Improve the human experience. Learn how to use design thinking to break down complex problems and solve social and environmental issues.
Design Thinking, Social Innovation, and Complex Systems
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Rethinking innovation
- A closer look at the elements of social innovation
- Infusing your design thinking with systems thinking
- Developing a conscious competence with the iceberg model
- Working with the iceberg model
- Leverage points in complex systems
- Understanding nested systems
- Design contributions to social innovation
- Where justice and design intersect
- Understanding systems stories
- Structural racism and design
- Design and anti-racism
- Equity-centered design
- Design's relationship with belonging and becoming
- Cultural competence
- Seeking the right goal: Measuring genuine progress
- Three elements of a Moore’s Law of social innovation
- Capabilities and four concepts of advantage
- Ten core capabilities
- Addressing disadvantage
- Next steps
Taught by
Scott Boylston
