We put people at the heart of everything…
The Centre for Civic Innovation is a pioneering citizen-centred design team within Glasgow City Council, responsible for establishing a design-led approach to the understanding of societal shifts and civic experiences within the city.
Our vision is to inspire and engage the citizens of Glasgow to create a better future for everybody.
Our vision is to inspire Glasgow to create a better future for everybody.
The current model for delivering public services is grounded in underlying assumptions and is subject to changing demands from citizens. As a city we need to find new, creative and innovative ways to solve our challenges.
At the Centre for Civic Innovation we are developing and inspiring a network of designers and solvers across the breadth of the city to enthuse and empower our citizens to co-design the city they want to live in.
Projects
Child Poverty
We are working with experts to better understand how to tackle child poverty through targeted interventions informed by co-designed data tools and citizens' needs.
City Change Makers
Our city is getting wetter, our homes are more expensive to heat and prices for items we use every day have surged. We need to take action. We need to do it now. And we need to do it together.
Play Sufficiency Assessment
The Centre for Civic Innovation engaged with over 5000 Young People in Glasgow to shape the future of play in the city!
Employability Redesign
We're working with a broad range of people, services and organisations across the city, using service design to re-think the existing employability structure in Glasgow.
A Network of Solvers
A key aspect of our methodology is collaboration.
We believe passionately that by using the expertise in the city and beyond – from
citizens, public sector, academia and industry – and focusing their expertise, knowledge
and motivation on making the city a better place for its people we can, and will, make a
real difference to people’s lives.
This is not about developing new work streams for the sake of it, rather it is about using the world-leading knowledge and skills in design, data and innovation at our disposal and collaborating with colleagues and citizens to make a real and lasting impact in our own city.
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