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Center for Design Thinking2019 Report
Center forDesign Thinking
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2019 Report
Director’s Note
Elon By Design has built on emerging interests and expertise across campus. The Center for Design Thinking nurtured those connections and an evolving vision over the last three years. This work would not have been possible without the participation of hundreds of students, faculty and staff.
I am excited to build upon this work and chart an ambitious course for the next 5 years. Where will the Center be in 5 years? What will we accomplish together along the way? What will Elon By Design become? How will we measure success? This document answers those questions and more while leaving space to evolve as Elon adapts to learner needs and the world’s opportunities.
Our vision
Elon by Design sparks and sustains intentional pathways for engaged, experiential learning designed to resiliently address wicked problems and generate value for students, faculty, staff, as well as local and global communities.
The Center for Design Thinking operates as a nexus for designerly approaches to living and learning, as a radically collaborative, boundary-spanning organization.
We are enhancing...
CapacityElon By Design’s work across the university and beyond ensures that Elon students, faculty, and staff have the ability and confidence to respond to wicked problems with design thinking processes, methods and mindsets as they shape purposeful, impactful lives.
Experiential Learning across Campus and CommunitiesElon journeys include practical design thinking learning opportunities, university services shaped by design thinking, and design-thinking-influenced workshops, programs, courses, research opportunities, internships, and global experiences.
Real World ProjectsElon By Design is supporting and enhancing a cross-sector, global practitioner network with projects where students develop design thinking skills and Elon By Design actively participates in evolving design practice.
Elon By Design: Overview
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Drive inclusive and intentional innovation and foster boundary-spanning collaborations
• Capturing, visualizing, and enhancing the DT ecosystem
• Extending the depth and breadth of DT in the curriculum
• Growing the network between the Elon community and external people applying and exploring DT
• Supporting efforts to identify and address wicked problems with local and global communities
Enhance university operations via DT
Increase human capability
• Students will be able to apply DT processes, methods, and mindsets to solve problems
• Faculty participate in DT opportunities and utilize DT practices in their work
• Staff participate in DT opportunities and utilize in relevant projects
Build and formalize a thriving Center for Design Thinking
Support and enhance DT-infused assessment, research, scholarship
Elon By Design: 5 Year Goals
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Program / Curricular Community
Communication Design Curricular Mapping & AAC&U Civic Prompts in the Major Institute
Design for America (YMCA of the Triangle)
M.Ed. program planning Alamance Wellness Collaborative
Core Slotting Alamance Burlington School System
Crucial Conversations in Healthcare, Physician Assistant Studies. & the Anatomical Gift
4C Community Collegiate Challenge, North Carolina Campus Compact
Periclean Scholars 2020 Design Planning 4th Friday in Burlington, Maker Hub, & Steam Junction
Kernodle Center Changemakers consultations Alamance Achieves Collaborative Initiative
Coalition for Change, AshokaU Changemakers
Workshops Offered
50 Student Focused
10 Faculty / Staff Focused
70 Approx. 1,100 Approx. 110
Fall Consulting Work & Emerging Partnerships
Fall 2019 Center Workshops
Assessment (562 survey respondents)
Elon By Design: Fall 2019
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5.30Easy & Enjoyable
5.10Enhanced interest
5.17Resources I will use
5.25Highly engaging
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Course / Program Specific WorkshopsE
Thank you to:
ENS 101 Sarah Harmon
ELON 101 Paula Patch
ANT 212 Muriel Vernon
ECF 212 Shannon Duvall
ENT 340 Elena Kennedy
COM 100 Bill Anderson
PHS 202 Yanica Faustin
ELON 101 Julie Prouty
ENT 250 Elena Kennedy
HNR 230 Caroline K. & Eric Hall
PSY 242 Psych Kristina Pham
COM 322 Michele Lashley
BUS 221 Christy Benson
EGR 121 Scott Walter
CDE 318 William Moner
ELON 101 Chris Leupold
AAD 101 Wen Guo
MKT 412 David Higham
PHS 201 Rachel Marquez
ELON 101 Shannon Lundeen
COM 258 Shannon Zenner
COR 110 Brandon Essary
BUS 201 Mark Courtright
ENS 178 Elizabeth Pratson
ENG 110 Victoria Shropshire
PHL 112 Robert Leib
ELON 101 Kim Giles
Honors Authenticity Course Alexis Franzese
Periclean Scholars Amanda Tapler
Change Maker Cohort Mary Morrison
North Carolina Campus Compact 4C Challenge Leslie Garvin
First Year College Fellows Jason Kirk
PA Program Tracey Thurnes & Dianne Person
Intersect Conference
Alumni Webinar
Elon By Design: Fall 2019
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Not able to bring your class? Consider encouraging students to come to the Center by adding this to your syllabus:
The Center for Design Thinking invites you to join us this semester to:
• Experiment with design methods and develop design thinking skills
• Develop a team project
• Learn ways to use design thinking for learning, working and living well
• Participate in design thinking workshops, activities and events
• Explore new ways to listen, make and lead like a designer
• Do those things we haven’t discovered students need or want (hello, humility)
The Center for Design Thinking is a resource supporting all Elon students. Walk-in hours are Monday to Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. If you have questions or want to schedule a conversation or event, please contact the Center for Design Thinking at [email protected].
