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The Promise Scotland provides support and tools to help drive significant change.

The Promise Scotland provides support and tools to help drive significant change.

Its Design School helps teams work together to bring about collective change.

It offers three-day sprints to you and your team, which:

  • walk you through foundational concepts in service design, and
  • apply these to the work which you collaborate on.

Dates for this years three-day sprints can be found by clicking on the About the Design School button below.

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Design School Lite

Do you have a “promise problem” which you’d like to explore?

Do you want to engage the people that problem affects— while not being sure where to start?

Then Design School Lite could be for you!

Join The Promise Scotland for a series of short, engaging sessions designed to introduce you to service design and co-design principles. They include:

  • an initial tech orientation session (30 minutes)
  • three learning sessions (2.5 hours each), each scheduled 2 weeks apart with some homework in the middle!

Session dates

  • Tech Orientation, Tuesday 6th May – 10.00 – 10.30am
  • Session 1, Tuesday 13th May: 10.00 – 12.30pm
  • Session 2, Tuesday 27th May: 10.00 – 12.30pm
  • Session 3, Tuesday 10th June: 10.00 – 12.30pm

You must be able to attend all four sessions.

Learning links

About the Design School

What the Promise Design School is, and how it supports people in designing services.

Promise Design Tools

The Promise Design Tools use the principles of Service Design to help Scotland in its work to keep the promise.