The Real Work Experience

The real work experience aims to open design graduates' eyes to the opportunities of using their skills beyond the usual design roles and the possibility of working in the public sector. Concurrently, the programme aims to educate public sector bodies on the skills and value designers can bring to their organisations.

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Mind the Gap - Re:designing the Public Sector

We all want good public services. When we get them we say thank you. When we're disappointed we should say "wouldn't it be better if...?"

thinkpublic and Ideal Government invite everyone to help design better public services in a new competition called "Mind the Gap". It's for designers and for anyone who cares about better public services.

It's a collaboration between thinkpublic's 'Real work experience' programme for design graduates and Ideal Government's "Wibbipedia" programme to collect ideas about how public services could be better.

Who can enter?

This is for anyone who uses public services and feels they can express how they could be better. All you have to do is describe a public service exactly as it is, and then describe just how good it could be.

This can be with words or illustration - whatever medium works best.

How do I enter?

1. Share a positive or negative experience you have had with a public service.

It could be when you visited the doctors, used public transport or the local library, got taxed, waited in a call-centre queue, got arrested or applied for asylum for example.

Share this experience in some way, using photographs, words, illustration or whatever medium best conveys it.

2. Say "Wouldn't it be better if..."

Then design, draw, make, write or film how you think this service should be.

3. Send it in!

Either email or post your responses to mindthegap@therealworkexperience.com

or

The Real Work Experience "Ideal Government" competition
c/o thinkpublic
5 Calvert Ave
London, E2 7JP

Entries will appear here and www.idealgovernment.com.

Judges from thinkpublic and Ideal Government will select a monthly winner. All winning and commended ideas will be collected in a "Wibbipedia" publication of ideas for service improvements in the public sector which illustrates the potential of better design thinking for improving public services.