Our largest Jam will continue the recipe for success as it moves into its thirteenth edition, and local hosts can choose to run offline, online, or mixed Jams!
The biggest, oldest and boldest of the three Jams, the #GSJam appeals to everyone interested in a design-based approach to change. With its broad appeal, it’s a great place for beginners to learn – or get better at – a whole set of design tools, methods and mindsets, which can be applied to any project. Or for experienced participants, the unique and optional Deep Jam challenge lets you test your skills against the clock, and against your peers on five continents.
With usually over 100 Jam locations all over the world, you won’t have to look – or even travel – far to find a Jam site. Or why not start your own? Just pick your own dates within the Jam period.*
More locations are signing up all the time!
If you want to know more (for example about online Jamming) listen to this Podcast to hear all about it.
* Physical Jams need to fit inside one 48 hour period. They can be shorter than 48 hours, but never longer. Digital or hybrid Jams can be up to 48 hours, but can spread the time over more days.
So, you are thinking about hosting a Jam? To help you decide, we put together the answers to nine key questions on this concise Slidedeck.
For more information, check out our FAQ for hosts. Of course, you can get help any time at help@globaljams.org
If you feel ready, sign up to join the host community and make your Jam appear on the Global map of Jam locations.
Departamento de Artes e Design da PUC-Rio
Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 124 - Gávea, Rio de Janeiro
We are a group of designers organizing the Service Jam in Rio. We want to help other people experience the design method and help create a space where we can test and improve our habilities.It is a fun week to share with a group of passionate people
UNDB - Centro Universitário Dom Bosco
Av. Cel. Colares Moreira, 443 - Jardim Renascença - São Luís - Maranhão 65075-441
The 5th edition of Service Jam São Luís will take place at UNDB.This year, we will celebrate innovation and service design with many dynamics, exchanges and learning in a 100% face-to-face experience.We are waiting for you!
Auditório Fucape
Av. Fernando Ferrari, 1358 - Boa Vista, Vitória - ES, 29075-505
Hello Jammers, Last year a virus didn't let our Jam to succeed. Two years later, we are back, hungry for innovation, creativity and transformation. We will finally hold our fist jam in Vitoria, ES and YOU ARE INVITED! Man, women, binary, designers, entrepreneurs, artists, curious... anyone shall participate in the event. Just come and we will have great time connecting and sharing ideas.
317 Adelaide St W 317 Adelaide Street West Toronto, ON M5V 1P9
Jam4Good Service Jam Toronto brings together the Greater Toronto Area to create impactful projects that serve the city and the broader GTA community. Toronto is a multicultural city with its own challenges. Its multicultural backdrop creates a perfect setting for local solutions that unite the best practices from all around the world while reflecting on local problems.
Shanghai
The Kaishan explorer in our eyes who can go to places where others can't go, and who can do things that others can't do. Curiosity, bloodiness, courage and pioneering spirit are the common characteristics of every The Kaishan explorer. Those classics that imprison us are used to break. Without deviating from the orthodoxy, we will eventually become the past. This year we joined Jam as a new member. With our enthusiasm and innovative thinking, we will break through all the difficulties and obstacles that meet us, go to the uninhabited land that others have never walked through,
Since 2017, Thoughtworks has supported the GSJam in China, hundreds of people have experienced the fun and challenge of design.What's more, we are keen to cooperate with NGOs and bring some social problems into focus.During these 48 hours, participants from different professional backgrounds and thousands of jammers from other cities around the world followed a mysterious theme, define problems, propose prototypes, develop concepts, establish feasible service prototype.
Since 2017, Thoughtworks has supported the GSJam in China, hundreds of people have experienced the fun and challenge of design.What's more, we are keen to cooperate with NGOs and bring some social problems into focus.During these 48 hours, participants from different professional backgrounds and thousands of jammers from other cities around the world followed a mysterious theme, define problems, propose prototypes, develop concepts, establish feasible service prototype.
Carl Zeiss Vision (Guangzhou) Ltd.
3802-3803,G Building,G.T.Land Plaza, No.16 Zhujiang East Road,Tianhe District Guangzhou 510623
Hi, this is Guangzhou Service Jam. Nice to meet you all here. We joined JAM in 2023 as a new member.We will bring our enthusiasm and innovation thinkings and make more and more ideas and inspirations with you. Hope start a phenomenal journey here! HAVE FUN TOGETHER NOW!
