Hilary Cottam

Hilary Cottam is a design strategist who studied at Oxford, Sussex and the Open University. She is the founder/ principal partner of Participle,[1] a small not- for- profit social enterprise that creates new types of public services addressing the big social challenges of our time. It was set up in 2007.

Her 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.

Cottam is also the founding Director of the Do Tank Ltd and School Works Ltd, which has been ranked within Britain's 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 [2] and named by Simon Parker, Director of the New Local Government Network think tank, as one of his choices of public service inspirations.[3]

In 2006, she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

References

  1. ↑ "Addressing the big social issues of our time.". Participle.net. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
  2. ↑ "Hilary Cottam / Designer of the Year 2005 : - Design/Designer Information". Designmuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-03-27.
  3. ↑ "Public service innovators - Ethos". Ethosjournal.com. 2011-12-19. Retrieved 2015-03-27.

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