Wednesday Web Jam no. 85 - "Ancient Human-Centered Design” with Federico Granda and Yuen Yen Tsai12/15/2021 Human centeredness as a concept seems to be new in organisations. Design Thinking puts the human being in the center of attention. And by doing so Design Thinking is able to counterbalance the sole focus on developing new products and services. Yet there are more sources that put humans in the center. Sources that have been with us for a very long time. Ancient wisdoms as Kabbalah and Confucius. In this session we explore these ancient wisdoms and discover how they can fuel your design thinking mind. By doing so we hope you find natural connections between your ancient wisdoms and your design thinking practice, and that these connections inspire you in a playful way to continue your work.
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The human brain is great and mysterious and wonderful – and also quite unreliable and fallible when it comes to understanding things and making decisions. Organisational Development Trends and research into the future of work have long identified the importance of putting neuroscientific insights and understanding of how our brain works (or sabotages us) at the centre of their designs. We will tickle your brains with some fun and surprising insights into the design of our thinking organ. What does it actually mean to get our brain to really play on our side and not against us when we engage with problems and other people around us when we learn about so many of its in-built design faults? How can the ways Design Thinking works help us keep our brains in check?
In this WWJ session, Howard will be sharing his brief influences of being an experiential and experimental designer, where he will invite the audience to explore an inquiry of both Service Design and Sense-Making and will initiate discussions around it. He will also storytell his experiment of the exploration of global service design through sense-making, where he will communicate his unique service observations and insights from the global cities of Manila, Tokyo, Beirut, Dubai, and Hong Kong, which includes his experimental global journey key takeaways and conclusions. Also, there will be a remote interactive service design mini-sensemaking group session ending that brief remote collaboration with an open sharing of service design experiences. Much focus has been placed on leadership development in past years, with the emphasis being on designing training programmes to develop the leadership skills and capabilities of those in formal leadership positions or those aspiring to “climb the ladder”. Leadership training programmes tend to be highly commoditized. We do however need to ensure that all those in the system are developed to be empowered to effectively contribute to the organisational goals and objectives. This is where followership, the other side of the leadership coin, comes in. Where does one find training for followers though? Join us for an interactive session as we shift our attention to developing followership excellence and unpacking what effective followership entails. Let us get together to co-create a training programme for followership excellence. Covid lockdowns have taught us a lot about a small group of people being with each other all day, every day. This session explores what we might learn from these experiences when setting up and leading teams for success. Many in-house design professionals have a choice: work solely in an innovation hub or play an additional role in scaling design capabilities within their organization. If designers focus on the former, how will they get better projects and collaborators from their organization? And if designers participate in the latter, how will they navigate their organization to ensure capabilities truly take root? This session will discuss how teams can attract better internal projects and how to transfer essential capabilities, with a particular focus on co-creating and measuring successful outcomes. Wednesday Web Jam no. 79 - "Forecasting product and service success with AI" with Pedro Janeiro10/28/2021 How smart are Artificial Intelligence nowadays and how can it help in the innovation space? Spoiler - don’t sell your brain yet! Pedro will go through a series of simple exercises to illustrate for non-techies how most AI software works, how it might be used to forecast product and service success, and how it desperately needs human help to be truly helpful in the real world. The future is hybrid - we will discuss how and why.
Let's go outside! Hop on zoom with your phone or tablet, and let’s go for a walk to explore our environments together! If you can't go out due to restrictions, please stay safe indoors and we can still bring you around with us too. How do you experience your 5 senses with your surrounding and use those skill sets better in a design thinking process. We all contribute to the creation of and life within complex systems -- natural ecosystems, food systems, judicial systems, markets, governments, communities, families, and even our individual lives. If we want to effectively address one or more of intractable problems that we encounter or read about every day, we need to create system-level interventions that shift the root causes rather than just temporarily mitigate symptoms. In this session we will explore the concept of “leverage points” and how we might create interventions that are effective at achieving positive changes within a system. Wednesday Web Jam no. 76 - “Food & POZE: Pursuing Aspirations” with Ofri Hirsch and Cornelia Walther10/7/2021 This workshop looks to tap into the inner process of personal growth using our relationship with food. How our relationship with food affects and reflects our being both physically and spiritually and how we can tap into that wisdom in order to catalyze change. Our premise is that global change starts with individuals. We feel that by looking at individual aspirations as the point of departure, marrying the two topics; POZE and food and by juxtaposing it with the process of design we are creating a hands-on workshop that triggers change from the inside out. RECENT PUBLICATIONS by Dr. Cornelia Walther
BOOKS Development, Humanitarian Aid and Social Welfare. Social Change from the inside Out. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-42610-1 Humanitarian Work, Social Change and Human behavior. Compassion for Change. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-45878-2 Connection in the times of COVID. Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-53641-1 Technology, Social Change and Human Behavior. Influence for Impact https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783030700010 Leadership for Social Change and Development. Inspiration and Transformation https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76225-4 PODCASTS Coaching TED talk (Save the Children UK) – February 2021 https://ngocoachingmentoring.org/ideas-worth-sharing/ ‘The Good Problem’ – Social Change from the Inside Out. Android - https://lnns.co/46G1wygUlhf Apple - https://apple.co/3rCtHbP WEBSITE Website - www.poze.cc Mystery Galaxy - https://www.mystery.facili.space/ ARTICLES A Call for Conscious Changes to Counter COVID-19. International Journal of Community Well-Being. Springer Nature (May 2021) https://rdcu.be/ck6k7 Social Change from the Inside Out. From Fixation to Foundation. From Competition to Change. International Journal of Community Well Being. Springer Nature (Oct 2020) https://rdcu.be/b9GrF From Individual wellbeing to collective welfare. New Humanitarian. Center for Humanitarian Leadership. Deakin University (Nov 2020) https://rb.gy/xsuauh |
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