New DeSE Course: Spring 2010!

Please join us on the new blog for the Design for Social Entrepreneurship Spring 2010 studio at the Rhode Island School of Design:

http://de-se2010.blogspot.com

The DeSE Course website is still:

http://www.de-se.com

Thanks!

Instructor – Sloan Kulper, IDSA, RISD MID `06

Curriculum Advisor – Yi Zhang, Wellesley `10

DeSE + OMA Gallery

As part of RISD's Multicultural Affairs "Human Rights Week," cultural programmers Stephanie Rudig and Ashley Rozier Walker curated a show of DeSE's work. Below are pictures just after they set up.

Thanks for the show ladies and great work everyone!

Final Crit and Goodbyes!

Well, the first ever RISD Design for Social Entrepreneurship advanced studio has officially come to a close. We finished off with great presentations and a party at Krisa's place! During the critique, we got to see the latest developments in everyone's projects with numerous guest critics. You can check out the project on our project page here.  After the presentations, we had a great group discussion on the role of industrial design in today's society. 

Stay tuned for videos! And see below for pictures.

Thank you to our Guest Critics and Visitors! 

Guest Critics: 

Jenny Kinnard- Procter & Gamble, Designer

Alex Tee- Altitude Inc, Engineer and Strategist

Peter Hawking- Office of Public Engagement, RISD, Director

Claudia Ford- International Affairs, RISD Director

Yuriko Saito- HPSS Professor- Ecological Responsibility for Artists and Designers

Damian White- HPSS Prossor- The Sociology of Ecology

Alan Harlem- Brown Swearer Center, Director

Visitors: 

Deborah Kanston- Multicultural Affairs Office

Becky Bermont- Media + Partners

Danielle Mancuso- Media + Partners

December 11th- Final Crit!

Below is the schedule program for the final crit, including brief summaries of all the projects and some questions, quotes and words to ponder at the end that we used for our discussion at the end. 

DeSE: Final Crit Program

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Human Rights Day

Just in time for our final crit tomorrow...

“Human Rights Day is celebrated annually across the world on 10 December.

The date was chosen to honour the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human rights. The commemoration was established in 1950, when the General Assembly invited all states and interested organizations to celebrate the day as they saw fit.”

Top 3 Sustainability Trends for 2009

In the face of a weak dollar, mass layoffs, and the world's corporate giants floundering, what are the corporate sustainability efforts we can realistically expect from businesses in 2009?

Read Fast Company's article here. 

Designmatters- Human Rights Posters

Check out Designmatters recent project of their human rights poster project in partnership with UNESCO.

Design B-Boys

Design competitions in the Public's eye: 

Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament Series 2007 from Cut&Paste on Vimeo.

Is there an equivalent for industrial design?

Public/Private Ventures

Just came across this amazing sounding organization- Public/Private Ventures.  Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) is a nonprofit organization that describes itself as "a national leader in creating and strengthening programs that improve lives in low-income communities."

One of their initiatives is: The Women's Reentry Initiative which was, "designed to provide women returning from incarceration with individually tailored, comprehensive and integrated services in areas believed to be crucial to successful reentry."

Thought this was an interesting use of the word, "design." 

Nonprofit Partnership Reflection

Due: Tuesday December 9th
In preparation for our group discussion the day of the final, please write about 1 page reflecting on your nonprofit partnership- considering the following:

What was it like to partner w/ a nonprofit and work with a community/culture new to you?

How did you introduce the idea of doing a design project with them?
What were some of the main challenges in thinking about/ designing for your market?
What tactics did you use to allow the community to become comfortable with you?
Was it more or less difficult designing with others than say from your own designer desk?

+ whatever other insight and thoughts you have.

Thanksgiving Homework

1. Update your blog with recent project information.

To include your presentations, please post them on slideshare.net, and then you can embed the show into your blog.

2. Write a blog article about your Thanksgiving break and dinner.

3. Continue developing and furthering your projects. 

You will present to the class on December 4th with ppt. as preparation for the final. This will be your opportunity to get feedback on both content of your project, what you need to push or change, and presentation style.

Happy Turkey Day!

Acumen Fund TED Talk

Founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, Jacqueline Novogratz, gives an inspiring talk about overcoming global poverty.

Mid-Crit Deliverables

Thursday November 20th

Mid-Crit

10-15 minute Powerpoint Presentation

Deliverables: 

Briefly: (about 3 minutes or less) 

-What Organization have you been working with? 

-Summarize their mission

-What type of work have you been doing with them?

-What are some of the barriers you have identified as opportunities? (if you narrowed in on one , just focus on this one barrier and do not discuss the other points)

In Depth: (about 10 minutes)

-Prototype(s) of your design idea(s) (If you have narrowed in on one design, just discuss this one design and the different components of it)

Briefly: (about 2 minutes)

-Outline your timeline for the rest of the semester and what you hope to achieve by the end.

DeSE on Nextbillion.Net

An article I recently wrote in reflection of the Better World by Design's social entrepreneurship panel is now posted on nextbillion.net here. DeSE is highlighted, with links to our new website.

Be sure to keep those blogs updated! I am going to add links to everyones' blogs under projects so people can follow along. 

DeSE has a website!

DeSE now has a website! 

www.de-se.com

Projects and information are still being uploaded. 

The header was one that came with the template. If anyone would like to make a DeSE header, please email it my way.

Thanks,

Sami

Systems Design Example- Tangible Steps for Tomorrow

IDEO in partnership with the Kellogg Foundation formulated a system to improve elementary education through holistic thinking and designing. 

Take a look at their illustrations and how IDEO uses story-telling to convey their ideas in a clear and visual way. 


Tangible steps toward tomorrow - Get more Creative Writing

Email In!

Email Sami all assignments from the first half of this semester in PDF format including: 

9 Page MDG Research Pages

TED Talk Research

Product Precedent

StoryBoard

ThemeBoard

Final Exercise 2 page layout

Due this Thursday

If your file exceeds 10 mb, you can use: www.Yousendit.com 

Human Centered Design

Human Centered Design

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The HCD Toolkit abridged for DeSE

A Field Guide from IDEO

We will go over this toolkit Tuesday morning in class.

In collaboration with Gates Foundation and IDE, IDEO created and JUST released a Human Centered Design toolkit. This resource was created to help organizations working with smallholder farmers but can definitely be translated to the work we are doing in class!

For your upcoming interviews, read the Field Guide here. Some sage advice given includes:

During observations, look for:

» Things that prompt shifts in behavior
» Work-arounds and adaptations
» Body language
» Things people care about
» Anything that surprises you
» Anything that questions your assumptions about how the world works
» Anything that you find “irrational”

Thanks IDEO!

Videos Now Available!

For those of you who could not attend Thursday's lectures, they are now available on DeSE's YouTube Channel! Below is the first clip of Tanya Fields' profound lecture on the power of community activism for social change and what we as designers can do to make a difference. 

Stay tuned for more videos to come as we continue to upload from previous lectures!