Shenzhen
WebsiteContact via EmailThoughtworks Limited (Hong Kong) 2806, The Center
99 Queen's road, central Hong Kong.
Since 2017, Thoughtworks has supported the GSJam in China, hundreds of people have experienced the fun and challenge of design.What's more, we are keen to cooperate with NGOs and bring some social problems into focus.During these 48 hours, participants from different professional backgrounds and thousands of jammers from other cities around the world followed a mysterious theme, define problems, propose prototypes, develop concepts, establish feasible service prototype.
Since 2017, Thoughtworks has supported the GSJam in China, hundreds of people have experienced the fun and challenge of design.What's more, we are keen to cooperate with NGOs and bring social problems into focus.During these 48 hours, participants from different professional backgrounds and thousands of jammers from other cities around the world followed a mysterious theme, define problems, propose prototypes, develop concepts, establish feasible service prototype.
800 Changde Road, Building C3, Room 202, Shanghai
Hosted by CBi China Bridge which have hosted more than 5 sessions global jams and contributed significant value to service design. In order to promote the development of service design to wider region of China and attract more talents, We connect 20 cities in China to jointly hold workshops on service design. Let more participants in different cities get involved and feel the charm of service design together.
Hosted by WEable Youth Innovation, a social enterprise devoted to empower the youth to participate in SDGs and innovation in China. We have been using design thinking to inspire young college students to work in teams and to desing innovative solutions for social problems. In the past 5 years we have connected 200+ universities and youth organizations to engage 300,000 college students to learn and participate in SDGs and innovation. This is the first time that we join JAM, and we look forward to connect to more international jammers.
Since 2017, Thoughtworks has supported the GSJam in China, hundreds of people have experienced the fun and challenge of design.What's more, we are keen to cooperate with NGOs and bring some social problems into focus.During these 48 hours, participants from different professional backgrounds and thousands of jammers from other cities around the world followed a mysterious theme, define problems, propose prototypes, develop concepts, establish feasible service prototype.
Queen Workshop provides a design service that uses Design Thinking to seek innovative solutions. We wanna create Technical and Commercial possibilities through interactive discussions and business consensus, empathy with users, and co-creation with participants.
Service design obvious needs the co-creation with more stakeholders. Since we hosted GLOBALJAMS in 2015, based on the public education platform of the university, we have provided hundreds of people with the service design knowledge free of charge, and promoted them to learn how to diffuse their service design innovation through JAM.2023 must be full of vitality and novelty, we do look forward to your joining this year.Let's have fun!
Haiyun City
Zhuhai - Guangdong 519000
Zhuhai Service Jam will be jointly held by Zhuhai Design Center and School of Future Design from Beijing Normal University, on March 17-19, 2023. This event will consist of two parts, the theme lecture and the "48-hour challenge of Zhuhai Service Jam". It's the third time we organise the Jam and we've witnessed the birth of many creative ideas in the process. Please come join us and let's innovate again and again
Sorokina Rothe
Bachstraße 8, 07743 Jena
Hey all,lets rock these two days in cooperation with ResearchOps community and Bauhaus alumnies. We will meet online and in Jena.Btw: we have two sofas to sleep for anybody who need some place to stay in Jena.Lara&Knut
Challenge your thinking and build your creative confidence. Join in with interdisciplinary Jammers from Berlin and all over the world!Everyone (and we mean EVERYONE) including Design professionals and people interested in the topic come together to work on a challenge for 48 hours. Even though the jam will be based on a user-centered design approach, there are no set rules on how to solve the challenge. The final outcome can be a scenario for a service concept, a physical prototype for a product, a movie and so on.
Was braucht es für eine nachhaltige Stadt? Das Innovationsbüro der Stadt Köln wird gemeinsam mit Partner*innen den Service Jam Köln austragen. Über drei Tage hinweg werden wir Service Design nutzen, um gute Lösungen für die Stadt zu erarbeiten. Expert*innen und Freiwillige aus der Bürgerschaft beteiligen sich am Jam.
Together with partners, the Innovation Office of the City of Cologne will host the Service Jam Köln. Through the course of three days, we will use service design to develop good solutions for the city.
SEIBERT/MEDIA
Luisenstraße 37-39, 65185 Wiesbaden
After a longer break due to the pandemic, we are excited to be back at the Global Service Jam in Wiesbaden this year. Join us for an unforgettable weekend filled with creativity and innovation as we come together to work on solving service challenges, all in just 48 hours. We are looking forword to have a great time in an inspiring environments and of course, lots of fun.
8 Observatoty Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Jam Hong Kong has been around since 2017 and looking forward to a Face-to-Face event once again.We have been jamming with hundreds of jammers so far and we will continue to do so. Join us for a weekend-long jam hackathon and we promise you we'll do anything we can so you have the best possible experience.Come jam with us!
