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This chapter discusses the ways outputs from art and design anticipate futures. It uses a case study of the Air Pollution Toile (Kimbell, 2018) which took the form of a concept for wallpaper that reacts to interior air pollution, revealing imagery of diseased human organs. The chapter reviews literatures at the intersection of design and futures, noting how they emphasise design's materialising agency and multiplicity in exploring futures, along with the political and ontological work in so doing. It then turns to air pollution, a public health issue around the world, particularly in lower and middle income countries. The chapter summarises creative projects that address air quality, distinguishing between those that represent the issue, intervene into it or problematise it. Drawing on traditions of toile de Jouy in interior decoration, the chapter then describes the Air Pollution Toile wallpaper which includes imagery of everyday activities in urban Europe through which air pollution is produced and encountered. It argues that the wallpaper establishes new relations between domestic settings, scientific research and industrial production in relation to air pollution, while at the same time obscuring the issue

The Air Pollution Toile is a prototype wallpaper created to spark discussions about internal air pollution. The wallpaper gradually changes over time in response to common pollutants including nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and carbon monoxide. Over some years, the inks in the wallpaper reveal the hidden physiological impacts of air pollution such as lung disease, heart disease, stroke, cancer and dementia, using medical imagery, and embedding these in drawings of everyday activities through which people are involved in producing and being exposed to air pollution. Rather than seeking to simply visualise data, the wallpaper translates across different aspects of air pollution, linking data gathering and representation, production of and exposure to pollutants, public health and everyday life and science and interior design. Its inventive graphical language uses traditions associated with toile de Jouy to bring into view contemporary realities and political issues in a domestic setting.

This is an afterword to 'Inventing the Social', co-edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim and Alex Wilkie, which offers a range of perspectives including sociology, architecture and design on research practices that intervene into social life. The afterword connects inventive social research as discussed in this volume with developments in the fields of social design, social innovation and government innovation through which public policies, solutions and services are being constituted, researched, designed, developed and evaluated as they co-emerge in relation to social issues and policy agendas. The chapter identifies opportunities for inventive social research to reconfigure these events, narratives and practices and suggest some issues that result from using an inventive approach in relation to social innovation and to government experimentation.

This chapter in the edited collection 'Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things', explores the growing use of design expertise within government to explore policy issues and develop and test responses through an auto-ethnographic analysis of my being based in a team of civil servants. I propose that instead of 'heroic' accounts of design solving policy problems, acknowledging the metic characteristics of design helps explain how 'design for policy' in government can proceed by resisting dominant norms and creating ongoing local accommodations. With growing numbers of 'policy labs' and design workshops in government, it is important to critically assess what kinds of 'design' become possible inside public administrations. To explore this, the approach taken is auto-ethnography, a form of qualitative research that treats my subjective experience of being inside the civil service as data, analysed through the lens of metis, a Greek term that suggests craftiness and resourcefulness. I spent a year working part-time within Policy Lab, a team in the UK government, funded by an AHRC research fellowship, and alongside this tried out using design methods as a local activist in my neighbourhood. These vignettes offer insights into the practical accommodations that design makes in response to contradiction and uncertainty.

This paper discusses an emerging context in which design expertise is being applied – the making of government policy. It reviews existing research and identifies the claim that design changes the nature of policy making. The paper then adapts a conceptual framework from social studies of science to make sense of the encounter between design and policy making. The paper applies this lens to an empirical account of design being applied to policy making in a team in the UK government. The findings are that in addition to supporting officials in applying design approaches, the team's work shapes the emergence of hybrid policy making practices, and at times problematizes the nature of policy making. It does this within logics of accountability, innovation, and reordering. The contribution is to provide empirical detail and a nuanced account of what happens in these encounter between design expertise and policy making practice.

This paper discusses an emerging context in which design expertise is being applied – the making of government policy. It reviews existing research and identifies the claim that design changes the nature of policy making. The paper then adapts a conceptual framework from social studies of science to make sense of the encounter between design and policy making. The paper applies this lens to an empirical account of design being applied to policy making in a team in the UK government. The findings are that in addition to supporting officials in applying design approaches, the team's work shapes the emergence of hybrid policy making practices, and at times problematizes the nature of policy making. It does this within logics of accountability, innovation, and reordering. The contribution is to provide empirical detail and a nuanced account of what happens in these encounter between design expertise and policy making practice.

