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Design Thinking for Social Change Learning Path

Partner PSR
Learning Pillar Intentional Creation
Rigor Level High
Welcome to the Design Thinking for Social Change Learning Path! This is a course series that equips you with tools and methods to approach social justice work through the lens of human-centered design, connecting creativity and theology. You will develop a personal design lens that will be your compass throughout your course and work life. Followed by a deep dive into the mindsets, skills and methods needed to achieve your design goals. Then culminating in the solo practicum when you will apply learnings to a project of meaning to you. One of the most enriching part of this series is that you will be guided through each course by industry experts, professors and past students. This is a deeply moving, wildly practical and fantastically engaging series of courses. We are truly excited to witness the world through your design lens!

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will:

  1. Develop + apply the concept, origin, and theological underpinnings of DT.
  2. Develop + apply human-centered mindsets, steps, skills, and methods of DT.
  3. Develop a proficiency in the DT + human-centered design framework.
  4. Create a just solution, from idea to implementation and iteration.

Courses in this Learning Path

Design Thinking for Social Change 1: Design Lens

Design Thinking for Social Change 1: Design Lens

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Design Thinking for Social Change 2: The Mindsets, Steps, Skills and Methods

Design Thinking for Social Change 2: The Mindsets, Steps, Skills and Methods

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Design Thinking for Social Change 3: The Solo Practicum

Design Thinking for Social Change 3: The Solo Practicum

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Taught by Neil Goldberg

You will develop a personal design lens that will be your compass throughout your course and work life. Followed by a deep dive into the mindsets, skills and methods needed to achieve your design goals. 

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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.