COLLABORATIVE FUTURES
Glasgow School of Art X Royal Bank of Scotland | 2018 - 2019
THE TEAM
MEDes Product Design
After spending 2 years on exchange, studying in diverse design schools all over Europe, the MEDes students returned to the Glasgow School of Art for their final year of study and embarked on the Collaborative Futures project which formed a significant aspect of their studio work. Sharing and applying the knowledge and practice acquired during their educational and work experiences, this project enabled the students to work together as a design team, and with the partner design team at RBS, to collaboratively explore the future of financial services.
Celine
Dutier
Alvaro
Curto
Rita
Faia
Gaston
Welisch
Marta
Adamska
Sean
Fegan
MDes Graduates
Having completed a masters in Design Innovation at the Glasgow School of Art, Ginny, Cat and Silvia joined the Collaborative Futures team to input their approach to research led, practice based design. Their knowledge has been developed through a range of past experiences and the new learnt methods obtained from their year long masters. Also acting as documenters for the project, they have adopted a journalistic approach in creating clarity to the overall process.
Catriona
Binnie
Silvia
Cantalupi
Ginny
Cooper
Freyja
Harris
Kirsty Ross
Kirsty Ross is the creator and the academic lead of the Collaborative Futures Project which she established in 2014. She is a design academic within the Innovation School at The Glasgow School of Art, and leads the final year curriculum for both the B.Des Product Design and the Master of European Design programme pathways. Kirsty also leads the GSA collaboration with Audencia Business School in France, and teaching into the GSA design courses which form part of the MSc in Management & Entrepreneurship in the Creative Economy.
Kirsty has worked as a design professional in industry for over a decade, gaining experience within the fields of fashion design, automotive design, consumer electronics, design research and strategic design. Prior to employment at the GSA Kirsty worked at Nokia, where she established and led a design research team within the design organisation.
Her research interests include future-focused, collaborative design practice within Design Industry and Academia; the development of models and creative practices which enable collaborative working, learning and interaction to occur between academic and industry teams and within organisations.
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Brian Cooper
Brian Cooper has been with Royal Bank of Scotland for many years, having started in branches and then worked in property, strategy and digital teams. For the last 12 years he has managed user experience and design activities during which time he has seen a big shift in the value placed on design within the company. The partnership with GSA emerged from this, and he has been involved since the outset, initially as a participant but, since 2016, as the Bank lead.
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Brian’s current role is UX Manager in the Human Centred Design team within Personal Banking. At present he looks after a team of that research and design the user experience for some of the key secure web services such as account opening processes (Current Accounts, Loans, Credit Cards and Savings) and personal Online Banking services for NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank.
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Brian
Cooper
Kirsty
Ross
CONTRIBUTORS
Alongside the Royal Bank of Scotland, during this project we were able to work with and gain input from other professional designers and a variety of civic and academic stakeholders. This variety of perspectives and support was invaluable in shaping the form of our future vision.
Kirsty Bell, Callum Ritchie, Luke McKinney, Robyn Johnston - Nile
Gemma Teal, Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn and Sneha Raman - Digital Health and Care Institute
Dr Mafalda Moreira and Rachael Sleight - Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art
Santini Basra - Studio AndThen
Lisa Dixon - Taylor McKenzie Research and Marketing