Lauren Currie

Current

Student at Master of Design
Design Studies Mentor at University of Dundee
Workshop Leader at The Real Work Experience

Scotland representative at Social Design Task Force
Design writer at Design-cultures.blogspot
Founder at Redjotter
Service Designer at Deutsche Telekom

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Past

Freelance Service Designer at DesignThinkers

Education

The University of Dundee

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Lauren Currie’s Experience

Student

Master of Design

(Design industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Lauren is embarking upon her second semester studying a Masters of Design. She using this year as an experimental space to define herself as a designer and position herself in industry as a practicing service designer.
Design Studies Mentor

University of Dundee

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Lauren teaches Design Studies to undergraduate Product and Media designers. The current project brief she created focuses on critical thinking and writing.

The aim of Lauren's teaching is to develop design mindfulness, specifically an understanding of the effects of cultural trends upon design. The objectives for the students are to explore contemporary design issues through engagement in a series of workshop discussions (i.e. Service Design & Ethnography), making connections to real world scenarios and secondly, to observe the world around us and critically analyse situations / objects from a design perspective.
Workshop Leader

The Real Work Experience

(Design industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Lauren recently co-led a Real Work Experience workshop at Glasgow School of Art. The real work experience aims to open design graduates' eyes to the opportunities of using their skills beyond the usual design roles and the possibility of working in the public sector. Concurrently, the programme aims to educate public sector bodies on the skills and value designers can bring to their organisations.
Scotland representative

Social Design Task Force

(Design industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

The Social Design Task Force is a project in it's early stages. The project team is made up talented individuals from Paris, Amsterdam, Germany and Finland.

Lauren intends to adopt the role of researcher and facilitator.
Design writer

Design-cultures.blogspot

(Design industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Design-Cultures is a design blog from the University of Dundee.
Founder

Redjotter

(Design industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

I use this platform to share Service Design happenings from around the world. My role as editor, filter and facilitator draws in a regular audience of social and service design professionals.
Service Designer

Deutsche Telekom

(Design industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

Transferring today to tomorrow

I am part of a multi-disciplinary team undertaking a 3 month project with Deutch Telekom laboratories; T-labs, in Berlin focusing on information communication for older users. The project was initiated by the renowned design researcher Dr Rosan Chow of T-labs. The students I am working alongside have backgrounds in interaction design, multi-touch technology and jewellery. Project mentoring, research and facilitation are being provided by Mike Press, Professor of Design Policy and Head of School, Hazel White, Director of the Masters of Design program and Fraser Bruce, a specialist in team dynamics and product development. The outcome will be visualisations of new information and communication products and services for older users.
Freelance Service Designer

DesignThinkers

(Design industry)

July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)

Lauren spent a fantastic month working for DesignThinkers in Amsterdam. Based in the beautiful studio 'End of the world' she worked on several projects focusing on gathering user insight. Her field work included ethnography, journey mapping and creating scenarios. Lauren designed agendas and tools for co-design workshops.