care currently exists, the seven model principles and fourteen ideas created by participants will be used as a starting point for developing a future, national kinship care model.
The outcome
GrandParents Plus will be using the event outputs to guide how to spend their time and resources over the coming years. As no formal model for kinship care currently exists, the seven model principles and fourteen ideas created by participants will be used as a starting point for developing a future, national kinship care model.
The outcome
GrandParents Plus will be using the event outputs to guide how to spend their time and resources over the coming years. As no formal model for kinship care currently exists, the seven model principles and fourteen ideas created by participants will be used as a starting point for developing a future, national kinship care model.
Using data science, behaviour change and user research.
Promoting action amongst charity supporters
The challenge
Born Free, an animal welfare and conservation charity, wanted to understand who their current and future supporters were, what messages and tone of voice would resonate with them and how they could encourage these audiences to be more action oriented around animal welfare and/or conservation issues.
Visulisation of audience network interaction
The approach
To answer these questions, the project was split into research for breath and research for depth. Research for breath was a two part social media analysis focusing on high level analytics of the 89,336 Born Free Twitter handle followers to identify digital tribes and in-depth social listening on 208,8221 Twitter conversations of current and potential audiences. This work was complimented by research for depth which included interviews with current supporters and focus groups with current and identified potential future audience groups.
The outcome
The final output was a report detailing overall findings about current and future supporters, recommendations around how to ignite action amongst current supporters and suggestions for engaging future supporters. Born Free have taken forwards multiple short term suggestions and are in the process of addressing the more strategic decisions recommended in the report.