Rufflemuffin's Blog (9)

Challening what design can do

Well summer just came and went. It’s not like I really had a holiday, I sweated it out over (and still over) mypolice. I feel very humbled to be part of that rollercoaster but will be handing the bulk over to Lauren Currie for the forseeable future until my new course calms down a little. And so here I am. New studio, not so new art school, but exciting new course. I have b… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on September 23, 2009 at 1:45am — No Comments

My police described as 'timely', 'on the ball' and 'something that needs to happen now' at the SIPR conference

SIPR = The Scottish Institute of Policing Research. I attended their third conference yesterday. The emphasis was on the discussion of community policing, a term coined by John Aldersham back in the 70s, and first met with scepticism, which is what I thought my meet mypolice too. How very wrong I was. I took along visuals to aid my explanation to attendees as to what mypolice i… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on September 3, 2009 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Activeage and tackling lonliness

Last week I visited my gran in her nursing home. Having been so busy this year with graduating and various other things going on, I felt really bad that I hadn’t been to see her in a long time. The reason she was put into a nursing home was because she can’t quite take care of herself and she needs 24 hour care now. I can’t help but think, had her mind been kept more active… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on August 26, 2009 at 11:01am — No Comments

Not slowing down

Last week has been very productive and busy for mypolice and shows no sign of relenting. Possibly a reason why there has been a bit of a lack of blog posts! Just to fill you in on last week, We were at Garnethill Community centre again, this time, setting up in the café and speaking to local residents about mypolice. We held a small workshop where residents were asked to come a… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on August 18, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

P is for Public

It’s been a bit of a slow week for mypolice in certain respects. We had a few meetings but with a couple being forgotten about (not at our end) and one being canceled it really was slightly frustrating this week and a couple of real lessons. One, always confirm first thing in the morning before you spend money on a taxi to a far away destination. Two, book more meetings/research… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on August 10, 2009 at 5:43pm — No Comments

My police gets branded

We’ve been meeting and talking to so many exciting people lately. Had a great chat with Anton Shelupanov from the Young Foundation, who was great at putting us on to some projects that are of interest to us like Cash back for Communities, Park Guard and various Youth Inclusion Programmes. He also put us onto the SIPR, The Scottish… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 30, 2009 at 12:06pm — 1 Comment

A round up of service design links...

So this week I finally started using delicious properly, which is something I wish I had started a long time ago. At the moment, for someone who is interested in service design and reading about it online, there is an infinite amount of material generated everyday in the form of new blog posts, discussions on networks and conversations via twitter. Today, I’m going to r… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 30, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Mypolice heads down south

Well, its been a busy couple of weeks for mypolice. I’ve been down in London working with Think Public who are focused on using design to improve service experiences in the public sector. It was great for mypolice to… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 22, 2009 at 12:48pm — No Comments

Mypolice meets Calum Steele

Yesterday I visited Calum Steele in a first round of interviews with the various organisations/bodies of the Police force. I was looking to get a thumbs up on the mypolice service and see if we can get the police working with us.... to read more or find out about who mypolice are go to… Continue

Added by rufflemuffin on July 3, 2009 at 2:50pm — No Comments

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