In conversation with Becky Miller

The RCA Service Design programme is approaching its 10th anniversary and since graduating our first students in 2014, cohort upon cohort have been carrying the service design flag as they apply their design thinking across a diverse range of fields, challenges and sectors. We’ve been following their professional paths from afar, collaborating with them in their new roles and meeting many of them at our annual shows. This year, we’ll be working even more closely with our alumni to get a sense of how service design has evolved from their own personal perspective as well as to understand how the nature of service design is evolving as an academic discipline and practice. During WIP show 2022, ‘Next’ , we'll be running 3 informal ‘In Conversation with Service Design Alumni’ events where current students will be finding out more about our alumni’s backgrounds, how service design has influenced their career and general observations when working in particular challenge areas such as design for planet, social impact and financial services. Our first alumni 'In Conversation with’ event is being hosted by Vicky Wang and Scarlett Tang who will be speaking with Becky Miller from the Class of 2018. Becky is now a service designer working in the UK government. She has always been interested in the complementary roles design can play to both capture the imagination and deliver pragmatic change. Her playful yet provocative In Case of Emergency money box (2007), and speculative policy design for a Planet Impact Tax (Future of Money Design Award 2018), were both critiques on social and environmental tensions which have since become mainstream design challenges and topics of conversation.