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Design Thinking for Social Change 3: The Solo Practicum

Partner Pacific School of Religion
Learning Pillar Intentional Creation
Rigor Level High
 This is the third course in the Design Thinking for Social Change Learning Path and the last asynchronous course in this series. In this course, you will continue to expand on your Design Lens by creating a Solo Practicum using design thinking steps and methods.  This course is your opportunity to bring forth a design from the heart of your own desire in a guided way.  This is your first offering from thought to 'finish' using the steps, mindsets, and tools learned in courses one + two; as well as the encouragement and experience of those who have not only completed this course in-full, but also from those who work in the design field.  We have never done anything, not one single thing, until we did it for the first time...it takes courage, it takes time, it takes patience, awareness and self empathy...now get to work! 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, you will:
  1. Apply learned practices and principles to real-life leadership challenges
  2. Apply design thinking through your developed design lens to social marginalization.
  3. Expand on your personal self-reflective practices for the growth and development of your creative leadership capacities.

Course Components

Syllabus

  • The Course Readings

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    5 Minutes
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  • Assignments + Assessment Requirements

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    5 Minutes
    Assignment
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The Framing

  • Getting Started

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    7 Minutes
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  • Feedback, Critique and Facilitation as Design Skills

    DTSC_4_Feedback Critique and Faciliation
    1 Minute
    Assignment
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The Steps

  • Step 1: Inspire

    DTSC_4_Step 1 Inspire
    5 Minutes
    Assignment
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  • Step 2: Define

    DTSC_4_Step 2 Define
    10 Minutes
    Assignment
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  • Step 3: Ideate

    DTSC_4_Step 3 Ideate
    3 Minutes
    Assignment
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  • Step 4: Prototype

    DTSC_4_Step 4 Prototype
    4 Minutes
    Assignment
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  • Step 5: Test

    DTSC_4_Step 5 Test
    4 Minutes
    Assignment
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  • Step 6: Reflect

    DTSC_4_Step 6 Reflect and Pitch
    6 Minutes
    Assignment
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The Closing

  • What's Next

    DTSC_4_ Whats Next
    3 Minutes
    Assignment
    Lesson Locked

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Design Thinking for Social Change 3: The Solo Practicum

Taught by Neil Goldberg

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Meet Your Instructor,
Neil Goldberg

Neil Goldberg, an Adjunct Professor at Pacific School of Religion, is a designer, entrepreneur, educator, and author with a passion for seeing human centered design applied with artisanal care to every kind of artifact of the human imagination – and to bring forward design as a framework for enlivened leadership. After starting his career with furniture maker Herman Miller, he brought the people centered innovation process he practiced there to Silicon Valley where he founded the design agency Praxis, and led multi-disciplinary teams developing award winning products. As an entrepreneur he founded WorkClub, the first co-working business operating on a subscription business model. He has also created ventures in digital photography, online print fulfillment and solar power.

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