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Communication
… communication is intended here as the process of disseminating a project and making its results visible…
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Video animations
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…
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Exhibition
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…
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Ad-posters
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…
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Systemization
… to build system-maps, to trigger players to question their current relationships, to establish new partnerships, new communities of practices…
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Online platform
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…
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Enabling kits
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;…
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System map
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…
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Visualisation & Simulation
“…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…
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Evidencing
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…
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Rapid prototyping
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…
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Photo-stories
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…
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Story-script
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…
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Video-sketching
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…
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Supports to Strategic conversation
“…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:…
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Co-design lab
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…
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Creative conversation workshop
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…
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Story-telling
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…
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Participative investigation
…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…
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ICON MAPPING
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…
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Experimentation of new tools
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…