Together
When I lived in Ireland, I used to facilitate workshops for communities. We called these sessions ‘sprints on local problems’ (from the famous list of Sustainable Development Goals: 17 SDGs).
What a drum roll in the heart! Just imagine people from all sort of backgrounds (design and tech newbies indeed) invent something meaningful for communities. This is quite an impact already.
Hands-On
But only when I worked in a school, I started to use physical objects in my workshops. And look – the magic is in the room when people hold sticky plasticine and random things from home like straws, stones and nails in their hands!
This week it was a 90 minutes intro to Design Thinking through role-play about social impact initiatives in local regions in Lithuania, as part of Kurybinės Jungtys project “Community Dialogues 2023“.