Silvia Grimaldi
@nimblecritter
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Designer, researcher, lecturer, phd. I run @MAServiceDesign, research @PharmaFactory &: mom, maker, cyclist, baker. Roman in London, via Rhode Island (she)
London
Joined May 2010
My amazing students @MAServiceDesign are at it again! #servicedesign . Service Spectacles at @LCCLondon . 1 online exhibition.3 online events .1 in-person exhibition.1 (secret, low capacity) in person event . all booking links here
Service Spectacles: Micro, Meso, Macro .MA Service Design Graduation Show 2021. Online and in-person degree show, and live online events start Tuesday 7 December till Friday 10 December. all links here
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RT @relationalacts: Webinar . Join us tomorrow at 12 PM - 1 PM for a webinar that promises to take us through a remarkable participatory de….
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Time to go give blood!.
🚨BREAKING: NHS declares first-ever ‘amber alert’ over critically low blood supplies
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Often the most stressful part of my working day is finding a place to work that has good WiFi and is private enough for confidential-ish conversations. And no, home is neither.
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RT @meghabird: SO happy to finally see the Camden Family Changemakers case study led by the fab @nimblecritter. Tutoring on this alongside….
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Our case study is on the project with Camden Council on Good Help for Families after Covid @maservicedesign @BeccaDove2 @Norev517 @henaali10 @meghabird. Check out the case study in @lixindex's tweet and the videos here
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I'm loving the new @zotero reader! Copies quotes completely referenced, including the page number!.
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RT @TimeOutLondon: The East London Waterworks Park campaign wants to create two Olympic-sized, naturally-filtered swimming areas 😍 https://….
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Hackney’s answer to Hampstead Ponds?
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Drench your hair. Your hat, your clothes. Anything that stays wet, especially if you need to be outdoors for a while. It'll dry soon enough. I remember summers in Rome wetting my hair at every water fountain, and it was dry by the next one 5 min later.
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Any opportunity for cooling down, take it. Go work in the aircon at work if you can, go to a mall, cinema, anything. Two hours in the cold will reset your system for many hours. And obviously, stay out of the sun! Walk on the shady side of the road, sit under a tree at the park.
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take cold showers! cold! no hot water at all. Stay under it for as long as you can stand. If you can't, then at least soak your feet in cold water. Many times a day. Ice packs are your friends, sleep with one, stick it in your shirt, whatever you need to do!.
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get the fans going! if you have a box fan you could set it as an extractor in the hottest room or in the highest point of the house, and one as an intake in the coolest open window (on the shady side of the house). You can wet (and freeze) a cloth and put it over the fan.
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If you can get a cross breeze, open the windows, but close anything that provides shade. Wet anything that is in front of the windows (I have an awning over my garden door, but it could be shutters, curtains, etc).
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If you have access to a hose and your house is brick or stone or concrete, wet the walls periodically on the sunny side of the house. This will help cool the inside of the house. If you can reach a hose to the roof, wet the roof periodically.
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If water supply is not a problem, there are many things you can do with a hose. If you have access to outside space (balcony, patio, garden) try to keep the floor outside your windows wet. The water evaporating from it will cool the air coming into your house.
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OK, it's time for me to do a thread on how to keep your house cool when you don't have aircon! this is from my experience of growing up in Rome, where it's above 30 every day and night from June to September #Heatwave2022.
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RT @AnushkaJoshiii: Hello all, my team and I have organised a panel discussion with some super interesting people! Come join us by register….
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A discussion on approaches adopted while designing for societal well-being.
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RT @MAServiceDesign: Our students organised a series of online events with amazing speakers. Social Justice in Creating Sustainable Future….
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RT @dntfeedthemoosa: Enjoyed delivering this lecture for @MAServiceDesign . The students, @nimblecritter and I went about trying to answe….
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Great thread! I did a map of what I did as a course leader a few years ago.
Reading the news coverage of the @UCU #FourFights strike, I get the impression that many people don’t know what University lecturers do (and why would they?), so here’s a thread on it. I’m a psychologist, so let’s start with the work of the average psychology lecturer. 🧵👇1/18.
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