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8 October 2024

Clive Grinyer

Transforming organisations through the alchemy of design and love

Clive GrinyerDesign Consultant
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Overview:

In our conversation, Clive

  • Explains being a designer working in multiple disciplines of design but now primarily considers himself a service designer.

  • Tells us about ‘Project Love’, the result of an exciting brief from the Fetzer Institute, that has a 500-year mission to do good.

  • Describes working with Mark Vernon, a philosopher, writer and psychotherapist interested in the meaning of love across different cultures.

  • Delves into different forms of love, like neighbourhoods and communities.

  • Highlights the importance of spirituality.

  • Enthuses about the charity he founded, 'Design For Love', raising money to fund design projects like ‘story benches’.

  • Expands on the meaning of ‘service design’ and how he discovered it.

  • Talks about the concept of ‘process mapping’ and how invaluable trying out a customer’s journey can be.

  • Opens up about how the energy that Project Love has can be applied to branding.

  • Reflects on what he would have done differently with the benefit of hindsight.

  • Shares his learnings.

Clive Grinyer

Design Consultant

Highlights:

1:18 – Our show’s sponsor, Magus Wealth

2:07 – Working in multi disciplines of design

3:15 – Project Love

9:04 – Different forms of love: neighbourhoods and communities

11:20 – The importance of spirituality

13:20 – Working with The Fetzer Institute

23:20 – Creating ‘story benches’: the power of stories of love

32:05 – Founding the 'Design For Love' charity

37:10 – The meaning of 'service design'

46:15 – How invaluable 'process mapping’ from a customer’s perspective is

47:05 – The importance of learning from failures

50:00 – Branding in the context of service design

55:20 – Learnings and the benefit of hindsight

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