CULTURAL RESONANCE THROUGH DESIGN
I partner organizations with educational institutions to provide a co-creation setting for design students. Co-designing is an inclusive process and delivers better alignment with user needs. In these studios, my students co-designed with real clients for activating social and environmental change by co-creating educational tools. In these series of studios the partnerships were with two different schools: The Berkeley Turkish School, and The Berkeley School. The first studio’s goal was to co-create educational tools to teach culture through creativity. The objective of the partnership with The Berkeley School was to co-create educational tools to discover the Native cultures that lived in the Bay Area.
I created a customized design thinking workshop curriculum that included short teachings paired with hands-on activities to meet the goals of our partners.
IMPACT:
Leading collaborative design studios provided real client experiences for the industrial design students
The student and teachers were able to take part in design thinking and the co-creating the educational tools they used.
Created an innovation framework for what it means to design for cultural resonance.
- image credit: Pin Drop by Sajan Saini, In collaboration with Berkeley Turkish School, CCA ID Fall 2017
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