Bring your class to the Center for Design Thinking this spring! Mix things up with a change of space, pace, and hands-on design exercises students can use to meet your learning outcomes. We have a range of workshops and a team of catalysts to support your students’ learning pathways and projects. You can also encourage your students to access Center resources and Catalyst support via the syllabus resource statement below.
Design Thinking 101
What is design thinking? How and when might I use it to support my work in this course? What are basic methods and approaches? What are some examples of design thinking in action? This workshop answers these questions and more through a course-specific ideation session in the Center for Design Thinking. Students leave with ideas for applying design thinking to your course project and a new way to approach problems, challenges and opportunities.
Experience Mapping
How can I understand how people experience complex situations? How might I use what I learn to change how I engage others and address problems? Experience mapping is a key design research method that helps students understand how others are experiencing complex situations. It can foster the empathy necessary to better understand the problem, target areas for deeper research, and help students create novel ideas they can explore with others.
Designing Your Elon Experience
How might I adapt when life changes? How might I keep up with the demands of each semester? How might I develop the skills to better care for myself? What processes and methods can I use to see choices, create options and make plans? This workshop answers these questions and more in a hands-on experience applying design thinking to living well and intentionally.
Project & Team Visioning
How might I design project plans that better align with my values, skills, and goals? How might I better help team members do the same? How might I more inclusively learn about the people, systems and histories involved and convert this information into meaningful insights? This workshop provides students with the skills to design for and with people. Students will practice interviewing, stakeholder mapping, ideation, and affinity mapping.
Prototyping Your Learning Zone
What is the doer-maker mindset? Why is it valuable? How can I use it to help create and prototype my best learning experiences while here at Elon? This workshop orients students to the Maker Hub and the Center for Design Thinking. Students will design, prototype, and make their own learning zone.
Flop Shops
How can I better understand and cope with failure? How can I reframe my flops in order to move forward? How can I better support others in my life and encourage them to do the same? This workshop is designed to help students gain a better understanding of how to build resilience and grit in the face of failure. Students will leave with strategies to help them fail forward versus failing flat.
Elon By {Your} Design: Spring 2020 Course Workshops
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The Elon By {Your} Design Happy Hour Series provides a fun and interactive venue for discovering innovative, evidence-based design practices for living and learning well. Each session features interdisciplinary research and real stories from Elon faculty and staff as well as actionable strategies for responding to professional and personal challenges. Participants will experiment with processes and methods designed to foster more joyful, effective, and resilient responses.
Cultivating the Agile Mindset for Project and Life Management
Facilitated by Shannon Duvall
January 27, 2020 | 3:00-5:00 pm
How might we more quickly and flexibly respond to workplace demands? How might we prioritize effectively and make progress on what matters most?! This Design Thinking Workshop, offered by CATL fellow Shannon Duvall, provides participants with evidence-based Agile methods for helping you prioritize, make clear progress towards your goals, and cope with unexpected twists and turns. Participants will practice applying Agile principles to personally selected projects, whether course planning, team facilitation, project or life management.
Tinkering and Drinkering: The Doer-Maker Mindset for Professional Projects
Facilitated by Dan Reis & Elena Kennedy
February 24, 2020 | 4:00-5:30 pm
How might we bring the best of making into our professional lives? How can the maker mindset and learning by doing enrich our workplace experiences and professional growth? This happy hour workshop will get participants making and reflecting. It will discuss the value of the maker mindset and offer a range of examples on how you might incorporate making into your work to strengthen your work products and enjoy the process, in classrooms, teams, and beyond.
All Fun and Games: Integrating Gameful Learning into our Professional, Personal, and Civic Lives
Facilitated by Brandon Essary & Danielle Lake
April 8, 2020 | 3:00-5:00 pm
How might we turn work into play? How might we turn assigned projects into epic adventures? And our obligations into games? Games are built on countless learning and design principles that can be applied to facilitate transformational teaching, intentional and joyful living, and active civic engagement. This workshop leverages powerful learning and design principles built into good games. Participants will play; learn about gameful learning in professional, personal, and civic contexts; and have the chance to practice applying gameful learning and design principles in those contexts.
Elon By {Your} Design: Happy Hour Innovations in Living and Learning
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Design Thinking at Elon
Bring your class.We’ll work with you to create an experience for your students that advances your curricular goals. We’ve helped students apply design methods, frame projects as design challenges, and more.
Bring your meeting.Reinvigorate your standing meetings at the Center for Design Thinking. Get active assistance with new projects, strategy development, and designing experiences that help your group to communicate, create, and achieve.
Bring your event.Hold your next event at the Center for Design Thinking. The space is flexible and fun. We’ll help you apply a few design methods that make events more meaningful and memorable.
Bring your project.No big, ambitious projects at Elon, right? We can help you think like a designer and break your project down into digestible chunks and suggest resources for your journey. (You still have to do the work, though.)
Bring yourself.Attend a workshop to learn design thinking basics. Learn how to weave design thinking into how you achieve your goals as a professional and educator. Make it personal (in a good way) by exploring how you can design your life.
The Elon By Design Initiative and the Center for Design Thinking develops and delivers design thinking experiences and projects with Elon students, faculty, staff and community.
We help make design thinking part of how you live well, learn, teach and achieve.
Ask!
Danielle Lake, PhD Director of Design Thinking, Associate Professor
[email protected] 336-278-6876
Dawan Stanford, JD, PhD Consulting Director of Design Thinking
[email protected] 336-223-3710
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