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Social Design Fundamentals
Course notes from the 2018 SVA DSI Fundamentals of Design for Social Innovation class
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Fundamentals of Design for Social Innovation at SVA DSI
Marc Rettig
Sep 1, 2018
Why should social designers care about power and privilege?
Why should social designers care about power and privilege?
Pondering our relationship with power, privilege, and white supremacy
Lorena Estrella
Nov 25, 2018
Understanding power and privilege for social designers
Understanding power and privilege for social designers
Using a simple activity to illustrate power dynamics
Monica Tarriba
Dec 19, 2018
Positive Deviance
Positive Deviance
Partnering with the gifts already present
Aditi Kapre
Dec 18, 2018
The power of conversations
The power of conversations
A fundamental for social designers
Kartik Krishnan
Dec 17, 2018
Please Feel Pain
Please Feel Pain
Pain is not terrible. What’s terrible is to hide it in our hearts.
Jiangyi Yu
Dec 15, 2018
Cynefin Framework: Managing in Complexity
Cynefin Framework: Managing in Complexity
There’s more than one kind of complexity
Jennifer Ulloa
Dec 15, 2018
Framing Design for Social Innovation
Framing Design for Social Innovation
Design as a social process
Catherine Mazzocchi
Dec 15, 2018
Expressing our Needs
Expressing our Needs
Practicing Nonviolent Communication
Damian
Dec 15, 2018
A language of Life
A language of Life
Exercises in nonviolent communication
Alisha Mahen
Dec 15, 2018
Healing from pain is a process
Healing from pain is a process
The difficult mix of strong emotion and past pain
Tianyao Wei
Dec 10, 2018
The intro: mind and soul
The intro: mind and soul
How presence arises from uniting mind and body
Caroline Zhang
Dec 9, 2018
What does pain have to do with design?
What does pain have to do with design?
Lorena Estrella
Nov 25, 2018
Sometimes the “solution” is to stop doing the harmful things
Sometimes the “solution” is to stop doing the harmful things
Using TRIZ to identify the things we want to STOP
Kexin Lyu
Nov 12, 2018
Understanding Conflict Styles
Understanding Conflict Styles
During our last class, we learned about the strategies of disconnection: fight, flight, freeze and appease. We dug deeper into these four…
Grace Kang
Nov 7, 2018
I Listen You
I Listen You
Listening is more than hearing, and you can feel it when you see it.
Tara M
Sep 30, 2018
A reflection on systems thinking and design
A reflection on systems thinking and design
于佰田
Sep 28, 2018
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