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Message: <table width="402" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <tr> <td width="1" bgcolor="#cccccc"> </td> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="380"><h1 style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; color: #353535; font-weight: 200;">Visitors from France</h1> <div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #353535; margin: 15px 0 0 0; Letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 170%;"><p>On 13th May, Engine hosted <a href="http://www.la27eregion.fr/" title="27e Region">27e Region</a>, a ‘Laboratory of new public politics from France. The 22 delegates include elected representatives and civil servants from regional and local governments in charge of innovation, technology, and social entrepreneurship. Their visit was focused on learning about Engine’s experiences and growing portfolio of work in the <a href="http://www.enginegroup.co.uk/service_design/public_service_design" title="public sector">public sector</a>. </p> <p> <img src="http://engine.pmhclients.com/images/uploads/27e_region_web.jpg" alt="image" width="373" height="307" /> <br /> <br /> 27e Region were especially keen to understand the potential impact that a service design approach can make in policy development and social innovation, which we demonstrated by sharing Engine’s <a href="http://www.enginegroup.co.uk/projects/pcs_page/designing_schools_for_the_future" title="Our New Schools">Our New Schools</a> project with Walker School of Technology and our ongoing work with the <a href="http://www.enginegroup.co.uk/projects/pcs_page/building_a_social_innovation_lab" title="Social Innovation Lab for Kent">Social Innovation Lab for Kent</a>. In addition we talked about what weve learned through our experiences of placing the citizen at the centre of the design process on the <a href="http://www.enginegroup.co.uk/latest/news_page/improving_life_chances_with_london_borough_of_southwark" title="Rise Project ">Rise Project </a><a href=""></a>with Southwark council, which is looking at childhood obesity and the life chances of families in that borough. </p></div> <a style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #ea3300; text-decoration: none;" href="http://engine.pmhclients.com/projects/pcs_page/visitors_from_france">View article here</a> </td> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="1" bgcolor="#cccccc"> </td> </tr> </table>
On 13th May, Engine hosted 27e Region, a ‘Laboratory of new public politics from France. The 22 delegates include elected representatives and civil servants from regional and local governments in charge of innovation, technology, and social entrepreneurship. Their visit was focused on learning about Engine’s experiences and growing portfolio of work in the public sector.
27e Region were especially keen to understand the potential impact that a service design approach can make in policy development and social innovation, which we demonstrated by sharing Engine’s Our New Schools project with Walker School of Technology and our ongoing work with the Social Innovation Lab for Kent. In addition we talked about what weve learned through our experiences of placing the citizen at the centre of the design process on the Rise Project with Southwark council, which is looking at childhood obesity and the life chances of families in that borough.
