LAURA MELISSA WILLIAMS
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Overview: published works and collaborations
  • Advisor and collaborator on Deepr, which fed into the report about empathic interaction: 'Deeper Everyday Connection'.
  • Co-authored report on Agile methodology in systems, service design and policy with Cat Drew from Uscreates. ​
  • Co-authored an article titled ‘Five Things a Funeral Director Can Teach Us About Our Jobs - And Lives’ for the Forbes Magazine Blog (55,000 views)
  • Featured in the book ‘Change Ahead – how research and design are transforming business strategy’
  • Article written for Design Week, titled ‘Collaboration is the key to survival’
  • Published poem, titled ‘Smithfield Meat Market’ as part of the Time Out Magazine Reader Takeover.
  • Contributed to an industry booklet for NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). 

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Art blog 
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Unpublished thoughts and writing
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Instagram 
Everyday thoughts and activities around art and design
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Deeper Everyday Connection report, Deepr (2018)
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Agile for systems and services report, Uscreates (2017)
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Change Ahead Book, by Carola Verschoor (2015)
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contributor
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Human Centred Designer, Red Jotter (2015)
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This is how we do it - the art of interviewing, Sense Worldwide
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Forbes blog - what a Funeral Director can teach us about living
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- co-author (2013) 
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Time Out London, poetry written about Smithfield Market
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The Carrier, various articles (2012 - 2013)
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Design Week, Collaboration is the key to survival (2009)
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NESTA Creative Pioneers report (2008)
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Image source: Tacita Dean. I love how she captures nature in a powerful and evocative way. Her annotations on her artworks bring a sense of her into her artworks.  
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