MS SDM Winter Workshops 2021
MS SDM Winter Workshops 2021
In January 2021 the MS SDM program held a week of workshops led by Faculty, Students, and Industry leaders. View the information below to learn more about these workshops, and to watch the footage:
Designing Your Future: Prototyping the Professional You Jan 11 & 12
Description: Students participating in this workshop were given methods to design and manage their future, articulate their expertise and interests with confidence, evaluate their competencies with humility, collaborate effectively within networked systems, and move closer to their new North Star. Led by Faculty member Ed Cardimona.
Recording: here
Creative Activism Jan 12
Description: Successful creative activism requires authentically mobilizing specific communities—often through strategies of joy, humor, and play. In this workshop, Professor Marisa Morán Jahn presents case studies of creative activism by artists, advocates, and movement leaders. Participants will brainstorm what it means to leverage one’s own communities to speak and co-design from within.
Recording: (forthcoming)
Future Thinking and Strategic Design Jan 13 & 14
Description: Futures thinking—broadly defined—is the precursor to strategy. Understanding a landscape of temporal theories and methods is central to timely and relevant strategic design practices. This two-part workshop includes an introduction to Futures Studies and a subsequent discussion that explores global currents in anticipatory, multi-temporal, de-colonial, and speculative theories and methods. Led by Professors Elliott Montgomery and Lisa Norton in partnership with Riel Miller, Head of Foresight at UNESCO; Kewulay Kamara, Storyteller, Futurist, Executive Director of Badenya Inc, and a member of the UNESCO Futures Literacy Network.
Day 1 Recording: here
Day 2 Recording: here
Design Sprint with WW (Weight Watchers) Jan 14
Description: Participants were part of a 3-week design sprint with WW. Students worked on a team or individually to work on one of two projects presented. Students were challenged to scope them based on their understanding of the problem space and relevance to the initiative, empathize and interact with the designers and business leaders of WW expanding their professional network, develop finished portfolio pieces with feedback from WW team, and provide an opportunity to win and work with them for an extended period. Supervised by Faculty member Ed Cardimona and MS SDM student Rashi Jadhav.
Recording: here
Design Sprint with 200 Million Artisans Jan 14
Description: For this design sprint, students were challenged to work with 200 Million Artisans to build their capacity to host and support an entrepreneurial ecosystem in an accelerator-style setup, identify opportunities for social entrepreneurs to upskill themselves and grow their businesses, create a platform to provide a community for these entrepreneurs to share their insights, and to help each other co-learn and co-create, surround themselves with mentors, ask for and provide help and guidance. Led by MS SDM Students Rashi Jadhav and Ayush Biyani with SDS Dean Cynthia Lawson.
Recording: here
Strategic Design & Indigenous Ways of Being Jan 14
Description: In cooperation with Victoria University, New Zealand’s Design Innovation program, this session introduced students to Māoritanga (New Zealand Māori knowledge, culture and Te Ao Māori, or Māori worldview). Case studies in which Māoritanga and Te Ao have been integrated into various business contexts in New Zealand were examined. Beyond the specific New Zealand context, and informed by case insights, the workshop component guided students through some practical exercises to facilitate understanding of how products, services and systems might be developed from a basis which considers aspects of indigenous ways of being. Supervised by Professor Aaron Fry.
Recording: here
Reading Financial Statements Jan 16 & 17
Description: The ability to comprehend the financial health of a company is an important skill for anyone working in or with companies—The focus of this workshop was on understanding and making sense of financial statements. Students learned how analysts read these statements and how they are perceived by the markets. Led by Professor Raz Godelnik.
Day 1 Recording: here
Day 2 Recording: here