The New School Venture Lab Workshop
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This document outlines the agenda for a Venture Lab workshop focused on design thinking. The workshop includes warm-up activities like sharing stories about personal artifacts. It then covers key aspects of design thinking like empathizing through sharing stories about behavior change and loneliness. Participants generate questions, ideas and prototypes to address a challenge related to designing against loneliness. The workshop concludes with groups pitching their prototypes to test assumptions and receive feedback.
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The New School Venture Lab Workshop
- 2. Artifact Stories - 5 minutes Pair up. Each partner shares a story about a personal artifact. Warm-up 1/3
- 3. Five Why’s - 5 minutes New partners. Ask each other why you are here today x 5. Warm-up 2/3
- 4. Shared Artifact - 5 mins New partners again. Build a shared artifact and story. Warm-up 3/3
- 7. Definition: a method and a mindset for framing and solving problems Design Thinking
- 8. ROI Design-Driven Companies Outperform S&P by 228% - DMI Design Index 2014 Design Thinking
- 9. Empathy Put human-needs at the center of innovation Design Thinking
- 10. Diversity Solving complex problems require different perspectives Design Thinking
- 11. Simple But Not Easy Design Thinking
- 12. Empathize DEFINE IDEATE PROTOTYPE TEST REPEAT Source: Stanford d.school Design Thinking PROCESS
- 17. Personal Stories - 5 minutes Behavior change: Share the story of a time when you changed a habit, or acquired a new one. EMPATHIZE 1/2
- 18. Personal Stories - 5 minutes Loneliness/Belonging: Share about a time you felt lonely or a time you felt connected to community? EMPATHIZE 2/2
- 19. Generate Questions - 10 mins In groups, generate as many questions as possible related to the brief. Ideation 1/3
- 20. Choose Questions - 5 mins Choose 1-3 questions from the list that you generated Ideation 2/3
- 21. Generate Ideas - 15 mins Come up with as many ideas as possible to address the questions on your shortlist Ideation 3/3
- 22. BREAK TIME!
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- 38. Eliel Saarinen Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context– a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.
- 39. Identify Assumptions - 10 mins Discuss assumptions/ hypotheses that you would like to test. Use this to narrow down your ideas to prototype. Prototyping 1/2
- 40. PROTOTYPing 2/2 Build - 30 mins Tell a story. Create a world. Think by making something that will help you test your assumptions.
- 41. Pitch Preparation 5 minutes per group + Q&A • Who are you designing for? • What are your assumptions? • What did you design? • How does it work? • What benefits are you seeking to achieve?
- 42. + - ? ! What works? Needs improvement Questions & Concerns Surprises & Ideas Testing & Feedback