Public Service
Design & Civic Technology In Action
We believe that civics and public service has changed and will continue to transition at quantum speeds, becoming more open to participation through media, and technology, even as traditional government institutions suffer from increasing public mistrust. We believe that designing media tools, products, services and spaces for social change through participatory practices is away of ensuring that emergent civics are more fair and inclusive.
As a collaboration between the business, academia, governments and the citizens of the world Designed By Us pursues studio programs that investigate the tight-knit and dynamic relationships between communities, ecologies of media and tech, and the natures of information, intelligence and power.
We use modern design methods informed by social justice to build solutions that amplify the voices of communities excluded from equal and equitable participation in the public sphere.
The world’s problems and business problems are inherently linked. There are many problems and they're all solvable. The question is, will we make the time and space to solve them? I know that market making, earth shaking inventions come from deeply understanding a problem space, unlikely juxtapositions and the serendipity of diverse thinking with an unrelenting bias for action from people with purpose. I founded Designed By Us as a life long learning lab and mechanism that places designers, creators and makers at the front lines of public service and civic life, partnered with local and national policy makers and scientists serving with passion to create systems that transform human life for the next 100 years.
- Joanna Peña-Bickley
Exploring Possibilites
In Problem Solving
We focus on solving humanity’s most challenging problems by leading the way in data intelligence as humanity enters the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Exploration begins with ground breaking research and design techniques that employ imaginative narratives as visions of the future, speculative experimentation and design that probe viability of building many worlds linked by the collective liberation, ecological and economic sustainability. Armed with emerging quantum and AI-driven technologies we chart a journey to make those narratives real.
We Don't Run From The World's Biggest Problems, We Run Towards Them.
Dare To Design The Future Today.
In addition to creating inventions and solutions for communities, governments, social benefit businesses and Fortune 500 CEOS, Designed By Us is driven to make technology oriented towards improving the health of spaceship earth and its inhabitants. From climate change and cybersecurity to smart cities, disaster relief, space design and astropreneurship, the Design Corps are humanitarians with super powers in Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts, Math and Design working to link emerging business models to the infrastructure needed to help design effective economic systems that are regenerative by design.
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This bot & voice design masterclass takes you through the 101 of Bot & Voice Design to accelerates your ability to create bot applications and voice skills on multiple platforms like Facebook Messenger, SMS, Web and Amazon's Alexa.
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