The 27th of January Forum for Social Innovation Sweden, Malmö University in collaboration with Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education and SVID arranged a seminar at Konstfack to discuss the future role of design in the public sector. Around thirty people from diverse organisations gathered to discuss the future role of design in the public sector. The starting point for the discussion was based on concrete experiences from Sweden and France presented by specially invited speakers. Stéphane Vincent who is director for La 27e Région. Bjarne Stenquist who is project Manager at the Environmental Department, City of Malmö. Bengt Jacobsson is Professor in Business Administration, The School of Social Sciences at Södertörn University and Stefan Holmlid from Linköping University. With reflections that have emerged in the empirical work done in Malmö Living Labs and inspirations from several international initiatives such as Mindlab, Nesta and DESIS several questions where posed: • What opportunities and implications for design in the public sector can we see? • How can you balance stability and dynamism within the public sector, between managing the status quo and creating new futures? • How can the public sector deal with ambiguity and uncertainty? • Where can we locate design? • How can we support mutual learning between work practises? DESIGN IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Forum for Social Innovation Sweden, Seminar - 2014-01-27