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Design Thinking for Student Learning is Elon’s annual convening of design thinking educators, practitioners, and thought leaders. Each year, Design Forge addresses a topic of interest to higher education, strengthens collaboration in the design thinking community, and searches for new opportunities for design thinking to enhance student learning.
March 29th – 31st, 2023
Design Thinking for Student Learning is Elon’s annual convening of design thinking educators, practitioners, and thought leaders. Each year, Design Forge addresses a topic of interest to higher education, strengthens collaboration in the design thinking community, and searches for new opportunities for design thinking to enhance student learning.
Like in prior years, we will spend time together exploring the how-might-we question in an environment that is part design and part convening, launching new relationships and generating questions, resources, ideas, and frameworks that advance the value and impact of design thinking practices.
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About
Who
The conference is for educators, design practitioners, changemakers, and thought leaders
What
Designing opportunities for higher education to more inclusively and collaboratively address wicked problems
Why
Strengthen collaboration between communities & search for opportunities for DT to enhance transformational learning
Who
The conference is for educators, design practitioners, changemakers, and thought leaders
What
Designing opportunities for higher education to more inclusively and collaboratively address wicked problems
Why
Strengthen collaboration between communities & search for opportunities for DT to enhance transformational learning
JOIN US – March 29th Community Event
with Camilo Romero
Please join us for a pre-forge community event at the Elon Community Church with speaker Camilo Romero.
Conflict and its collective resolution applies to each of our families and all of our communities, especially in these times of pandemics and politics. Each of us carries trauma from our own lives and that of generations before us. Our workshop is an opportunity to explore creative and interactive methods of rage and reconciliation, resentment and resilience. Our workshop will center around community building through story-telling. We will begin with introductions of each participant and explain the origins of ReGeneración (www.regeneracion.co) as a movement for empowerment of those who have been invisibilized for generations. We will then discuss our children’s book project and form small groups to act out “sociodramas”, spontaneous performances that challenge us to utilize all parts of our selves to identify, confront, and resolve conflicts within our environment. Our workshop is meant to be collaborative as each of us are experts in our story. Welcome. Bienvenid@.
More About Camilo Romero
Camilo A. Romero is co-founder of ReGeneración (www.regeneracion.co), a peace-building initiative, launched in Colombia and now operating globally, committed to healing intergenerational trauma through “Cuál es tu Paz?” children’s books, story-healing workshops, and cultural celebrations like the “Poderosas” project (@regeneracion.poderosas). He has led international delegations in Chocó, Colombia as legal director of the National Farmworker Association, organized student and consumer campaigns as a union organizer for the Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores, and designed know-your-rights trainings as legal coordinator for Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, California.
Previous Forges
- Design Forge 2018 | DT project-based learning — How might we create ways to use design thinking projects as project-based learning? Feel free to learn more by reading the 2018 Design Forge 2018 Summary
Check out this video from Design Forge 2018
- Design Forge 2019 | Learn and teach service design — How might we create better ways for people to learn and teach design thinking and service design?
- Design Forge 2020 | Student wellbeing and wellness — How might university design thinking efforts enhance student wellbeing and wellness?
- Design Forge 2021 | Participatory placemaking practices — How might DT support participatory placemaking practices?
- Design Forge 2022 | Assessing DT practices — How might we better understand, design for, & demonstrate the impact of design thinking pedagogies?