Thoughtworks Bangalore
ACR Mansion,G+ 3 Floors,3rd, 147/F, 8th Main Rd, Koramangala 3 Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034
Are you ready to make a difference in the world? If you have big ideas and want to help shape a better future, join us for 48 hours at the address above.
Using a design-focused approach, you'll work with other passionate individuals to solve problems around a secret global theme and create innovative solutions. All you need is an open mind, a collaborative spirit, and a desire to make a positive impact.
Thoughtworks Hyderabad
Rajapushpa Summit, 4th Floor, Financial District, Nanakramguda, Hyderabad, Telangana 500008
Hello! Presenting the Hyderabad Design Service Jam. Do you remember we almost did this in 2020 before the COVID "JAMMED" our plans?
Right, we are back now! And big! This time in a brand-new location!Let's JAM and get crazy creative! See you soon! HYDesign
OPE Innovation Lab is excited to be the local Mumbai host for the insanely energetic GSJam '23. Bhumika & I (Ankit) started OPE with a goal to humanize Products, Services & Spaces. We hope to collect diverse thinkers & doers to form inter-disciplinary teams who will work on GSJam's secret global theme. Since, collective energy has been the fuel for to facilitate workshops, we would only be reserve spots for those who can join us for all the days, physically during the Jam.
Doolally Taproom, Andheri
C18-21 Dalia Industrial Estate Near, Fun Republic Road, Off New Link Rd, Veera Desai Industrial Estate, Andheri West, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400053
Do you have ideas that can shape a better future? Do you dream of changing the world to make it a better place? If yes, get ready to be a "changemaker" for 48 hours to prototype services inspired by a secret global theme. Explore ways to change the world around you with a design-based approach to problem-solving and creativity. All you need is a playful mindset, openness to collaboration, and an intent to make a positive difference. Join us :)
Thoughtworks Technologies Ltd. Pune
6th Floor, Binarius Building, Deepak Complex, National Games Road Beside Sales Tax Office, Shastrinagar, Yerawada 411006 Pune, Maharashtra
After a hiatus, the global service jam Pune edition (pune service jam) is back and we are super excited to host you. All that you need to bring is an open mind and some creative juice... our mentors will guide you through the workshop and help you shape your ideas.
Galeri Nasional Indonesia (The National Gallery of Indonesia)
Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur no. 14
Whether you're still learning about service design, or a practitioner that is looking for an inspiration, Jakarta Service Jam (JSJ) is the oasis to quench your thirst of curiosity. And this year, we're looking forward to a face-to-face event once again.We hope to expand design conversations and bring awareness to the community. Let's explore the world of service design together. Sampai jumpa!
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Viale delle Scienze n.14, Palermo 90100
Are you a designer who wants to know more about service design?Are you a creative eager to work on your first project and enrich your CV?Are you a curious person who wants to know a practical design method, both critical and creative?Diversity is wealth!Whoever you are, we invite you to join the Palermo Service Jam 2023 to actively contribute to the creation of the global community of designers (and not) who want to get involved!
Every year, novices and service design practitioners from all over the world gather to rise to the challenge of creating a new solution on a topic that becomes known on the first day of Jam.How to create innovation in any field? How to experiment without much risk? How to efficiently generate ideas and test hypotheses during the project?For 1 day, teams from 45 countries of the world will simultaneously create a project using the service design methodology.Join us to find out how projects of new services and products are born!
Every year, novices and service design practitioners from all over the world gather to rise to the challenge of creating a new solution on a topic that becomes known on the first day of Jam.How to create innovation in any field? How to experiment without much risk? How to efficiently generate ideas and test hypotheses during the project?For 1 day, teams from 45 countries of the world will simultaneously create a project using the service design methodology.Join us to find out how projects of new services and products are born!
Emakina NL
Danzigerkade 4, Amsterdam 1013 AP
The Amsterdam Service Jam, or AmsterJam, is a satellite event of the Global Service Jam.In a spirit of experimentation, innovation, co-operation and friendly competition, teams will have less than 48 hours to develop and prototype completely new services, products or initiatives inspired by a shared theme. At the end of the Jam, their collection of brand new insights and prototypes will be published to the world.Come and join this weekend of creation, cooperation and shenanigans.Grab your ticket, all the event profits will be donated towards a relief fund for the Turkish-Syrian earthquake.
