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Design Thinking Gumbo: Poetry for Social Activism & Social Change

Virtual Event

This is a workshop that explores poetry as a design research tool applicable in the current environment of a pandemic. Poetry Activism helps in engagement with communities, understanding their positive and negative experiences in a way that can lead to greater societal impact. The aim is to see poetry as a simple method of expression and integrate it as a source of creative and self-healing outlet that could potentially be used as resourceful data in research.

Free

Design Thinking Gumbo: Cultural Probes & Design Thinking w/ Niesha Ford

Virtual Event

A design thinking workshop exploring how to use cultural probes to find out what matters to people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Thinking (DT) Gumbo is a series of one-hour workshops on a variety of methods that can be used in design research.

Free

Design Thinking Gumbo: Using Critical Utopia in Research

Virtual Event

The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary to explore different ways of thinking and re-imagining new futures. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to co-creation methods that focus on the future, in particular Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR), a research method that allows people to be critical of the present, dream of utopia, and then to take action. This method combines utopian thinking and social learning to act upon critical experience and co-create visionary ideas directed by imagining better futures. Participants will learn how other researchers have used this method in their own work, with a particular emphasis on how it has been used in design research. Finally, participants will learn to use CUAR-based approaches in a few short activities.

Free

Design Thinking Breakfast w/ Marcelo Paiva: Designing for your future self

Virtual Event

How does our own bias get  in the middle of our design decisions? We are driven by how we are brought up, the way we think, our past and current relationships, our circle of friends, how fast we move, and how anxious we get with little things. These factors influence our style, the way we write, the colors we choose, the way we design products. But we forget one thing... Our body and mind are constantly evolving towards a state that requires more and more attention.

Please join us and Marcelo Paiva, UX Manager for UKG, and one of South Florida's most active design community leaders and speakers. He's always happy to share his knowledge from over 15 years of building efficient design teams, solving complex systems challenges, and developing thoughtful expertise to foster modern design systems practices in Agile development environments for mobile and web applications.

Free

January Design Thinking Breakfast: De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats

Virtual Event

See things from someone else's perspective: put on a different thinking hat and join us as Taylor Center Design Thinking Graduate Assistants Niesha Ford, Natalie Hudanick and Dr. Shaymaa Abdalal walk you through De Bono's Six Thinking Hats, a brainstorming technique looking at multiple perspectives of a problem.

Free

Reimagining Public Safety in American Cities

Virtual Event

In this virtual program, presented in partnership with Tulane's Newcomb Art Museum and moderated by Dr. Lesley Ann Noel; Brent Godfrey (Crescent City Corps), Ameca Reali (Law For Black Lives), and Christopher Rabb (Pennsylvania state House of Representatives) will respond…

Free

February Design Thinking Breakfast with Louie Montoya

Virtual Event

Design Thinking Breakfast Guest Host Louie Montoya is a learning experience designer at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design K12lab. Louie works with educators on learning and implementing design in the classroom.

Free
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