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Global Service Jam 2011

By Sam Dunne - March 7, 2011

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Something is happening next weekend. Something big. www.globalservicejam.org - @GSJam - #GSJ11

Over the last few years, we've watched with fascination as service design has grown from a fringe discipline into something large organisations are not only embracing, but beginning to embed into their in-house operations. Now—if the twittersphere is anything to go by—the service design community is gearing up for quite a celebration of this worldwide influence.

On Friday 11th March, service designers will gather with a whole host of creatives, academics, industry experts and social innovators in around 50 locations across the globe, to spend the weekend designing new services around a theme to be revealed when it all kicks off. At the end of the weekend's work and frivolities, the teams will share their outcomes with each other and the world, under a CreativeCommons agreement, online.

To the suprise of the two German-based service designers Markus Hormess and Adam Lawrence who first suggested the event, the Global Service Jam 2011 is already set to involve around a thousand "jammers" and could expand even further—the organisers still welcoming sign-ups and new jam locations. We're equally impressed by the jam community's creativity in the branding of each "jam" as an off-shoot of the over-all event.

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Chris Latterell

13 years ago

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The Schwaben Service Jam is at the Star Cooperation in Boeblingen (a town or suburb just outside Stuttgart, Germany). We are very fortunate to have such an amazing venue and supporter of our Jam.

Spread the Jam!

Chris Latterell
Co-organizer, @gsj11_stuttgart
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alpay

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GSJ Istanbul is at Istanbul Tech. University (ITU)
Find out more at http://www.gsjistanbul.com/
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Adam Lawrence

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Hi Lauren!
It depends what you mean by "categories". :)
There is a global Theme for the jam. People get inspired by the Theme, form teams and jam away.
Of course, everyone will have their own interests, but you are not supposed to come with a team or an idea - these should form at the Jam. But the Theme will be general enough for everyone to find a relevance to their own interest. Then, they just have to persuade other people to join them... :)
Find out more at www.globalservicejam.org

Cheers
Adam
Co-initiator, #GSJ11 Global Service Jam
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Lauren

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Are we allowed to come into the Jam with categories to design around?
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camerontw

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NYC Jam is at Parsons The New School for Design:
http://nycservicejam.wordpress.com/
The local gods of service design are mentoring; jamming will center on:
underprivileged foodsystems
distributed edu
homeservices 4 aging
servicizing.fashion.
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