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Permalink Reply by Mark Whiting on May 30, 2009 at 10:26

I think we could work to create a richer market for design thinking consulting by increasing public knowledge of this discipline.

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on June 1, 2009 at 10:09

To increase public knowledge might be a bit of a challenge for this network ;-) But there is no better way to promote our thinking by doing something good.

I think it would be great if we could gather a few like minded people together and work on some interesting cases.

What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by Cuauhtemoc Rodriguez on June 1, 2009 at 23:32

We should find design thinking opportunities around our block, create a two days on-line collaborative process and change reality in a very short time to prove design thinking actually works on real problems everyone can understand, besides the outcome solution should be the result of this participatory experiment and not just a talk-talk theoretical conversation.

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on June 1, 2009 at 23:47

Yes, I agree. We need to escape from all that theory talk.

We have to keep it small and understandable. And I like the 'around our block' approach. I think that we need two things: good cases to work on and people who want to work together share ideas and make a real effort.

What do you think?

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Permalink Reply by ayana baltrip balagas on June 3, 2009 at 2:33

I'm down for this approach. One cause that's very dear to my heart is improving the quality of education for inner-city children.

I can begin thinking of developing a project around this. There are people who are working in this arena as well; so there are a few models that I can review.

A class at an elementary school could be chosen, and a project could be developed to engage the students in a design process that build a lasting learning tool/process that they could take with them as they move on in their education. This sounds a bit grandiose, but I feel a small project could be developed.

I would love to collaborate with others on this.

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on June 3, 2009 at 9:27

That's a great idea and actually very useful. I know people who would love to be involved in a project like that (and I'm one of them).

Please tell me a bit more about the problems that you see with the education for inner-city children at the moment.

Maybe you (or I if you want) can start a group here (a project group)? We can gather people and share ideas and approaches.

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Permalink Reply by ayana baltrip balagas on June 4, 2009 at 3:39

It's great you're interested in this idea, Arne. Here is a project that has been around for a while doing closely to what I'm thinking (design-thinking) of: http://www.inneractproject.org/.

Maurice Woods, who is a senior designer with San Francisco's Pentagram office was quoted as saying he was setting up an Inneract Project in this area in an 2007 article, but I haven't heard anything about it. He would be great person to get involved with this. Especially if he has begun to sketch out a model. Here's a link to that article-http://bit.ly/VP48B. Scroll down to the Design Meets the Inner City article.

Inneract tends to work with teens. I'm thinking of working with pre-teens. I'm going to attempt to touch base with Maurice this week.

A project group would be good, I think.

Also, since this is not a ground-breaking idea, would that be a problem?

Here's a link to Maurice's AIGA profile: http://aigasf.org/about/people/woods

Take a look at Inneact Project site and let me know your thoughts.
Best/a.

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Permalink Reply by ayana baltrip balagas on June 4, 2009 at 4:13

CORRECTION:
The Inneract Project was created by Maurice Woods.

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on June 4, 2009 at 10:24

Its a wonderful project!! I'll set up a group :-)

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Permalink Reply by ayana baltrip balagas on June 5, 2009 at 18:51

Update: Arne, Maurice and I did not connect yesterday. Will try again today.
best/a.

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Network GuidePermalink Reply by Arne van Oosterom on June 5, 2009 at 18:54

Okay :-) Thanks for letting me know.

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Permalink Reply by alex stobart on June 21, 2009 at 9:35

Do you want to do something with a primary school in Edinburgh ? The oldest year is 11 to 12 year olds ? My daughter is at this school and is 9.

Perhaps you can do it all on-line with the ICT teacher or send materials ?

How does it work

Alex

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