Socially Engaged Design Workshops
What I Did
I design and facilitate learning experiences around considering sociocultural contexts and stakeholder relationships in design processes. Workshop topics follow the socially-engaged design process, including topics around design ethnography, idea generation, and acknowledging power and privilege in design.
Role: Senior Facilitator + Curriculum Designer
Teammates
Charlie Michaels, Supervisor + Co-facilitator
Ilka Rodriguez-Calero, Co-facilitator + Co-designer
Marianna Coulentianos, Co-facilitator + Co-designer
Robert Loweth, Co-facilitator
Matt Pirone, Co-facilitator
Kelley Dugan, Co-facilitator
Anthony Dang, Co-facilitator
Carlotta Pham, Co-facilitator
Grace Burleson, Co-facilitator
Nishant Jalgaonkar, Co-facilitator
Maggie Steele, Co-facilitator
Sara Bemporad, Co-facilitator
Stakeholders
Toolkit
Brainstorming
Lesson plans
Active listening
Think-pair-share
Multipartial facilitation
MURAL digital workspace
Interviews
Observations
Desk research
Stakeholder mapping
Affinity mapping
Qualitative analysis
The Process
Clarify the Goal
C-SED supports designers in considering broader social-cultural, economic, and environmental contexts when designing, including the reflection on how their own identities and cultural context shape their approach. One work area is to help faculty and students integrate socially engaged design mindsets and skills into their courses and projects.
Understand the Situation
Students are often taught how to solve problems, but that approach can center around mainly technical skills, especially in engineering. However, considering broader contexts and humanizing design processes can improve technological outcomes, ensuring that decisions are intentional and inclusive in order to have a more effective and positive result.
Bridge the Gap
In order to support students in learning more socially impactful design, I co-facilitate workshops that introduce the socially engaged design process and dive deep into how to apply different methods to their work to drive intentional and inclusive decision-making. Each workshop is thoroughly tailored to the curricular or co-curricular experience in order to ensure that the workshop lessons can be directly applied to their work. Workshop topics include interviewing, observations, stakeholder mapping, and community engagement strategies.
How I Did It
Click through the gallery to read more about each step of my process.
