Design Thinking for Social Innovation
A summary of tweeted learnings, ideas and resources from a dynamic tele-learning session with Dr. Cameron Norman, a design thinking expert.
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Everyone is a designer if he/she is trying to shape courses of action (paraphrase) @cdnorman #tamarackconnectWhat is Design Thinking?
Design Thinking is taking a creative approach to solving/tackling problems from @cdnorman #tamarackconnect- Systems thinking is about the system - whereas design thinking about the flow and design of the system @cdnorman #tamarackconnect
- Designing is about creativity and engagement and that makes it very exciting when applying it to #community work #tamarackconnect
What can design thinking do?
- #designthinking leads you to a product through a cluster of different methods and processes of possibility #tamarackconnect
What are the problems you are trying to solve? What is it you’ve hired this particular thing to do? @cdnorman #tamarackconnect- Design thinking can shift away from ways that we've thought about things before into new ways of thinking-create disruption #tamarackconnect
Design thinking = processus pour approfondir collectivement des quest. particulières et préciser (frame) le problème #tamarackconnect- How to get to a solution: Engage a diverse set of people who might be affected by the problem #tamarackconnect
Disruption by Design
- Disruptive events gets into new ways of thinking about a problem - what are the patterns now emerging @cdnorman #tamarackconnect
- What are the fundamental assumptions that got us to the problem to begin with? @cdnorman #tamarackconnect #designthinking
- Twitter is a disruptive innovation where conversations can occur in real time and space with new audiences @cdnorman #tamarackconnect
@Tamarack_Inst And the @ottoscharmer1 concept of "container" is very usefull to support this engagement #tamarackconnect #relationship- Innovation happens on the margins of our communities @cdnorman #tamarackconnect - would love to hear your examples of this happening!
Designed disruption leads to innovation while allowing for planed evaluation; as long as its done w eyes wide open re risks #tamarackconnectThe intersection of innovation and design
- When you see things differently you open the door to innovations and great changes #tamarackconnect
- Innovation is about gathering ppl who see things differently together and embracing #complexity @cdnorman #tamarackconnect
