CSO 390: Diseñando el Cambio - Prof. Daubón

Summer of Design, a very awesome hands on design thinking bootcamp starts May 21st and runs 6 Tuesday nights!

IT'S SUMMER OF DESIGN!
A Design Thinking Bootcamp for change makers, innovators and problem solvers in Puerto Rico.

Get going with Design Thinking and Human Centered Design problem solving! This is an immersive, hands-on and practical 6 session bootcamp to help you develop your creative confidence, teach you how to solve complex problems, develop real value of users and consumers and sharpen your innovation capabilities. We’ll teach you the mindset, methods and a process that make design thinking the way fast moving startups, future forward businesses and ambitious social innovators make change happen. Sign Up--> https://bit.ly/2DKPI1s

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
*The Mindsets, Methods and Tools of Design Thinking
*Hands-on practice getting inspiration from real people
*Learn new tools to jumpstart collaboration and problem solving
*Making sense of real-world interviews and observations
*Brainstorming lots of potential solutions and identifying high potential opportunities
*Building and testing tangible ideas through rapid prototyping and getting feedback from people out in the world
*How you can continue to build your human-centered design skills

IS THIS FOR YOU?
If you are a curious professional always looking for ways to innovate and get new things going, a public official who is tired of things being stuck, a student with aspirations of making change happen then this might just be for you. We are for people who are willing to dive in, do new things, try it out, work with others and know that the only way to grow is to learn and do new things.

We're waiting for you! Sign up--> https://bit.ly/2DKPI1s

Si no puedes volar, corre. Si no puedes correr, camina. Si no puedes caminar, gatea, pero lo que sea que hagas, sigue hacia adelante. - Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you can't fly then run. If you can't run then walk. If you can't walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." MLKjr

Dana Montenegro de SeriouslyCreative nos explica què es design thinking y còmo es relevante para tod@s no importa lo que estudies. Conoce sobre este curso y matricùlate la próxima semana. CSO 390: Diseñando el Cambio - Prof. Daubón. No estudias en Universidad del Sagrado Corazón - Página Oficial? Tambièn te puedes matricular!

Agentes de Cambio: ¿Qué es design thinking? Como parte de los esfuerzos por revitalizar el barrio de Santurce a través de iniciativas de desarrollo económico, Agentes de Cambio surge como un proyecto d...

En la ciudad vive gente Algunos comerciantes se creen que esto es el viejo oeste, se olvidan de que aquí vive gente y que las calles y aceras son de todos.

Design Think-er!

Veronika Scott was a fashion student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit when her teacher, Stephen Schock, challenged her class to create a product that filled a need, rather than satisfying or creating a fad. Veronika's design was a coat for homeless people that could transform into a sleeping bag, since in her city, she says, “you are constantly faced with the homeless epidemic."

Not only did her design win a International Design Excellence Award from the Industrial Designers Society of America, it’s become the core of Veronika's nonprofit organization, The Empowerment Plan, which hires people from homeless shelters and transition homes to help her make the coats. Now, three years later, the 24-year-old social entrepreneur expects that her team of 15 seamstresses will produce over 6,000 coats in 2014 -- all of which will be distributed free of charge to people living on the streets.

Veronika originally designed the coats seeking input from people at a homeless shelter. After receiving feedback from people who used the prototype over a Detroit winter, she refined the design to create her final version which, in addition to being a waterproof and windproof coat and sleeping bag, also transforms into an over-the-shoulder bag with storage in the arm sockets.

When she started out, Veronika states, “Everybody told me that my business was going to fail -- not because of who I was giving my product to but because of who I was hiring. They said that these homeless women will never make more than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich -- you cannot rely on them for anything. And I know my ladies enjoy proving everybody wrong."

And, their impact is growing -- according to CNN, which recently honored Veronika as one of their 10 Visionary Women of 2014, "The Empowerment Plan expects to launch a 'buy one, give one' program that will make it sustainable beyond the donations and sponsorships that keep it running now. Hunters and backpackers who’ve asked to buy the coat will be able to do so, and the Empowerment Plan will still create coats for homeless people who need them."

Veronika is also excited to show other clothing producers that local manufacturing is possible: “I think we're going to show a lot of people: you think it's outdated to do manufacturing in your neighborhood, but I think it's something that we have to do in the future, where it's sustainable, where you invest in people, where they're not interchangeable parts.”

Kudos to this Veronika for her impressive ingenuity and compassionate spirit!

To learn more about The Empowerment Plan and how you can support their work, visit http://www.empowermentplan.org/

For an excellent book about female inventors throughout history, check out “Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women” for readers 8 to 13 at http://www.amightygirl.com/girls-think-of-everything

To show children how one act of kindness can bloom into something much greater, we recommend "Plant a Kiss" for ages 2 to 8 at http://www.amightygirl.com/plant-a-kiss

For more Mighty Girl stories for all ages that emphasize the value of compassion, visit our "Kindness & Compassion" section at http://www.amightygirl.com/books/personal-development/values?cat=223

For Mighty Girl stories about the challenge of being homeless, visit our "Homelessness" section at http://www.amightygirl.com/books/social-issues?cat=58

en la presentación final de CSO 390
Gracias a Foundation for Puerto Rico, a empresas@sagrado, iLEC y a SeriouslyCreative por su apoyo en estos meses.

Dana Montenegro & Efren David Pagan explican esto de diseño para cambio social... o sea, creative problem solving! Gracias a Foundation for Puerto Rico y a la generación otoño 2014 de CSO390.

Introducción del profe Ramon E Daubon a la presentación final del curso

"Celebrate failures of flight" -Dana Montenegro, parte del equipo de CSO390 para el siguiente semestre, conversando la importancia de Design Thinking en una compañía en ahora. ¡matricúlate en CSO390 y sumérgete en Design Thinking!

Nos encanta este proyecto que fue creado por un equipo de estudiantes de "design thinking" en la Universidad de Stanford. Muestra lo que el poder del diseño se puede hacer cuando se centra en la resolución de problemas complejos.

Si usted piensa que usted es el tipo de persona que puede resolver problemas complejos y le gusta hacer las cosas en lugar de sólo hablar de ellos, entonces este curso es para usted.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves_lives?language=en

A warm embrace that saves lives In the developing world, access to incubators is limited by cost and distance, and millions of premature babies die each year. TED Fellow Jane Chen shows an invention that could keep millions of these infants warm -- a design that's safe, portable, low-cost and life-saving.

Ideas! Muchos ideas!

Leidi Rosario, co-fundadora de Puzzles en la Calle Loíza (Santurce, Puerto Rico), compartió con la clase Fall2014 su experiencia como joven emprendedora.