School of Social Innovation

People from different backgrounds come together, learn, and use innovative methods to create solutions to specific social problems that they care about.

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WHYFORTUNATE

WHYHow it is How it could be

WHYWHYOpportunity

Desire to contribute

What can I do to help?

WHY

Inspiration

Students Society Problems

WHY

Opportunity

DesignPeople Problems

WHAT

School of Social Innovation

People Problems• connect• tools• practice

WHAT

The model

“Teachers” “Students” “Clients”

Workshops Process &Methods

hold

teaching

to use provided by

to solve

interact with

Problems

WHAT

Project structure

(Ethnographic) Research

Idea generation

Iterative Design

Communicating concepts

Workshop Results

Workshop

Workshop

Workshop

Results

Results

Final Results

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WHAT

What’s different?

• ability to contribute

• teaching design to “everyone”

HOWThe story

School of Social Innovation

HOW

Where? When?Hub Helsinki,

April-May 2010

HOW

Who?“Teachers”

Future Scenarios

Hub Helsinki

Sofia elderly home

“Clients”“Students”

HOW

Project kick-offFuture Scenarios Hub Helsinki Sofia elderly home

HOW

Research methods

HOW

Research methods

Research results

Research synthesis

Research synthesis

Presentation skills

Presentation skills

Ideation

Ideation

HOW

Ideation

Selected ideas

HOW

Prototyping, iterative design

• experience prototyping

• wizard of Oz

• performances

HOW

Communicating designs

HOW

Final results presentation

LEARNResults

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Client Feedback Janne:

The fact that you’ve totally redone the place is fantastic.

- constructive feedback

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Client Feedback

I am so thankful for this project; it gave so much joy, happiness, and something very warm in our home...You were so wonderful!

Tiina:

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Student feedback

• process more clear

• more tutoring

• love concept

Thanks for putting all of us together for the school of social innovation. I really learnt to see the world in a different way. Keep it up, dude.

LEARNInsights

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Improving SSI

• more time

• motivation

• the need for team building

• more clarity in process

• one case at a time

• clients as students

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SSI v2

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SSI v2

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Knowledge contribution

Setting up Social Innovation- connecting- building trust

Teaching Design through practice- theory & practice, both essential- more guidance needed- designers and non-designers

A designer’s role in Social Innovation- take action; find action; generate action- teach & diffuse design methods

thanks you!The School of Social Innovation