The Post RCA Adventure
jessica charlesworth

The Post RCA Adventure
part 1

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E 2 Future re-enactment
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5 Wheel of fortunes audit centre
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10 Study of inheritable facial expressions
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NE 18 Microtrends data bank

The Delphi Party

The Delphi Party

The Delphi Party

The Gene Ceremony

The Gene Ceremony

Design Interactions Yearbook

The Post RCA Adventure
part 2

the RCA Great Exhibition 2007 : great expectations?

happiness diagram
very happy
june 2007 march 2009
not so very happy

Collaborative Endeavours
Program of Workshops
Futures Consulting Futures Consulting
Designing Services using Local Intelligence
Appleyards Uncertainty Management FUTURELABS: Beyond Current Horizons
Pitching for funding BKVB, Amsterdam
+ James King/Michele Gauler + Michael Burton
+ Bas Kools
PAID
june 2007 march 2009
PAID PAID Project Collaboration
Visiting Lecturing
‘Edge Services’ Ph.D
Lancaster University BA Fine Arts
Critical approaches to service design
+ Michael Burton
+ Benedict Singleton

Blog Writing
‘Edge Services’ Ph.D
The Future of Self Knowledge
Critical approaches to service design
- FATE research blog
- Private research blog
PAID PAID PAID
June 2007 March 2009
Designing Safe Living Innovative Media for Digital Economies Tribal Futures
Lancaster University IAS - Research programme for - RCA / Vodafone Brief
- Research collaboration with RCA DI Imagination Lab, Lancaster University

beta.interaction.rca.ac.uk/futuretribes/ safeliving.wordpress.com digitaleconomies.tumblr.com

Ethnography, Design Strategy &
Project Management
SeymourPowellForesight Sense Worldwide
freelance full time
Torino Public Health Care
Ethnography & Service design
Summer School
October 2006 February 2008 March 2009

Torino Public Health Care
Ethnography & Service design
Summer School

the world of bulding a network:
interviews/meetings/conferences/meetups/
seminars/workshops/phonecalls/etc.
Interviews - Exploring Service Design : Conferences Long Now NGO + appropriate technology stuff
Engine, Livework, thinkpublic - IMDE -Meetups -Glueniffers
UsCreates, Flow Interactive - ISDN
- EPIC
June 2007 March 2009
Meetings Torino Public Health Summer School
- Everyone who might want to employ me - Public service design workshop

development of THE FATE
INSTITUTE
Lancaster ‘Edge Services’ Ph.D
EPIC 2008
RCA Great Exhibtion 2007 Institute for Critical approaches to service design
Copenhagen
Advanced Studies + Benedict Singleton
june 2007 my possible futures
World Futures Society, Chicago
June 2009

photo: kate rutter
The Delphi Party at EPIC 2008, Copenhagen
development of THE FATE INSTITUTE

Thank you + good luck!
contact@jessicacharlesworth.com
www.jessicacharlesworth.com