Innovating for a more inclusive world

@asalvaire

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 10% of the

world’s population –approximately 650 million

people, of which 200 million are children – experience some form

of disability.

How can we innovate to serve their needs?

Good ideas come through contacts and network

Connecting with other tribes

Good ideas also come from surprising places…

Frugal innovation

Innovation Trend Number 1:Identify the best projects and

scale them up

Learning from ordinary people withextraordinary ideas…

Stories from a bottom-up movement

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E ■ Innovations in the World of Disability

CREATING CHANGE“Fortunately amidst this economic gloom, Creating Change is a shining light. Creating Change presents a unique and inspiring set of stories of Ashoka Fellows across the world, whose work not only changes the lives of individuals with disabilities and their families, but also how commu-nities, business and governments welcome and include people with disabilities as valued and contributing citizens. The sixteen Ashoka Fellows are all recognized leaders and social innovators in the field of disability. Together these pioneers are creating a new paradigm of disability that has the potential for domestic and global impact.”

Eddie Bartnik, Director of Metropolitan Community Support

ISBN 978-83-89681-77-5

Innovations in the World of Disability

Innovation Trend Number 2:Leveraging design thinking and

human-centered design

Check this out — It’s the d.school bootcamp bootleg. This compilation is intended as an active toolkit to support your design thinking practice. The guide is not just to read – go out in the world and try these tools yourself. In the following pages, we outline each mode of a human-centered design process, and then describe dozens of specific methods to do design work. These process modes and methods provide a tangible toolkit which support the seven mindsets — shown on the following page – that are vital attitudes for a design thinker to hold.

The bootleg is a working document, which captures some of the teaching we impart in “design thinking bootcamp,” our foundation course. An update from the 2009 edition, we reworked many of the methods based on what we learned from teaching and added a number of new methods to the mix. The methods presented in this guide are culled from a wide range of people and organizations who have helped us build the content we use to impart design thinking. Think of this guide as a curation of the work of many individuals, who hail both from the d.school and also from other far-reaching areas of the design world. We thank all the people who have contributed to the methods collected in this guide.

This resource is free for you to use and share – and we hope you do. We only ask that you respect the Creative Commons license (attribution, non-commercial use). The work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

We welcome your reactions to this guide. Please share the stories of how you use it in the field. Let us know what you find useful, and what methods you have created yourself – write to: bootleg@dschool.stanford.edu

Cheers, The d.school

Innovation Trend Number 3: Crowdsource real-time

information and visualize data

@wheelmap

@Jaccede

Innovation Trend Number 4:Leverage technology

The first deaf blind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma

champions equal access to information for people with disabilities

Innovation Trend Number 5: Explore the Internet of Things

(IoT) and the wearables

Wearable tech is eroding the boundaries between assistive technology and the consumer

technology market.

These devices may shift our views on bodies and their

limitations.

Wearables for mental health

Innovation Trend Number 6:Raise funds differently

Crowdfunding

Organize a party

Find new fundraising channels

Develop innovative communication campaigns

Set up investment funds

Explore Impact investing

Innovation Trend Number 7: develop empathy and

connection

Innovation Trend Number 8:Flip the narrative

Turn the world upside down

Social entrepreneurs switch the narrative

From victims to survivors

From terrorist to hero

From North to South

From fear to laughter

From hate to love

And you will actually change the world…

Editing your story of Palestine

Learn from the outcast

Disability or superpower?

From blind women to cancer detection experts

From psychological disorders to mental fitness

MANUELARICHTER-WERLING

@asalvaire