People from different backgrounds come together and use innovative methods for solving specific social problems that they care about.

1. School of
Social Innovation
a project by Sebi,
organized together with in collaboration with
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2. Project Summary
People from different
backgrounds come together, learn,
and use innovative methods
for solving specific social
problems that they care about.
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3. How does it work?
“Teachers” “Students” interact with “Clients”
hold to use
provided by
teaching Process & to solve
Workshops Problems
Methods
• 5 workshops, 2-3hrs each ...must be
Methods for: • socially relevant
• distributed throughout the
project • user research • real
• guidane available also • problem analysis • concrete
outside the workshops • idea generation
• iterative design
• presenting
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4. More details...
• The problems
Organizers select a few areas of the local society that could be improved (e.g. the elderly,
children, immigration, alcohol) and connect to the respective target groups and stakeholders.
• Workshops and warm-up
Students are presented and recommended practical methods and approaches to be used in the
projects. Most of the methods come from design fields (service design, UX design etc.).
• Solve it!
Teams of 3-4 “students” are formed, and each team attempts to develop a solution to the
problem they picked, working closely with their target group and stakeholders; guidance available
throughout.
• Wrap Up
Results are presented by the project teams, and discussed together.
Promissing concepts will be selected for continuation in the JollyDragon framework.
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5. People
Who can participate?
• Anyone who wants to do good, and learn in the process.
• We particularly expect students to get involved, as this is a great
opportunity to get experience from a meaningful, real-world project.
Backgrounds? anything goes!
• Sciences, Arts, Social Studies, Psychology, Politics.... We are expecting a
wide range of backgrounds. The more diverse, the better.
Time investment? 5 weeks, min.10hrs / week
• It is highly recommended that you have some time available for this. The
projects will happen in a fast pace and your team will need you there to
make great things happen!
• In any case, be very clear from the beginning how much time you will
have, so we can form the teams accordingly.
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6. Workshops
At the very least,
you will learn and practice methods of:
• User Research: understand the people whose problem you’re trying to solve
• Knowledge Mapping: Organize knowledge about the problem in ways that
support solution-finding
• Idea generation: Brainstorm for solutions, in a team
• Prototyping: Quickly experiment with potential solutions, to find out if they
will really work
• Iterative Design: Work in iterations to improve your solution
• Communication: Presenting and communicating your ideas.
Hands-on!
• no boring lectures; just the Why-s and the How-s.
• getting things done is our goal, in the end.
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7. Timeline
• Setting up the project
Week 1-3, Feb 12 - March 6
• Workshops & team work
Week 4-8, March 7 - March 28
• Wrap-Up
Week 9, March 29 - April 4
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8. Come aboard!
• Sign up
To take part in the project, send an email to stauciuc@gmail.com, or
jollydragon.net@gmail.com and very shortly write about
• your background,
• your time availability
• why you’re interested in the project
• Help organize!
Help will be needed in setting up the project, so that everyone gets the most
out of it. If you want to practice your organizing skills (or design, or
communication, or “sales” etc.) and do good at the same time, sign up asap. You
are most welcomed!
• Keep in touch
Follow the project at http://dschool.sebidesigns.com/. The website has just been
set up, but will be updated constantly in the coming weeks.
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