WELCOME!

Welcome to the official blog for RISD's advanced studio,Design for Social Entrepreneurship, Spring 2010. This course aims to cultivate social entrepreneurial designers by investigating the power of products, systems and services to create positive social and environmental change both internationally and domestically.

Instructor: Sloan Kulper, IDSA

Course Planner: Yi Zhang

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Course Schedule 4/13 - 2/29

Week 8 (4/11)

  • Tuesday (4/13)
  • AM
    • Broader field of DeSE presentation, give out ethnography assignment
  • PM
    • Work time with organizations
    • A8A Ethnography Exercise
    • A8B: Develop ethnography plan for your organization
  • Thursday (4/15)
  • AM
    • Presentation of A8 work
  • PM
    • Intra-Studio Workshop I / HCD Brainstorm
    • Work time with organizations
  • A9: Research and Mind-mapping
    • Conduct research in your organization and produce documentation of your observations, experiences and insights. Produce mind maps related to problems or issues faced by the community being served that you find interesting and may want to pursue further in this project. The more the better.

Week 9 (4/18)

  • Tuesday (4/20)
  • AM
    • HCD Curriculum Focus Group with Ayako
  • PM
    • Desk crits
    • (Optional) Intra-Studio Workshop II / HCD Brainstorm
    • Work time with organizations
  • A10: Design concept generation
    • Produce a set of preliminary design sketches exploring the issues you are researching (opportunities for design interventions) and concepts that suggest possibilities for products, systems and/or services that address these issues.
  • Thursday (4/22)
  • AM
    • A10 presentations
  • PM
    • Desk crits
    • (Optional) Intra-Studio Workshop III / HCD Brainstorm
    • Work time with organizations
  • A11: Produce mid-project crit materials
    • Background of community
    • Background of organization
    • Observations
    • Mind-maps
    • Precedents
    • Project concepts
    • Future plans

Week 10 (4/25)

  • Tuesday (4/27)
  • MID-PROJECT REVIEW: Local SE design project: Mid-project review with partner organization in ID gallery
  • Thursday (4/29)
  • MID-PROJECT REVIEW: Local SE design project: Mid-project review with partner organization in ID gallery
  • A13: Readings on evaluating social ventures, verify final review dates with partner orgs

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