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DESIGN. TRANSFORMATION. systems change. LEARNING. PARTICIPATION.

Laura Billings

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Workshops, talks and mentoring

2020

I took a year out to have a baby.

2019
Workshop on human centred design for Addaction.

Talk on how to create a learning organisation for the Digital Fund team at National Lottery Community Fund.

Chapter in Trade School book about using a barter-based learning model to kickstart a participatory neighbourhood ecosystem.

2018
Short talk at Co-Matter Community Leadership Summit at the Copenhagen Tech Festival - where humans and technology meet.

Panel talk on learning at scale alongside global head of product at Decoded, executive director of people and culture at Addaction and senior head of digital academy at Lloyds Banking Group. At the Learner Experience Design Meetup. Blog of the talk is here.

2017
Mentor and cohort crit to Year Here Fellows while they test solutions to society's toughest problems.

Guest lecturer on Design Products, Design as Catalyst at the RCA.

MC at Enrol Yourself learning marathon power-up day.

Participant in Lunch Taken Over at BalinHouseProjects, conversation and publication on topics like the artists’ role in the community, home as civic space, modes of exhibiting for wider audiences and alternative forms of education.

Participant in the Social Design Getaway - a retreat open to anyone working in the social sector, wanting to find new ways of deliver social impact and looking for a reflective and inspiring break. 

Mini learning programme masterclass at Learner Experience Design Meetup

Lunch time talk about how to create a learning organisation at GoodLab in partnership with Enrol Yourself

 

2016
Student tutorials: Design Products masters programme - RCA

Keynote speaker: The Role of Making in the Civic Economy - Maker Assembly, Manchester

Participant: Distributed Manufacturing roundtable - RCA, London

Featured article: The Designer of Communities - RedJotter blog

Speaker and facilitator: Lifelong Learners, learning beyond the institution - Enrol Yourself


Workshop lead: Theory of Change for makerspace managers - Open Workshop Network

 

 

 


 

Workshops, talks and mentoring

2020

I took a year out to have a baby.

2019
Workshop on human centred design for Addaction.

Talk on how to create a learning organisation for the Digital Fund team at National Lottery Community Fund.

Chapter in Trade School book about using a barter-based learning model to kickstart a participatory neighbourhood ecosystem.

2018
Short talk at Co-Matter Community Leadership Summit at the Copenhagen Tech Festival - where humans and technology meet.

Panel talk on learning at scale alongside global head of product at Decoded, executive director of people and culture at Addaction and senior head of digital academy at Lloyds Banking Group. At the Learner Experience Design Meetup. Blog of the talk is here.

2017
Mentor and cohort crit to Year Here Fellows while they test solutions to society's toughest problems.

Guest lecturer on Design Products, Design as Catalyst at the RCA.

MC at Enrol Yourself learning marathon power-up day.

Participant in Lunch Taken Over at BalinHouseProjects, conversation and publication on topics like the artists’ role in the community, home as civic space, modes of exhibiting for wider audiences and alternative forms of education.

Participant in the Social Design Getaway - a retreat open to anyone working in the social sector, wanting to find new ways of deliver social impact and looking for a reflective and inspiring break. 

Mini learning programme masterclass at Learner Experience Design Meetup

Lunch time talk about how to create a learning organisation at GoodLab in partnership with Enrol Yourself

 

2016
Student tutorials: Design Products masters programme - RCA

Keynote speaker: The Role of Making in the Civic Economy - Maker Assembly, Manchester

Participant: Distributed Manufacturing roundtable - RCA, London

Featured article: The Designer of Communities - RedJotter blog

Speaker and facilitator: Lifelong Learners, learning beyond the institution - Enrol Yourself


Workshop lead: Theory of Change for makerspace managers - Open Workshop Network

 

 

 


 

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