Level 3, Te Auaha, 65 Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
The Global Service Jam is the world's largest annual design event which takes place over a single weekend at over 70 different locations across the globe. It brings people together to collaborate, play, create, innovate and test new ideas around a common theme and solve real problems in society. Ultimately, you have 48 hours to design a new service!The Jam is open to everyone regardless of background, profession or experience. All that is required is an open mind, a can-do attitude and willingness to get stuck in!
https://service-design-jam-te-whanganui-a-tara.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new
Av. La Marina N° 2810 - San Miguel District - Lima
Después de 3 años, volvemos al ruedo con uno de los eventos más grandes de la comunidad del Diseño de Servicios, queremos que más personas conozcan nuestra disciplina y que sea su nueva aliada en los retos que enfrentan día con día.Súmate a un fin de semana a full, divertido y propicio para #Aprender, #Conectar y #Desarrollar nuevos conceptos e ideas de servicios que puedan comenzar a dar respuesta al desafío que nos develará la comunidad global con diversas personas apasionadas y entusiastas por lo desconocido y el co-diseño con impacto. ¡Te esperamos! :D
Wojewódzka Biblioteka Publiczna w Olsztynie
10-900 Olsztyn
To prawdopodobnie jedyny JAM Service w Polsce i jeden z największych na świecie. Za każdym razem w naszym wydarzeniu udział bierze ponad 60 osób. To nasze wspólne święto kreatywności, dobrej zabawy i nauki praktycznego działania. W ciągu tych dni poznasz fantastycznych ludzi, nauczysz się tworzyć wyjątkowe rozwązania i osiągać radość i satysfakcje z dobrze wykonanej roboty.A o efektach pracy dowie się cały świat!
TBC
Pierwszy w Warszawie Service Jam! Global Service Jam to największe na świecie wydarzenie dla projektantów, ludzi kreatywnych, wszystkich, którzy chcą idee przekuć na konkretny projekt! W 48 razem z zespołem zapaleńców zaprojektujesz usługę lub produkt zgodnie z najlepszymi praktykami projektowymi - od 0 do prototypu, z prezentacją efektów na globalnej platformie! To będzie dobra zabawa, aktywny czas, okazja do poznania inspirujących ludzi i doświadczenia projektowania w praktyce. Zapraszamy!
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We invite you to Wroclove Jam! This is the 4th edition of the event which is part of the Global Jams initiative, led by the team of designers from Capgemini Software. Fascinated by creative methods of solving problems, we want to share our knowledge and skills with you. During the event, we will use the Service Design and Design Thinking methods. We will face the challenges of young people, teachers and parents. Join us, meet great people, spend this weekend creatively designing the future you want.
https://www.facebook.com/capjamwroclaw
Accenture. Rua Boqueirão do Duro 25,
1200-163 Lisboa
Hi!We are the Lisbon Service Jam, being organized again after a long pause by almost the same team .We would love to invite you all to jam with us and use the power of service design thinking to solve the problems in a very creative way.Reach out to us to learn more about the Golbal Service Jam in Lisbon in March 2023.Warm regards,Lisbon Service Jammers
Uminho Campus de Couros (IDEGUI)
Rua da Ramada, n.º 52–68, 4810–445 Guimarães
Olá!! Pela primeira vez estamos a organizar um Service Jam na cidade de Guimarães, e este destina-se a todos os interessados na área do design de serviços, criatividade e inovação. A participação não é limitada a designers, por isso a participação de pessoas com diferentes backgrounds é bem-vinda. O jam é um evento intenso e intensivo, onde em equipa e durante 48 horas criamos propostas de serviços para um deasfio surpresa! Participa!!
Porto Business School
Av. Fabril do Norte 425, 4460-314 Sra. da Hora https://goo.gl/maps/FhRsfD3vR9L4uqwE9
A Porto Service Jam é destinada a todos os interessados em serviços, criatividade e novos desafios. Não é restrita a designers, nem a engenheiros, nem a qualquer outra área específica, todos são bem-vindos! A jam é um evento focado na partilha, no networking, e na criação de serviços através de um trabalho em equipa intensivo durante 48 horas.
Av. Fabril do Norte 425, 4460-314 Sra. da Hora
https://goo.gl/maps/FhRsfD3vR9L4uqwE9
Runroom
Carrer de Santa Eulàlia, 5-9, 3ª planta, 08012 Barcelona
Barcelona Service Jam 2023 is part of a global event that takes place simultaneously in many cities around the world. We welcome designers, product people, nerds, artists, paella aficionados, locals and expats, everyone is Benvingut! Come join the fast and furious <<Two Days Only>> Barcelona Service Jam and get your hands ready to get dirty. Catch your ticket before they go!
