AW Impact Springboard
Applied Works invites you to bid for free design, user, and impact expertise (worth £12k) to help bring your important data or research project to the attention of the people who need to see it.
Apply by 1 December 2023
*Update: the AW Springboard deadline has now ended for 2023. To express an interest in joining the programme in 2024, please share your details on this quick form*
Do you hold data or research with the potential to solve a global problem, but need decision-makers, policy-makers or even the general public to engage with it? Applied Works is on a mission to help organisations like yours make a bigger impact with the information you hold. We’ll help you draw out the most compelling stories, and place your audiences in the centre of the action, with interactive and pioneering design.
We’re offering one organisation from anywhere in the world the chance to work with our award-winning design studio based in London’s Somerset House – worth £12,000.
We hope to be the springboard to get your important project off the ground. We’ll lead workshops to understand your audience and draw out the most interesting stories in the data. We’ll then work with you to generate creative ideas, and produce initial concepts and sketches, along with some recommendations for you to share with your internal stakeholders.
Just fill in this application form, sharing a bit about your data project and what you want to achieve with it, then we’ll select the project that we think has the most potential and we can make the biggest impact with. Full terms and conditions below.
Watch our team introduce AW Springboard
What you’ll get
Consultation session to understand the challenge (1 hour).
Impact-planning workshop looking across the landscape – user, data discovery, finding stories (1 or 2 days).
Initial concepts and sketches.
Key recommendations for long-term impact.
Update meetings after each step.
About Applied Works
We’re the team behind the BBC’s most shared page ever – The Great British Class Calculator – and we’re an award-winning digital design studio based in Somerset House. We’ve worked with The Times, Chatham House, the United Nations, and Al Gore’s Generation, among many of the world’s most influential organisations. We combine data, editorial, and user-centred design expertise to help organisations present and discuss complex themes with different audiences around the world. We love challenging projects that allow us to work on subjects we care passionately about, such as the Sustainable Development Goals, social inequalities, and the circular economy.
AW Springboard deliverables
Impact planning workshop (1 or 2 days)
Identification of business needs
Creation of key persona profiles
Data/content mapping
Story outline
Initial concepts and sketches
Collection of references/inspirations/moodboard
Key recommendations for long-term impact
Recommended next steps about the produced outputs
Ideas for a longer vision (based on our understanding of users, data, goals)
Terms and conditions
Deadline for open call is midnight on 1 December 2023.
One organisation will be picked by 10 December 2023 by our internal panel, based on the potential of the dataset they’ve put forward and the potential for us to make the biggest impact with it.
As part of the evaluation process, we will also evaluate potential projects based on specific alignment criteria with our company values.
Maximum 5 people in each workshop.
UK applicants will have a choice of in-person or online workshops.
International applicants are welcome, but all workshops and meetings will be held via video call.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.
Work will commence between 5 January and 31 March 2024 (depending on schedules of both Applied Works and the winning organisation).
Value of work up to £12k and cannot be exchanged for cash.
This collaboration doesn’t include digital development, only conceptual designs which can be used as a basis for future development.
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If you have any questions about or issues with the application process, please contact hannah.foulds@appliedworks.co.uk