What I think
The questions came before the projects. These four pieces form the foundation of the work that followed: what design becomes when it enters public policy, and what remains with the people who carry it forward after the formal project ends.
Unlocking the democratic potential of design capabilities in public management, PDF
Two tools for the people who run public services on the front line, and the claim that public-sector design can widen democracy itself.
How did policy become an object of design?, PDF
The moment public policy itself became something to be designed, and what design quietly carried in with it when it crossed that line.
Design as a new policy competency, TU Delft repository
What an institution has to change to hold design as a competence of its own, and the early thesis the rest of this work grew out of.
To blow up the bubble, PDF
Loneliness read as a problem of collective design, and design that imagines transitions rather than objects.