Hilary Cottam
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Hilary Cottam is a design
strategist
and founder/ principal partner of Participle. She studied at Oxford
, Sussex
and the Open University
.
Participle, set up in 2007, is a small not- for- profit social enterprise
that creates new types of public services addressing the big social challenges of our time.
Current work includes Circle - a new social enterprise to provide social care for older people, LIFE, a service for families, and LOOPS, an intergenerational service for young people. Newer projects include services for social health and wellbeing, and those facing unemployment.
Before she joined Participle, Hilary was a Director of the Design Council
. Here, she led the RED unit, a pioneering enterprise that developed ‘transformation design’ methods and a new type of thinking on public services.
Hilary is also the founding Director of the Do Tank Ltd and School Works Ltd, which has been ranked within Britains top 100 creative companies.
She spent eight years at the World Bank
working as a poverty specialist.
In 2005 she was recognized as the UK Designer of the Year for her innovative approach to public service
reform
.
In 2006 Hilary was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
.
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
strategist
Strategist
A design strategist has the ability to combine the innovative, perceptive and holistic insights of a designer with the pragmatic and systemic skills of a planner to guide strategic direction in context of business needs, brand intent, design quality and customer values...
and founder/ principal partner of Participle. She studied at Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
, Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
and the Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
.
Participle, set up in 2007, is a small not- for- profit social enterprise
Social enterprise
A social enterprise is an organization that applies business strategies to achieving philanthropic goals. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit....
that creates new types of public services addressing the big social challenges of our time.
Current work includes Circle - a new social enterprise to provide social care for older people, LIFE, a service for families, and LOOPS, an intergenerational service for young people. Newer projects include services for social health and wellbeing, and those facing unemployment.
Before she joined Participle, Hilary was a Director of the Design Council
Design Council
The Design Council is a United Kingdom non-departmental public body incorporated by Royal Charter and registered as a charity.Registered charity number 272099.- In the beginning :The Design Council started in 1944 as the Council of Industrial Design...
. Here, she led the RED unit, a pioneering enterprise that developed ‘transformation design’ methods and a new type of thinking on public services.
Hilary is also the founding Director of the Do Tank Ltd and School Works Ltd, which has been ranked within Britains top 100 creative companies.
She spent eight years at the World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
working as a poverty specialist.
In 2005 she was recognized as the UK Designer of the Year for her innovative approach to public service
Public services
Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly or by financing private provision of services. The term is associated with a social consensus that certain services should be available to all, regardless of income...
reform
Reform
Reform means to put or change into an improved form or condition; to amend or improve by change of color or removal of faults or abuses, beneficial change, more specifically, reversion to a pure original state, to repair, restore or to correct....
.
In 2006 Hilary was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
.