
... communication is intended here as the process of disseminating a project and making its results visible...
... communication is intended here as the process of disseminating a project and making its results visible...

VIDEO ANIMATIONS With the development of internet videos, (downloading, streaming on youtube, vimeo, dailymotion), animation movies, animated gifs, etc. video animations are a quite efficient way for communicating and sharing ideas. As... [read more]
VIDEO ANIMATIONS With the development of internet videos, (downloading, streaming on youtube, vimeo, dailymotion), animation movies, animated gifs, etc. video animations are a quite efficient way for communicating and sharing ideas. As... [read more]

EXHIBITION Exhibitions tends to present finalised solutions to passive visitors. On the contrary, SDS tends to use exhibitions as a tool to prompt social conversation within a large number of... [read more]
EXHIBITION Exhibitions tends to present finalised solutions to passive visitors. On the contrary, SDS tends to use exhibitions as a tool to prompt social conversation within a large number of... [read more]

AD-POSTERS Advertising-like posters figure new product-service through a simulated advertising visual and related claim. Advertising is the way most users get a first contact with a new solution: it is... [read more]
AD-POSTERS Advertising-like posters figure new product-service through a simulated advertising visual and related claim. Advertising is the way most users get a first contact with a new solution: it is... [read more]

KEY-FRAME A new solution based on a mix of products and services requires often a sequence showing an interaction with users in context to be properly presented. Key-frame is an... [read more]
KEY-FRAME A new solution based on a mix of products and services requires often a sequence showing an interaction with users in context to be properly presented. Key-frame is an... [read more]

... to build system-maps, to trigger players to question their current relationships, to establish new partnerships, new communities of practices...
... to build system-maps, to trigger players to question their current relationships, to establish new partnerships, new communities of practices...

ONLINE PLATFORM Facilitating exchange of experiences and knowledge brokering; developing partnership and synergies between distant stakeholders; fostering collaboration and exchange within a neighbourhood… can be enhanced by appropriate and open... [read more]
ONLINE PLATFORM Facilitating exchange of experiences and knowledge brokering; developing partnership and synergies between distant stakeholders; fostering collaboration and exchange within a neighbourhood… can be enhanced by appropriate and open... [read more]

ENABLING KITS Producing enabling kits means to design a complete set of elements that may enable people to perform a particular activity in a more autonomous way: instructions and check-lists;... [read more]
ENABLING KITS Producing enabling kits means to design a complete set of elements that may enable people to perform a particular activity in a more autonomous way: instructions and check-lists;... [read more]

SYSTEM-MAP System organisation maps shows the organisation between different stakeholders to perform a solution. They are based on an open library of graphic elements (icons, pictures, arrows…) and a set... [read more]
SYSTEM-MAP System organisation maps shows the organisation between different stakeholders to perform a solution. They are based on an open library of graphic elements (icons, pictures, arrows…) and a set... [read more]

“…talking about sustainable transition, stakeholders are obsessed with what they may loose because they feel difficult to imagine what they may gain… Envisioning, visualising, showing in concrete terms ‘how life... [read more]
“…talking about sustainable transition, stakeholders are obsessed with what they may loose because they feel difficult to imagine what they may gain… Envisioning, visualising, showing in concrete terms ‘how life... [read more]

EVIDENCING Evidencing are touch points of new product-service systems. They are material evidences of a service and by extension of this notion, they can also be a series of instantiations... [read more]
EVIDENCING Evidencing are touch points of new product-service systems. They are material evidences of a service and by extension of this notion, they can also be a series of instantiations... [read more]

RAPID PROTOTYPING A tentative solution based on a mix of new artefacts, distant services providers, complex architecture of software application, etc, is simulated by part and with possibly already existing... [read more]
RAPID PROTOTYPING A tentative solution based on a mix of new artefacts, distant services providers, complex architecture of software application, etc, is simulated by part and with possibly already existing... [read more]

PHOTO-STORIES Photo-stories presenting a fiction through a series of scenes shoot in photography and used as comic stripe provide an accessible and engaging form of visualisation: users project themselves easily... [read more]
PHOTO-STORIES Photo-stories presenting a fiction through a series of scenes shoot in photography and used as comic stripe provide an accessible and engaging form of visualisation: users project themselves easily... [read more]

STORY-SCRIPT The script is the backbone of the narration, it points the key-moments of an interaction picturing both its overall meaning and the processes to achieve it. Story-scripts are in... [read more]
STORY-SCRIPT The script is the backbone of the narration, it points the key-moments of an interaction picturing both its overall meaning and the processes to achieve it. Story-scripts are in... [read more]

VIDEO-SKETCHING Video camera is used as a sketching tool in order to quickly visualise and communicate the interaction between a new product-service and potential users in context. The video style... [read more]
VIDEO-SKETCHING Video camera is used as a sketching tool in order to quickly visualise and communicate the interaction between a new product-service and potential users in context. The video style... [read more]

“…when you pick-up an apple with the intention to eat it or to through it away, the same gesture is triggered by the activation of different zones of your brain:... [read more]
“…when you pick-up an apple with the intention to eat it or to through it away, the same gesture is triggered by the activation of different zones of your brain:... [read more]

CO-DESIGN LAB Co-design sessions are based on creative integration of multiple activities: SDS co-design lab is an open space organised as a movie studio with ‘flying walls’ and video networks... [read more]
CO-DESIGN LAB Co-design sessions are based on creative integration of multiple activities: SDS co-design lab is an open space organised as a movie studio with ‘flying walls’ and video networks... [read more]

CREATIVE CONVERSATION WORKSHOP Projects at a city scale involving multiple stakeholders or challenging a company and all its different department requires moments of creative exchange to converge towards a shared... [read more]
CREATIVE CONVERSATION WORKSHOP Projects at a city scale involving multiple stakeholders or challenging a company and all its different department requires moments of creative exchange to converge towards a shared... [read more]

STORY-TELLING Story-telling is at start the most simplest process: just tell the story! What will you do in that place? How will you use that device? What your day-to-day life... [read more]
STORY-TELLING Story-telling is at start the most simplest process: just tell the story! What will you do in that place? How will you use that device? What your day-to-day life... [read more]

...we look for what we call ‘friendly users’ which is to say, people assessing the new product-service but in a positive and friendly way, with empathy and willingness to overcome... [read more]
...we look for what we call ‘friendly users’ which is to say, people assessing the new product-service but in a positive and friendly way, with empathy and willingness to overcome... [read more]

In collaboration with the public innovation lab La 27e Région, we develop and experience a residence format based on long immersion sessions of small creative and interdisciplinary team to engage... [read more]
In collaboration with the public innovation lab La 27e Région, we develop and experience a residence format based on long immersion sessions of small creative and interdisciplinary team to engage... [read more]

From classical focus groups or interviews conducted in-vivo to long and in-depth, field interactions inspired by ethnographic approaches, we take a journey to visit houses, sneak into kitchens...
From classical focus groups or interviews conducted in-vivo to long and in-depth, field interactions inspired by ethnographic approaches, we take a journey to visit houses, sneak into kitchens...

With help of icon-cards, stakeholders are encouraged to draw their daily patterns, explain their habits, and map the contexts of use and complex practices in which the usage of a... [read more]
With help of icon-cards, stakeholders are encouraged to draw their daily patterns, explain their habits, and map the contexts of use and complex practices in which the usage of a... [read more]

When asked “what are the tools SDS is using, we tend to list some of our favourites… But most of the time we don’t have ready-to-use tools: we design our... [read more]
When asked “what are the tools SDS is using, we tend to list some of our favourites… But most of the time we don’t have ready-to-use tools: we design our... [read more]