A public report resulting from an AHRC fellowship during which the author was embedded in Policy Lab, an innovation team in the Cabinet Office during 2014-15. The report discusses the emergence of design thinking in policy making contexts informed by research in design studies and organisation studies. It summarises insights about what design brings to policy making practice based on participant observation in Policy Lab and its projects with government departments. It uses a format inspired by graphic novels in order to open up the work of interpretation about the role of design approaches in policy making and government.

Whereas four years ago the liberal politicians & trade unionists in Poland that comprised the Solidarity trade union were united in a struggle against the monolithic communist state, Solidarity is now experiencing intraorganizational conflict between reformers & those who wish to maintain the communist state benefits of jobs, salaries, & social funds. Part of the problem is Solidarity's organizational structure, which allows expeditious action to be taken, but often without complete rank & file membership support. Splinter groups have formed to seek their own more representative political power. D. Generoli

This paper examines the issue of assessing the value of social design research. It locates the emergence of social design practice and research against a background in which public and social organisations are increasingly bureaucratised as a result of New Public Management and shifts to New Public Governance. Within universities, too, organisational processes and structures require research to demonstrate impact within an audit culture. Through the study presented in this paper we claim that the bureaucracies found in contemporary academia are ill-equipped to adequately assess generative, impactful, and multi-sited research in which value is co-produced with diverse participants. This presents challenges when attempting to understand the value of social design research. Building on social research and studies of innovation policy, sustainable human-computer interaction and evaluation, we define social design research as inventive, contingent and political. To address the issue of its evaluation, we propose two-stage social design research. In the first stage, research issues, questions, methods, data and 'proto-publics' are assembled, which reveal the conflicting framings and ways that value is assessed. These are re-assembled in a second stage during which the research is stabilised. The findings have implications for research managers, academics and their partners, and university administrators.

This paper examines the issue of assessing the value of social design research. It locates the emergence of social design practice and research against a background in which public and social organisa- tions are increasingly bureaucratised as a result of New Public Management and shifts to New Public Governance. Within univer- sities, too, organisational processes and structures require research to demonstrate impact within an audit culture. Through the study presented in this paper, we claim that the bureaucracies found in contemporary academia are ill-equipped to adequately assess gen- erative, impactful, and multi-sited research in which value is co- produced with diverse participants. This presents challenges when attempting to understand the value of social design research. Building on social research and studies of innovation policy, sustain- able human-computer interaction and evaluation, we define social design research as inventive, contingent, and political. To address the issue of its evaluation, we propose two-stage social design research. In the first stage, research issues, questions, methods, data, and 'proto-publics' are assembled, which reveal the conflicting framings and ways that value is assessed. These are re-assembled in a second stage during which the research is stabilised. The findings have implications for research managers, academics and their part- ners, and university administrators. ; Peer reviewed

This book chapter, in a book about service design research co-edited by Daniela Sangiorgi and Alison Prendiville, explores the object of service design and the implications that emerge from different ways of thinking about the topic. Kimbell and Blomberg combine literatures from the social sciences, management and design to identify three different approaches to understanding the object of service design: the service encounter, the value co-creating system and the socio-material configuration. The discussion is brought to life by one particularly successful contemporary service business, Airbnb. The authors then turn to assessing the implications of these different approaches, by discussing cosmologies, accountabilities, temporalities, politics and expertise. Although the resulting triad is a simplification, the chapter offers a provisional answer to the question of what is the object of service design.

This conceptual paper discusses the use of co-design approaches in the public realm by examining the emergence of a design practice, prototyping, in public policy-making. We argue that changes in approaches to management and organisation over recent decades have led towards greater flexibility, provisionality and anticipation in responding to public issues. These developments have co-emerged with growing interest in prototyping. Synthesising literatures in design, management and computing, and informed by our participant observation of teams inside government, we propose the defining characteristics of prototyping in policymaking and review the implications of using this approach. We suggest that such activities engender a 'new spirit' of policymaking. However this development is accompanied by the further encroachment of market logics into government, with the danger of absorbing critiques of capitalism and resulting in reinforced power structures.