Books and Publications:
Kimbell, L. and V. P. Seidel (eds) (2008). Designing for Services – Multidisciplinary Perspectives: Proceedings from the Exploratory Project on Designing for Services in Science and Technology-based Enterprises. Oxford: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Hodby, A., Kimbell, L. and Wakeford, N. (2008) Imagining Business. Exhibition catalogue
Kimbell, L (2004) (ed) New Media Art: Context and Practice in the UK, 1994-2004, Arts Council England and Cornerhouse Publications
Kimbell, L (2002) Audit, Book Works, London
Book chapters:
Kimbell, L. ‘Manifesto for the M(B)A in Designing Better Futures’ in Cooper,R. Junginger, S. and Lockwood, T. (eds.) The Handbook of Design Management, Berg http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff//Kimbell_ManifestoM%28B%29A_2010.pdf
Kimbell, L (forthcoming), 'From novelty to routine: Services in science and technology-based Enterprises' in Meroni, A and Sangiorgi, D (editors), 'Design for Services', Gower publishing
Kimbell, L (2009) 'The Turn to Service Design' in Julier, G and Moor, L, 'Design and Creativity: Policy, Management and Practice', Berg http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/ServiceDesignKimbell_final.pdf
Kimbell, L (2005), 'If networked art is the answer what is the question?' in Corby, T(ed) Network Art, Routledge
Barry, A and Kimbell, L (2005) 'Pindices' in Latour, B and Weibel, P (eds) Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy , MIT Press, 2005
Conferences:
‘Designing future practices’. Making/Crafting/Designing: Design theory symposium. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (invited speaker) 2011
‘Service design at a crossroads’. Service Design Network conference, Berlin (keynote speaker) 2010, http://designleadership.blogspot.com/2010/10/service-design-at-crossroads.html
Make yourself public!’ Mediating Practices: Design, Politics and their Publics symposium. Goldsmiths College (invited speaker), 2010
Strategic Design and Public Policy conference. United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Glen Cove, New York. Co-organizer, 2010
From user-centred design to designing for service’ Design Management Institute conference, London (keynote speaker), 2010, http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/DMI2010_kimbell_draft.pdf
Kimbell, L. ‘One Night with Rats in the Service of Art’. European Social Studies of Science annual conference, Trento, track on design, STS and performativity
Kimbell, L., (2009), Design-as-Practice and Designs-in-Practice, Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change Conference, Manchester, 2009. Track on the design and its objects. (track co-organizer with Nina Wakeford and Laurene Vaughan) http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/CRESC_Kimbell_v3.pdf
Kimbell, L. (2009) ‘Service-dominant logic and design for service’. Paper given at Service Design Network conference, Madeira, Portugal, October 2009. Published in Touchpoint, 1(3), January 2010, pp. 24-25.
Seidel, V. and Kimbell, L. (2009) ‘The Oxford Study on Designing for Services’, PDW session on Design-Driven Innovation, Academy of Management, Chicago (delivered by Victor Seidel)
Kimbell, L., Design Practices in Design Thinking, European Academy of Management, Liverpool, (2009)
Kimbell, L. (2009) ‘Insights from service design practice’. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 2009, pp. 249-254
Kimbell, L (2008) Organizing design in service design practice, EIASM Imagining Business workshop, Oxford
‘Reassembling the visual’. Kimbell, L. (2008) Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Copenhagen (keynote speaker). Published in proceedings. http://www.lucykimbell.com/stuff/EPIC_kimbell.pdf
Kimbell, L. (2007) ‘Spaces for tolerating ambiguity in organizations’. European Group for Organisation Studies (EGOS), Vienna
Kimbell, L. ‘Wicked problems and the tolerance of ambiguity in organizations.’ International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, London, (2007)
Kimbell, L (2006) 'Design Leads Us Where Exactly? Leading by Design at Rich Mix, a New Cultural Venture in London', Wonderground: Design Research Conference, Lisbon
New, S. and Kimbell, L. (2006). ‘On the Anonymity and Invisibility of Process Design.’ Conference of the European Operations Management Association, Glasgow
Selected exhibitions and events:
'Scalar Interferences' (2009) within the Scalography conference organised by InSIS, Said Business School, July 2009
'Imagining Business', (2008) an exhibition to accompany the first workshop on Imagining Business: Reflecting on the visual power of management, organising, and governing practices held at SBS, June 2008. Exhibition organised by Lucy Kimbell, Nina Wakeford and Alex Hodby. Artists and designers in the show included Chris Evans, Lucy Kimbell, livework, Wolff Olins, Nina Wakeford and Carey Young.
'Pindices: Personal Political Indices', (2005-) a collaboration with sociologist Andrew Barry (OUCE; then director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, Goldsmiths College) concerned with how people understand political and citizenship activity, resulting in an exhibit and website for Making Things Public curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, March-October 2005, and also at London Gallery West, University of Westminster, November 2005-January 2006
'Physical Bar Charts', (2005-) a participative sculptural project for Day to Day Data, a group exhibition at Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, July-Aug 2005, and Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, September-October 2005, and Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, March 2006, and Imagining Business, Oxford, 2008
'WorldPowerLeague', (2004) a web tool that visualises perceptions and hopes about power relations. Designed with Barby Asante, George Grinsted and Rachel Collinson. Runner up in the New Statesman New Media Awards 2008. Further developed by Futurelab. http://www.powerleague.org.uk/
'Aurabox' (2005), a small box whose aura switches on and off randomly, exhibitied in the group show Product and Vision, curated by Henrik Schrat and Mari Brellochs, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin, which brought together over 30 artists concerned with aesthetic play in and about organisations
'Free Evaluation Service', service/performance and publication, included in the group exhibition What Business Are You In? at The Contemporary, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2005
'Making a Difference at the University of Plymouth', an audio installation and measuring system installed in a university building, October 2004 http://x2.i-dat.org/~lk/
Some of these projects were supported by a two-year Arts and Humanities Research Council practice-based research fellowship at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Films
Available on Vimeo
2009 - ‘One Night with Rats in the Service of Art’ Dir L.Kimbell. Dur 7:47
2008 - ‘What Do Service Designers Do?’ Dir L.Kimbell. Dur 7:16
CD-ROMs:
Kimbell, L (2002) (ed) Ways of Working: Placing Artists in Business Contexts, Arts Council England, CD-ROM