Un-School of Disruptive Design
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The Un-School of Disruptive Design is a creative knowledge lab and advocacy platform that uses design to challenge perspectives and inspire positive social and environmental change. Through dynamic events, classes, and collaborative programs, it empowers designers, creatives, and change-makers to think differently and act boldly.
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Deep Dive into Your Brain on Change Full Day Workshop
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 394 Broadway , New York, NY
Join the Un-School of Disruptive Design for a full day interactive workshop that dives deep into the psychological, behavioural, economic and social conditions that affect, challenge and promote change - social, cultural and behavioural. Your Brain on Change is an experiential conversation led by Leyla Acaroglu, a sociologist, sustainability expert and award winning designer that actively explores limits, issues, opportunities and theories on change....
Busting the Green Myth: WTF is Sustainability?
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Look beyond the ‘green’ hype, get the deeper details on what the hell sustainability is and how it relates to professional practice and our personal lives. We address the ways in which we can all help achieve it. The hotly contested term ‘sustainability’ has come to mean different things to different people, but the original concept is all about social, economic and environmental sustainability – a pretty awesome aspiration...
Designercise Ideation Creative Workout
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Designercise is the brain workout session for flexible, creative and agile thinking! Join us for a mental workout and ideation session to beat the afternoon brain drains! Designercise Ideation Workouts are quick productive distractions into your afternoon brain slump! Learn mental workout tools that flex your brain through fun and fast paced ideation techniques. Our boredom busting brain experiences develop critical and flexible thinking...
What’s Up with Winning? Gamification & Game Theory
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Explore the use of Gamification (game mechanics used in non-gaming environments) and Game Theory (the economic analysis of how people strategize) in relation to change making. Fun Theory in every sense! In this class we unpack the ways in which human’s use strategies and ‘play’ to maximise the effectiveness of experience in the world. We look at the bigger picture of games and gamification and the ways in which they can be used to effect change,...
Hack your Brain: Participating with Purpose
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Explore you brain as a foreign land! Understand your reactions and decision making as the cause and effect of a wider forces. Look at the how and why of choice motivation and ways you can inspire change and participation. This workshop explores the decision making process, from what motivates people in their decisions (it's not always what you think!) to the effect those choices have. Understand the triggers for your decision responses, unpack these...
Powerplay: The Power of Play
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Play is one of the most important instinctual form of learning and exploration, we look at how it can be harnessed in our personal and professional lives to effect creative thinking and positive change. It's also fun! This workshop explores play as one of the most important motivators of human action, desire and motivation. Play exists as one of the most flexible and instinctive practices of discovery. Through this session we outline...
Use What You've Got: Subverting the System
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Sometimes you gotta get tactical to make change happen, adopt and adapt what’s available to you and be efficient with the resources you have. This is all about be subtle and yes, subversive with your approaches to being a positive effect in the world. Subversion (in Latinsubvertere means to overthrow) refers to a process by which the values and principles of a system in place, are contradicted or reversed. We subvert by intervening and in...
Flip it! Design Thinking for Positive Change
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Learn adapted design thinking as a highly effective process that incorporates sustainability as the core motivating parameter. Use for creative endeavours and innovative outcomes, design thinking is an approach to create clear solutions and outcomes with unlimited applications! This is excellent for educators, designers and would-be world changers as it provides a set of mental ideation and problem identification tools that enable greater...
Productive Distractions: Everyday Ideation
Un-School of Disruptive Design See all classes by this school @ 601 W 26th St, New York, NY
Increase your productivity and idea generating capacity by exploring the ways in which our brains create and prevent creative thinking. Learn a range of productive distractions and ideation techniques to understand the ways in which you work and unleash your creative best! Our everyday ideation workshop is a high energy left turn into productive creativity, the process of finding creative solutions is a flexible skill that improves with practice....
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What’s Up with Winning? Gamification & Game Theory
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Designercise Ideation Creative Workout
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Busting the Green Myth: WTF is Sustainability?