Tag: Capacity Building

The second of 2, capacity building talkshops focus on People-Centered or Participatory Design Research and methods to carry out this type of research. In a similar fashion as the previous talkshop, this session provided some background information—i.e. frameworks, language, skills, etc.—in addition to a little practical experience. Now, keep in mind, these were only 2-hour sessions so the emphasis was on providing a high-level overview about Design Research and what that looks like in action.

Here’s a some images on the great group that participated in this second session:

For more information, here’s a link to the slide deck for the Design Research Talkshop: Hands-on with Design Research Slides

To start off Redesigning the Indiana Red Cross Volunteer Experience, Collabo set up 2 capacity building workshops or “talkshops” (as we like to call them… not quite a talk/lecture but not quite a full workshop). These 2 talkshops were focused on providing Red Cross participants—also to be the project’s redesign team—with information and lite experience with Design Thinking, People-Centered Design, and Design Research. 

The first of these talkshops covered Design Thinking & Collabo’s People-Centered approach to design. Here’s a little on what that looked like:

For a little more information, feel free to look over the slide deck for this talkshop: Design Thinking Crash Course Slides