The engagements between the service design consultancies and science/technology enterprises were finished by early July; the project's five workshops are now over; ; and the lead investigators (Lucy Kimbell and Victor Seidel) have spent the summer reviewing some of the data - video, notes from observations, photographs, artefacts created during the project and interviews. This is a rich and diverse data set, which we will make available in part via a web archive which is scheduled to go live by the end of 2007. In addition, initial reflections - academic perspectives some of which are outlined above - will be published in a small publication also available by the end of this year. The participating science and technology enterprises will receive a report written by Said Business School academics involved in the project. The design consultancies have had their (relatively small) invoices paid. Transcripts of the video recording meetings and workshops on the pair projects will be prepared.
Project participants have been invited to work with us next year to explore in more depth some of the data. The formal part of the project funded by the Designing for the 21st Century initiative will soon be over - but it felt at the final workshop that the project is just starting - a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary conversation that may take another couple of years - at least - until we know more about what we have learned. We look forward to making some of that public via this blog and welcome readers' feedback.
