We offer a 5-day practical, inspiring and engaging summer school on ‘social innovation and human centered design in the city context’. You will be thinking and doing on following challenges:
- Challenge 1 – Develop a policy for the City of Machelen around service delivery that is as inclusive as possible and takes into account what is feasible within the organization.
- Challenge 2 – The local context of Bruges and to look at how we can use leisure activities to help integrate newcomers, what support organizations need to welcome and retain this target group on a sustainable basis, how to map thresholds etc....
- Challenge 3 – Designing an accessible participation program for vulnerable newcomers in the Brussels-Capital region.
- Challenge 4 – A short to longterm explorative study for European Citizenship | How to design citizen - EU government interaction points, using a single digital gateway for specific life events.
- Challenge 5 – A short to longterm explorative study for European Citizenship | How to facilitate digital inclusion & accessibility for those who are not able to interact with the digital government (37% - due to poverty, fear, education, age, …).
- Challenge 6 – Social Innovation in Digital Spaces: Developing Solutions to Combat Online Hate Speech
- Challenge 7 – How can we use our waste streams to create new value for VELO Leuven?
- Challenge 8 – How can we (further) promote sustainable bicycle mobility in and around Leuven?
Challenges will be provided by the Social Innovation Factory, Agentschap Integratie en Inburgering (The Agency for Integration), and many more.
Programme
Online preparation
- Personality / creativity test and building a persona about yourself (or by using a template)
- You will receive a platform on MURAL to online collaborate a/dyssynchronous.
DAY 1
- Welcome and introduction summer school, PSS design & intro Social City Design
- Presentations challenge owners
- Keynote Jodi Sturge & Dirk Van Rooy–Social-driven systemic change
- Team prep – persona speed date & dividing the challenges
- Challenges - PSS design part 1 – UNDERSTAND (+ team formation)
DAY 2
- Field visit by challenge owner
- Challenges - PSS design part 2 – EXPLORE
- Recap ‘context & design challenge’
- First purge of ideas
DAY 3
- Recap ‘ideas, customer journey & touchpoints’
- Challenges - PSS design deel 3 - DEFINE
- Keynote: Knightmoves–Appropriate Fidelity Prototyping
- Knightmoves – facilitation of prototyping
- Pitch to peers for feedback
DAY 4
- Recap ‘prototyping’
- Keynote: Heni Ali and/or Alison Prendiville –Social design with impact
- Discuss bringalongs, quality check ‘the REHEARSAL’
- Challenges – working toward concept + preparations pitch
- Network event SDN Belgium + Stadsform/ Endeavour: 1st pitch of the concept per challenge – with feedup of the audience
DAY 5
- Recap ‘reflection’ + Optimization of concept
- Building the expo (cubicle / stand design) + deliverables
- EXPO social city design ‘the PREMIERE’
- Closing moment: Handover (feed forward) of deliverables & official closing / certificates
Team
Principal Research Fellow Strategic Design | Product-Service Systems
University of Antwerp | Fac. of Design Sciences | Dept. of Product Development
Co-founder Service Design Network Belgium
In collaboration with Stadsform.
Target group
- Master students in Product Development; professionals working in the field of Social Design
- Professionals involved in the organization, design and development of cities (public actors, academics, industry players, civil society, media and culture)
- Service Design Network (SDN) members.
- Depending on the profile, Master students from Social sciences, Architecture, Interior Architecture and Phd students with affinity to the subject.
Participants should have at least completed 2 full years of education in a relevant field of study.
Campus
This summer school takes place at Stadscampus (Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerp) of the University of Antwerp. This campus is located in the city centre.
Micro-credential and study credits (ECTS)
3 ECTS credits will be awarded upon successful completion of the program. All certificates of completion are issued as a micro-credential.
- Participants will prepare themselves for this summer school with a literature study.
- Participants have to be present during the full summer school.
- Participants will research, participate, design, present, etc. their work (different themes). There will be a form of permanent (forming) evaluation grade and curative grading at the end with a comprehensive retrospect on the summer school topics, lessons learned and how it affects their future work.