Center for Design Thinking2019 Report

Center forDesign Thinking

Center for Design Thinking

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 elonbydesign@elon.edu.

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

dlake@elon.edu 336-278-6876

Dawan Stanford, JD, PhD Consulting Director of Design Thinking

dstanford@elon.edu 336-223-3710

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