Class Info

  • Date: Week 02
  • Meeting Info: Login into ZOOM for Weekly LIVE class sessions.

To-Do Before Class

  • Requesting membership to this Open Lab course.
  • Download your own copy of IDEOs Field Guide for Human-Centered Design and Learn Terminology.
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  • Download your own copy of Creative Reaction Lab’s Equity-Centered Community Design Field Guide and Learn Terminology.
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Topic

  • The Role of the Contemporary Designer in todays landscape
  • Project Planning
  • Discussion about using design for social impact/design for good and breakdown of existing campaigns
  • Definitions of terms in social impact design
  • Understanding root cause analysis

Objectives

  • Understand the role of the designer as a concept generator.
  • Build and expand your design research capabilities.
  • Explore ways to include more or yourself and community into your creative work.
  • Understanding the role of design research.
  • Build better design techniques and practices.
  • Explore tools/ways to exercise your creativity.

Lecture

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Activities

Students will be tasked with searching for a topic to spark their own research and begin to discover issues and problems within their local communities.

  • Breakout: Project Planning

To-Do After Class

Go the SVA’s Design for Social Impact site and review the final presentations listed below and as a team. And then be prepared to present insight, next class.

  • Partner A: What is the concept? How were we introduced to the idea? How did they show their research did it feel connect in the presentation?
  • Partner B: What type of design outcomes were chosen and how did they reflect the needs of the audience?
  • Partner C: Why do you think it worked or didn’t work? What can be improved?

SVA Presentations

Group 1A, B

SHERO Comic

This project aims to increase opportunities for creating positive female representations in mainstream superhero comics by opening up conversations around female life experiences in the comic community.
View here.

Group 2A, B

What’s Not to Love?

What’s Not to Love is an online platform in which young people visit and share their concerns about appearance, expose themselves to new and diverse perspectives of beauty, and connect with people from all around the world.
View here.

Group 3A, B

Caravan Caravan is a website for homeless LGBTQ youth ages 16-24 to find, review and share information on shelters, anonymously.
View here.

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