Miami AD School Madrid
C/ Santa Cruz de Marcenado, 4 Local 4, 28015 Madrid
En solo 48 horas, tú y un diverso grupo de colegas, amigos y completos extraños diseñarán un nuevo servicio y lo presentaran al resto del mundo.Ese es el desafío fijado por los organizadores del Global Service Jam, un evento de que pretende aglutinar a equipos multidisciplinares alrededor del mundo con un mismo fin, crear nuevos conceptos de servicios. Basado en el concepto musical JAM session es, en estado puro, un ejercicio de improvisación creativa, donde nuevas ideas serán descubiertas “learning by doing”.
Espacio Joven Ibercaja
P.º de Fernando el Católico, 1, 3, 50006 Zaragoza
La Service Jam es un evento que se celebra como parte de un encuentro global sobre Diseño de Servicios que sucede simultáneamente en todo el mundo, la 'Global Service Jam’.En 48 horas nos enfrentamos a un tema global, en equipos multidisciplinares para crear nuevos conceptos y servicios que ayuden al reto. En Zaragoza llevamos más de 12 ediciones celebrando este evento, en un fin de semana exploramos innovación, diseño y tender redes con mucha energía y ganas de aprender.
ATOLYE
Tarihi Bomonti Bira Fabrikası Silahşör Cad. Birahane Sok. No: 1, Istanbul, Sisli 34381
Since 2017, ATÖLYE has been hosting the Global Service Jam — an opportunity for “jammers” to come together and collaborate in developing solutions to real-life challenges. Throughout the day design enthusiasts work together to create services and products based on a covered global theme in order to bring these challenges to light. Jammers work together as teams to collectively develop their ideas, and at the end of the Jam, the collection of insights and prototypes are shared with the public.
ATÖLYE Dubai
Emirates Towers, Area 2071 Dubai, UAE
Curious about design? Have a playful mindset? Join us at the Dubai edition of the Global Service Jam 2023!The Service Jam is a great opportunity to meet creative folks from diverse backgrounds, bounce ideas off one another, build on what bounces back, and design prototypes of services inspired by a secret theme. Let's come together as a community, build something amazing, and have loads of laughs along the way! :D
Thoughtworks Newcastle
Lloyds court, 3rd floor, 78 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 6AF
Join us for 2 days of rapid research, design and prototyping to solve a real world problem and help improve peoples' lives. Thoughtworks and DWP Digital are partnering to focus on challenges faced by citizens in the North East ranging from welfare, support for carers to retirement planning. Teams will self-organise on the day around a chosen problem. It's free and open to anyone, you don’t need to be a researcher or designer to get involved, all roles are welcome! It’s fun, playful, fast-paced and a safe space to try out tools and techniques and learn things from other people.
Admiral Pioneer at Capital Tower
9 Greyfriars Road, Cardiff, CF10 3AD
The Cardiff Service Design jam is just one of nearly 100 jams running simultaneously around the world. Join us for an exciting weekend as we dive into the challenge together and guide you through the Service Design process.
Nottingham Trent University (City Campus)
Boots Library, Goldsmith Street, Nottingham NG1 5LS
Come join us between the 17th and 19th March at Nottingham Trent University's City Campus for a weekend of creativity, collaboration and fun.The event is free and we welcome participants from all different backgrounds - whether you are an expert, new to the field of service design, or simply interested to learn something new, you are invited!Get a hands-on approach to service design and meet lots of like-minded people and develop some amazing design concepts along the way.We hope to see you then!
Natural History Museum
Cromwell road, London SW7 5BD
Join us from 17th-19th March 2023 as we bring the design jam to South Kensington.Hosted at the Natural History Museum, London, the South Kensington Jam is open to everyone. Whether you're a designer, a museum fan, a science enthusiast, passionate about community engagement or simply curious about creative approaches to problem solving, all are welcome! In two days you will go on a journey from seeding ideas, creating design hypotheses to prototyping and testing with people to see what makes a real difference. And yes, there'll be lots of glue, cardboard and glitter along the way!
GT College of Design (School of Industrial Design)
As a participant in the Atlanta Service Jam, you will work through the whole design process in one amazing, fun, productive weekend. You won’t just be talking about service design, you will be working with others on developing designs which could become real. And as much as we love reading about design thinking, doing it is the only real way to learn.
Some of the biggest challenges we face today, both locally and globally, will require innovative thinking. In order to work towards meaningful impact, our community must come together to design brand-new ideas for services, products, organizations, experiences, and more.
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