Design for Change

What design will you give to the world?

With your toolkit loaded with the skills you practiced in Design Awareness, Design for Function, and Design with Empathy, you are ready to become a Changemaker and develop your own solutions to share with the world.

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In order to Design for Change students will learn how to:

1. Wonder

2. Empathize & Learn

3. Define Challenge

4. Ideate

5. Prototype, Test, & Refine

6. Share Solution!

*Changemaker K-12 Design Awareness is adapted from the thinking routines developed by Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has been developed with help from a National Science Foundation Grant.

Wonder

Step 1
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Wonder

If you were in charge of the world, what problems would you wish to solve?

Empathize & Learn

Step 2
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After finishing "Wonder" from Step 1

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Empathize & Learn

Empathize & Learn

How can we break a huge problem into manageable parts? What role does empathy play in problem solving?

Define Challenge & Ideate

Step 3
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Define Challenge

Define Problem & Ideate

How might generating MANY different ideas for a solving a problem lead to better solutions?

Prototype, Test, & Refine

Step 3
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Prototype, Test, & Refine

Prototype, Test, & Refine

How can building prototypes, testing, and gathering feedback improve designs?

Share Solution

Step 4
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Communicate Solution

How might we clearly and effectively communicate our ideas to others?