Workshop Design + Facilitation
Ongoing, Workshop created to teach design thinking skills︎Overview: Design thinking is a useful skill for many fields rather than just visual design, however it is a skill that many students at the University of Cincinnati may not have exposure to. I’ve had the opportunity to design and facilitate numerous workshops, a few of which are highlighted here. Facilitation especially is a skill one needs to learn and one that can really only be learned by doing.
︎Objectives:
- Design workshops made specifically for the choosen audience
- Facilitate workshops alongside team members
- Refine and critique workshops as we continue to host them
University Honors Program Design Thinking Modules
︎At the University of Cincinnati, all students in the Honors Programs must take a class called Honors Gateway. As part of this class, Myself and a team of students were asked to design a workshop to introduce design thinking and then faciliate it with all twelve sections.Teaching the honors classes can be difficult, notably because the class is all first semester freshman and only an hour long. These were both key constraints we had to design around when we were developing the workshop.
The GraphUC Hackathon: Introduction to Design Thinking
︎The GraphUC Hackathon is a blockchained focus hackathon held in the fall at the University of Cincinnati. During the day they hold numerous different workshops that students can attend. I was asked by the organizers to design and faciliate a design thinking workshop with the goal of helping students come up with an idea for their hackathon project.
DASHIE Analysis with Students
︎As part of my work with University Innovation Fellows, my team was looking to do a STEEP Analysis with current students. STEEP Analysis, which stands for Social, Technology, Economic, Environmental, and Political, is meant to help rapidly generate trends, insights, and obersations amongst a wide range of categories.However, our group found that when analyzing the landscape of higher education, STEEP does not apply as well. So instead we developed DASHIE, Diversity & Inclusion, Academics, Social, Health, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, to act as a new set of categories. We then led an ideation workshop with thirty students.
