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"The machine (of government) is breaking before our eyes and if we're not careful it's going to be dismantled," says @jamestplunkett.bsky.social kicking off #SDinGov. We'll be looking at how to bring a more curious, humble, and systemic mindset to the work of govt tomorrow afternoon.

The rise of professions can transform how society functions, says @jamestplunkett.bsky.social at kickoff of #SDinGov... medium.com/@jamestplunk... We'll be taking about the rise of the design profession in government at the end of the day today.

The project of our times… This is the cathedral we're all part of building as designers in government today, says @jamestplunkett.bsky.social kicking off #SDinGov. I'm here for it!

This please! James Plunkett kicking off #SDinGov with a story in 3 chapters.

Psyched for another inspiring #SDinGov25! Thank you thank you thank you to the conference panel led by the amazing Jen Thompson for putting together a really exciting agenda!

🚨 6PM, WED 25 June 🚨 Join us for the seventh TGT at the MoJ or online, with: * Antonio Weiss on his new book, "AI Demystified" * ​Becky Miller, Defra, on designing policy with complex evidence lu.ma/jkd8jbzu Please share! Thanks 🙏.

Really looking forward to this! Join us next Wed... If you join in person in London there'll even be free 🍕🍕🍕 and (not free but always interesting) pub chat afterward!

@fulhamish.bsky.social would Fulham be any lower in the table today if they hadn't signed Andersen and Smith Rowe over the summer?

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I finally got around to synthesising all the thoughts running around my head since #ukgc25 last week... jallen300.medium.com/uk-govcamp-2... What love to hear what others think about all this...

Lovely and inspiring chats with @cathydutton.bsky.social @daverog.bsky.social @trillyc.bsky.social @davidheath.org & so many others at #ukgc25 today. Thanks so much to all the campmakers (and sponsors!) for enabling this! Look forward to seeing the reboot of #OneTeamGov @jacattell.bsky.social 🚀

Thank you #ukgc25 ❤️

On my way #ukgc25 Looking forward to chatting to loads of inspiring people about how we go about 'Rewiring the state' to mainstream Test-and-Learn into the fabric of all our institutions!

. @sammyjames.bsky.social re "Get me to the Mets, how do I get there?"... The 7 line from Grand Central Station of course! Let us know next time you're in New York (between Apr & Oct) and my dad @jjaesqffc.bsky.social (the original Fulham-Mets fan) will be happy to show you around. #LGM #COYW

Listening to News Agents @lewisgoodall.com say the Greens need to 'be better' at the media game if they want the media coverage Reform gets. I hope Lewis will read Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus to understand why we desperately need institutions that rebalance the information game toward truthfulness.

Now I've been chatting to a friend/colleague about how services are commissioned in government (or by other big funders). Are there any really good examples of commissioners embedding user-centred design thinking and methods into their work?

Just chatting to a friend/colleague about how economists make assumptions and then use those assumptions to build cases for change. Got us thinking... ?? What can service designers learn from economists ?? Would love to hear what people think...

What a delightful day... Still working on my "Test-and-Learn" lino cut postcards... Thanks for letting me be one of your crew for the day @sallyhalls.bsky.social!

I’ve been thinking a lot about how government can function in ways that are more aware of and responsive to ordinary people’s needs... 1/5

230 participants from 30+ countries at this year's International Design in Government conference. ❤️ international.gov-design.com/helsinki2024/ Loving that 23 volunteers took notes and shared summaries of all sessions on Miro! What a brilliant and accessible knowledge repository.

Really enjoying this behavioural insights workshop run by govt of Estonia, Talinn city gov, and Finland Prime Minister's office at #govdesign Thinking about how to enable (or block) people from keeping chickens at home led us to think about how to use *nudges* and *remove sludge* from our policies.

Once you've built credibility, write your Bible. In your jargon. Adapted to your context... And then get it embedded into your national guidelines for making services. Great tips on scaling design practices in govt from Josep Flores (Govt of Catalonia) #govdesign

Interesting analysis of why to build design practice internally (from Josep Flores, govt of Catalonia)... Even more interesting when you see their progression year on year... From external-heavy to fully internal to fully mixed over 5 years. #govdesign

Bureaucratic processes have their role and are needed, but there should also be a space for experimental approaches if we're going to have cognitively diverse policymaking. Brilliant keynote from EU Policy Lab's David Martens at #govdesign conference.

And this... #govdesign

Your annual reminder... @martinjordan.com and Kara Kana at the international #govdesign conference in Helsinki

A vision for joined-up government that's centred around people's needs... 🙏 Finnish design leader Anni Leppanen opening the international #govdesign conference in Helsinki.

Great Q in Andy Knight's talk on #publicdesign at #SDinGov: is anyone developing principles for what good public policy design looks like, that we can all use in our work and hold ourselves to account for? Interestingly, we developed a set of #policydesign principles in some recent x-gov work...

What are we actually taking about when we talk about #design in Government? Here's a definition crowd-sourced from interviews and surveys with hundreds of people working across the sector (shared by UK Gov Policy Design community lead Andy Knight at #SDinGov)

Standing room only for Andy Knight's talk on the state of #publicdesign in the UK at #SDinGov

Just a couple hours into #SDinGov but the concept that keeps coming back to me is that #servicedesign is really about *stewardship* much more so than _delivery_.

Feeling like Twitter is just 🦗 these days (for good reason), so finally testing the bsky waters. What better way to start than with this important set of reminders about #optimism from @audree.bsky.social at #SDInGov The slog of #GovTransformation #govdesign is long but we're slogging together.