Snook

We were faced with many good opportunities before we started Snook. Why did we want to do it this way?

Someone clever once said “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are". Sure. These days it's more like work hard, get in student debt and move to London. We've always found that there's something about Scotland the makes us chirpy. That's why we gave up job opportunities in London and America and started making plans.

The idea is to make it easy for people to think differently and work together. And to make it fun and worthwhile too. We want people to think of Snook as an alternative route to their future; like a new way of looking at your every day life, but with the glass always half full.

We're currently making this happen, bit by bit, with Police Forces all over the United Kingdom as part of our MyPolice initiative.

We live in the Haldane Building, Hill Street in Glasgow. Our friends at Glasgow School of Art have welcomed us with open arms and we really like it here. Do pop by if you're ever in the area.

Lauren Currie

With an enthusiasm for service design, design thinking and working with the public, Lauren Currie passionately believes that designers have the ability to assist social and cultural change.

Educated in Scotland, Lauren Currie holds an Honours Degree in Innovative Product Design, and was recently awarded a Masters Degree in Design, with Distinction, from the University of Dundee, where she focused on exploring and defining Service Design.

Lauren has worked as a freelance Service Designer for Designthinkers in Holland and Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-Labs) in Berlin. She mentors and teaches undergraduate students, running a variety of workshops and lectures on Service Design, Ethnography and Critical Thinking et al.

Currently, Lauren is representing Scotland for mental health movement MindApples and having established Redjotter, also writes for Design Cultures and emotional intelligence blog Thriving too. As the Director of MyPolice, Lauren is working closely with police and the public to ensure this service is the very best it can be.

Sarah Drummond

Sarah believes design is a creative problem solving tool. Her work explores the future of design, questioning what it will become and what it can do.

Educated in Scotland, Sarah Drummond holds an Honours Degree in Product Design, and is now studying a Masters of Design Innovation at Glasgow School of Art where she is focused on challenging the role of design within the public sector.

Sarah is being sponsored by Skills Development Scotland during her Masters course to help their Service Design & Innovation Directorate understand the design process. She is leading them through a process of change to put design thinking at the heart of their organisaition and build the capabilities of staff to innovate from the ground up.

As the winner of the Medici service design medal, Sarah is ambitiously challenging the way governments operate and make policies.

Sarah won the first Scottish Social Innovation Camp with MyPolice. As founder of the company she is establishing relationships with all police related organisations, bodies and charities.

Photography by James Porteous : PorteousPhoto.com